public lands // public hands
Public Lands // Public Hands is a responsive initiative from Alces that brings together artists from across Wyoming with public lands advocates and policymakers to co-create a series of free, accessible posters celebrating—and fighting for—our shared public lands. Each poster begins not with a brief or a brand guide, but with a conversation: between a maker and a steward, between creative practice and civic purpose.
The resulting work is meant to travel. Hang it in your living room window. Bring it to a rally. Pass it along to a friend somewhere else in the West. Physical posters are available free of charge at participating libraries, organizations, and small businesses throughout Wyoming, and every design is available as a free downloadable PDF.
Three pairings have shaped the series so far.
The inaugural poster grew out of a dialogue between Alces' in-house creative Conor Mullen and Wyoming House Representative Karlee Provenza of District 45—a conversation that moved between policy and image-making, landing in a design that carries both. The second poster emerged from an exchange between Laramie artist Cassie Joy and Jim Fried, Program Coordinator at the National Forest Foundation. The third brought together artist Sarah Frary in collaboration with Auna Kaufmann from the Wyoming Outdoor Council.
Each pairing is its own encounter—different voices, different lands, different visual sensibilities—but all of them rooted in the same conviction: that public lands belong to all of us, and that art is one way we remember that.
Alces will continue to grow the series through artist invitationals and open calls. Download all three 11”x17” posters here.
Conor Mullen’s Public Lands is Who we Are
