NMA Film at the 27th National Cowboy Poetry Gathering

A film from the Nevada Museum of Art (NMA) will be featured at the 27th National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada. The 2011 annual event, from January 24 through 29, is a celebration of life in the rural west, featuring the contemporary and traditional arts that arise from lives lived caring for land and livestock. The gathering has become an annual ritual for thousands of people who value and practice the artistic traditions of the region.

The showing of Anthem: the prologue to Grass will be on Saturday, January 29 at 10:30 a.m. The film was created in conjunction with the exhibition Between Grass & Sky at the Nevada Museum of Art in 2009 and the Western Folklife Center. The exhibition was inspired by the poem Grass, written by Texas poet Buck Ramsey. The gallery presentation of the exhibition was designed by Los Angeles-based designer Nik Hafermaas who provided the artist direction for the film itself.

If you can't make it to Elko, you can watch the film online courtesy of the NMA. It is on sale at the Museum Store in Reno and during the gathering in Elko.

Source: Nevada Museum of Art press release.

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