Event Description

This elegant black-tie affair features live music, a silent auction, and exquisite cuisine from Bravo! Catering. Patrons from near and far gather to renew friendships, network with leaders of industry and government, and make new acquaintances. Immersed in Western art, culture, and the history of the West, this event allows patrons to enjoy companionable conversation and kick up their heels!

Join us for this lively celebration! Cost $375, with Table Sponsorships available. Reservations required — please register online at centerofthewest.org/event/patrons-ball/

All proceeds benefit the programs and public activities of the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. To find out more about Patrons Ball call 307-578-4025 or e-mail patronsball@centerofthewest.org. 

Join By Western Hands artisan Chris Chapman to create a leather pouch.

Chris will be teaching the methods and techniques to make and decorate a leather pouch. Each participant will sew and decorate a leather pouch to take home.

$125, limited availability. Reservations Required. Located at By Western Hands 1007 12th Street.

Saturday, September 21 from 11AM - 3PM.

*If sold out, contact By Western Hands to add your name to the waitlist. (307) 586-1755

Watch 30+ artists of the Buffalo Bill Art Show & Sale create a piece of art in ninety minutes. The unique pieces will then be auctioned on the runway while you enjoy a Champagne Brunch crafted by Chef Ryan Boehme of Bravo! Catering. In the party tent adjacent to the Buffalo Bill Center of the West.

Cost $65, open seating. Registration required. Tickets available mid June.

Join auctioneers Black and Associates for this riveting and fast paced Live Auction of original Western art! Enjoy our 100+ artists’ broad range of stylistic interpretations of the American West in mediums such as oil, watercolor, pastel and sculpture.

Visit the Buffalo Bill Center of the West beginning August 16th to preview all the artwork available in the sale. You can also view our Live Auction Gallery online (available mid June).

Doors open at 5PM. Browse our Buy-It-Now works donated by BBAS artists and enjoy cocktails and conversation prior to our buffet-style dinner catered by Bravo! Catering. Our Live Auction event will begin at 6:30PM.

Cost $250/$275. Registration required. Tickets available mid June.

Join By Western Hands artisan Supaya Gray Wolfe to create a beaded buffalo hide horse or old style buffalo doll!

Create your own beaded buffalo hide horse or old Style buffalo doll. Participants will assemble, bead and decorate a buffalo hide horse or doll. Material provided will be split buffalo hide, buffalo and horse hair, aged trade cloth, glass and trade beads as well as turquoise. All day class, participants may finish early. Refreshments included.

Supaya, a Native American Beadworker, is instructing this step by step class teaching the methods and techniques to make a horse. Each horse can honor a particular horse close to your heart. Participants are encouraged to bring your own horse hair, and something special to place where the heart is to make it special. Participants that wish to honor a horse are asked to send a picture so Supaya is able to gather leather close to the color of the horse.

Materials to be used: Buffalo hide, Sinew, Horse hair, Glass and Brass Beads, Sweet Grass, Sage, Turquoise, Ghost beads.

$125, limited participation. Reservations Required. Located at By Western Hands 1007 12th Street.

Join us for an evening on the town during our Annual Art Walk! Browse our unique galleries and shops featuring artist demonstrations, music, special activities and experiences, and more downtown Cody.

Open and free to the public.

Join By Western Hands artisan John Blair to learn how to restore leather treasures.

Do you have a leather item that needs some TLC? A purse, boots, belts, jackets or anything in between. John will be teaching a lesson on the “How To’s” of restoring these items to their natural beauty. Attendees are allowed to bring up to two (2) items that need to be restored. This class will not cover saddles, exotic leathers or suede so please do not bring those items. Treatment items will be sent home with each participant for future use.

$150, limited availability. Reservations Required. Located at By Western Hands 1007 12th Street.

Thursday, September 19 from 1PM - 5PM.

*If sold out, contact By Western Hands to add your name to the waitlist. (307) 586-1755

Join Park County Archivist Brian Beauvais for “Art Pioneers of Park County”, a presentation on the influential artists of the early Big Horn Basin, including Edward Grigware, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, James Bama, and others during this year’s Lunch & Lecture.

Lecture location Buffalo Bill Center of the West. Lunch 12:30PM; lecture will begin at 1PM.

Cost $65, limited participation. Registration required.

Join LaQuincey Reed, a Buffalo Bill Art Show & Sale artist for Play in the Clay! This educational class provides beginner to advanced sculptors personalized instruction and fellowship with a returning BBAS Artist.

Cost $140. Registration Required. Limited participation.

Join the Buffalo Bill Art Show & Sale at the John Bunker Sands Gallery in the Buffalo Bill Center of the West for the Opening Reception of the 43rd Annual Live Auction and Buy-It-Now Sale Exhibitions! Enjoy light hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar while browsing our 103 Buffalo Bill Art Show & Sale Artists’ unique creations—you may even meet an artist or two!

