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Poetry reading and signing with Nathan Brown. “Nathan Brown is a singer-songwriter, photographer, and award-winning poet. His mission is to take back poetry from the hard, academic grip of the ivory tower and the brooding, beret-sporting-village-types who all too often use poetry for personal therapy... both being good reasons audiences for poetry have run for the hills in the United States.
Nathan now travels widely, offering readings, creativity workshops, and photography exhibitions in an effort to bring back the hint of a smile and the hope for a good story in poems... poems unafraid of making sense... poems that carry us to better places.”

This is a continuation of Photoshop Elements I. Topics covered: enhancing and restoring photos, printing, scanning and organizing. Students are encouraged to bring their own photos and any related hardware such as cameras, printers and scanners. This class is for people 60 or older. 12 Hrs Cost $59

All Day Furniture Finishing Workshop located at The Edmond Fine Arts Institute in Downtown Edmond, Oklahoma.

Workshop Fee: $175.00 $50.00 Deposit due upon reservation & remaining balance is paid the day of your workshop.

Class Limit: 8 Participants

B.Y.O.F.: Bring your own furniture! Please bring a piece that you are able to carry by
yourself – such as a small dresser, bookshelf, chair, side table, etc. We do provide a dolly the day of the workshop, but please limit your piece to less than "30 long. Furniture must be in good condition – prepped, clean, & ready to paint!

Techniques include: . Using CeCe Caldwell's All Green, NO VOCs, Paints you will learn aging, distressing, and old world finishing techniques, proper finishing with wax to create a durable, gorgeous finish and custom tinting with wax and paints as well as tons of furniture painting tips and tricks to save you time help you become more efficient in your creative process.

Workshop Details: Workshop includes instruction and furniture painting tips and tricks learned from owning our furniture painting business! We will be available to answer any questions you may have as you finish your piece of furniture with CeCe Caldwell’s Paints & Waxes. Classes are limited to 8 participants, so everyone gets one-on-one instruction! We provide a catered lunch, snacks, and drinks. *Workshop fee includes all paint and supplies. You simply show up with your piece of furniture, wearing your painting clothes, and be ready to Refunk!

Students will be offered a 10% off discount on any purchase of CeCe Caldwell's paints the day of the workshop.

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.

All Day Furniture Finishing Workshop located at The Edmond Fine Arts Institute in Downtown Edmond, Oklahoma.

B.Y.O.F.: Bring your own furniture! Please bring a piece that you are able to carry by
yourself – such as a small dresser, bookshelf, chair, side table, etc. We do provide a dolly the day of the workshop, but please limit your piece to less than "30 long. Furniture must be in good condition – prepped, clean, & ready to paint!

Techniques include: . Using CeCe Caldwell's All Green, NO VOCs, Paints you will learn aging, distressing, and old world finishing techniques, proper finishing with wax to create a durable, gorgeous finish and custom tinting with wax and paints as well as tons of furniture painting tips and tricks to save you time help you become more efficient in your creative process.

Workshop Details: Workshop includes instruction and furniture painting tips and tricks learned from owning our furniture painting business! We will be available to answer any questions you may have as you finish your piece of furniture with CeCe Caldwell’s Paints & Waxes. Classes are limited to 8 participants, so everyone gets one-on-one instruction! We provide a catered lunch, snacks, and drinks. *Workshop fee includes all paint and supplies. You simply show up with your piece of furniture, wearing your painting clothes, and be ready to Refunk!
Workshop Fee: $175.00 $50.00 Deposit due upon reservation & remaining balance is paid the day of your workshop.

Class Limit: 8 Participants

Students will be offered a 10% off discount on any purchase of CeCe Caldwell's paints the day of the workshop.

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.

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.