SUPPORT COWBOY ART!
There are a few good ways to do this. If you are a member of a local rodeo committee, work on setting up some
booths for artists at each of the events. Work can be from local artists and/or artists who are listed on the Internet, from organizations such as Cowboy Artists and Photographers of America.
Visit your local art galleries, and find out if they will have shows featuring cowboy art. If they are not, or have no interest in cowboy art, keep after them.
It's like going into your favorite food market and bugging management to stock some of your favorite food they don't carry. If there's any kind of market for a product, there's a good chance that product will be carried by the
retailer (don't worry about being fancy with galleries - that's what they are - retail stores who want to do business.
Use your search online search engines to their fullest extent - you may be surprised at what you find. A few example are found in this issue.
Visit your local art shows, and if you find cowboy-western artists, look at their work, talk to them about it, and, even if you don't buy, this interest is
important.
Subscribe to publications which feature cowboy art. Some free one are available, or visit your local library to read what they may have on the shelf. Most have an e-mail address for their editors, so
if you feel that the publication isn't giving proper recognizance to cowboy art, let the editor know.
It's all business - and as I said before, if the business doesn't know it has a trade which is interested in cowboy art, it will neve do anything about it.
Cowboy artists and photographers have to let the trade know they're around. The Internet is one of the best ways to do this. A good (effective, interesting, and relevant) web site, well promoted (marketed), will help, over the long run,
in bringing the artist's to the attention of the artist's targeted demographic.
Over the years, I have had numerous requests from small rodeo organizations, publications, schools, and other legitimate groups,
asking to use some of my rodeo photos, to which I gladly said "OK - just send a copy of what you're doing and make sure to credit the work"), which any organization will do.
The latest request can be seen by clicking here.
This is one of many ways the artist/photographer can pronote his or her work and at the same time enhance the public's knowledge about the availability and popularity of cowboy art.
Aside from running out and buying every piece of cowboy art you can find, how can each of you, whether artist or one who enjoys this art form,
support this important segment of art?
Joe Chernicoff, CAPA Exec. Director
Cowboy Poetry
It looks like we have something going with cowboy poetry - especially poetry from the minds of our cowboy artists. So as work comes in, we'll publich it here for your interest and enjoyment. One of the artists listed on the cowboyartshow.com gallery pages is D. Enise.
"It is a true story, and I am afraid I don't write in "cowboy poetry" style
there are actually 3 poems, and it is also being produced as a song." Continue here
Click here for D.Enise's art work link
Rodeo Schedules and Other Events of Interest
For rodeo schedules and information - including barrel racing schedules, visit:
You are invited to send in your local rodeo schedules for inclusion here -
if you are a rodeo contestant, we'll be happy to publish photos of you in your event, depending upon the quality of
the image.
New CAPA Member Information
Cowboy Artists and Photographers of America welcomes Vern Friesen to the ranks of CAPA membership.
A life as a farmer, cattleman, horseman, rodeo contestant, and family man; a calf
roper in college rodeo and later as a calf roper and team roper in amateur rodeos
in Nebraska, has provided Vern with the understanding and abiity to portray the
cowboy in oils and bronze.
Other Rodeo - Bull Riding Schedules
Vern Friesen
Searching the 'net brings up some interesting work - here a few examples - click on the images to visit web sites:
The Las Vegas Review-Journal gives complete coverage on major rodeo news, with some excellent action shots of the events. Here's one you should enjoy - click on the photo for a larger image you can save:
Current and Future Events of Interest
CAPA Member News
* Mark Holt & Kimberlee Holt Tully..to perform "Live" on Idaho2News "CBS DayBreak" @ 6:00 am
Wednesday November 19th, 2003..KBCI - TV CBS Affiliate Channel # 2, Boise, Idaho
*Mark & Kimberky will peform 2 songs between 6am & 7am. They will also perform perform @ KRLC 13.50am Radio
at the Listener Appreciation Night, "Academy of Western Artist's"..
2003 Radio Station of the Year, Friday November 21st, 2003, 7:00 pm.
at the Lewiston Elks Lodge, Country Club Drive, Lewiston, Idaho
December 6, 2002 Art Show
cowboyartshow.com and Cowboy Artists and Photographers of America will co-sponsor
cowboy art show at the request of the RoadRunner Saloon - a cowboy themed restaurant in Las Vegas,
during the NFR days in the city. The show, which may be in conjunction with a tentatively free wine tasting event at the restaurant, may also be open on December 7. So if you're in Las Vegas
for the first few days of the NFR, be sure to get over to the RoadRunner, I-215 and Eastern, just a short
distance from the Las Vegas Strip. More information to be posted on this, and sent to our subscribers.
