October 19, 2024

Paint-A-Pumpkin at Fall Festival

municipal parking lot in Saratoga
10:00 am
 To 
2:30 pm

Join the fun and paint your own pumpkin and enter the competition!

Join the fun and paint your own pumpkin and enter the competition! Painting begins at 10 am until 1 pm. Stop by, pick a pumpkin, and get to decorating! All pumpkins will be judged at 1:00 and prizes will be announced at 2:30 pm.  Don't forget to take your pumpkin home at the end of the festivities!

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 21, 2024
Country Line and Swing Dancing
November 9, 2024
"Let's Taco 'Bout It" After Hours Social and Annual Meeting
November 12, 2024
Cherrywood's POPPY Art Quilt Exhibit
July 3, 2025