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\nJanuary 5, 2006<\/p>\n
Media Contact: DJ Latham
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One of the first art exhibits to bring top female Western artists together for an all female show will be presented by the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n Heart of the West Art Exhibition and Sale, March 2 through May 7, 2006<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n FORT WORTH, Texas <\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u201c Artist Sonya Terpening paints the stories of modern-day cowgirls and the women pioneers who settled the West. This award-winning local artist is one of 22 distinguished female Western artists on display at the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame’s second Heart of the West Art Exhibition and Sale, which is one of the first shows to bring the top women Western artists together for an all-woman show.<\/p>\n Western art can be contemporary or historical, says Terpening, who resides in Grapevine, Texas. But much of Terpening’s inspiration comes from the history of her family settling Kansas and Oklahoma. She came to understand the women who conquered the West through her great-great aunt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hand-written journal.<\/p>\n With artists such as Terpening, Heart of the West<\/em> sets out to broaden the image of Western culture through creative works of art. It’s not just cowboys and Indians. <\/p>\n This year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pieces include sprawling landscapes, images of the rural West and cowgirls with their horses. The oil on canvas \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Homestead at San Ildefonso\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Susan Terpning features a weathered barbed wire fence and a lone horse walking toward the shade of a tree. The \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Apache Doll\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Joe Anna Arnett leans against a tightly woven basket in her clothes of buckskin. In \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Goin’ For It\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Sonya Terpening, a barrel racer leans into her last barrel and the horse’s hooves fade into the dust. In \u00e2\u20ac\u0153From Acoma\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Turid Pederson, a classic still life features a Native American pot, fruit, a strand of garlic and the brown tarnishing of a cut apple.<\/p>\n Heart of the West<\/em> will be on public display at the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame Friday, March 3 through Sunday May 7, 2006. The Heart of the West<\/em> Art Sale<\/em> will be at 6 p.m. on Thursday, March 2. Proceeds from each piece sold will benefit the National Cowgirl Museum.<\/p>\n Heart of the West<\/em> proved successful during its inaugural year back in November 2004 where two-thirds of the art was sold including Glenna Goodacre\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bronze sculpture of Sacagawea, which now stands permanently inside the National Cowgirl Museum\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s grand rotunda.<\/p>\n Details: National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame’s second Heart of the West<\/em> Art Exhibition and Sale<\/em>, March 2 through May 7, 2006. The museum is open Mondays thorough Thursdays 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Sundays 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Admission is $8 for adults ages 13 and up and $7 for children ages 3 to 12 and group rates and docent tours are available. For more information about the museum, current exhibits and rentals, call 817\/336-4475 or 800\/476-FAME, or visit www.cowgirl.net<\/a>. The Heart of the West Art Sale<\/em> will be at 6 p.m. on Thursday, March 2 at the National Cowgirl Museum. Tickets are $100 and are available by calling 817\/336-4475.<\/p>\n The National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame is the only museum in the world dedicated to honoring women of the American West who have displayed extraordinary courage and a pioneering spirit in their trail blazing efforts. Located in Fort Worth’s Cultural District, the museum includes interactive exhibit galleries, three theaters, a retail store and a grand rotunda.<\/p>\n Sonya Terpening is available for interviews.<\/p>\n Danny “DJ” Latham, Jr. One of the first art exhibits to bring top female Western artists together for an all female show will be presented by the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cowgirl-museum","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe 2006 Heart of the West artists are:<\/strong>
\nJoe Anna Arnett of Santa Fe, New Mexico
\nTracy W. Avant of Dilly, Texas
\nJane A. DeDecker of Loveland, Colo.
\nPatricia Dobson of Scottsdale, Ariz.
\nDeborah Copenhaver Fellows of Sonoita, Ariz.
\nGlenna Goodacre of Santa Fe, New Mexico
\nVeryl Goodnight of Santa Fe, New Mexico
\nLisa Gordon of Santa Fe, New Mexico
\nSherry Harrington of West, Texas
\nDonna Howell-Sickles of Saint Jo, Texas
\nJoyce Lee of Billings, Mont.
\nSherrie McGraw of El Prado, New Mexico
\nTerri Moyers of Santa Fe, New Mexico
\nBrenda Murphy of Arlington, Texas
\nTurid Pederson of Silver City, New Mexico
\nBonita Roberts of Battle Lake, Minn.
\nSherry Salari Sander of Kalispell, Mont.
\nSandy Scott of Lander, Wyo.
\nSonya Terpening of Grapevine, Texas
\nSusan Terpning of Santa Fe, New Mexico
\nShirley Thomson-Smith of Oklahoma City, Okla.
\nPaula Willis Jones of Shawnee, Okla.
\nIncluded in this array of excellent artistry are three local North Texas artists Donna Howell-Sickles, Brenda Murphy and Sonya Terpening.
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