July 3, 2025

Cherrywood's POPPY Art Quilt Exhibit

Platte Valley Community Center, 210 West Elm Street, Saratoga, WY
10:00 am
 To 
4:00 pm

A juried art quilt exhibit sponsored by Cherrywood Hand Dyed Fabrics® at PVCC July 3-6, 2025

A juried art quilt exhibit sponsored by Cherrywood Hand Dyed Fabrics® with support from Mistyfuse® and Aurifill Thead.
Every year, Cherrywood chooses a theme and color palette and presents a challenge to quilters from all over the world. The challenge is to see what you can create using a very limited number of colors, and show of the beautiful suede look of our hand-dyed fabric.
THE CHALLENGE: POPPY
Use EIGHT COLORS to create an original 20-inch square quilted art work.
THE RESULTS:
Over 400 quilts were entered into the competition. Only 225 quilts were selected to travel in three exhibition collections: Petal, Bud, and Seed. The Seed Collection will be on display at the Platte Valley Community Center!

PVAC Public Art Project

project Artists

Jerry Wood

The Platte Valley Arts Council is pleased to present “Two’s the Limit,” a sculpture selected for the public art displays to be revealed in the valley this fall. This work includes a 20-by-15-by-11-inch sculpture of trout leaping into the air by local artist Jerry Wood.

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John Perue

Pairing art and repurposed materials is not foreign to Rawlins–born artist John Perue. Perue’s piece for the PVAC public art display project, “Wyoming Wind Flowers,” incorporates his skill of repurposing items and stain glass work.

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Jerry Palen

Jerry Palen's cartoon characters “Flo and Elmo" will be “paint-by-number” mural is to be completed by anyone who would like to help. Students at the local schools will help by mixing colors and labeling the spaces. Everyone is invited to participate.

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Sierra Smith

Sierra Smith is selected to create a piece of art as part of the Platte Valley Arts Council's public art display project. Smith will design a metal sculpture as a memorial in honor of Sergeant Tyler Pickett, a Saratoga veteran who lost his life in Iraq.

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Jamie Waugh

Saratoga native Jamie Waugh has been selected to create a piece of art for the PVAC public art display project. Waugh's mural will feature a cowboy’s torso and arms leaning against a barbed wire fence with an old hat hanging further along the fence line.

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Lori Kostur

Local artist Lori Kostur selected to create a bronze sculpture and mural for the Platte Valley Arts Council's public art display. Kostur's fascination with native wildlife and the historical west inspires her work.

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The Platte Valley Arts Council is happy to announce that the family of artist Jerry Palen has donated a special bronze statue for benefit of the PVAC scholarship fund. The bronze, “Desert Dust” depicts the famous wild mustang from the Red Desert.

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upcoming events

Ann Simpson Art Mobile
October 14, 2024
Hay Bale Sculpture Competition
October 15, 2024
"Let's Taco 'Bout It" After Hours Social and Annual Meeting
November 12, 2024