Women in Wyoming
A BACKCOUNTRY PILOT FROM UPTON, A RURAL EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN IN WORLAND, AND A Shoshone cultural preservationist on the Wind River Indian Reservation. An abstract-expressionist painter in Banner, a nonagenarian rancher from Sweetwater County, and a glass-ceiling-busting state supreme court chief justice from Laramie. What two essential qualities could ever be shared by such a varied cross section of singular folks?
One: They’re all women. Two: They’re all from Wyoming.
Another commonality: They’re all pictured — among several other standout individuals — in Women in Wyoming, a new exhibition running until next August at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming. Conceived and created by Jackson-based artist and photographer Lindsay Linton Buk, a fifth-generation Wyomingite, the exhibition aims to celebrate the groundbreaking achievements, contributions, and personal narratives of contemporary Wyoming women — some widely known, others not.
“At the end of the day, I choose my subjects because I feel energized to work with them and genuinely want to learn more about their lives and share what I learn,” says Buk, who logged more than 1,500 road miles, 600 rolls of medium-format film, and more than 50 hours of audio
