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Presented by The Museums West consortium, this exhibition includes nearly 75 powerful images from the National Geographic Image Collection. A companion book is available through The Museum Store.

The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum hosts its prestigious invitational art exhibit of over 300 Western paintings and sculpture by the finest contemporary Western artists in the nation with art seminars, receptions and awards banquet.

The exhibiting artists bring a diversity of styles to this prestigious art exhibition. Works range from historical pieces that reflect the early days of the West, to more contemporary and impressionist works of art. Landscapes, wildlife and illustrative scenes are always highlighted in the exhibition.

Reservations are required for opening activities. This annual exhibition kicks off with two days of seminars on art-related topics and art demonstrations. The weekend culminates with a fixed-price sale of all the exhibition pieces.

Exhibition and Sale continue through August 5, 2012.

Seminar information:

FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 2012
9:00 a.m. Welcome
Chuck Schroeder
National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum
9:15 a.m. Hawaii’s Cowboy: The Paniolo
Don Reeves
McCasland Chair of Cowboy Culture
National Cowboy Museum
10:15 a.m. The Omaha Project
Blair Buswell, Edward J. Fraughton and Kent Ullberg
11:30 a.m Lunch Break
Author and Artist Book Signing
Noon to 1:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m. Katharine Richardson Wireman, Lady Illustrator
Mary F. Holahan, Ph.D.
Curator of Collections / Curator of Illustration
Delaware Art Museum
2:00 p.m. The Art of Robert Shufelt
Robert “Shoofly” Shufelt
Prix de West Artist
6:00 p.m. Preview and Reception in the Prix de West Galleries

SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 2012
9:00 a.m. Landscape Artist Panel Discussion featuring
G. Russell Case, Francois Koch and Wayne Wolfe with Edna Mae Holden, Moderator
10:00 a.m. Art as Experience
George Carlson
2011 Prix de West Purchase Award Winner
11:00 a.m Lunch Break
2012 Prix de West Purchase Award Winner
Announcement at Noon
Author and Artist Book Signing
11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
12:30 p.m Art Demonstrations by Prix de West Artists
Sherrie McGraw – Sandy Scott
5:00 p.m. Cocktails in the Galleries and Minimum-Bid Sale of Select Works
6:30 p.m. Prix de West Invitational Drawing for Sale of Art
7:30 p.m. Prix de West Invitational Awards Banquet and Special Live Auction

SUNDAY, JUNE 10, 2012
9:00 a.m. Prix de West Perk

1700 NE 63 • Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
405-478-2250 • Open daily, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Renowned portraitist Bettina Steinke worked for more than 60 years capturing faces of the well known and unknown. Her 1978 Prix de West Purchase Award winning painting Father and Daughter At The Crow Fair is popular among Museum visitors.

Organized by the Museum’s Donald C. and Elizabeth M. Dickinson Research Center, this small exhibition showcases Steinke’s work in the Atherton Alcove as part of the A. Keith Brodkin Contemporary Western Artists Project.

1700 NE 63 • Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
405-478-2250 • Open daily, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Opening Thursday, April 26, at the Gaylord-Pickens Oklahoma Heritage Museum, 1400 Classen Drive, Oklahoma City, is "Touching the Past," a retrospective of Enoch Kelly Haney's 40-year art career. The exhibit will showcase Haney's paintings and sculptures.

"Touching the Past" will remain on view through July 28. An opening reception is planned from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday.

Museum hours: Tuesday - Friday 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. / Saturday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

For more information, call 235-4458 or go to www.oklahomaheritage.com.

Will James: The A.P. Hays Collection
Dec 09, 2011 - Oct 14, 2012

Will James’ tales and drawings of cowboy life have delighted generations of readers. This traveling collection, owned and curated by Abe Hays, explores the works that exposed readers to the everyday world of the working cowboy and how James positively-influenced the American perception of the West in the early 20th century.

"Santa Clara Portraits: A Proud Tradition," an exhibition featuring stunning pottery from the Santa Clara Pueblo accompanied by the black-and-white photography of Neil Chapman, opens Friday, July 1, at the Red Earth Museum & Gallery in downtown Oklahoma City.

The exhibition showcases portraits featuring the images of Santa Clara Pueblo potters. The portraits are accompanied by pottery made by the artists featured in the photographs.

The Red Earth Museum & Gallery, 6 Santa Fe Plaza, Oklahoma City, is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and by appointment only Saturday.

Admission: Free
Information: www.redearth.org or 427-5228.