Big Horn, Wyoming will play host to the first Bighorn Rendezvous Art Show and Sale this weekend. The event is the outgrowth of a long-running art show in Helena, Montana run by the Northwest Rendezvous Group of Artists. That show ended in 2012. Now, the Brinton Museum in Big Horn will play host to event’s new incarnation.
Director Ken Schuster said the show brings a diverse group of artists to the museum. “Not everybody is a wildlife artist or Western artist or a landscape artist. There are people doing in portraiture, some are a little more contemporary than others, so we felt it would be an exciting group to work with.”
The event’s highlight is a quick draw featuring all 46 artists. “People are really fascinated by the process of art, and there’s a little bit of magic happening as somebody watches and artist create a work of art from a blank canvas,” Schuster said.
The Northwest Rendezvous Group is credited with inventing the now popular quick draw. The participating artists hail from California and Oregon to Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado. The Bighorn Rendezvous Art Show and Sale is Friday and Saturday, August 5-6 and will be followed by a month-long exhibition at the Brinton Museum.