The Ann Simpson Artmobile travels across the 97,914 square miles of Wyoming sharing museum-quality artwork with communities that may otherwise have limited access to original art. The exhibitions displayed change every two years and are made up of artwork from the Art Museum's permanent collection.

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The current Artmobile exhibition, Message Received: Transmissions Across Time & Space, invites viewers to think deeply about our present relationship

to the past and future. Seventeen works of art, including etchings, lithographs, photographs, mezzotints, woodblock prints, and serigraphs,

reveal diverse perspectives on space, technology, mythology, and time travel—where the past, present, and future collide. This exhibition

encourages discussions of communication, cosmology, identity, and place through a futurist lens. How does ancestral knowledge inform who we are

and where we are headed, and what stories may future generations need to thrive? How has life in the future been imagined? What technologies may be

necessary and what will stand the test of time?

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The exhibit can be seen Oct 14 -18 (Monday to Friday) from 9am to 5 pm. Meet Sarita Talusani Keller, PhD. and Ann Simpson Artmobile Educator, on Thursday evening, October 17 , at 6 pm for a free presentation and reception.

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This exhibit is in Saratoga, thanks to The Wyoming Arts Council and the Laura Jane Musser Foundation.

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PVAC Public Art Project

project Artists

Jerry Wood

The Platte Valley Arts Council is pleased to present “Two’s the Limit,” a sculpture selected for the public art displays to be revealed in the valley this fall. This work includes a 20-by-15-by-11-inch sculpture of trout leaping into the air by local artist Jerry Wood.

John Perue

Pairing art and repurposed materials is not foreign to Rawlins–born artist John Perue. Perue’s piece for the PVAC public art display project, “Wyoming Wind Flowers,” incorporates his skill of repurposing items and stain glass work.

Jerry Palen

Jerry Palen's cartoon characters “Flo and Elmo" will be “paint-by-number” mural is to be completed by anyone who would like to help. Students at the local schools will help by mixing colors and labeling the spaces. Everyone is invited to participate.

Sierra Smith

Sierra Smith is selected to create a piece of art as part of the Platte Valley Arts Council's public art display project. Smith will design a metal sculpture as a memorial in honor of Sergeant Tyler Pickett, a Saratoga veteran who lost his life in Iraq.

Jamie Waugh

Saratoga native Jamie Waugh has been selected to create a piece of art for the PVAC public art display project. Waugh's mural will feature a cowboy’s torso and arms leaning against a barbed wire fence with an old hat hanging further along the fence line.

Lori Kostur

Local artist Lori Kostur selected to create a bronze sculpture and mural for the Platte Valley Arts Council's public art display. Kostur's fascination with native wildlife and the historical west inspires her work.

The Platte Valley Arts Council is happy to announce that the family of artist Jerry Palen has donated a special bronze statue for benefit of the PVAC scholarship fund. The bronze, “Desert Dust” depicts the famous wild mustang from the Red Desert.

Learn More about the PVAC Public Art Project