Film Screening: Riveted: The History of Jeans
On the final weekend of the exhibition Western Wares, enjoy a screening of Riveted: The History of Jeans, which reveals the fascinating and surprising story of this iconic American garment. …
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Prix de West Workshop: Painting the Portrait and Costumed Figure
Prix de West artists Sherrie McGraw and David A. Leffel team up to teach how painting works in relationship to the human figure. Learn how to make beautiful brushwork that …
Date with the Duke: Big Jake (1971)
In 1909 New Mexico, ruthless outlaw John Fain and his gang attack the opulent McCandles ranch. More than ten men, women and children are killed or seriously wounded, including Jeff …
Read the West Book Club: Yellow Bird
When Lissa Yellow Bird was released from prison in 2009, she found her home, the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota, transformed by the Bakken oil boom. In her …
Curator Conversations: “As God Has Made It”: Landscape Painting in the American West
Painters who were trained in the transcendentalist and Hudson River “schools” began traveling to the American West and other exotic parts of the Americas beginning in the late 1850s. These …
Clue! at the Cowboy
“A crime has been committed in Prosperity Junction. A prominent citizen has been murdered. You have been deputized to help find out what happened.” Relive your childhood by playing the …
Read the West Book Club: Rise of Wolf 8
Yellowstone National Park was once home to an abundance of wild wolves — but park rangers killed the last of their kind in the 1920s. Decades later, the rangers brought …
Brown Bag Lunch Series: Tequila!
Join National Cowboy Museum Curator Nathan Jones in exploring the landscape, culture, and traditions that gave birth to tequila, the West’s homegrown spirit. The talk will feature the photographs of …
Brown Bag Lunch Series: Transformers and Tricksters: Mythology in Art on the Northwest Coast
Join National Cowboy Museum Curator of Ethnology Eric Singleton in a discussion on the origin of the world and the mythic tales that shaped its development. These stories reflect social …
Curator Conversation and Exhibition Openings: Aliento a Tequila and Sombreros Texanas and Bosses of the Plains: Cowboy Hats from the Permanent Collection
Join the National Cowboy Museum for an evening filled with programming! Kick off the evening with the Curator Conversation with special guest Dr. Marie Sarita Gaytán, Associate Professor of Sociology …
