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Made in the West: Film Premier Showcases the Legacy of Western Functional Art
The Movie Premier Event Next Thursday, September 18, 2025, from 5:30 - 6:30 pm at the Cody Theatre, By Western Hands Board of Directors, Staff, and Master Artisans cordially invite you to the premiere of ...
On the Move: Cody Country Art League Rebrands to Cody Arts
After more than six decades as a cornerstone of the local arts community, Cody Country Art League is proud to announce a new name: CodyArts | Gallery + Creative Center. Rebranding This rebranding is about ...
Cody, Wyoming Art Galleries to Visit During Art Week
This marks the 44th year for the Buffalo Bill Art Show/Rendezvous Royale, organized by the Cody Chamber of Commerce. Each year, it evolves into a stronger community event. The businesses shining brightly in September are ...
POP! Goes the West Lunch & Lecture
Join us for a lively and thought-provoking Lunch & Lecture as we dive into POP! Goes the West, the Whitney Western Art Museum’s newest exhibition exploring the unexpected collision of Pop Art and the American ...
Judges Select Winning Artwork in 44th Annual Buffalo Bill Art Show & Sale
Prior to the opening of 44th Annual Buffalo Bill Art Show & Sale’s Live Auction Gallery, a carefully selected panel of judges studied the 104 two-dimensional and three-dimensional works in the exhibition. The judges ultimately ...
The Story Behind the Artwork: Wyoming Storm
I took the photo that created the base for this Digital Photo Watercolor (a photo transformed digitally using 3 different software programs, a pen, and time) in 2011 while on a trip to Cody to ...
Wyoming’s Traveling Music Competition Discovers the State’s Best Storytellers
Something unique is headed to Cody on August 20th, 2025 and will be hosted at "The Colonel Venue", the Wyoming Song and Singer-Songwriter Competition! In late June and mid July regional rounds of the competition ...
Cody’s 2025 Music Scene Crescendos
The stage lights illuminate heartfelt, gritty, and often hilarious songs. Have you heard the melodic echoes throughout the Bighorn Basin? The talents of Cody, Wyoming’s local and invited musicians are growing as many places have ...
A Colorful Addition Has Been Added to the Cody Bandshell
The bandshell in City Park received a colorful facelift! Thanks to the work of the Cody Public Arts Committee, they zinged up the bandshell just in time for summer. Many artists applied for the opportunity ...
The Story Behind the Art: Western Horizons
Layers of mountains have always caught my eye. While growing up, my family passed around the book, A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains - the Western travel adventures of Isabella Bird in the late ...
Americans and the Holocaust traveling exhibition coming to Cody Library
[Cody, April 29, 2025] — Park County Library’s Cody branch is one of 50 U.S. libraries newly selected to host Americans and the Holocaust, a traveling exhibition from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the ...
Harlequin Ducks at LeHardy Rapids: Yellowstone’s Most Striking Spring Visitors
Harlequin ducks migrate to Yellowstone each spring to breed. Stopping at the convenient-to-observe location of LeHardy Rapids, birders and photographers flock to the area to see them each May. While here, they are in their ...