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Guys... This is gonna be bad. I wrote this almost two years ago. I’m sorry if you read this to be honest. Proceed with caution. 

"If isn't my favorite ginger." Jack smiled, letting me into his hotel room. "Look, save it. I have to talk to you about something...someone." I walked into his room, sitting on his bed. 

Jack's bed was next to his, covered with clothes. "Ooooo, who is the lucky guy?" He smirked, sitting across from me. "I-it's serious." He knitted his eyebrows together in concern, "What's wrong?" I broke in a full sob and hugged his waist. 

"Y/N, what's wrong?" "I think I like Wyatt...maybe even love. But he'll never like me back ,he hates me, doesn't he?" "Y/N, you're being paranoid! Wyatt doesn't hate anyone, especially you." "You're right." I wiped my eyes,sniffling. "I'm sorry for the tears." I chuckled. "It's fine," He smiled,"You should ask him out." 

"I-I can't." "Come on Y/N!" "I think i'm going to Sophia with this." I stood up to leave. "Wait, Y/n!" I turned before I opened the door,"Yeah?" "Let me help." I sighed,"You'll just tell him and embarrass me." "No, I promise, I won't." "Alright." We spent the whole night planning. Even Finn helped. "You can't tell anyone about this,alright." "Alright." "Promise? "Promise." "Promise." Jack nodded.

I was aloud to be here because I was Finn's best friend. He scored me a quick role in IT as one of Beverly's school bullies. The cast and I really clicked, and I'm like an eighth member of the losers club. Sometimes it's a little awkward, but we get over it. I'm even on the live streams! They talk about me in interviews, too. Right now we're on a tour to meet fans and talk to journalists and magazines. Nick, Owen, and Jackson were here too!

I shared a room with Sophia and made it even. Jack and Finn, Sophia and I, Wyatt and Chosen, and Jaeden, and Jeremy was with Nick. Sophia and I usually just watched cheesy movie and TV shows and listened to music. I had introduced her to Fleetwood Mac, and she loved them too! I loved being her best friend, she is such a great girl.

 "Y/n,waaaake up!" My eyes fluttered open, "Hmmm?" "I heard you mumbling a special boys name in your sleep." She smirked. "Please Sophia, don't mock me." "I won't!" She smiled. "Thank you." "Who else knows now?"

 "Jack and Finn." "Yes! Now we get to tease you about it all day!" "Stop smirking like that." I laughed. She turned on Every Breath You Take by The Police. I rolled my eyes,"I'm not obsessed with him." I rolled my eyes. 

I layed back and listened to the music. I actually really like this song. There was a knock at the door. "We're leaving soon, get ready!" Finn yelled into the room. "Thanks, Mr.Wolfhard." He grinned. Sophia and I got up and started getting ready for an outting. We were in L.A, and not many of us had been there before. I decided to dress 90s grunge as usual. I put on light distressed jean shorts and a band shirt. I put on thigh-high socks and my black doc martins. I curled my hair a bit and was finished. Sophia was still trying to pick out an outfit. She went with olive branch colored shorts and a white blouse. "You look like a cute lil' schoolboy." I smiled. "Thank you." She grinned back. We stepped out into the hallway and waited for the guys. I texted Finn:

M: What's taking so long?

F: Wyatt's lookin pretty for you!

M: SHUT UP

F: ;)

I turned my phone off and stuffed into my back pocket. I ran back into the hotel room and grabbed my headphones. I can't go a car ride without those! Chosen and Jaeden joined us in the hallway soon after that, then Jack. He kept making small nods at the fact that I like Wyatt. It was pretty funny at first. It'll probably get old after Finn, Sophia, and Jack will make the jokes all day. We all talked a bit before our urbers arrived. We all preferred to ride together, but that wasn't possible today. 

Finn, Sophia, Jack and I all rode in one Uber. Chosen, Jeremy, Jaeden, and Wyatt shared another. Nick didn't feel well this morning and decided to stay home. We were going to get breakfast, then go out to museum or something. Sophia's mom was the only adult, and she was back at the hotel, so we had free rein over everything. When we got to the cafe we decided to eat outside. We had to get two tables worth of chairs and put them at a small round table. I sat in between Wyatt and Sophia. I looked at my Instagram timeline while everyone ordered,I didn't want anything. Breakfast made me nauseous. When everyone got their food and drinks Wyatt asked,"Are you going to eat anything?" "No,not very hungry." "Are you sure?" I nodded. Finn smirked at me from across the table.

