| Shows and Awards |
2008 Hutchinson
Outdoor Art Fair Hutchinson, Kansas
Award of
Excellence |
Great Plains Woodcarvers Exhibition and
Sale Wichita, Kansas 2007 - 2008
Best Realistic Animal 2007 |
| 2008 Second Annual Oklahoma Friendly
National Juried Exhibition Ok City, OK |
| 2008 Botkins Sculpture Invitational
Botkins, Ohio |
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Hutchinson Art Association Members
Exhibition Hutchinson, Kansas 2006 - 2008
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| 2008 Pinnacle Hills Art Festival
Rogers, Arkansas |
| 2008 Seventeenth Annual Breckenridge Fine
Art Competition Breckenridge, Texas |
| 2008 Thirty-Fourth Annual Ponca City Fine Arts Festival Ponca
City, Oklahoma |
2008 5th Annual Guthrie Art and Wine Festival Guthrie, OK
Best of Show |
2008 Evergreen Winterfest Evergreen, Co
November 15
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| Artist Bio and Statement |
| Dale grew up hiking wilderness rivers and trails, observing and photographing
the wildlife he encountered there. |
| These animals are his passion and the
subject of his art. "Through my work I hope to inspire
an appreciation |
| for and a desire to protect these
creatures and the habitats necessary for their survival." |
| He draws on his wilderness experiences and
photographs to bring his sculptures to life. |
| He believes that the success of his work depends on making an
emotional connection with the viewer. |
| "At my very first exhibition I remember a little girl passing by my
booth looking very bored. As she turned |
| toward my display, her eyes lit up and a smile spread across her face
as she called excitedly to her mother |
to come look at the animals. That is what I want my art to do
for people."
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| Today Dale lives at the edge of the Flint Hills near Augusta Kansas.
From this central location he travels to the Ozarks, Texas, Oklahoma,
Arizona, Minnesota, and the Rockies to hike and photograph the
wilderness. In his home state he has access to a surprising variety of
habitat. "Kansas gets a bad rap. Certainly the western plains can be
very flat, hot, dry, and wind swept. But Kansas also has chalk bluffs,
gypsum hills, and even wetlands that are home to a great many waterfowl
and shorebirds, both resident and migratory. The Flint Hills roll across
the center of the state and much of the east is Oak forested hills." |
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