August 16, 2025

Llamas and Landscape: A Plein Aire Experience!

Lakes Trail in Snowy Range
8:00 am
 To 
12:00 pm

Take a short hike with pack llamas to a beautiful view for a morning of plein aire painting in the mountains.

Take a short hike with pack llamas to a beautiful view for a morning of plein aire painting in the mountains.  Lori Kostur will be on hand for painting instruction, too! All supplies will be provided. This half-day experience is something that you will remember!

Cost is $100 per person. Space is limited, so do not delay in registering.

Additional details will follow closer to the event.

PVAC Public Art Project

project Artists

Jerry Palen, Teense Willford

The Platte Valley lost two legends in the last few years: “Teense” Willford and his larger-than-life personality, and Jerry Palen the world-renowned artist and humorist. Fortunately, the two teamed up together several years ago when Jerry decided to carve a statue of Teense singing and playing guitar. 

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Dawn Senior-Trask, Judi Miller-Morris

Platte Valley Arts Council moved two murals into the Platte Valley Community Center. 

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The Platte Valley Arts Council is happy to announce that the family of artist Jerry Palen has donated a special bronze statue for benefit of the PVAC scholarship fund. The bronze, “Desert Dust” depicts the famous wild mustang from the Red Desert.

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Lori Kostur

Local artist Lori Kostur selected to create a bronze sculpture and mural for the Platte Valley Arts Council's public art display. Kostur's fascination with native wildlife and the historical west inspires her work.

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Jamie Waugh

Saratoga native Jamie Waugh has been selected to create a piece of art for the PVAC public art display project. Waugh's mural will feature a cowboy’s torso and arms leaning against a barbed wire fence with an old hat hanging further along the fence line.

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Sierra Smith

Sierra Smith is selected to create a piece of art as part of the Platte Valley Arts Council's public art display project. Smith will design a metal sculpture as a memorial in honor of Sergeant Tyler Pickett, a Saratoga veteran who lost his life in Iraq.

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Jerry Palen

Jerry Palen's cartoon characters “Flo and Elmo" will be “paint-by-number” mural is to be completed by anyone who would like to help. Students at the local schools will help by mixing colors and labeling the spaces. Everyone is invited to participate.

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John Perue

Pairing art and repurposed materials is not foreign to Rawlins–born artist John Perue. Perue’s piece for the PVAC public art display project, “Wyoming Wind Flowers,” incorporates his skill of repurposing items and stain glass work.

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Jerry Wood

The Platte Valley Arts Council is pleased to present “Two’s the Limit,” a sculpture selected for the public art displays to be revealed in the valley this fall. This work includes a 20-by-15-by-11-inch sculpture of trout leaping into the air by local artist Jerry Wood.

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upcoming events

Childrens Art Workshop
August 2, 2025
Navajo Rug Weaving Workshop
August 25, 2025
Collage Quilting Class/Retreat
October 17, 2025