M: stop!

F: What am I doing?

He smirked at me again, putting his phone down. I glared him but looked away when Chosen looked over. "Y/n, why do you never eat when we go out to?" Chosen asked. "She has insecurity eating around her crush." I glared at jack from across the table. His smirk stood still. I looked at wyatt, he was confused. Breakfast lasted about fifteen minutes later and then we were all packing into Uber's again. We rode with the same people, even though I Sophia wanted me to go with Wyatt. The museum was a ten minute car ride away. When we got to the museum we all split up into groups so we could look at what we wanted, and not make too much noise. Jaeden, Finn, and Sophia went to see the Egyptian history section. Chosen, Jeremy,and Jack went to the Civil war section. That left Wyatt and I. "Aquarium?" He asked. "Yeah." I smiled. It seemed like forever when we finally found the aquarium. The small talk was awkward,and I didn't enjoy it anyway. "Y/n?" Wyatt asked,stopping in front of the aquarium enclosure. "Yeah Wy?" I asked, looking up at him. "You know when Jack made that joke about your crush?" "Mhm." "W-who is your crush?" I was silent for a moment, questioning whether or not I should tell him the truth. 

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have asked." He opened the door to the aquarium. "No, it's okay." We walked into the aquarium. We walked around in silence for about five minutes. "Wy?" "Hm?" He asked,looking at the jellyfish. "N-nevermind." When we got to the next exhibit, I decided to stop being a pussy. "Wyatt," 

"Yeah?" "I like you. You're my crush." I couldn't stand it any longer. "R-really?" A smile painted across his face, it looked genuine. "Y/n, I like you too." I smiled as well. I couldn't help it. I felt like jumping up and down and into his arms. "You do?" I asked happily. "Definitely." I smiled as I hugged him, feeling content  and warm in his arms. "You don't know how long I've wanted this." He whispered. "Me too." I pulled away from the hug so we could continue looking at the exhibits. I grabbed his hand and intertwined our fingers. "I told the guys that I like you a couple weeks ago, they always tried to get me to tell you somehow." I laughed,"Jack and Finn found out last night, Sophia has known since the day I started liking you." "When was that?" "The moment I met you." He sighed in relief,"Me too." "So we get to tell them soon." I smiled. 

After about half an hour of walking around the museum the group decided to get lunch. We sat with the same people as usual ,and Sophia still insisted I should sit with Wyatt. When we got to the place we picked out for lunch we all ordered, I got a grilled cheese and some fries. Healthy, right? I sat next to Wyatt and held his hand under the table, smiling like idiot the whole time Finn and Jack told some stupid story. Chosen was staring at me from across the table with a "I know something" look. I texted him:

M: Stop staring at me like that ya creep

C: Stop holding Wyatt's hand like it's a secret you two like each other ya scrub!

M: I can't promise I can stop that.

C: When are you going to tell the group?

M: Soon.

M: Now eat, scrub!

He laughed at me calling him a scrub. I laughed as well and nodded toward his food. We're like best friends so we can have a conversation without saying a word. "I say we go back to the hotel and fuck around." Jack suggested after everyone was done eating. We all did just that. We all got to the hotel and went to Jack and Finn's hotel room because it was the biggest. Jack started an Instagram Live video and we all decided to play truth or dare. Sophia went first. "Jack, truth or dare?" "I gotta go dare." "I dare you to... eat a bowl of Mayo." Sophia smiled,crossing her arms. "Ew, Soph that's disgusting!" Jack shook his head. "Do it or we get to shave your head." 

Jack sighed,"Not too much mayo." "I don't know, he might look good bald." I joked. Jack puckered his lips and made kissing noises at me. I laughed and did it back, then shook my head. After he did it Jack asked me,"Truth or dare Y/n." "Uh..." I didn't want to answer their questions, so I picked dare. "Dare!" "Alright," Jack smirked,"I dare you to kiss Wyatt." I looked at Wyatt,"I-uh-uh..." "Do it or we get to shave your head." Jack smirked. I glared at Jack. I turned to Wyatt and gave him a nervous smile. "Everyone is going crazy in the comment." I heard Jaeden laugh. It would be both of our first kisses, and everyone knew that. We both turned our heads and pressed our lips together. Everyone in the room cheered. We both pulled away and looked at the group. I grabbed his hand,"We're dating by the way." I smiled.

