Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival Kicks Off September 9 in Jackson, Wyoming, with Over 50 Art Events

The 31st annual Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival returns to the mountain resort town of Jackson, Wyo., Sept. 9 - 20, 2015, featuring more than 50 activities, including the popular Western Design Conference. The busy 12-day festival calendar also includes house tours, gallery walks, a "QuickDraw," Taste of the Tetons, and new locally bottled commemorative wines.

Jackson Hole, Wyo. (PRWEB) September 08, 2015

The 31st annual Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival kicks off Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015, packing the mountain town of Jackson, Wyo., with artists, culture mavens, design enthusiasts and foodies. The 12-day festival, which runs through Sept. 20, mixes visual, contemporary, culinary, Western, landscape, home design, wildlife and Native American arts, and includes more than 50 family-friendly activities - many of them free.

Highlights of the 2015 festival include the Palates & Palettes gallery walk on Friday, Sept. 11; the Taste of the Tetons on Sunday, Sept. 13, for delicious samples of creations by the valley's top chefs; the Showcase of Homes tours of exclusive private residences with the opportunity to talk shop with Jackson's highly skilled architects and designers Friday and Saturday, Sept. 18 and 19; and the crowd-favorite QuickDraw in Town Square on Saturday, Sept. 19, with artists at work in the open air, followed by a live auction of their creations.

The Western Design Conference (WDC), a signature event of the Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival, returns to Jackson, Sept. 10 - 13, 2015, bringing in more than 130 talented artists working in varying mediums to showcase and sell their one-of-a-kind, museum-quality functional artwork. New this year is a Designer Show House, featuring six professionally designed rooms constructed within the exhibit, along with the return of the popular Retail Row.

The four-day WDC celebration of one-of-a-kind Western furniture, fashion and accessories opens Thursday, Sept. 10 with a much anticipated Opening Preview Party at the Snow King Center that includes a Ward + Blake Architects-sponsored runway fashion show featuring Jackson Hole locals as models. The Western Design Conference Exhibit + Sale continues at Snow King, Sept. 11-13.

Festivalgoers can also meet this year's returning featured artist, Billy Schenck, at the Altamira Gallery on Sept. 16. Schenck was the featured artist for the very first Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival in 1985, and his painting "13 Minutes From Eternity" is the official artwork for this year's event poster. The festival also has partnered with local winemakers Jackson Hole Winery to present the commemorative wines for the 2015 event, a Syrah and a Chardonnay with custom labels displaying Schenck's featured artwork. Bottles of the signature wines are available at several Jackson stores and online at Bottled Wyoming.

About the Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival:
Conveniently located just 20 minutes from the Jackson Hole Airport, Jackson, Wyo., is served by major airlines including Delta, United, American and SkyWest. Reservation information for Jackson's numerous hotels, as well as a complete schedule of Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival events, taking place Sept. 9-20, 2015, may be found at http://www.jacksonholechamber.com. For additional information, contact Maureen Murphy at Jackson Hole Chamber, 307.733.3316.

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