Meet Our Team
George Kahrl
FounderGeorge Kahrl is a cattle rancher on the Big Wind River in central Wyoming. When in fifth grade, he saved up and bought his first SLR camera and has been taking pictures ever since. After graduating from Harvard in 1983, as a young man, he headed west. He has trained his own horses and those for others, to be used in working cattle for the last few decades. He wonders how being outside each day for over 35 years, 140 seasons, has shaped what he sees in life and light. Self-taught as a photographer and poet, he is most comfortable in nature with cattle, horses, and his border collies - " in a life of daydreams and living dreams. within the world where silence expresses more than words will know, where feelings flow between my horse and I, footfall creating rhythms of breath and life shared."
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Nita Kehoe
Nita Kehoe, Professor of Art and Gallery Director, has been a practicing artist for 35 years. She creates conceptual artwork focusing on the intersection between humanity and nature. She has exhibited her artwork internationally and is in numerous collections. She has taught ceramics, sculpture, and art history at Central Wyoming College for the past 24 years.
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Professor of Art, Gallery Director
Lonnie Slack, Professor of Photography, has been a practicing photojournalist and fine arts photographer for over 30 years. In the early 80’s, while in high school, he was entrusted with a Konica F film camera by a friend who was leaving for the military.
Now, his camera collection has grown to an amount he is unwilling to divulge. He has captured images for Riverton Ranger, Lander Journal, and the Wind River News newspapers. He was also a Kodak-certified specialist printer. He has shown his images in numerous exhibitions as well as a multitude of advertising campaigns around the world, and in many private collections. He has taught a variety of black-and-white and digital courses for Central Wyoming College for the past 26 years.
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Professor of PhotographyLonnie Slack
Media CoordinatorKaia Leseberg
Kaia Leseberg is a photographer born and raised in the heart of Wyoming: Fremont County. She holds two degrees, an A.A. in English and an A.A.S. in Photography, and works part-time as the Education Coordinator at Lander Art’s Center.
Kaia has always been drawn to the arts. As a child, she loved capturing pixilated, abstracted versions of the world on a pink Fisher-Price toy camera. Then, several years ago, she rediscovered her passion for the photographic arts after building a pinhole camera and taking photos on paper negatives as part of the curriculum in a General Studio Art class. Now, Kaia practically lives in the darkroom, and when she’s not there, she is out with her camera! Her favorite types of photography are fine art portraiture and photojournalistic captures of local events.
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