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One Beautiful Day in Grand Teton National Park

The Verdict: This is one of our favorite national parks. It’s a mountains-and-lakes kind of park, and the scenery is jaw-dropping in a Banff-like way. The town right by the park, Jackson, is one of the nicest national park-adjacent towns we’ve been to; it seems like a great place for an extended stay (though when we were there -- in late summer after 18 months after a pandemic -- it wasn’t the most affordable). Our only regret about Grand Teton is not being able to stay longer!

The COVID moose was a hit. Way to be adorable, St. John’s Hospital.

Stuff We Recommend

#1: Hiking to Surprise Lake & Amphitheatre Lake (~10 miles total: 5 miles out and 5 miles back; strenuous): This hike is AMAZING! You'll hike to two extraordinarily beautiful lakes against the backdrop of Grand Teton (the park's namesake mountain). For me, these lakes recalled the stunning lakes at Canada's Banff National Park. The hike is pretty much uphill the entire way; it is definitely strenuous but not because of any particularly challenging areas, rather because it is a marathon of an incline. We saw elk and pika, as well as a marriage proposal at lovely Surprise Lake! The full hike took us about 5.5 hours, split about evenly between uphill and downhill, excluding the time we spent picnicking at Surprise Lake. It was pretty cold sitting by the lakes, so definitely take a windbreaker for that bit.

Surprise Lake

Amphitheater Lake

If you choose to do this hike, check out Earthtrekkers' excellent summary. Note they recommend adding on Delta Lake -- we tried, but the lack of signage made it too difficult to find our way, and we ultimately decided not to pursue this additional portion of the hike.

Hiking up to Surprise & Amphitheater Lakes - take 1

Hiking up to Surprise & Amphitheater Lakes - take 2. See how the smile disappeared? It’s a difficult hike!

Elk hanging out along the trail

Pika chilling in the rocks by Amphitheatre Lake

Logistics: Park at Lupine Meadows Trailhead. BEWARE the insane potholes on this road. Not sure how anything besides a 4x4 or high-clearance SUV can do this, but we did see a handful of sedans that made it. We needed a solid car wash after doing this drive. We got here on Friday around 11:30 a.m. and the parking area was 90%+ full; we were able to park on the side of the road in a designated parallel parking area.

Alternate option: Don't want to do such a long hike? Try the shorter hike to Taggart Lake (starts from a different trailhead and parking lot; looks very beautiful). You can actually hike to Bradley Lake & Taggart Lake (5.5 mi roundtrip) from the same trailhead as Surprise Lake & Amphitheatre Lake, but these two hikes share the first 1.7 miles of a pretty unremarkable uphill climb, so the Taggart Lake-only option starting elsewhere might be nicer.

View of Taggart & Bradley Lakes from the hike to Surprise & Amphitheater Lakes

#2: Jenny Lake Boat + Hiking: Jenny Lake is the most popular part of the park. We hiked most of the Jenny Lake Loop (which goes all the way around the lake), but we recommend doing things a bit differently: Start at the String Lake Parking Lot and hike counterclockwise along Jenny Lake for incredible views of the lake. Stop when you get to the area for Hidden Falls (a very large and stunning waterfall) and Inspiration Point (a beautiful, high viewpoint over Jenny Lake). Going to Hidden Falls and Inspiration Point is about 2 miles roundtrip and well worth it, though a bit steep and very crowded. Then, retrace your steps and hike back to the String Lake Parking Lot.

Bridge at the junction of Jenny Lake and String Lake

Hidden Falls

View of Jenny Lake from Inspiration Point

View of Inspiration Point from the Jenny Lake Shuttle (boat)

Alternate option: If you don't have time or don't want to hike/walk along Jenny Lake, you can park at Jenny Lake Visitor Center Parking Lot and take the Jenny Lake boat shuttle roundtrip to/from Hidden Falls and Inspiration Point. This is expensive ($18pp roundtrip) and means you miss out on some of the especially nice views of Jenny Lake, but it is time efficient and may make sense if you have limited time to spend in the park. If you do this, get to the Jenny Lake shuttle as early as possible. When we walked by it around 11a.m., the line for the shuttle was extremely long.

