Name: Ucross Arts Festival
Start: 2022-08-28T16:00:00-06:00
End: 2022-08-28
Location: The Park at Ucross

Ucross Arts Festival

Ucross

The Ucross Arts Festival will feature famed musician Jalan Crossland, award-winning author Brandon Hobson, and artist Savannah LeCornu.

The Park at Ucross

Join us for the Ucross Arts Festival on August 28, featuring famed Wyoming musician Jalan Crossland.Held in The Park at Ucross, the festival will celebrate three <a href="https://www.ucrossfoundation.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Ucross</a> artist-alumni. In addition to a performance by Jalan, who has joined us for two music residencies, the event will feature a reading by award-winning author Brandon Hobson (Cherokee Nation) and a complimentary print of a painting by acclaimed visual artist Savannah LeCornu (Tsimshian [Wolf Clan], Haida, Athabascan, Nez Perce, and First Nations Nisga’a), both recipients of Ucross Native American Fellowships.Local food trucks will offer food and drink throughout the event, including Bonafide, Stoked Pizza, and Papa Bino’s. Sheridan Stationery will be onsite selling copies of Brandon&#x27;s books, which he will sign.The Ucross Arts Festival is part of Sheridan County&#x27;s Celebrate the Arts weekend. Carpooling is encouraged. VIP PRE-SHOW RECEPTION | 2:30-4 p.m.Before the festival, VIP ticket holders will join Jalan Crossland and Brandon Hobson at an intimate gathering in the Raymond Plank Center, which will include:<ul><li>Artist meet-and-greet with Jalan Crossland and Brandon Hobson</li><li>Exclusive reading by Brandon Hobson</li><li>Refreshments </li><li>Reserved lawn seats </li></ul>A very limited number of tickets are available for $400. Ucross is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization; the ticket price includes a partially tax-deductible donation that will benefit the <a href="https://www.ucrossfoundation.org/campaign.html" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Ucross 40th Anniversary Campaign</a>. GA TICKETS | 4 p.m. onwardGeneral Admission tickets are free and available to all.There are limited GA and VIP tickets available, so get yours today! ABOUT THE ARTISTS<a href="https://jalancrossland.com/home" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Jalan Crossland</a> is nationally acclaimed by audiences, critics, and his musical peers as being a premier acoustic guitarist, banjo player, singer-songwriter and engaging showman. Along with dozens of regional contest awards, his extraordinary guitar work earned him National Fingerstyle Guitar Championship Runner Up honors in ’97 and the State Flatpick Championship title of his home state in 1999. His 2017 album, “Singalongs For The Apocalypse,” won Wyoming Public Radio’s People’s Choice: Album of the Year award. In recognition for his contribution to the arts in Wyoming, he was bestowed the Governor’s Arts Award in 2013.<a href="https://brandonhobson.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Dr. Brandon Hobson</a> is a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow. He received his PhD from Oklahoma State University. His novel, “Where The Dead Sit Talking,” was a finalist for the National Book Award, winner of the Reading The West Award, and longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award, among other distinctions.His short stories have won a Pushcart Prize and have appeared in the best American Short Stories, Mcsweeney’s, Conjunctions, Noon, and elsewhere. He teaches creative writing at New Mexico State University and at the Institute of American Indian Arts. He is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation Tribe of Oklahoma.<a href="https://savannahlecornu.weebly.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Savannah LeCornu</a> is a visual artist and theatre maker originally from Ketchikan, Alaska, who resides in Bellingham, Washington. She is part of the Tsimshian (Wolf Clan), Haida, Athabascan, and Nez Perce tribes and First Nations Nisga’a. LeCornu primarily draws and paints in both traditional and digital formats; her art is centered on representing Indigenous people and art forms. LeCornu is best known for her “Still Here” series, which highlights the perseverance of contemporary indigenous peoples, as well as her “Indigenize” Series, which returns Indigenous names to stolen land.

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