The Live Auction and Buy-It-Now Sale exhibitions will hang in the John Bunker Sands Gallery for viewing until the afternoon of the Live Auction: Friday, September 21st at 3PM.

Open to the public. Free.

Event Description

This elegant black-tie affair features live music, a silent auction, and exquisite cuisine from Bravo! Catering. Patrons from near and far gather to renew friendships, network with leaders of industry and government, and make new acquaintances. Immersed in Western art, culture, and the history of the West, this event allows patrons to enjoy companionable conversation and kick up their heels!

Join us for this lively celebration! Cost $375, with Table Sponsorships available. Reservations required — please register online at centerofthewest.org/event/patrons-ball/

All proceeds benefit the programs and public activities of the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. To find out more about Patrons Ball call 307-578-4025 or e-mail patronsball@centerofthewest.org. 

Watch 30+ artists of the Buffalo Bill Art Show & Sale create a piece of art in ninety minutes. The unique pieces will then be auctioned on the runway while you enjoy a Champagne Brunch crafted by Chef Ryan Boehme of Bravo! Catering. In the party tent adjacent to the Buffalo Bill Center of the West.

Cost $65, open seating. Registration required. Tickets available mid-June 2023.

Join auctioneers Black and Associates for this riveting and fast paced Live Auction of original Western art! Enjoy our 100+ artists’ broad range of stylistic interpretations of the American West in mediums such as oil, watercolor, pastel and sculpture.

Visit the Buffalo Bill Center of the West beginning August 18th to preview all the artwork available in the sale. You can also view our Live Auction Gallery online.

Doors open at 5PM. Browse our Buy-It-Now works donated by BBAS artists and enjoy cocktails and conversation prior to our buffet-style dinner catered by Bravo! Catering. Our Live Auction event will begin at 6:30PM.

Cost $250/$275. Registration required. Tickets available mid-June 2022.

Attendees of the class have the opportunity to make either a copper Ginkgo spoon with antler handle or a copper Ginkgo Flat server with antler handle. Each attendee will choose ONE to make.

• The Copper Gingko spoon with the two pronged antler is 14.3/4 approximately long and 4.5 inches wide. It is 2 3/4 in height.

• The Copper Ginkgo Flat server is 14 inches long by 4 3/4 wide and 1 3/4 in height.
  All dimensions are approximate and will vary due to its’ natural material. The antler is a pronged antler.

Students will trace a template on a sheet of copper. They will be cutting the copper tracing and filing the edges so it is smooth. Students will learn planishing with a Cross Peen hammer to add texture. This technique is used for both pieces.

For both pieces, they will then drill a hole into the antler and then take the stem and hammer it into the antler. They will prepare to rivet the spoon bowl or flat server onto the antler handle using solid brass rivets.

$185, limited to first 20 registrants. Reservations Required. Located at By Western Hands 1007 12th Street.

For more innovative Western design opportunity, Ben Caldwell will also teach a workshop on how to create your own copper bracelet or necklace on Thursday, September 21 from 9:00AM-11:30AM.

Join us for an evening on the town during our Annual Art Walk! Browse our unique galleries and shops featuring artist demonstrations, music, special activities and experiences, and more downtown Cody.

Open and free to the public.

Supaya, a Native American Beadworker, is instructing this step by step class teaching the methods and techniques to make a horse. Each horse can honor a particular horse close to your heart. Participants are encouraged to bring your own horse hair, and something special to place where the heart is to make it special. Participants that wish to honor a horse are asked to send a picture so Supaya is able to gather leather close to the color of the horse.
Materials to be used: Buffalo hide, Sinew, Horse hair, Glass and Brass Beads, Sweet Grass, Sage, Turquoise, Ghost beads.

$50, limited to first 10 registrants. Reservations Required. Located at By Western Hands 1007 12th Street.

Join the Buffalo Bill Art Show & Sale’s participating Cowboy Artists of America for a discussion panel during this year’s Lunch & Lecture.

Lecture location Buffalo Bill Center of the West. Lunch 12:30PM; lecture will begin at 1PM.

Cost $60, limited participation. Registration required. Tickets available mid-June, 2023.

Attendees will be making a copper one-inch copper cuff that expands or contracts to fit any size wrist. The student will trace and cut it out of a copper sheet. They will file the sides so it is smooth. Each person will shape, hammer and finish the bracelet.

The leaf necklace will be traced and cut from a sheet of copper. It will be folded in half and textured the same way as the cuff with, a Cross Peen hammer, unfolded and shaped. The solid copper closure will be attached to a chorded leather necklace and hand formed into a hook and eye clasp. The chord can be cut to the length they want and wrapped with copper wire to secure the clasp to the necklace.

The pieces will not be polished.

$195, limited to first 20 registrants. Reservations Required. Located at By Western Hands 1007 12th Street.

For more innovative Western design experience, don’t miss Ben Caldwell’s workshop on how to create your own copper serving spoon with antler handle on Friday, September 22 from 9:00AM-12:30PM.