One of our favorite views of Jenny Lake, walking on Jenny Lake Scenic Loop from the String Lake parking lot to Hidden Falls 

What we actually did (somewhat suboptimal): We parked at the Jenny Lake Visitor Center Parking Lot and walked along Jenny Lake about 3 miles to the intersection of String Lake. Most of this walk had trees obstructing the view of the lake; it wasn't that scenic. From String Lake, we continued along the Jenny Lake Loop trail and saw Hidden Falls + Inspiration Point, as recommended above. Then we took the Jenny Lake Shuttle ($10pp one way) across Jenny Lake to get back to the Jenny Lake Parking Lot. The shuttle was a 2-3 minute boat ride across the lake with very nice views of mountainous Inspiration Point, but it felt like a ripoff. The shuttle can also have very long lines, so if we did it again we'd save ourselves the trouble. This took us about 3 hours in total.

View of Jenny Lake in the morning, close to the Jenny Lake Visitor Center.

Sometime during the first ~3 miles of the Jenny Lake Scenic Loop starting from the Visitor Center and walking counterclockwise. 

Logistics: We're not sure about what it's like to park by String Lake. If you park at Jenny Lake Visitor Center, there are a few large parking areas. When we arrived on Friday around 7:40a.m. there were plenty of available spaces, but when we returned around 11a.m., the parking lot was full and cars were circling for spots as they opened up. Get there early to save yourself the stress of finding a parking spot!

#3: Drive along the 42 mile scenic drive loop (map): We drove most but not all of this, and it was definitely very pretty throughout. Exhausted after a long day, we only stopped at Oxbow Bend (amazing, and easy to get to as it’s right off the main road) and Schwabacher Landing (nice, but hard to get to due to a VERY pothole-y road; not sure if it was worth it.)

Oxbow Bend before sunset

Schwabachers Landing

Of course, there are plenty of other things to see and do at Grand Teton National Park. We loved the way we spent our one day there, and we hope to return to see more!

Lodging:

Springhill Suites by Marriott Jackson Hole: We spent one night at this hotel and it was perfect. The rooms are upscale and cozy, check-in was efficient and thorough, the downtown Jackson location is great, and the breakfast buffet was varied including delicious healthy options. We would have loved to stay longer, it's just very expensive! Logistics: Though the hotel offers pricey parking, we found free street parking right in front of the hotel and there were plenty of open spots. The city of Jackson also offers free parking garages, including one very closeby to this hotel.

Colter Bay Campground:  Located right by Jackson Lake in the northern part of the park, Colter Bay is about an hour north of the city of Jackson and 30 minutes north of some of the most popular park areas (Jenny Lake, Lupine Meadows). We were lucky to get a campsite just a few weeks before our trip, but Colter Bay wasn't terribly special. It wasn't scenic and, while convenient to get an early start to our day from inside the park, it wasn't quite as conveniently located as Jenny Lake Campground since that is more central to the most popular hikes. However, Jenny Lake Campground was booked out several months in advance.

Jackson, WY:

This is a very nice town with an unbelievably scenic backdrop and great amenities (restaurants, bars, nice lodging). Though we only had enough time to spend one night here, we would have loved to spend more time. We enjoyed the panang curry and IPAs at Thai Me Up, a Thai restaurant + brewery.

Logistics: The city of Jackson has free parking garages. Street parking is also free.

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(April 10, 2018)

I remember being 17 and having my own radio podcast that I shared with a crybaby writing man I no longer keep in touch with. We would conduct interviews over Skype with random strangers we met on Omegle, but usually I’d be the one to reel them in since he was normally a black screen and it’s easier for girls to actually catch someone’s interest on a website full of masturbators. 

I remember one day being so intrigued by Wyoming because it was a state that I knew nothing about and it was completely square-shaped. I wanted to meet someone from Wyoming to ask about it, but I imagined that not many people lived in Wyoming because I could never find its residents when I put Wyoming in my interests. That whole night, we probably spent two hours looking for Wyoming people, and only found one person from Montana who’s been to Wyoming, but never lived there. She told us there was a lot of nothing, but sometimes she’d go to rodeos. Ever since then, I pictured Wyoming as the “Wild West”.

