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Make a valentine for your honey at Art Design & Dine

From the Clay Paper Scissors Gallery, one of the stops on tonight's Art Design & Dine art walk in Cheyenne:

We'll be having a free valentine-making workshop during Art, Design and Dine on Thursday (today) from 5-8 p.m.  Materials are provided but if you would like to bring photos, cards or papers that are special to you, please do. Meghan Rowswell will be teaching a variety of techniques such as, basic hand embroidery, photo transfers, collage, stenciling, etc. check out www.artdesigndine.com for more information.

This workshop is being held in conjunction with a community based show called "Be Our Valentine." Members from the community can send valentines to Clay Paper Scissors, along with a self addressed stamped envelope, and the valentines will be displayed all month. At the end of the month, Clay Paper Scissors will send back a different valentine to the sender. If you create a valentine during the workshop you have the option of leaving it to be displayed at the gallery or you can take your valentine home and give it to your loved one.

Valentine's Affair fund-raiser at Lander Art Center

Wine Tasting, Chocolate Contest, Silent Auction and Good Company at the Lander Art Center on Saturday, Feb. 12, 6-9 p.m. Tickets $30/person. FMI: http://www.landerartcenter.com

Jackson duo offers art and chocolate for Valentine's Day

From Wilson artist Shannon Troxler:

Art and chocolate. The bare necessities of life.

Two girls from Jackson have teamed up to bring you just that. Kristen Simpson, a chocolatier. (Teton Chocolat) and Shannon Troxler, a fine artist, have combined their talents to create Teton Chocolat Boxes. We use repurposed cigar boxes decorated with a limited edition print of Shannon's art work and filled with Kristen's delicious hand crafted chocolates.

Each box is filled with an assortment of milk and dark chocolate (with nuts) hand-crafted in the shape of ornate flowers or Venus nipples dusted with iridescent colors. A portion of the proceeds from each box sold goes to the oncology department of St. John's hospital in Jackson to help in the research and treatment of
cancer patients in our community.

Order Direct by Feb 4 for $28 ($3 goes to charity).

After Feb. 4, the Chocolate Boxes will be at Ella's Room and at the JH Flower Co. for $34 apiece.

FMI: paintergirl@bresnan.net; 307-733-0378

Frontier-style "The Nutcracker" at UW this weekend

THE NUTCRACKER
Directed by Marsha Knight
Conducted by Michael Griffith
December 2-4, 7:30 p.m., December 5, 2:00 p.m.
UW Arts & Sciences Auditorium, Laramie

This classic ballet about a young girl who receives a nutcracker for Christmas that spurs her fantastical dream is a favorite family holiday tradition! Based on E.T.A. Hoffman’s book and featuring Tchaikovsky's dazzling score, THE NUTCRACKER brings out the child in each of us as it comes alive with dancing snowflakes, magical mice, marching soldiers, waltzing flowers, the Sugar Plum Fairy, and the Nutcracker Prince. This year's production features more sets and costumes inspired by frontier Laramie and the Ivinson Mansion. Whether you’re six or sixty, this presentation of The Nutcracker is a must see!

"Cowboy Christmas Poetry," art stroll, and other Johnson County holiday happenings

Scrooge's trial makes headlines in Sheridan

FMI: http://www.thesheridanpress.com/index.htm

Wintermart Arts & Crafts Sale Dec. 11-12 at UUCC

WINTERMART ARTS & CRAFTS SALE

Opening reception/preview: December 10, Friday, 4:30 - 6:30 pm
Arts & Crafts Sale: December 11, Saturday 9 am - 5 pm and December 12, Sunday 10 am - 1 pm

A few booths are still available for Holiday Gift Market; open to all artists, craftspeople and other vendors of hand-crafted wares. Booth and/or table fee members $50, non-members $60, and shared booths for $80.

Entry form download and information at www.uucheyenne.org/artfest/. For booth/table reservations and information, contact Terry Kreuzer at tkreuzer@terrykreuzer.com or Andrea Heater, Church Administrator at 638-4554 or administrator@uucheyenne.org.

Casper College art students hold annual sale Dec. 3-5

From a Casper College press release:

Casper College art students will be holding the Annual Remainder Art
Sale for three days: Friday, Dec. 3 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday,
Dec. 4 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Sunday, Dec. 5 from noon to 4 p.m. in the Casper College Visual Arts Center.

The annual fund-raising sale, sponsored by the Casper College Art Club, will feature student created art "primarily ceramics" but also jewelry, photographs, paintings, and sculptures.

"The proceeds go to help bring in guest artists and travel to museums
by art club students. All the work is handmade original pieces and range
in price from a few dollars to hundreds," said Mike Olson, ceramics
instructor at Casper College.

The Casper College Annual Remainder Art Sale will be held in Room 102.

The event is free and open to the public, and refreshments will be
served.

