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PAPA Members are showing across the country during the summer and will all gather together for a fabulous exhibition at The Haggin Museum in October. Put the following dates on your calendar! UPCOMING PAPA EVENTS American Legacy: Our National Parks Do you have a favorite national park? Thirty-five of our national treasures were documented on location by PAPA Signature Members and Guest Artists for PAPA’s 22nd exhibition and sale opening October 2-4, 2009, at The Haggin Museum, Stockton, California. Please visit the Press Room to see the list of parks and artists. For an invitation to the weekend events go to The Haggin Museum. All of the artworks will be reproduced in a color catalog. The following outstanding Guest Artists are also represented in the exhibition and sale. West Fraser, Charleston, SC. Walt Gonske, Taos, NM. Quang Ho, Denver, CO. Joseph McGurl, Cataumet, MA. Kathryn Stats, Salt Lake City, UT.
 A special segment of the exhibition celebrates the Centennial of Zion National Park. More than fifteen paintings, many created during a PAPA gathering at the park in March 2009, will be for sale only at The Haggin Museum venue.
Right: Kenn Backhaus, Light and Shadow of Zion, oil, 11 x 14 SIGNATURE MEMBER NEWS Linda Tippetts featured in Glacier Park Magazine.
Tippetts was interviewed in the Summer 2, 2009, issue of Glacier Park Magazine about her many years of painting in the park. Currently three of Tippetts' prints are sold in the park visitor centers: The Garden Wall, St. Mary's Sunrise, and September Snow on the Garden Wall. Two other prints have sold out! Arizonans Joan LaRue and Matt Smith interviewed in the August issue of Arizona Highways.
This issue features "The Best of Arizona," and of course, we think LaRue and Smith rank among the best! Although she loves to travel, LaRue says she enjoys “painting my own little corner of the world.” Smith shares that sentiment stating, “The beauty of the Sonoran Desert is subtle, not obvious like the Grand Canyon or the red rocks in Sedona.”
 Gay Faulkenberry Show at the Chisholm Trail Heritage Center
Through August 15, more than 30 of Faulkenberry's paintings are on view and for sale at Chisholm Trail Heritage Center in her hometown of Duncan, OK.
Left: Antique Shop, Murphys California, oil, 12 x 16
 Joe Paquet and Kevin Macpherson featured in August Southwest Art.
Have a look inside Kevin and Wanda Macpherson’s studio in Taos on pages 78-79. And visit with Joe Paquet in St. Paul on pages 74-77.
Right: Joe Paquet, Factory Shadow, oil, 40 x 30 (featured in the article and in American Legacy).
 Oil Painters of America Western Regional Show
John Budicin, Kevin Macpherson, Ned Mueller, and Jean Perry exhibit alongside more than a hundred outstanding oil painters at Howard/Mandville Gallery, Kirkland, Washington, August 6-30, 2009.
Left: Ned Mueller, Guatemalan Market, oil, 24 x 18
Kenn Backhaus at Troika Gallery
Backhaus has a one-man show titled Our Passion with Nature at Troika Gallery, Easton, MD, through the month of August.
Matt Smith featured in Art of the West July/August issue.
AOTW Editor Vicki Stavig interviewed Smith about his classic desert plein-air paintings, including one that has hung on his studio wall for years. "It’s worth more to me in terms of information than any money I could get for it,” Smith said.
 Eleven PAPA members in the Western Rendezvous of Art.
Enjoy this August 20-23 event in Helena, Montana, displaying works by the following PAPA members: Kenn Backhaus, Bye Bitney, Scott Burdick, Joan M. LaRue, Joseph Mendez, Ned Mueller, Ralph Oberg, Matt Smith, Brian Stewart, George Strickland, and Skip Whitcomb.
Left: Brian Stewart, Hog Heaven, 9 x 12. PAPA members exhibit in Maynard Dixon Country.
Look for paintings by Christopher Blossom, John Budicin, Ralph Oberg, Ron Rencher, Ray Roberts, Matt Smith, George Strickland and Skip Whitcomb at this August 28-30, 2009, exhibition and sale organized by the Thunderbird Foundation for the Arts, Mt. Carmel, Utah.
Right. George Strickland, Colorful Fishing Hole, oil, 16 x 20. Happening in Wyoming in September
 The Jackson Hole Arts Festival runs from September 10 to 20, including the Western Visions Sale at the National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, September 17-18, which features Chris Blossom, Ralph Oberg, Matt Smith, and Skip Whitcomb. On September 18-19, Ralph Oberg has a 42-by-42 inch painting titled High Colorado Hermit in the Jackson Hole Art Auction. The following weekend the Buffalo Bill Art Show and Sale, in Cody, features Ned Mueller, Ralph Oberg, Matt Smith, and Skip Whitcomb.
Left: Chris Blossom, NY Pilot Schooner 'Achilles,' circa 1812, oil, 9x12, at Western Visions. Raleigh Kinney on the Rim
Kinney is an invited artist in the plein-air event at the Inaugural Grand Canyon Celebration of Art, September 14-19, at the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park. The public reception at the Kolb Studio takes place September 19, 10:00 am to 12:00 noon.
Learn from the Best
Weekend with the Masters was organized by American Artist magazine. It brings together a number of leading contemporary artists for classes, demonstrations, and lectures on September 9-13, at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Centers, CO. Instructors include PAPA members Scott Burdick, Kevin Macpherson, and Skip Whitcomb.
Right: Skip Whitcomb, Battleship Mountain, oil, 14 x 11 LaLumia Demo
Visit Frank LaLumia's website for a demonstration of his watercolor painting Bobsled Canyon. Passport and Palette
Look for your PBS station to find air times for this series, which includes Kevin Macpherson and Kenn Backhaus, who travel the world painting on location wherever they are.
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