Gilly Fales Fine Art Scholarship Award
History of Winners

The Gilly Fales Fine Art Award is being offered in partnership with the Buffalo Bill Art Show & Sale providing support and exposure to aspiring young Wyoming artists.

Who Qualifies?
The scholarships are
available to Wyoming
artists ages 18-30 majoring
in art-related programs in college or participating in other types of art-related ventures.

What Kind of
Work Qualifies?
The program accepts a broad range of original western art, including landscape, wildlife/sporting, figurative, and Native American subject matter. The submitted piece must be appropriately framed or prepared for display.

How are the Awards Chosen?
An anonymous jury selects two $500 scholarship recipients, one in two-dimensional and one in three-dimensonal work.

Opportunities for
Selected Recipients
Recipients have the opportunity
to display their work in the 2006 Buffalo Bill Art Show with over 100 of the best painters and sculptors in the West. Recipients are invited to the prestigious Buffalo Bill Historical Centerto attend and participate in events held surrounding this year’s 25th Celebration in September.

Recipients’ work is viewed by show attendees and collectors from across the United States and can choose to sell their artwork while it is on display. If work is sold, a 10% commission is given to the Gilly Fales Memorial Fund in order to continue empowering young artists.

The show is on exhibit August 24 through September 22 in the John Bunker Sands Photography Gallery and is open to the public during the Historical Center's normal hours.

To apply, please submit the following by May 15 of each year: