Inverted Florarium: Opening on June 18th at The Center with Artist Bronwyn Minton
JACKSON, WYOMING, June 13, 2025 / Join Jackson Hole Public Art and Center for the Arts for coffee, pastries, and conversation with the artist as we celebrate a striking new installation, Inverted Florarium, made entirely from repurposed paragliding wings on June 18 at 10 am in The Center Courtyard. Local artist Bronwyn Minton will speak about the inspiration for this piece and the process of creating it.
Inverted Florarium explores ecology, resilience, and perspective through softness, inversion, and the playful reimagining of a natural form. A large bloom, inspired by Wyoming’s state flower—the Indian Paintbrush (Castilleja spp.)—hovers, upside down, above a field of colorful blossoms. The flower’s tendrils connect and tether the shapes below. The surrounding glass courtyard functions as a terrarium, framing the installation as both ecosystem and specimen. Minton draws on the tradition of soft sculpture, while infusing the work with an ecological sensitivity and surreal humor. Minton’s artistic practice consistently engages with the intersection of human perception, natural form, and material use. The reclaimed paraglider wing fabric speaks to the transformation of manufactured objects into symbols of interconnection between people and nature. The sculpture’s softness is both material and metaphor—suggesting care, adaptability, and transformation. The play between micro and macro scale—the small wildflower made monumental—encourages viewers to reimagine the quiet power of native plants and the subtle intelligence of ecosystems.
“This was such a fun piece to make! From the scale, to the material, to the location - it is an honor to create a site-specific work for this space. I am also excited to keep adding to it and to have the work change over the year that it will be on display,” commented Minton.
Thank you to the local paragliding community members who donated to this project, including Scott Harris, Geoff Sharp, and Destin Peters. If you would like to donate an old wing to the project, please email robin@jhpublicart.org; Minton hopes to add to the installation during its year-long exhibit. Inverted Florarium is sponsored by the Center for the Arts and supported in part by a grant from Teton County Integrated Solid Waste and Recycling.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Bronwyn Minton is a multi-disciplinary artist, curator, and arts leader living in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Minton holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. 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. Minton’s work has been shown nationally and internationally, and is in public and private collections. Minton works with notions related to human interaction in the natural world; inclusive of scientific observation, physical involvement, and cultural experience. Her work consists of drawing, animation, photography, sculpture, clay, printmaking, and interactive installations. Using simple forms derived from nature, her work exploits radically different scales, from the microscopic to the monumental, bringing attention to how we fit with and construct nature. Contact: bronwynminton@gmail.com
ABOUT THE CENTER
Center for the Arts, a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization, serves Jackson Hole and the surrounding region by providing a state-of-the-art, affordable home for nonprofit arts organizations and supporting excellent programming on our 78,000-square-foot campus.
ABOUT JACKSON HOLE PUBLIC ART
Jackson Hole Public Art (JHPA) forges partnerships for the integration of art into any environment to inspire lasting cultural, educational and economic benefits. JHPA is a non-profit organization and our community’s leading presenter of artist-driven projects in public space. We place artworks outside traditional venues of museums and galleries to provide access to art for all people. JH Public Art provides public art consulting services and collaborates with the Town and County and many local organizations on public art projects.
For more information contact:
Carrie Geraci, Executive Director
carrie@jhpublicart.org | 307-413-1474
www.jhpublicart.org
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