2024 Buffalo Festival Gala

Name: 2024 Buffalo Festival Gala
Start: 2024-09-28T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-09-28T20:00:00-05:00
Location: 901 Frederica St, Owensboro, KY, United States, Kentucky 42301

Schedule

Sat Sep 28 2024 at 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

901 Frederica St, Owensboro, KY, United States, Kentucky 42301 | Owensboro, KY

Artists in Kentucky and surrounding states to enter the 18th Annual Buffalo Festival and Paintout, an en plein air event, to be presented September 26-28 at the Owensboro Museum of Fine Art.
Artists may enter the Buffalo Paintout by completing the registration form found on the museum’s website www.omfa.us or by calling 270-685-3181. Registration fee for artists wishing to participate in the Paintout is $20 before September 15, after which it increases to $35.
The three-day event will be highlighted by a Gala Artists Reception Saturday, September 28 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. where $3,000 in Merit Awards will be presented for winning entries. The annual Festival and Gala are sponsored by Swedish Match. The Gala will feature thematic cuisine and live musical entertainment. Admission is $50 per person/$40 per person for Friends of the Foundation and participating artists and a guest will be admitted free. Reservations may be made by calling the museum at 270-685-3181 or emailing [email protected].
The Buffalo theme for the Festival and Paintout was inspired by the two heroic sized bronzes installed in the art museum’s Ryan Sculpture Park on Frederica Street between 9th and 10th Streets
The bronzes were commissioned by the museum to commemorate the Buffalo Trace which celebrates the origins of Owensboro. Present day Frederica Street began centuries ago as a Buffalo Trace through which settlers made their way to the banks of the Ohio River to establish the settlement which ultimately became Owensboro.
The bronze buffalo sculpture “Into the Wind” and “Meadowlands Pair,” were gifts to the museum and the community from Mary Lou Steele and her late husband, Robert Steele, and former Mayor Ron Payne and his wife Denise. The bronzes were created by the noted American wildlife sculptor T. D. Kelsey of Texas.