Join Stephanie Hartshorn, a Buffalo Bill Art Show & Sale Artist for Colorful Canvases! This educational class provides beginner to advanced painters personalized instruction and fellowship with a returning BBAS Artist.

Class includes instruction, materials, light breakfast and lunch.

Cost $140. Reservations Required. Limited class size. Tickets available mid-June 2023.

Join the Buffalo Bill Art Show & Sale at the John Bunker Sands Gallery in the Buffalo Bill Center of the West for the Opening Reception of the 42nd Annual Live Auction and Buy-It-Now Sale Exhibitions! Enjoy light hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar while browsing our 104 Buffalo Bill Art Show & Sale Artists’ unique creations—you may even meet an artist or two!

The Live Auction and Buy-It-Now Sale exhibitions will hang in the John Bunker Sands Gallery for viewing until Friday, September 22nd at 3PM.

Open to the public. Free.

Event Description

This western formal features live music, a silent auction, and exquisite cuisine. The Patrons Ball is one of the signature social events of the year in Wyoming. Patrons from near and far gather to renew friendships, network with leaders of industry and government, and make new acquaintances. Immersed in western art, culture, and the history of the West, this event allows Patrons to enjoy companionable conversation and kick up their heels!

Join us for this lively celebration! Reservations required — please register online at centerofthewest.org/event/patrons-ball/

All proceeds benefit the programs and public activities of the Center of the West. To find out more about Patrons Ball call 307-578-4025 or e-mail rebeccat@centerofthewest.org. 

Watch nearly 40 Buffalo Bill Art Show & Sale Artists create a work of art in under ninety minutes! These one of a kind works will be auctioned on the runway while you enjoy a champagne brunch!

Registration required. Tickets available mid-June 2022.

Join auctioneers Black and Associates for this riveting and fast paced Live Auction of original Western art! Enjoy our 100+ artists’ broad range of stylistic interpretations of the American West in mediums such as oil, watercolor, pastel and sculpture.

View our Live Auction Exhibition online to see what the night will have in-store!

Doors will open at 5PM. Browse our Buy-It-Now works donated by BBAS artists and enjoy cocktails and conversation prior to our buffet style dinner catered by Bravo! Catering. Our Live Auction event will begin at 6:30PM.

Registration required. Tickets available mid-June 2022.

Join us for an evening on the town for our Annual Art Walk! Browse our unique galleries and shops featuring artist demonstrations, music, special activities and experiences, and more downtown Cody. Open and free to the public.

Join Byron Price for this year’s Lunch & Lecture Playing Cowboy: Charlie Russell and the Silver Screen as he discusses Charlie Russell and his influence on Western cinema and how western movies influenced his art.

Byron Price currently holds the Charles Marion Russell Memorial Chair, is Director of Charles M. Russell Center for the Study of Art of the American West at the University of Oklahoma and is Director of the University of Oklahoma Press.

Price is the author of more than three dozen journal articles on western American history and art and has written several books including Fine Art of the West (2004); The Chuck Wagon Cook Book (2004); Erwin E. Smith: Cowboy Photographer (1997); and Cowboys of the American West (1996).

Price is also the editor of Charles M. Russell: A Catalogue Raisonné (2007), which won the 2007 Western Heritage Award for the best art book of the year from the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, the 2008 Caughey-Western History Association Prize for best book of the year in western history, the 2008 High Plains Book Award for nonfiction and the 2009 Joan Patterson Kerr Award from the Western History Association for the best illustrated book on the American West.

Lecture location Buffalo Bill Center of the West. Lunch 12:30PM; lecture will begin at 1PM.

Join By Western Hands artisan Ben Caldwell to create your own copper cuff bracelet or heavy wire "C" bracelet. Participants will learn how to cut and shear copper, shape, planish, polish and stamp. Bracelets will be taken home when finished. Bracelets can be made in Sterling for an upcharge at the time of the class.

$165, limited to first 20 registrants. Reservations Required. Located at By Western Hands 1007 12th Street.

For more innovative Western design experience, don’t miss Ben Caldwell’s workshop on how to create your own copper serving spoon with antler handle on Wednesday, September 21 from 10:00AM-3:00PM.

Join David Fredrick Riley, a Buffalo Bill Art Show & Sale Artist for Colorful Canvases! This educational class provides beginner to advanced painters personalized instruction and fellowship with a return BBAS Artist.

Reservations Required. Limited class size. Tickets available mid-June 2022.

Class includes instruction, materials, light breakfast and lunch.

Join By Western Hands artisan Ben Caldwell to create your own medium-size copper spoon with antler handle. Participants will learn how to planish, cut copper, shear copper, polish and rivet. Spoons will be taken home when finished.

$185, limited to first 20 registrants. Reservations Required. Located at By Western Hands 1007 12th Street.

For more innovative Western design opportunity, Ben Caldwell will also teach a workshop on how to create your own copper cuff or metal “C” bracelet on Thursday, September 22 from 10:00AM-1:00PM.