The Grant Redden Plein Air Workshop will be held in conjunction with the Minerva Teichert Invitational Art Show August 13-15, 2009, at Cottonwood Ranch, Cokeville, WY
Held in conjunction with the Minerva Teichert Invitational Art Show, the Grant Redden Plein Air workshop will provide landscape, wildlife and western artists an opportunity to receive 2 days of personal instruction from Grant Redden, one of the nation's top artists. The workshop will be held at the historic Cottonwood Ranch in Cokeville Wyoming. To register or for more information including a materials list, please contact Charles Dayton at mailto:charlesdayton@allwest.net or charlesdayton@allwest.net or call 307-459-4195.
Tuition is $120 and includes a two-day workshop, artist cookout and an opening reception barbecue. Class size is limited to 12 students. The will be an instructor demonstration beginning at 8:30 a.m. each morning, and students will receive a critique of their work in progress. Workshop dates are Thursday and Friday, August 13 and 14.
Grant Redden lives and paints in southwestern Wyoming in the rural community of Hilliard with his wife and family. With no formal art training, he has studied under the tutelage of several master artists in today's art world: Mark Daily, Jim Norton, Walt Gonske, Gerald Fritzler, and Gerald Merfeld. Grant has participated in gallery group shows and annual shows by Settlerswest Gallery, the Charles Russell Museum, the Salon d Arts "le jeune" Show in 2005 and 2006, and the Coors Western Art Show in 2005 and 2006, in Denver, Colorado. He participated as a guest artist in 2000 with the Northwest Rendezvous Artist Group of Helena, Montana, and was been invited to show, as a guest artist, again in 2007. Grant has participated in the annual Buffalo Bill Art Show and Sale in Cody, Wyoming for the past six years. He was awarded an Artists Choice Award in that show in 2006.