Panel Talk: A Walk on the Wild Side: Exploring the Natural World in Modern and Contemporary Art

Saturday Sep 14th, 4-5pm
In the Theater

Moderator Hilary Pierce Hatfield

Curator and President of Art Collector’s Athenaeum, Tammi Hanawalt Ph.D., Associate Curator of Art at The National Museum of Wildlife Art and Mariam Diehl, Owner of Diehl Gallery, Jackson, WY and guest artists will talk about the evolution of the wildlife art genre and the next gen of contemporary artists who find content and inspiration in the natural world.

About Mariam Diehl

Mariam Diehl is the founder of the eponymous gallery, in 2001. Her gallery offers fine art and professional art collecting services for new and established collectors, both private and corporate. Diehl Gallery specializes in the acquisition and sale of contemporary art, with a focus on painting and sculpture.

In 2002, Ms. Diehl left New York and moved to Jackson Hole, where she became Director of the Jackson Hole branch of the Meyer Gallery, founded in Park City, Utah in 1965. For the next three years, Ms. Diehl oversaw all aspects of the gallery management.The gallery moved to its current location on Broadway in a newly renovated, contemporary space in the spring of 2008, where it was renamed as the Diehl Gallery. Since 2002, Ms. Diehl has worked as an art dealer. Her projects have ranged from high-end residential homes, to corporate offices, to development properties and hotels.

About Anastasia Kimmett

Anastasia Kimmett breaks through the traditional format of painting to develop a technique which combines emotion with intellect and abstract with design. Creating a series of inspired, impressionistic and abstract paintings, she then cuts them into small pieces, blends and arranges the unstructured clips to create scenes that are both structured and rhythmic.

Now as an emerging visual artist, she combines and pours the varied practices and theories of her multi-faceted background in the arts and design, into the creation of her paintings. She is based in Vancouver.

Dr. Tammi Hanawalt

Dr. Tammi Hanawalt is an Associate Curator at the National Museum of Wildlife Art (NMWA) in Jackson Hole, WY. She has a Masters of Art History degree from Arizona State University with an emphasis on Native American Art and a PH.D in Native American Art History and Art of The American West from The University of Oklahoma. She received the Madeline Colbert and Steed Fellowship from the University of Oklahoma in 2015-2016 and Journal of Surrealism and the Americas/ASU Art History Faculty Conference Grant from Arizona State University. Hanawalt recently co-curated the “Living Legends” exhibition at NMWA featuring the works of 39 artists who helped form the foundation of the museum’s extensive collection since its founding in 1984.