Shop locally at the "Among Friends" exhibit Dec. 9-11 in Cheyenne w/update

You are invited to the Among Friends Art Show and Sale, December 9, 10, 11. Hours are 5-8 p.m. on Dec. 9-10 and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. on Dec. 11. The "Among Friends" are Chad Blakely, Maura Jacobsen, and Connie Norman. This year the show will be at The Artful Hand Gallery, 302 East 1st Ave. Guest artists are Georgia Roswell, mixed media and paper; Jennifer Rife, silk fiber coil baskets; Kelley Jones, mixed media figurative kinetic sculptures; and Heather Fetsco, jewelry. If you live in the Cheyenne area, stop on by and say hello.

This exhibit will be a part of Cheyenne’s Art, Design and Dine Art Walk, Thursday, Dec. 9, 5-8 p.m. Art, Design & Dine features local galleries, businesses, and dining options in downtown Cheyenne Wyoming, every second Thursday of the month.

Visit the Among Friends page on Facebook, it has pictures of all the art work.

This year all of Chad Blakely’s art work is pink in honor of his sister who is battling breast cancer, and he is donating all his proceeds help Heather with her medical bills and missing so much work.

And this update from Connie Norman:

I am selling raffle tickets from my Ceramics Blog for a pair of my black and white salt and pepper shakers ($150) with the quote, “Add Spice to Your Conversation.” Proceeds will go to my friend Heather Blakely Voyles who is battling breast cancer. Heather is only 32 and just had a double mastectomy, hysterectomy, and her biopsy came back positive for malignant lymph nodes. Heather is a second grade teacher and will be missing the rest of the school year.

$1.33 for one ticket and $5.45 for six tickets.

http://connienorman.com/blog/

The weird prices for the raffle tickets are to offset the Paypal charges, so when I give Heather the proceeds of the raffle she will won’t have to share with Paypal. The drawing will Dec. 11 at the end of our Among Friend’s Art Show and Sale. If you are buying a Paypal ticket I will fill out a raffle ticket for you for the physical drawing. I will email the winner on December 12.

If you want to help support Heather, but don’t want to purchase raffle tickets on-line, you can come to our Among Friends Art Show and Holiday Sale.

UW Art Museum prepares for its Festival of Trees

This comes to us via the University of Wyoming Art Museum blog (museum dressed up for the holidays in photo at right):

The Art Museum will have different hours this week due to the Thanksgiving holiday. We will be closed Thursday - Sunday, but will re-open on Monday, November 29th. Preparations will continue for the 18th Annual Festival of Trees and Silent Auction. Decorating is scheduled to begin on Tuesday, November 30th. Tuesday also marks the opening of the Laramie and Albany County Children's Art exhibition.

Festivities culminate next Saturday, December 4th with the community celebration Happy Holidays, Laramie! This day of music, cookies, artwork, and Santa Claus is the perfect way to kick off the holiday season.

Enjoy a safe and happy Thanksgiving! We hope you will visit us tomorrow and next week to celebrate the holidays!

"A Cowboy Christmas" and chocolate pretzels just a few offerings at the Trails Center's Dec. 11 event

Received this press release from the National Historic Trails Interpretive Center which is perched on the ridge in north Casper. If you haven't visited, this is a great opportunity to take a tour with the whole family. The Center has hosted a number of Wyoming Arts Council events, including poetry readings and Wyoming history events during the first Equality State Book Festival in 2006.

Here's the info for the center's holiday celebration:

Bundle up and visit the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) National Historic Trails Interpretive Center (NHTIC) for a day of holiday cheer and family fun. The event is free and open to the public.

The Trails Center’s annual "Holiday on the Homestead" will be held on Saturday, Dec 11, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The festival will feature holiday music, and a variety of activities, including making paper snowflakes and ornaments, and dipping pretzels into chocolate melted in a Dutch oven at the Prairie Sweet Shop.

Music and stories will be performed by Casper College's I Cantori, Buffalo Bill Boycott and Ana, Rachel and Friends. 

"Holiday on the Homestead is a community holiday celebration," said Trails Center Director Mike Abel. "We are offering a variety of family-oriented, educational and fun activities."

For a full list of activities, go to http://www.blm.gov/wy/st/en/info/news_room/2010/november/22nhtic-holiday.html

BBHC in Cody dresses up for the holidays

From a BBHC press release:

The Buffalo Bill Historical Center shifts to its winter schedule December 1, but celebrates the upcoming holiday season with festive decorations, a popular free event, and special added open days to accommodate out-of-town guests visiting in Cody during the holidays.

Beginning December 1 and running through the end of February, the Historical Center is open to the public from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday through Sunday. Although generally closed Monday through Wednesday during the quiet season, the Center makes an exception during the weeks leading up to Christmas and New Year's Day. From December 16 through January 2, the Center is open every day except December 25 and January 1. Regular winter hours resume January 3.

