Bike Racks Phase 2
Steel cut outs
Phase 2 of the bike rack project is well under way! We are excited to get the next round made, painted and installed. It is quite the team effort- with Shlagel Engineering doing the laser steel cutouts for us, Colter Floy fabricating the racks and welding the cut outs into the frames, and Dewey at the Pedal House powder coating them. Special thanks to Mike Milam and the rest of the bike rack committee for handling all the painstaking logistics: permits, shlepping, installation maps, etc. These are available for local homeowners and businesses in Laramie- please send me an email if interested!
Alaska Moose Hunt Inspires New Series
My canoe partner, Jason, and I making our way down stream with a canoe full of Jason’s caribou.
I recently was lucky enough to be invited by some friends on a moose and caribou hunt in Alaska. The trip was amazing! And the trip was a challenge. We lined canoes up a gorgeous river valley, set up camp for 6 days, glassed and glassed every day searching for legal animals. Seven of us went, and three were hunting. We came out with a moose and a caribou. It was the trip of a lifetime and I feel so fortunate to be able to go. The landscape combined with the tribal feel of our hunt inspired my next painting series that I will begin this winter.
Full moon rising above our camp.
We also had a great show of Northern lights this night. Imagine a wide open valley with snow covered mountains glowing in the moonlight, and then Northern lights shimmering down above all that! Amazing to say the least.
Dan packing out his moose rack and meat.
Everyone quartering the moose together.
It was such a great group to go with- thanks Team Moose Hunt! Everyone helped out and had good humor, even when we woke up to 5 inches of wet snow and the valley socked in.
Brook and Josh smiling at waking up to wet snow. Hey… it is better then work.
Caoneing out in canoes loaded with moose meat.
Canoeing Out
The Bounty.
We all processed the meat in my friends’ driveway. One bull carinbou and one bull moose gave five families over well 100 lbs of meat each. I am pretty sure my trip up and back canceled out any carbon miles I save by eating this, but still…. it is delicious!
Bike Racks for Downtown Laramie!
Pronghorn bike rack
I am pleased to announce that I won the call for proposal to design bike racks for downtown Laramie. For months now I have been working with the Downtown Alliance and the bike rack committee to design and fabricate some racks. The committee has been wonderful to work with and this has been a true collaboration. Schlagel Manufacturing in Torrington is doing the steel cutouts for us, local welder Colter Floyd is fabricating them, and Dewey, owner of the Pedal House, is powder coating them.
This Pronghorn rack was in the test batch. We are in the process of getting many more made, in different designs. The goal is to represent the different elements that make up our unique community here in Laramie. It has definitely been a challenge to work within the codes needed for public art, but I am getting the hang of it.
It has been a fun project and I am excited to be part of enhancing our community through art!
Solo Show at Honey Bee Gallery today!
This evening we will celebrate a new body of work, “As Told By The Wind…”, with a solo show at Honey Bee Gallery. 117 E Grand, Laramie, 6-9 pm. I’m excited to be showing this series of paintings together.
“Snowies in July”; walnut ink, sumi ink, watercolor, rice paper; 12″ x 48″; © Meg Thompson; 2013
“As Told By The Wind . . .”
“In this series of paintings, artist Meg Thompson explores the landscape and history of the American West through the omniscient point of view of The Wind. This constant force affects every part of life, from the weather patterns to the formation of the terrain. Using the long scroll format of the Chinese dynasty era landscape paintings, Meg creates a visual map of the wide vistas and intimate rhythms of daily life in Wyoming. Blending these two traditions, one ancient and one young, shows how we are all perpetually intertwined with our landscapes.”
“Snowies in May”; walnut ink, sumi ink, watercolor, rice paper; 12″ x 48″; © Meg Thompson; 2013
Touchstone is almost here!
Touchstone is an exhibition and sale put on by the the Laramie Artist Project, a group of professional artists of Albany County. Come see all this great local art! Saturday Nov. 17, 10-5pm, Sunday Nov. 18, 1pm-5pm. http://www.laramieartistsproject.com/
Outdoor Water and Bone Installation pieces
This fall while at Brush Creek Artist residency I created two outdoor installations in the creek. I just finished editing my footage into two videos. I will be presenting them both this Friday at the University of Wyoming Art Museum Symposium on Water: http://www.uwyo.edu/artmuseum/get-involved/symposia.html
There is a great list of presenters…come check it out and see the diversity of our relationships to water!
You can watch the videos here:
“Fishing for Our Histories”
“Emerging”