Bronwyn Minton - Wyoming Women to Watch

Bronwyn Minton is a multi-disciplinary artist, educator, curator, and arts leader living in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Though Minton grew up in southern Vermont and New Hampshire, she made Wyoming home every summer beginning at age ten, attending and later working at a summer camp in the Wind River Range where her mother had once worked as well. Her parents, educators and artists, encouraged Minton to experiment in the arts throughout her life, which fostered her curiosity and desire to make objects in all different mediums. Minton received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Though she made cities like Portland and New York home, she found herself moving to Jackson, Wyoming in 1992. For 13 years, Minton worked at the National Museum of Wildlife Art, later working as the executive director at the Art Association of Jackson Hole.

Minton’s artworks and installations convey notions related to human interaction within the natural world. Creating from both a macro and micro lens, her mixed media work consists of drawing, animation, photography, sculpture, clay, printmaking, and interactive installations. Using simple forms inspired by the patterns and textures found in nature, her work exploits radically different scales, from the microscopic to the monumental, bringing attention to how we each individually fit into, and construct, our own connections to the natural world.

Minton’s works have been shown nationally and internationally and can be found in public and private collections. She is the recipient of the Wyoming Governor’s Arts Award, two Wyoming Arts Council Visual Arts Fellowships, a Wyoming Arts Council Visual Arts Fellowship Honorable mention, and the Cultural Council of Jackson Hole’s Creative Pulse Award.