April 10, 2025

Paper Making Workshop

Platte Valley Community Center
5:00 pm
 To 
8:00 pm

Drop in anytime during this three hour workshop and learn to make paper out of recycled materials with artist Ashley Quick.

Drop in anytime during this three hour workshop and learn to make paper out of recycled materials with artist Ashley Quick.  Learn the full process of paper making from blended pulp to pressing sheets, using experimental methods such as pulp painting and wax confetti.

Thank you to Wyoming Arts Council and Bear Trap in Riverside for funding support.

PVAC Public Art Project

project Artists

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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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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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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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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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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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 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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upcoming events

Trivia Night!
April 4, 2025
Print Making Workshop
April 11, 2025
Cherrywood's POPPY Art Quilt Exhibit
July 3, 2025