Town Enclosure

Title: Town Enclosure

Artists: CLB Architects

Install Date: 2018

Original Location: Center for the Arts

Deinstallation Date: 2020

Funded by:
Alice and Rodman Moorhead
Altamira Fine Art
Andrea and Hal Burroughs
Anonymous
Anvil Hotel
Astrid and James Flood
Carney Logan Burke Architects
Center of Wonder
Community Foundation of Jackson Hole
Dembergh Construction
First Western Trust
Jillian and Clay Moorhead
KL&A Inc.
KWC, llc
MountainScapes
Nelson Engineering
Pat Wilson
Patricia and John Logan
Pike and Susan Sullivan Foundation
Premiere Powder Coating
Scott and Pamela Gibson
The Center for the Arts
The Opatrny Family Foundation
Two Ocean Builders
Valerie Brown and Don Baker
Veronique and Marshall Parke

The Town Enclosure is a remarkable sculpture whose design – by the team at CLB Architects – won national awards (Americans for the Arts, CODAWORX) and received national press (Artfix Daily, World Landscape Architect, Interior Design). The Jackson Hole News & Guide called it, “a pavilion of possibilities.”

As an art space, the Enclosure welcomed youth and professional dancers, hosted playwrights and rehearsals, and staged poets and spoken word performances. We practiced flower arranging, yoga, life-drawing, and stargazing within its embrace. 

The Enclosure transformed the park into a winter lightshow and a fanciful Cloud Factorybillowed from its architecture. The installation was open to everyone – to experience, explore, and enjoy for free, and on their own terms.

The Enclosure set a precedent for collaboration and activated the Center for the Arts park in ways that we never dreamed of, but that was the point – to demonstrate how public art is a catalyst that transforms our collective experience.