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Collective Arts Festival 2024

Arts and Entertainment

July 23, 2024

From: Collective Arts Festival

Local arts organizations are joining forces to present Collective Arts Festival, a day-long celebration of the arts, at Whitney Commons in downtown Sheridan, Wyoming. The free, family-friendly event will include music and dance performances, art demos, literary and poetry readings, children’s arts activities, and artisan booths, as well as food trucks and a beer garden.

Previously known as “Celebrate the Arts,” Collective Arts Festival is presented by the Bighorn Arts Collective, a new organization committed to enriching the arts and growing the creative economy in Sheridan County and across the region. Through meaningful collaboration with the community’s art entities and artists, Bighorn Arts Collective seeks to leverage the impact of all endeavors, ensuring that the arts thrive and remain an integral part of our community’s identity.

Bighorn Arts Collective comprises The Brinton Museum, Neltje Center for Excellence in Creativity and the Arts, SAGE Community Arts, Sheridan Public Arts Committee, Ucross Foundation, Whitney Center for the Arts at Sheridan College, and the WYO Performing Arts and Education Center.

Schedule:

The schedule of events on the Main Stage:

10-11:30 a.m. Neltje Center will present various performing artists from the area.

12-1:30 p.m. The WYO Theater & WYO PLAY will offer a presentation of musical numbers from recent productions by local performers.

2-3:30 p.m. Ucross Foundation will present artists-in-residence, including Brandon Welch, a choreographer and dancer from Boulder, Colorado; Eleni Sikelianos, a poet from Providence, Rhode Island; and Vienna Carroll, a singer and storyteller from New York, New York.

4-6 p.m. Whitney Center for the Arts will present “Trout Goggles,” a local band.

?The schedule of events in the Arts Tent:

?10-11:30 a.m. The Brinton Museum will present demonstrations by ceramicist and staff member Will Lopez and painter Robert Martinez.

12-1:30 p.m. Ucross Foundation will present demonstrations by visual artists, former artists-in-residence and staff members Tawni Shuler and Brittney Denham-Whisonant.

2-3:30 p.m. SAGE Community Arts will present demonstrations by local artists.

4-6 p.m. Neltje Center will present demonstrations by additional artists from the area.

Date: August 10, 2024

Venue:
Whitney Commons
320 West Alger
Sheridan, WY 82801

For More Information https://www.sheridanwyoming.org/festivals-events/collective-arts-festival/.