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Bisoncast

Connect with the Museum’s collection through our free online art and nature videos.

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Bisoncast Mission

Bisoncast is an online video series that provides free access to the National Museum of Wildlife Art’s world-class collection, set amongst the beauty of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Bisoncast shares stories the Museum is uniquely positioned to tell ー stories of the relationships between humanity, creative expression, and nature ー to support new ways of seeing and understanding our world and ourselves.

Bisoncast Vision

Bisoncast seeks to grow an inclusive, global community around the National Museum of Wildlife Art’s collection. Bisoncast inspires continued curiosity and awareness and empowers discovery, creativity, and engagement.

Videos

Art + Nature Video Series

Bisoncast enables a global community of art and nature lovers to connect with the Museum anytime, anywhere with the internet. This new point of entry breaks down financial and geographic barriers while promoting intellectual access, equity, and inclusion.

Hand and Paw

Wolves: there may be no other wild animal that inspires such a complex range of human emotions. In this visit to the National Museum of Wildlife Art, we’ll explore how perceptions of these predators vary among different peoples and cultures, and how artists have reflected and influenced our views of these wild canines. Guest starring: Photographer and National Geographic Explorer, Ronan Donovan. This Bisoncast episode generously sponsored by: In Memory of Cynthia Quast Brabson Library and Educational Foundation Wyoming Arts Council

This Bisoncast episode generously sponsored by: Brabson Library and Educational Foundation, Wyoming Arts Council and In Memory of Cynthia Quast.

Presto! Just Like Magic

What does change look like? In this visit to the National Museum of Wildlife Art, we’ll see examples of how artists visualize change through animals, meet some tiny shapeshifters, and even practice the art of transformation ourselves.

This Bisoncast episode generously sponsored by the Lea Charitable Trust.

On Sculpted Wings

Have you ever looked up and felt the joy and rush of freedom as you watched a bird glide, swoop and dance through shifting currents of air? How can artists capture this motion and feeling so that the viewer can experience the freedom of flight? In this visit to the National Museum of Wildlife Art, we explore the challenges of representing birds in motion with sculptor Dan Burgette.

This Bisoncast episode generously sponsored by the Lea Charitable Trust.

Above the Clouds

Mountain goats and bighorn sheep are born for treacherous, vertical terrain, but what happens when humans ascend into the alpine? And how do they even get there?

Episode generously sponsored by: Tony Greene Memorial Art Education Fund, Cynthia and Dick Quast, Smart Family Fund, and Hearst Foundations

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There’s No White in Snow

There’s one thing you hear a lot when you ask artists about snow: it definitely isn’t white.

Episode generously sponsored by: Tony Greene Memorial Art Education Fund, Smart Family Fund, and Hearst Foundations

Beyond Beauty

Who decides what is beautiful and what is valuable? Can a creature that crawls into our nightmares also be vital for our survival, and, even charming?

Episode generously sponsored by: Tony Greene Memorial Art Education Fund, Smart Family Fund, and Hearst Foundations

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The Slipperiness of Fish

What do artists and anglers have in common? What do the aesthetics of fine art have to do with dead fish?

Episode generously sponsored by: Tony Greene Memorial Art Education Fund, Cynthia and Dick Quast, and Wyoming Cultural Trust Fund

Where There’s Smoke

What can art about fire teach us about our past, present, and future? – More Fire Resources

Episode generously sponsored by: Tony Greene Memorial Art Education Fund, Cynthia and Dick Quast, and Wyoming Cultural Trust Fund

Buffalo Mountain

What can the power of a dream inspire us to create?

Episode generously sponsored by: Tony Greene Memorial Art Education Fund, Cynthia and Dick Quast, and Wyoming Cultural Trust Fund

Sponsors

Bisoncast has been made possible by:

  • Tony Greene Memorial Art Education Fund
  • Cynthia & Dick Quast
  • Lea Charitable Trust
  • Brabson Library and Educational Foundation [or logo]
  • Wyoming Arts Council [or logo]
  • Wyoming Cultural Trust Fund [or logo]
  • Hearst Foundations
  • Smart Family Fund
  • Art Bridges

The Museum is excited to work with Mountain Mind Media production company to bring Bisoncast to life.

What People Are Saying
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