When I came to Utah in November 2017, I remember overhearing that Alta was only about 4 hours from Jackson, WY, and sometimes people would make the drive to Wyoming to buy kegs of beer since kegs weren’t sold in Utah. I had no idea it was that close. I thought about just spontaneously hopping on a train to go to Wyoming multiple times, but I don’t actually think that method of travel exists. Finally, after covering multiple people’s shifts in March and having a handful of days I could have off myself, I decided to go check out Wyoming myself. 

I took The Salt Lake Express (similar to a Greyhound bus) on a really round-about route to Jackson. It took me over 12 hours to get to Jackson because of there being no other shorter route. We went from Salt Lake City to Idaho Falls where I had to stay at a gas station from 11 PM to 6 AM and I didn’t sleep, and then after two hours I was dropped off at an Albertsons in Jackson with no instruction on how to get to the center of town. Oh well. I still made it, didn’t I?

Public transportation exposes us to a variety of different people of different social status. I never saw multiple people with face tattoos all in the same day. Nor did I ever sit on a bus with so many veterans and sick people. I think I had my buff covering my face the majority of the ride. I get why most people have cars and don’t use public transportation. For that, I miss being able to drive myself anywhere, but it’s just unnecessary for my lifestyle of living in isolated places (especially since I’m living on an island next).

Luckily, when I got to Jackson I’d be meeting friends who lived in Fort Collins, CO, whom I worked with previously in Talkeetna, Alaska. John and Gabby had been dating since June and then after the season ended, they went on a trip to Hong Kong and Thailand, came back to the states to rent a house together and even bought a car together. Now they’re going to be driving across the U.S. to live in Nantucket for the summer. They lucked out a lot. Usually seasonal romance ends as soon as the season ends, but I’m glad that they were able to stick it out and it definitely helped that they both originated from the same state and both love to travel. 

Before they got in around midnight, I was trying to be a Tinder tourist. I usually reinstall Tinder whenever I go somewhere new so that I can get a general census of what the people are like in the area (at least the single ones), and to perhaps spend the day with someone rather than alone. It actually never works, so I don’t know why I still do it. Regardless, I still met up with a guy in town square at around 10 PM. Why I chose him, I don’t really know. He was kinda like all the other guys on Tinder that I saw: holding a fish, a lot of skiing photos, outdoorsy. Maybe it was his biceps. Actually, I think it was that I could actually see his face in at least one photo and I couldn’t see anyone else’s. 

What I didn’t see on his profile was that he was probably 3 inches shorter than me and that I couldn’t smell his breath. I warned him that I was going to be tall, so I don’t know why that didn’t draw any red-flags for me when he said nothing in response. Shortness wasn’t the major issue though. It was that there was simply no spark at all. Body language was so off. Smells were bad.  We both were just sitting there to be polite until I had the perfect alibi to leave. “Oh, my friends are gonna be here any minute!”

Thankfully friends were coming so I didn’t have to waste another minute on Tinder. It’s nice to travel alone, but sometimes it’s nicer to travel with people you know and want to spend time with. John went skiing while Gabby and I went to the Tetons to touch a snowman’s boobs and then went to a bunch of stationary stores to drool over all the things we couldn’t buy because Jackson is expensive. It was a really short trip, but John got to do the thing he loved to do, and Gabby and I got to catch up on everything we missed in each other’s lives during the winter. I’m glad John loves Alta so much too because I scored a ride back with them with enough time to go skiing on Sunnyside which meant I didn’t have to ride the awful bus back. Everyone won something. 

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Yellowstone National Park

So, if you know me, or you’ve read any of this blog, you know I love our National Parks. And, I’m betting your next question is, which is my favorite? I can respond to that question in the matter of a milli-second…Yellowstone National Park. No question. Why you ask? Because it is the best bang for your buck…kinda proverbially. Not that it’s the least expensive, or easiest to travel to, or anything like that. But, if you have only one National Park that you can visit in your lifetime…make it Yellowstone. In this single park you can experience just about every environment the US has to offer…a forest full of deer, moose, bobcats, wolves, and bears, a large lake great for swimming and fishing, a spectacularly huge waterfall, a grand canyon, a rushing river, buffalo-filled hills and plains…and don’t get me started on the geothermal area. Hands down my favorite spot in the park. The colors in the thermal pools are amazing. The water is crystal clear and the pools can range from aqua blue to rustic red to rainbow. They look remarkably inviting and refreshing, but be forewarned that they are scalding hot and dangerous.

