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Traditional Cowboy Arts Association & Cowboy Artists of America Announce Joint Exhibition

(Salmon, Idaho, April 2011) - This October, the Traditional Cowboy Arts Association will join with the Cowboy Artists of America for a historic joint exhibition at Oklahoma City's National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. The landmark event will bring together the cowboy culture's most respected and influential artists and showcase the West's finest paintings, sculptures and functional art.

Traditional Cowboy Arts Association (TCAA) members include the leading artists in the fields of saddlemaking, bit and spur making, rawhide braiding, and Western silversmithing. Founded in 1998, the group works to preserve and promote those traditional crafts through educational programs, a workshop series, and an annual exhibition and sale of members' work. The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum has hosted each TCAA exhibition, beginning with the first show in 1999.

Established in 1965, the Cowboy Artists of America (CAA) is a group of painters and sculptors dedicated to upholding standards of quality in contemporary Western art while perpetuating the culture of the Old West through authentic artistic representations of cowboy life. CAA held its first exhibitions of members' work at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, then known as the National Cowboy Hall of Fame, from 1966 to 1973, when the show moved to the Phoenix Art Museum in Phoenix, Arizona. This fall's joint exhibition with TCAA will mark CAA's return to its original venue.

Invitation-only previews for the 13th annual TCAA exhibition and sale and the 46th annual CAA exhibition and sale will be held concurrently on the evening of Friday, October 14 at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. Each show will open to the public on Saturday, October 15.

The October shows will be preceded by a weeklong seminar on bit making, hosted by the Museum and conducted by TCAA members Ernie Marsh, Mark Dahl, Wilson Capron and Russell Yates.

For further information, visit www.tcowboyarts.org, www.cowboyartistsofamerica.com or www.nationalcowboymuseum.org; contact the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum at (405) 478-2250.

Contacts:
Don Bellamy - Secretary Treasurer / 208-865-2006
Scott Hardy - President / 403-558-2337
Ernie Marsh - Vice President / 541-358-1101
Nate Wald - Trustee / 406-639-2219