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Kids Take Over the Cowboy: Desert Life

Grab your binoculars and a lot of water, we’re venturing out in the scorching desert! It is time to learn what kind of plants and animals live amongst the rocks and dirt and sand and determine how they manage to survive. Compare the plants and animals you see with those from other habitats through a …

Sunday Spotlight: The Art of D. LaRue Mahlke

On the second Sunday of the month, visitors learn the specifics behind a unique artifact from the Museum’s collection, thus opening a window to learning even more about a particular culture, individual or moment in time. Hear from Prix de West artist D. LaRue Mahlke as she shares about her artwork, her influences and inspiration. …

Curator Conversation: Fraser’s Lincoln and Public Art Today

Join Curator of Cowboy Collections and Western Art Michael Grauer and Amena Butler, Studio School Assistant, Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, as they discuss James Earle Fraser’s Abraham Lincoln sculpture on exhibit at the National Cowboy Museum. Grauer and Butler will discuss Lincoln from an art history perspective and the impact public art can have on …

Read the West Book Club: All the Pretty Horses

All the Pretty Horses is the first volume in Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy. This National Book Awards winner for fiction tells the tale of John Grady Cole, who at 16 finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself. With …

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