Rendezvous Royale is an annual celebration of the arts held each September in beautiful Cody, Wyoming. Rendezvous Royale includes events organized by three prestigious organizations: The Buffalo Bill Art Show & Sale, By Western Hands, and the Buffalo Bill Center of the West.

Patrons of the arts are sure to enjoy this week-long melding of art, design, and dance. The Rendezvous Royale schedule offers Western art sales, the Patrons Ball, lectures, design classes, painting workshops, and more.

Schedule:

10:00 am - 4:00pm Supaya Gray Wolfe Workshop: Create Your Own Beaded Buffalo Hide Horse or Old Style Buffalo Doll at By Western Hands

Join By Western Hands artisan Supaya Gray Wolfe to create a beaded buffalo hide horse or old style buffalo doll

Create your own beaded buffalo hide horse or old Style buffalo doll. Participants will assemble, bead and decorate a buffalo hide horse or doll. Material provided will be split buffalo hide, buffalo and horse hair, aged trade cloth, glass and trade beads as well as turquoise. All day class, participants may finish early. Refreshments included.

Supaya, a Native American Beadworker, is instructing this step by step class teaching the methods and techniques to make a horse. Each horse can honor a particular horse close to your heart. Participants are encouraged to bring your own horse hair, and something special to place where the heart is to make it special. Participants that wish to honor a horse are asked to send a picture so Supaya is able to gather leather close to the color of the horse.

Materials to be used: Buffalo hide, Sinew, Horse hair, Glass and Brass Beads, Sweet Grass, Sage, Turquoise, Ghost beads.

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5:00pm - 11:30 pm 43rd Annual Buffalo Bill Art Show & Sale at Center of the West

Join auctioneers Black and Associates for this riveting and fast paced Live Auction of original Western art! Enjoy our 100+ artists’ broad range of stylistic interpretations of the American West in mediums such as oil, watercolor, pastel and sculpture. 

Visit the Buffalo Bill Center of the West beginning August 16th to preview all the artwork available in the sale. You can also view our Live Auction Gallery online (available mid June).

Doors open at 5PM. Browse our Buy-It-Now works donated by BBAS artists and enjoy cocktails and conversation prior to our buffet-style dinner catered by Bravo! Catering. Our Live Auction event will begin at 6:30Pm

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