| 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 |
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2009 Calendar of Events |
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| April 30 - May 3 Lubbock Arts Festival
Lubbock Texas |
| May 16 Great Plains Woodcarvers Exhibition and Sale
in Wichita at Cessna Activity Center |
| June 20 - 22 Strawberry Days
Glenwood Springs Colorado |
| June 26 - 28 NIC Fest Casper, Wyoming |
| July 11 - 12
Avon Art and Wine Fest Avon Colorado |
| July 18 - 19
Evergreen Summerfest Evergreen Colorado |
| August 7 - 9 Loveland
Sculpture Invitational Loveland Colorado |
| August 15 - 16 Salida Riverside Art Festival
Salida Colorado |
| October 3 - 4 Guthrie Art and Wine Fair
Guthrie Oklahoma ? tentative |
| October 10 En
Plein Aire Eldorado Kansas ? tentative |
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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.
She turned away calling excitedly for 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 has traveled to the Ozarks, Texas, Oklahoma,
Arizona, Minnesota, New Mexico, Colorado Wyoming, Utah and the Rockies to
enjoy and photograph the
wilderness. Because of it's central location and variety of
habitat, Dale's home state of Kansas has a surprising variety of
habitat. "Kansas gets a bad rap. Certainly much of the western plains
is flat, dry, and wind swept, but Kansas also boasts rolling limestone
capped hills, chalk bluffs, gypsum hills, and even wetlands that are
home to a great many waterfowl and shorebirds, both resident and
migratory. In my yard I've seen deer, fox, coyotes, opossums, skunks,
armadillos, raccoons, quail, pheasants, egrets, herons, and wild
turkeys. Within a mile of home I've seen bobcats and badgers as well." |
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