There is also a small road-side lake in Yellowstone, Isa Lake, that sits on the Continental Divide…one side flows to the Pacific and one side flows to the Atlantic. How cool is that?! Blows my mind that water from this little lily-pad filled lake impacts water as far away as the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.  

My husband and I have traveled to Yellowstone not once, but twice. Once when we lived in the Midwest, and once when we lived in the West. So, to say we’re dedicated to seeing this park is an understatement. We have traveled miles and days from both ends of the US to visit. Once without kiddos, and once with kiddos.

The first time to the park (many, many years ago) we stayed at the most adorable pine cottages at Absaroka Mountain Lodge, out the east gate of the park. The park was working on the road to that entrance during our stay and would close the road at night. Many of the nights, after spending a full day in the park, we were speeding back to the lodge, praying that we got there before the road was shut down and we were stranded overnight. Good times.

We also got to experience the bison up close and personal. A bit of advice…if you see a herd of bison up on the hill overlooking Hayden Valley and your vehicle is between the hill and the stream in the valley below that they frequent for drinking…STAY IN YOUR CAR. At some point that herd will likely stampede to said valley and you want to be inside your vehicle, not outside, snapping photos when they do.  

The second time we visited we stayed at Togwotee Mountain Lodge located out the south entrance of the gate in Moran, WY. It’s situated between Yellowstone, Grand Teton National Park, and Jackson Hole. Togwotee offers horseback riding right out the back of the lodge. If you’re into that thing, I highly recommend it. It was my daughter’s first real trail ride and highly impactful at her young age. The trail boss shared that he was moving back to Minnesota because the winters in Wyoming were too cold for him…let that sink in a minute…how cold must it get to have a crusty cowboy from Minnesota say it’s too cold?!

One more thing…when you visit Yellowstone, you MUST also visit the Grand Tetons. To go to Yellowstone, and skip the Grand Tetons should be a crime.

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This Wyoming Art Collective Turned Political in the Wake of Trump

In the weeks leading up to the 500,000-strong Women's March on Washington, D.C., three women artists in Laramie, Wyoming loaded up their art supplies and, as the Toni Morrison quote swarming social media at the time demanded, got to work.

Rather than trek 1,700 miles to Washington, June Glasson, Meg Thompson, and Adrienne Vetter joined hundreds of marchers in their state's capital. Their organization, the Wyoming Art Party, helped arm the caravan from Laramie not simply with Sharpied posterboard signs, but robust political tapestries, flags emblazoned with slogans, and sequined uteruses. Surrounded by pink yarn hats and chants of, "No registries, no walls, equal human rights for all!" the trio carried a plaster buffalo skull dripping with fringe and tapestry, marking them "The Wild Wombs of the West."

Signs prepared for the Cheyenne, WY Women's March

The Wild Wombs of the West all live in Laramie, each working multiple jobs to pay the reasonably-priced rural bills. Each has lived in larger cities, but eventually settled in the 30,000-person town. "We have a higher quality of life living in Laramie and more time for our art," says Vetter.

In preparation for the Women's March, Glasson, Thompson, and Vetter provided materials, expertise, and space for Laramie's marchers to elevate their protest tools to an art form. When asked if they're a political group, the women identify more with the social definition of the word "party," and their help isn't limited a single ideology. And anyway, Thompson says, "We can't show up every day if we don't like the projects and they're not fun."

June Glasson, Meg Thompson, and Adrienne Vetter decked out the Laramie caravan to the Cheyenne, WY Women's March

The seed of the Wyoming Art Party was planted in the process of a statewide collaboration-by-mail between visual artists, writers, and craftspeople. Portrait of Wyoming was inspired by "frontier creativity" Glasson and Thompson noticed throughout the state. According to the Wyoming Art Council, 58.7% of its citizens personally perform or create art, which is nearly 14% more than the national average. Glasson thinks it has to do with how isolated communities can be in Wyoming, the contiguous US's least dense state. As she explains it, "People make things with their hands here. Everybody makes things on the side."

