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For nigh on 60 years, if you wanted to learn how to paint or draw you could go to the Art Association of Jackson Hole, one of the valley’s oldest nonprofits. Gotta dance? Then your place was at Dancers’ Workshop, just a few years the Art Association’s junior. And those bitten by the theater bug had Off Square Theatre Company, the direct descendant of community performing arts organizations that go back at least 40 years. But if you had a song in your heart or a tap in your toe, well, here in Jackson Hole your options were limited. While there were skilled musicians willing and ...

Babs Case, Dancers’ Workshop’s longtime artistic director, is “a true believer that the world doesn’t need another ‘Nutcracker.’” Each year the New York City Ballet, the San Francisco Ballet and just about every other major and minor ballet company dance to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovski’s 1892 symphonic imagining of E.T.A. Hoffman’s fantastical fairy tale. And yet, Case said, Dancers’ Workshop has stuck by the holiday staple, even in the face of extraordinary limitations and restrictions. She and her colleagues believe they can bring something new ...

Lessons from the bears Through her research and professional career, Sarah Elmeligi has come to appreciate bears in a new light, seeing them as more than just data points and graphs or newspaper articles. Partnering with photographer John E. Marriott, she showcases amazing photos of bear behavior to complement the text of her book, “What Bears Teach Us,” to describe what she has learned from the endlessly charismatic creatures over her two decades of conservation work. The National Museum of Wildlife Art and the Yellowstone to Yukon conservation initiative host Elmeligi for a webina...