THINGS TO DO at school carnivals, bake sales and donation jars. The collection grew and eventually needed a home of its own. At the Community Fine Arts Center you can marvel at pieces from artists like Norman Rockwell, Grandma Moses, Loren McGiver, Elliott Orr, Edward Chavez, Paul Horiuchi, Ilya Bolotowsky, Raphael Soyer and Rufino Tamayo, along with other well known local and regional Wyoming artists. And for something fresh each time you come, enjoy the rotating exhibit of traditional and contemporary paintings, sculptures, prints and photography. Community Fine Arts Center WWCC NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM WALK WITH WYOMING’S GIANTS. Tens of millions of years before humans shook the ground in Sweetwater County mining for coal, dinosaurs thundered across Southwest Wyoming. To witness the size and majesty of these earliest residents of the area, you can see five life-size replicas at Western Wyoming Community College in Rock Springs. 400 C Street, Rock Springs, WY 82901 (307) 362-6212 www.cfac4art.com/ COMMUNITY FINE ARTS CENTER A unique collaboration between Rock Springs, Sweetwater County and the SWEETWATER EVENTS COMPLEX & SPEEDWAY With the beauty of White Mountain as a natural backdrop, the Sweetwater Events Complex aims to keep smiles on families’ faces year-round. At 320 acres in size, the facility is one of Wyoming’s largest, most versatile event complexes. Decorators and green thumbs will love Southwest Wyoming’s Home and Garden Show. Gunslingers can feast their eyes at the Up in Arms Gun Show, and cowboys can get their fill of the West at the Red Desert Roundup Rodeo. And if you can’t get enough of the sweet roar of engines, you won’t want to miss out on the races happening at the Sweetwater County Speedway, located at the Sweetwater Events Complex. With summers packed full of motocross matchups and stock car races, nearly every weekend has something under the hood for you. DISCOVER YOUR ARTISTIC ROOTS. Visit the Museum: The WWCC Natural History Museum is an archaeologist’s and geologist’s playground, displaying a stunning collection of stones and several wall-mounted fossils of fish, palm leaves and reptiles discovered in the area. And to learn about the earliest known humans who lived here, feast your eyes on prehistoric pottery, small fossils and other evidence of our ancient neighbors. WWCC Natural History Museum 2500 College Drive Rock Springs, WY 82901 local school district, the Community Fine Arts Center is now home to a permanent collection of more than 500 original American works. A Collection of Culture: Founded in 1965 by a local science teacher (yes, a science teacher), the Community Fine Arts Center in Rock Springs is a cultural gem in Southwest Wyoming. The center’s first painting, Shack Alley by Henrietta Wood, was actually purchased in 1939 to hang in the local high school. This first painting inspired an appreciation for the arts that motivated Elmer Halseth to travel America to buy paintings, drawings and prints with nickels and dimes earned ROCK SPRINGS // 10 (307) 382-1648 www.westernwyoming.edu/ campus-map/exhibits-on-campus/ natural-history.php 3320 Yellowstone Road Rock Springs, WY 82901 (307) 352-6789 www.sweetwaterevents.com www.sweetwaterspeedway.com
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