Brush Creek Presents will have eight artists share their works from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Friday at the Grand Encampment Opera House.
Five visual artists, two composers and a writer are artists in residence at Brush Creek Ranch this month.
This is the first Brush Creek Presents without coordinator Katie Christensen, who has moved to Laramie and is working for the Wyoming Arts Council in Cheyenne.
Beth Nelson is the interim director.
Artists presenting include:
• Anthony Heinz May, a sculptor who has created site-specific installations for various parks and sculpture gardens including Cherry Hills Village in Denver.
May uses dead, discarded natural tree waste to create abstract pixelated forms.
• Stefanie Lyons is a young adult writer and is currently working on a book about a 12-year-old boy who goes on a journey to find his absentee father.
• Composer HyeKyung Lee has written works for diverse genres and media including a toy piano and big concertos. During her residency, Lee is working on writing her second Piano Concerto for Wind Ensemble and Piano.
• Loretta Young-Gautier is a photographer who has exhibited her work nationally in group and solo shows, including the Coors Western Art Show at the National Western Stock Show and the San Diego Natural History Museum. Young-Gautier uses the camera, computer and the darkroom through multiple images, negative sandwiching, combination printing and recently digital techniques to create her images.
• Kelli Scarr is an American singer, multi-instrumentalist and composer. Scarr has worked on various projects and collaborations including the bands Moonraker and Salt & Samovar. She also wrote, recorded and toured with Moby.
Scarr ventured into film scoring and received an Emmy nomination in 2010. Scarr is using her time at Brush Creek to develop and write songs for her third album.
• Joel S. Allen is a sculptor who does installation art. Allen holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in fine arts in sculpture.
Installation art uses three-dimensional art that is usually site-specific and is designed to change the awareness of a topic.
• Abigail McNamara works in a variety of media. She recently has done an in-depth exploration of paper cutting. According to the press release she looks to the organic world and other landscapes to understand the natural processes and structures that underlie the inorganic world.
• Emmy Lingscheit in a printmaker who visually and metaphorically disassembles commonplace objects and animals to reveal relationships and narratives concerning the role of humans in the natural world.
Nelson said Brush Creek Foundation for the arts is looking forward to sharing the excitement of the talented artists with the community.
The event is free to the public.
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