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Celebrate the 4th at Ucross

Uncategorized | June 24, 2009

Celebrate Independence Day at Big Red — UCross Foundation’s 28th annual fireworks extravaganza on Saturday, July 4th. The gates open at 5 p.m. and fireworks start at dusk. There will be games for kids of all ages. An exhibit, The Full Terrain, will feature paintings by Karen Kitchel of Los Angeles and Don Stinson of Denver. Meet the artists from 5 to 8 p.m. Tracy Silverman will play 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. $2 per car. For more information (FMI) call (307) 737- 2291 or go to http://www.ucrossfoundation.org/

The gallery is located at 30 Big Red Lane, in Ucross, Wyoming, 1/2 mile east of the intersection of highways 14 and 16.

Leading up to the 4th celebration, a public conversation about contemporary art of the West will be held at the historic Sheridan Inn on Monday, June 29, at 7:00 p.m. Sponsored by the Ucross Foundation, the event will feature Kitchel and Stinson. The talk coincides with the exhibit The Full Terrain: Karen Kitchel and Don Stinson, which opens at the Ucross Foundation Art Gallery on July 1. Kitchel and Stinson have both been artists-in-residence at the Ucross Foundation and their work is included in many museums across the country, including the Denver Art Museum. The moderator for the conversation will be Mindy Besaw, curator of the Whitney Gallery of Western Art at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center. The event is open to the public at no charge.

Besaw, who wrote the essay for the Ucross exhibition, The Full Terrain: Paintings by Karen Kitchel and Don Stinson, says of their work: “Through beautifully rendered paintings, they address issues, raise questions, and make statements about contemporary life….Kitchel and Stinson answer my plea for meaningful and beautiful paintings. Each artist is engaged in a constant dialogue with the past….The artists play off tradition to address change.”

Edre Maier, Executive Director of the Sheridan Heritage Center, notes, “We hope this is just the first of many public events at the Sheridan Inn to be hosted by the Ucross Foundation, inspired by artists connected to Ucross.”
Sharon Dynak, Ucross Foundation President, states, “We are excited to bring these fine artists to Sheridan to talk with the community about contemporary art and life in the West. The historic Sheridan Inn is the perfect venue for a discussion of this nature, and we are especially delighted that Mindy Besaw will travel from Cody to lead the conversation, after opening the new Whitney Gallery of Western Art at the BBHC.”
The Full Terrain: Paintings by Karen Kitchel and Don Stinson will be on view at the Ucross Foundation Art Gallery from July through September. Both artists will also be at Ucross on July 4th from 5 – 8 p.m. during the Ucross Foundation’s 28th Annual Independence Day Celebration. The exhibition was made possible in part by Ucross Foundation supporters Jim and Judy Bauman, Mark and Jennie Gordon, Mike and Francesca Hammer, Verlyn Klinkenborg, Chip and Barbara Lawrence, Christy Love, Gordon McConnell and Betty Loos, as well as by the Wyoming Arts Council, through funding from the Wyoming State Legislature and the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes a great nation deserves great art. Regular gallery hours are Monday – Friday, 8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m., with special hours available upon advance request.
About Karen Kitchel:
Karen Kitchel’s work has been featured in numerous exhibitions throughout the U.S., and is in many private and corporate collections, including the permanent collections of the Denver Art Museum, the Palm Springs Art Museum, the Pomona College Art Museum, the U.S. State Department, the Children’s Hospital in Denver, and the New York City headquarters of Pfizer, Inc. In 2009 her paintings will be on view at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno, Nevada, and the Autry National Center of the American West in Los Angeles, California. Kitchel graduated from Kalamazoo College, and received an MFA from Claremont Graduate University in 1982. After several years of living and painting in the Rocky Mountain towns of Billings, Montana, and Denver, Colorado, she has returned to southern California, where she is a full-time artist, working in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains on the northern edge of Los Angeles.
About Don Stinson:
Don Stinson received his BFA from Colorado State University and his MFA from Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. He has been a recipient of a Colorado Council on the Arts Director’s Grant and his work is in the collections of the Denver Art Museum and the Art in the Embassies Program in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He has been featured extensively in group and solo exhibitions in Colorado and Texas with prominent showings at the Nicolaysen Art Museum in Casper, Wyoming, and Artist Space, New York. He lives and works in Evergreen, Colorado.
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