Oklahoma: Artwork to fund conservation thanks to NatureWorks show
Wildlife enthusiasts may find just the right painting, sculpture, carving or other piece at the 2012 NatureWorks Art Show and Sale March 3-4 at the Renaissance Tulsa Hotel and Convention Center.
NatureWorks is the Tulsa-based conservation group that hosts the art show, bringing together wildlife and nature artists from across the United States and abroad for the event. Art at the show will be for sale, which will help generate matching grants to assist with a variety of state wildlife conservation projects.
"This year, we anticipate exceeding 2011's attendance of 1,500 and sales in excess of $700,000," said John Reaves, NatureWorks spokesman.
Hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, March 3, and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, March 4. Tickets are $5, and one ticket is good for both days.
"Our optimism is based on the exceptional work of our featured artist, Jerry Ricketson, and the return of our encore artist, sculptor Diane Mason, as well as all of the other very talented artists who will be exhibiting at our show," Reaves said.
Ricketson won the Williams Award for first place in painting at the 2011 Gilcrease Museum Collectors' Reserve Show in Tulsa. His works also have been included in the Gilcrease Museum Collectors Reserve Shows in 2010 and the Gilcrease American Arts in Miniature Show. He has also won the "Peoples' Choice Award" at last year's NatureWorks show. Ricketson paints in a realistic manner utilizing loose brushwork and strives for a strong three-dimensional feel in his work.
Mason, who has exhibited at the National Geographic Society in Washington, DC, received the NatureWorks "Miniature Award" in 2009. She is the current president of the Society of Animal Artists and her works are on display at the Tulsa City/County Library and the City of Edmund.
Mason and Ricketson will be joined by more than 60 artists at the third largest art show of its kind in America, now in its 30th year.
NatureWorks, Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to wildlife conservation and education. NatureWorks donated a bronze monument to the Department last year as part of a plan to make the agency's headquarters in Oklahoma City more accessible to persons with disabilities and more aesthetically pleasing to motorists and pedestrians. The monument was created by wildlife sculptor Stephen LeBlanc and depicts three whitetail deer on the run. The whitetail monument is one of more than 20 heroic-sized wildlife monuments donated to others by NatureWorks, many of which can be seen along the City of Tulsa's Riverside Drive.
"The donation of these statues is a great way to help beautify Lincoln Blvd and is a great reminder of the importance of hunting and fishing to wildlife conservation in Oklahoma," said Melinda Sturgess-Streich, assistant director of administration and finance for the Wildlife Department.
NatureWorks has also partnered with the Wildlife Department on a number of different conservation projects, such as the Department's paddlefish management program, duck stamp print program and centennial duck stamp print. Additionally, NatureWorks has supported habitat work at the Harold Stuart Waterfowl Refuge Unit within the Deep Fork Wildlife Management Area (WMA) and the Grassy Slough WMA. NatureWorks also has been an important supporter of the Wildlife Department's Hunters Against Hunger program - in which hunters can donate their legally harvested deer to feed hungry Oklahomans. In addition, they have funded important projects to help schools and libraries in the state receive paid subscriptions to the Department's Outdoor Oklahoma magazine.
The Tulsa Renaissance Hotel and Convention Center is located at 6808 South 107th East Avenue (71st and US-169) in Tulsa. For more information about NatureWorks or the art show, log on to www.natureworks.org.
NatureWorks is the Tulsa-based conservation group that hosts the art show, bringing together wildlife and nature artists from across the United States and abroad for the event. Art at the show will be for sale, which will help generate matching grants to assist with a variety of state wildlife conservation projects.
"This year, we anticipate exceeding 2011's attendance of 1,500 and sales in excess of $700,000," said John Reaves, NatureWorks spokesman.
Hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, March 3, and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, March 4. Tickets are $5, and one ticket is good for both days.
"Our optimism is based on the exceptional work of our featured artist, Jerry Ricketson, and the return of our encore artist, sculptor Diane Mason, as well as all of the other very talented artists who will be exhibiting at our show," Reaves said.
Ricketson won the Williams Award for first place in painting at the 2011 Gilcrease Museum Collectors' Reserve Show in Tulsa. His works also have been included in the Gilcrease Museum Collectors Reserve Shows in 2010 and the Gilcrease American Arts in Miniature Show. He has also won the "Peoples' Choice Award" at last year's NatureWorks show. Ricketson paints in a realistic manner utilizing loose brushwork and strives for a strong three-dimensional feel in his work.
Mason, who has exhibited at the National Geographic Society in Washington, DC, received the NatureWorks "Miniature Award" in 2009. She is the current president of the Society of Animal Artists and her works are on display at the Tulsa City/County Library and the City of Edmund.
Mason and Ricketson will be joined by more than 60 artists at the third largest art show of its kind in America, now in its 30th year.
NatureWorks, Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to wildlife conservation and education. NatureWorks donated a bronze monument to the Department last year as part of a plan to make the agency's headquarters in Oklahoma City more accessible to persons with disabilities and more aesthetically pleasing to motorists and pedestrians. The monument was created by wildlife sculptor Stephen LeBlanc and depicts three whitetail deer on the run. The whitetail monument is one of more than 20 heroic-sized wildlife monuments donated to others by NatureWorks, many of which can be seen along the City of Tulsa's Riverside Drive.
"The donation of these statues is a great way to help beautify Lincoln Blvd and is a great reminder of the importance of hunting and fishing to wildlife conservation in Oklahoma," said Melinda Sturgess-Streich, assistant director of administration and finance for the Wildlife Department.
NatureWorks has also partnered with the Wildlife Department on a number of different conservation projects, such as the Department's paddlefish management program, duck stamp print program and centennial duck stamp print. Additionally, NatureWorks has supported habitat work at the Harold Stuart Waterfowl Refuge Unit within the Deep Fork Wildlife Management Area (WMA) and the Grassy Slough WMA. NatureWorks also has been an important supporter of the Wildlife Department's Hunters Against Hunger program - in which hunters can donate their legally harvested deer to feed hungry Oklahomans. In addition, they have funded important projects to help schools and libraries in the state receive paid subscriptions to the Department's Outdoor Oklahoma magazine.
The Tulsa Renaissance Hotel and Convention Center is located at 6808 South 107th East Avenue (71st and US-169) in Tulsa. For more information about NatureWorks or the art show, log on to www.natureworks.org.
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