Who are we?

Art of the Winds is an artists' cooperative located in Pinedale, Wyoming featuring works from over 15 local creatives. As a collective team, these artists operate and manage the gallery themselves, keeping it stocked with pottery, paintings, drawings, jewelry, furniture, photography and more! Each time you visit, you have the opportunity to talk with one of the artists and learn about their creative process.

Jill Bull

Jo Mack

Joni Mack

Elizabeth Boehm / Elizabeth Boehm Photography • Photography

Elizabeth is an avid bird watcher and photographer spending her free time hiking with binoculars and camera seeking a new and unique image in her viewfinder. Her photography is a personal adventure into the lives of wild birds and animals and she does her best to intrude as little as possible into their lives and fully respect their space if her presence is not tolerated. She works with a digital camera and several lenses, capturing the wildlife and nature that abounds here in Sublette County and the surrounding area. She prints, mats, and frames her own photographs using archival processes throughout which keeps the final product within her control.

Cristy Anspach / Stonefly Arts • Ceramics

Originally from Northern Colorado, Cristy has lived and worked in Wyoming since the early nineties. She teaches art in the public school system and loves being inspired by and creating with her young colleagues. She is inspired by the open spaces of the west and its contrasts, both visually and conceptually. She creates both two and three dimensional art from a variety of media. Functional stoneware pottery, handmade in Boulder, WY. Food, dishwasher, oven safe.

Debi Morley • Jewelry

Debi's mother put her in private art lessons when she was in fourth grade, and she was instantly hooked. Because her mother was always trying a new art hobby Debi was too. When she was 23, she and her mother started pottery lessons. Her mother stuck with pottery until she was 86, while DebiI just dabbled at pottery trying other mediums until 2003. That’s when she discovered silver smithing. She was working full time yet would go to Jackson Wyoming to the Art Association every weekend to take lessons. When she retired, Debi went to Portland Oregon to Multnomah Parks and Recreation to immerse in metal smithing and jewelry making for three months taking seven classes and two workshops from wonderful instructors. Next she went to Ghost Ranch in New Mexico to learn how to do inlay work and went back seven times to improve her skills and learn from other jewelers. Before returning to Wyoming, she went to Florence Italy to learn to work with gold with a retired gold smith. Debi teaches beginning and intermediate metal smithing at BOCES to share what she has learned and see what direction others go with their work. She still takes classes and workshops herself to improve and learn new skills. She also takes commission work from time to time to give herself new challenges. Debi doesn’t do production work and only uses higher quality material.

Delsa Allen / Reflections of the Winds • Photography

Delsa grew up in the Pinedale area with the Wind River Mountains to the north and the sage brush steep to the South. She founded her photography business shortly after collage and hasn’t stopped striving to share her connection with nature through her images. Delsa has been photographing landscapes and hidden views of nature in western Wyoming as long as she can remember, always finding new and refreshing ways of sharing her experience with nature through her images. Besides the countless images she has captured, depicting views of nature that are considered tradition landscape photography, Delsa has recently been gaining a reputation for producing stunning contemporary images of everyday landscapes, re-defining what landscape photography can be. Delsa has showcased her work through regional galleries and exhibits as well as regional street fairs. Her work has also been included in juried exhibits, regionally and nationally.

Jo Mack / Artist of the West • Paintings

Jo is a self-trained artist, working mostly with acrylics to portray the wildlife of her home in Sublette County, Wyoming and to capture western life with scenes of cattle and the people who care for them. Jo's young life was spent in Los Angeles, and she yearned for the wide open spaces. This vision came true when her family purchased a dude ranch in Bondurant in the late '40s. Jo never returned to the city and met her life-long partner in the Hoback Basin. Together, they ranched and enjoyed raising their 2 children in the country. Jo kept painting, always having an eye for the wild animals as well as seeing the beauty in domestic creatures. Today, she divides her time between the ranch in Bondurant and her winter home in Pinedale. Her studio in each home continues to be her focal point.

Joni Mack / Raven's Crowne Jewels • Jewelry

Joni Mack grew up on a cattle ranch in Bondurant and has lived in the area most of her life. She studied silver-smithing with Georgia Mayer, Jeffrey Kaphan, and Robert Ebendorf, and then became a teacher at the Center for the Arts in Jackson. She loves working in metals - silver, gold, and bronze are her principal media. Stones range from common jasper all the way to diamonds. In many of her pieces you will find the local mountains featured as well as many of the animals of Wyoming. Some of her favorite pieces are inspired by the art of people living thousands of years ago; the White Horse of Uffington in England and the Altamira cave in Spain. You’ll also encounter dragons!

Mad Glee Mitchell / Red Rascal Designs • Curious Things

Born in Rawlins, grew up in Rock Springs, and now raising her son in Pinedale, Madisen is a Wyoming girl through and through. Most of her childhood was spent exploring the Red Desert looking for bones, stones, and other interesting artifacts to add to her growing collection of curiosities. For the past decade, she has spent her free time combing the sagebrush and prairie grasses of Sublette County with her son Guy, partner Chan, and dog Bleu for more of nature’s treasures. The outdoors has been a huge part of Madisen’s existence and the main inspiration for her art. She takes found objects, like animal bones, and breathes new life into them with sculptural taxidermy arrangements that speak of the landscape in which they were found. Staying true to her roots, these pieces all share a certain Western flair while blending the folklore of Wyoming with that of her ancestral Norwegian and Celtic heritages.

Madisen’s artistic repertoire also consists of painting, drawing, beadwork, jewelry, photography, and graphic design.

