Navajo Rug Weaving Workshop

Anita Hathale will be teaching a weaving class furnishing participants with a handmade loomstand, weaving tools, and wool. The fundamental weaving class will concentrate on essential techniques, including warping a loom, heddle stringing, and edge finishing. The class will have a $35 application fee and the class is $500. Contact information and register at :Anita's Navajo Rugs, ahathale57@gmail..com (435) 419-0890.

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Platte Valley Arts Council is not sponsoring or hosting this class, this listing is on our website as a courtesy.

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.

Dawn Senior-Trask, Judi Miller-Morris

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Learn More about the PVAC Public Art Project