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Tieton Arts & Humanities is taking on the challenges of the new norm we're all just trying to navigate. Traditionally, Upper Valley teachers submit art from their K-12 students for the annual TA&H's Student Art Show. Now that distance learning is the status quo and artmaking in the home is more present than ever, we're opening the show up in a whole new way.

Parents and students (now from all over the Valley) were invited to directly submit (at a no human contact drop off box) their art for a virtual art show. Since the original April 25 Student Art Show Opening Reception will be postponed, the art will be showcased online and all over the Mighty Tieton social media channels with a gallery opening at later date, TBD.

April 22, 2020 marks the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day, and in honor of that, TA&H is participating in the “Billion Acts of Green” campaign. We encourage students to create work out of natural, recycled, upcycled, or repurposed materials, or for the imagery to relate to loving this planet we call home.

Installation view

Tieton Arts & Humanities is delighted the Student Art Exhibition is now on display in the window of Yakima Maker Space. Thank you for partnering to celebrate the young artists of the Valley!

Juror’s Awards

We're delighted that Denis Hayes selected the 2020 Earth Day themed Student Art Show winners!

Denis is the President and CEO of the Bullitt Foundation in Seattle, WA. Under his leadership, the Foundation designed and constructed the Bullitt Center—the world’s greenest office building—which it operates as a commercial enterprise. Denis was the principal national organizer of the first Earth Day in 1970 and took the event international in 1990. It is now the most-wide-observed secular holiday in the world. He has held various roles in government, academia, and law, in addition to researching and writing about environmental issues. Most recently, Denis and his wife, Gail Boyer Hayes, co-authored COWED: The Hidden Impact of 93 Million Cows on America’s Health, Economy, Politics, Culture, and Environment (WW Norton, 2015).