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Show Artist attends workshop 4 - ' )) r , v i CENTERVILLEDan Bedell ofc Centerville has completed a week of intensive study with CAA; sculptors, Grant Speed of Lindon Mehl Lawson of Bonita, Calif.; and Pat Haptonstall of Prescott, Ariz., in. a workshop sponsored by the Cowboy Artists of American Mur; seum in Kerrville, Texas. This opportunity to study witfe, three master sculptors was shared by 28 artists from Texas, Utah, Oklahoma, California, Alabama, and Colorado. ?j - - Since the CAA Museum opened, in 1983, one of its educational goals, has been to offer a series of profesr, sional level workshops each year' for aspiring artists. .u I M r i Instructors for the courses are) members of the Cowboy Artists of-America, of-America, a group founded in 1965 to perpetuate the memory and-culture and-culture of the West and encourage", authentic representation of the life) of the American West. r !!3 In addition to these advanced art. workshops, in 1990 the museum has. added a variety of short courses on . ii tli - i . . y, -fc.vjwxiimifcM- ! tint MimitimatmA Don Bedell recently attended a workshop in Texas along with Pat Haptonstall of Arizona another member of the prestigious Cowboy Artists of America group. Don spent an intense week improving his sculptoring skills. |