Matt Guenthner / Fallen Leaf Pottery • Ceramics

Matt graduated with a BA in Fine Art with an extend major in ceramics. He later added a teaching certificate to his resume and took an art teaching job in Big Piney in 1996 and is still teaching there. He has always done pottery but started doing more after moving to Big Piney, probably because of the long winters. It was one day walking to school that he noticed a leaf frozen in an ice puddle, this flashed a memory of when he would play in frozen puddles as a kid. The details of the leaf were so beautiful it inspired him to incorporate the details in pottery, the pottery you see today in the gallery is a product of those events.

Mike Cooney / Tumble Creek Woodshop • Wood Works

Mike and his wife live in the Kendall Valley north of Cora Wyoming. After retiring from a career in engineering, he started Tumble Creek Woodshop to pursue a lifetime interest in woodworking. He enjoys the creative and problem solving aspects of woodworking and the endless opportunity the craft affords him to learn new skills. He likes to create objects that are pleasing to the eye, while also serving a practical purpose. Many of Mike's works feature embellishments that give a nod to the natural beauty and traditional culture of Wyoming. One unique product line he has developed utilizes high resolution satellite elevation data to create captivating three dimensional topographic models of Wyoming's mountainous terrain in hardwood. He will also work with customers to customize many of his products including the topographic models, wood signs and redwood garden benches with carved backs. You can reach him at tumblecreekwoodshop@gmail.com and through Tumblecreekwoodshop on Facebook.

Pat Poletti / Bent Willow Furnishings • Furniture

Pat has been making willow furniture for 25 years, learning the craft at the Art Center in Jackson. The abundance of willow and birch in the area provide material for her. Willow is gathered and gently bent to fit a willow frame, and then shaped into arms and headrests. She also works with birch, walnut and pine to build tables and other furniture. Pat has taught classes in Pinedale, Dubois, and Jackson and is happy to encourage new artists with this type of "rustic furniture". She lives in the Green River Valley north of Cora.

Pamela Fetzner • Painting

Pamela creates expressive and vibrant paintings using acrylics, oils, and alcohol ink. She has been painting for over 30 years, and her work reflects her passion for color, texture, and movement.

She is primarily self-taught, and her artistic journey began as a personal hobby that eventually turned into a full-time pursuit. Pamela has dedicated herself to her craft, resulting in a body of work that is both technically impressive and emotionally resonant.

Her art draws inspiration from the world around her, including nature, music, and personal experiences. Pamela loves exploring the interplay of light and shadow, vibrant hues and subtle tones, and the balance between structure and fluidity. Her paintings capture moments of beauty and contemplation, inviting viewers to immerse themselves in my world of color and texture.

Over the years, her work has been featured in various exhibitions and galleries, and her paintings can be found in private collections around the world. As an artist, she is always evolving and refining her technique, seeking new ways to express herself through her art.

Robin Sruoginis • Fabric, Multi-media

"Art for me has been a lifelong and ever changing learning process." It all began in Minnesota where Robin was born and as a little girl traipsed the woods with her dogs. Nature and animals have always been an inspiration and her “Happy Place” so for her, it feels very natural to pick up sticks, stones and bones, or the lost forgotten bit of rusty trash found in the oddest of places. Added to her stashes and collections of fibers, laces, antiques etc. is where her art begins to take on a life of its own. Imagining herself tied down to one technique or medium would be like wearing the same set of clothes for an entire lifetime, therefore she experiments and plays with a vast array of materials available in the art world today. Mixed mediums are where the imagination has no limits for Robin…and rules? Well, forget those! Sewing is probably where she would say I she is the most grounded. Fabric being her favorite collection, with repurposing the old and unwanted being incorporated into something new and unique is her goal. There is always a lot of emotion in art, some good… some bad, and a story that can be written by no-one else but the artist. Robin's goal is to take new or used materials (she recycles a lot), make
something totally new, and then make it appear as though it has been aged by time, forgotten, and then re-found. The viewer can then interpret for themselves the story that each piece may convey. She is now living a fabulous life here in Wyoming, where her art can take on new twists, turns and directions, for who couldn’t be inspired by the beauty that surrounds us each and every day here in
the “Winds”

Sukey Hohl • Fabric, Multi-media

A Wyoming resident for 37 years, Sukey worked at the Sublette County Library for 25 years, retiring as director. She learned to sew in junior high and the first thing she bought when she got her first job was a sewing machine. Her main interest is quilting. She likes doing traditional block designs in brighter colorways and is heavily influenced by Amish quilts and African Americans quilts like those of Gee’s Bend. Her favorite fabrics have traditional prints in vivid colors. She likes to learn new techniques using modern quilting rulers and templates and is a heavy user of Pinterest and YouTube. Sukey likes to share her love of color and her main goal is to be always learning new sewing and crafting skills.

Wanda Hawes • Pastels, Candles

Wanda majored in art at the University of South Dakota and after spending the summer breaks at Lake Tahoe, Nevada, transferred to Sierra Nevada College on the north shore of Lake Tahoe where she earned her Bachelor of Creative Arts Degree with an emphasis on oil painting. When her daughter was young, Wanda found the set up and break down of oil painting too time consuming with a young child and began to work in pastels instead. She never looked back! Strongly influenced by Georgia O'Keefe and always inspired by the "Birds Eye View" of her subject matter, she has been known for her flower and vegetable paintings. Recently, the inspiration of the outdoor scenery and abundance of fishing in Sublette County has shifted her focus to painting local landscapes and fish.