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Goings on around Bigfork

May 5, 2011

I have been encouraging Steve, my dad, to take more pictures of day-to-day events at Nancy Cawdrey Studios, and while playing around with his new Android phone at home, he sent me this:

"Get that phone out of my face"

Well, it’s a start. In any case, it means that he’s figured out how to send images from his phone to my email, and as the resident “techie” in this family I think I’d better watch my back.

More successfully, Steve also sent me an image from last weekend, when he and Nancy were attending a private Livingston Taylor concert at the Red Willow Lodge in Bigfork, MT.

Nancy with Livingston Taylor

Mr. Taylor is James Taylor’s brother–that’s a pretty large (but easy-going) shadow to labor under. I imagine it’s difficult to be known primarily as someone’s brother, but he’s an extremely talented guitarist and is looking pretty sharp in that bow tie.

What’s next for Nancy? Over the July 4^th weekend Nancy will have the honor to be featured along with Carol Hagan at the Grand Opening of the new West Lives On Contemporary Gallery in Jackson, WY. Visit the West Lives On Gallery website and to see the progress of the new space opening a few paces up the block from the main Gallery across from the Wort Hotel. Nancy and Steve will be there in Jackson that July 4^th weekend.

Nancy returned home from Arizona a couple weeks ago, looked at her schedule, and will finish her two pieces for the “More” part of the 24^th Annual Western Visions Miniatures and More Show & Sale this September at the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson, WY.

Below are a couple of her most recent pieces. Please check back soon for an update about an exciting new series Nancy is working on called “Small Gems.”

"Happy Heifer" - watercolor

"Barn Stormers" - dye on silk

Blog Number 2

August 2, 2010

Today is the first day of August and it is a Sunday. I went over and took some photos of Nancy’s studio on this quiet afternoon when she was not painting. Hopefully they will show up with this blog. She has finished the pieces for the last major show for the fall and we shipped off the CD with the hi-res images for the catalogue. Today I then went and booked our flights to Fort Worth, TX for October 27th where she will have three new pieces at the Heart of the West show at the National Cowgirl Museum.
After that show, we will rent a car and meander up to Oklahoma to visit the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. Nancy has been invited to their “Small Works Great Wonders” Winter art Sale. She is so honored to display two pieces for that show on November 18th. She is only now developing what she wants to do.
From there, we will travel to Tulsa, Oklahoma to visit the Gilcrease Museum where Nancy will have three new pieces for their first annual Collectors’ Reserve show on November 4, 2010. On that same day, Nancy will demonstrate silk painting and speak at the museum from 1pm to 3pm. Please join her there.
Last night the five families who joined forces to purchase the Glacier National Park Official Centennial artwork, “The Crown Jewels” had their first gathering to meet each other and celebrate their effort to insure that piece will hang each summer at one of the lodges in Glacier National Park for all the visitors to enjoy and celebrate the Centennial. The five families are: Mo and Cathy Stein, Mike and Robin Farrens, Carl and Linden Berry, Jim Sadler and Kathryn Ordway, and Steve and Nancy Cawdrey. (See the photo of the group in front of a giclee of The Crown Jewels.
Nancy next will appear at the one woman show at the Frame of Reference in Bigfork on Friday night, August 6th from 5 to 8 pm. Also meet here at the Bigfork Festival of Arts during the weekend of August 7th and 8th.
Then, on August 12th, she will attend the Montana Land Reliance “History in the Making” event on Flathead Lake where she will complete a Quick Finish (see the butterfly photo on her easel in her studio).