Western Heritage Awards

I was asked recently by the National Cowboy Museum and Western Heritage Center in Oklahoma City if I would grant permission to use the floral carving design from this year’s TCAA saddle. They are planning on using detail pictures of my carving designs for a variety of events for 2014 including table runners, docent directories, and this design for an advance invitation to the Western Heritage Awards. I would have never thought I’d receive the accolades for my work as it has…what a privilege and honor!

Here is the Mission Statement from the Cowboy Museum:

The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum preserves and interprets the evolving history and cultures of the American West for the education & enrichment of its diverse audiences of adults and children.

…and from the TCAA:

The Traditional Cowboy Arts Association is dedicated to preserving and promoting the skills of saddlemaking, bit and spur making, silversmithing and rawhide braiding and the role of these traditional crafts in the cowboy culture of the American West.