In a 2014 effort to learn more about what Wyomingites were making, Glasson and Thompson coordinated 38 artists, including Vetter, to ship 19 boxes between Laramie, Alpine, Casper, Cheyenne, Daniel, Dubois, Jackson, and Pinedale. Each carried half-projects from one artist, poet, or artisan to be completed by another.

Through Portrait of Wyoming, Vetter joined Glasson and Thompson as a Wyoming Art Party organizer, and now the three share responsibility equally. "We intentionally keep our roles and organization very flexible," says Thompson. "It is genuine teamwork based on who has time, energy, or interest to do what part." Touring the state with pop-up galleries for Portrait of Wyoming in 2014 sharpened the the trio's values, introduced them to Wyoming's wider art community, and taught them how to find space for art.

June Glasson and David Jones, Untitled, 2014

Adrienne Vetter and Marty Dorst, Synchronized Recreation, 2014

Meg Thompson and Sofia Thanhauser, Storied Lines, 2014

Before the the Women's March proved the value of their community and talents for activism, their efforts were spent hosting fairs and parades where local artists showed off their work inside local shops. The shopkeepers, it seems, are as happy to be patrons of the arts as they are for the extra foot traffic.

Since January, they've hosted ten more poster parties and workshops, ranging from a feminist Wikipedia edit-a-thon to a seminars about public lands and self-care. Their platform even attracted Laramie Mayor Andrea Summerville, who spoke about how citizens can affect Wyoming's legislature. "If you're not at the table, you're on the menu. If there a bill running in Cheyenne that you don't like, if nobody speaks up, then they're going to think that nobody cares, or it's ok with everybody," she said at the event. "Silence means that there's no opposition."

The fruits of their labor are documented in a new show at the University of Wyoming Art Museum called Topophilia, named for the love of a geographic area. For Glasson, Thompson, and Vetter, that means Wyoming.

Install shot of Topophilia. Image courtesy Wyoming Art Party

A Riverton, WY native descended from homesteaders, Vetter came to Laramie after acquiring an MFA at the University of Michigan. She collages at any scale, from the photographic to the life-sized, using found objects to explore her relationship with the American West. In an Ann Arbor gallery, she projected video of a Wyoming landscape onto the windshield of a car for an installation called Let's Go for a Drive, complimented by a recording of her mother recalling uncensored details of their life together.

Roots, Adrienne Vetter and Colleen Friday, 2014

Glasson moved to Laramie, Wyoming from Bangkok in 2011 and has shown at the National Portrait Gallery in London, as well as galleries in Berlin and the US. A painter, illustrator, and designer, she incorporates objects of beauty, symbolism, and humor into dreamy portraits and poignant collages. After noticing the prevalence of trucks decorated with fake bull testicles in her community, she painted a study of American Flag Truck Nutz she found online. "You literally have the American flag wrapped around a pair of giant cast bulls balls," she says. "For me, it they seemed to speak some very specific ideas of American masculinity and patriotism."

June Glasson, TN #1, 2015

Thompson, a Wyoming native who spent time in Brooklyn, also moved to Laramie in 2011. A trained carpenter, she sells custom furniture and commissioned artwork to fund her art practice. She probes the American West through sculpture and mixed media work, often public, sandwiched between amber plains and cloudless skies. She and Glasson met shortly after her return to Wyoming and instantly clicked and embarked on a project that would lead to the Wyoming Art Party.

Meg Thompson, One Nation, Indivisible, 2015

Much of the work interprets their experiences living in Laramie, but the centerpiece is the plaster buffalo skull created for the Women's March. It's yonic, particularly when displayed next to floral print, sequined uteri and the swarm of the slogans posters their community has created. In big letters above the skull is the tapestry: "Wild Wombs of the West."

Install shot of Topophilia. Image courtesy Wyoming Art Party

Learn more about the Wyoming Art Party on their official website, and click their names for more work by June Glasson, Meg Thompson, and Adrienne Vetter. They're currently funding their activity through an online store and print shop.

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