SUN VALLEY MUSEUM OF ART
Gardens: Collaborations with Nature
Featuring Katy Stone
JUNE 16 - AUGUST 20, 2022
”Ketchum—the home of Sun Valley Museum of Art—is a town surrounded by vast areas of wilderness. This BIG IDEA project considers natural spaces that are in many ways the inverse of wilderness: gardens, where people collaborate with nature in order to shape or transform it. Gardens are also places that transform those who experience them, whether as gardener or visitor.
Through a museum exhibition, classes, tours and film, Gardens: Collaborations with Nature uses the ideas of nature as collaborator, nature as curator and nature managed as lenses through which to view the role of gardens in our lives. How do gardens inspire and express artistic creativity? How do they offer solace and joy, changing our human experience of the natural world? How do flora and human beings work together as partners in the creation of garden spaces?
Several years ago, Seattle-based artist Katy Stone visited SVMoA as an artist-in-residence and spent time making small installations in the gardens at The Museum’s Hailey House. Working with painted Mylar, glitter and other materials, she collaborated with flowers and plants to create temporary artworks that invite viewers to look closely as they discover her subtle interventions. Stone is creating new interventions in the flowerbeds outside The Museum. Visitors can enjoy them as they evolve throughout the course of the exhibition, which also features photographs of Stone’s works in Hailey.”