For the whole month of December-in fact from the day before Thanksgiving-the Historical Center dons holiday decorations, from a sixteen-foot Christmas tree that welcomes visitors at the front doors to a pretend gingerbread house big enough to walk inside. The festive touches add to the atmosphere during the Holiday Open House, the Center's annual free day, traditionally the first Saturday in December-December 4 this year.

Doors open at 9:30 a.m. for the Holiday Open House, with Santa making his appearance at 10 a.m. and entertainment beginning at 10:15 a.m. Activities for the day include performances by music and dance groups from the surrounding region, films from Wyoming PBS, a sneak peak at Don Hardy's upcoming biography of Al Simpson, holiday stories from the Cody Reading Council, special savings in the Museum Store, the crowning of Little Miss Snowflake and Mr. Snow Prince at 12:15 p.m., prizes and giveaways, and to top it all off, complimentary cookies and lemonade throughout the day.

For more information on the Historical Center hours, activities, and museums, explore the Web site at www.bbhc.org http://www.bbhc.org/  . A schedule of activities for the Holiday Open House can be found at www.bbhc.org/events/holidayopenhouse, and also appears in the December 1 Cody Enterprise and the December 2 Powell Tribune.

Committed to connecting people with the Spirit of the American West, the Buffalo Bill Historical Center weaves the varied threads of the western experience-history and myth, art and Native culture, firearms technology and the nature of Yellowstone-into the rich panorama that is the American West. The Center, an Affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, is open 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. daily through November, and begins winter hours of 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Thursday - Sunday on December 1. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr. For general information, visit the new www.bbhc.org or call 307.587.4771.

Photo: The Buffalo Bill Historical Center welcomes visitors with "peace" and "goodwill" for the holiday season.

WOW hosts opening reception Nov. 19 for "Affordable Art for the Holidays"

Sheridan Open Studios Show & Sales Nov. 12-14

Eighth annual Sheridan Open Studios Show and Sale will be held on these dates and times: Friday, November 12, 4-7 pm; Saturday, November 13, 10-5 pm; Sunday, November 14, 11-4 pm. There will be 15 artists at 7 locations. See the map.

Book launch party on the eve of All Hallow's Eve

Bon Nuit Publishing will host a book launch for Johan Adkins‘ novels Prismland, Earth 1 and Spirit Speaks-The Transformation Connection at the New Community House in Lion’s Park, Cheyenne, 2-4 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 30. Halloween costumes are encouraged, people dressed up as characters from the books will mingle with guests, and Shirley Anderson will present a one-act play.

FMI: http://www.johanadkins.com/

See Brad and Janet and all the rest of the gang on screen at the Atlas Theatre Oct. 29-30

From the Cheyenne Little Theatre:

Still one more weekend to experience the Halloween Spook-tacular at the Atlas Theatre. Friday and Saturday nights, come experience the cult classic THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW with showtimes at 8 p.m. and midnight. Tickets are $10 and include an interactive prop bag. Tickets are available through the Mary Godfrey Theatre Box Office or one hour before the events at the Atlas.

FMI: http://www.cheyennelittletheatre.org/halloween_events.asp

A little TRASH for the holidays

The Three Wisewomen, Mollie O. Krafka, Marcia Dunsmore and Janeen Norstegaard, will travel east, (or north, or south, or west), to bring the gift of laughter to your Christmas party.  A Wacked Out Christmas takes you from the onslaught of holiday catalogues to the collapse on December 26. Lyrics including, "it's beginning to be a vegan Christmas," sung to well-known tunes such as, "it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas," will add cheer without spiking the punch.

TRASH's show Laughing Matters is a great choice to lighten up the atmosphere during meetings, conferences and fundraisers. Trash sings about topics most people don't talk about (i.e breast enhancement) and topics people love to talk about (i.e. unintended pregnancy). People from your organization could join the long list of those saying, "I've never laughed so hard in my entire life!"

Hysterical History is Black Hills history presented musically with an emphasis on laughter. Choose from five 30-45 minutes shows: Fools & Gold (1875-1885); "Wretched" (aka Rapid) City (1885-1895); Deadwood: Soiled Doves & Miners; Calamity Bill & Wild Jane; Mount Rushmore: We Don't Take It 4 Granite.

To book TRASH, go to http://www.trashlive.org/; call 307-971-1281 or email trash@rushmore.com

They will be performing Saturday, October 23rd, 7:30 PM @ the Journey Museum in Rapid City, SD.
Tickets are $25 and available at the museum.  
TRASH continues to give back to the community.Trash's profits are donated to charitable organizations both local and national. Over $250,000 has been given during Trash's 28-year history.

Casper Halloween Bash features Russian Made Robots, Manic Theory, Good Morning Tonight