Help the National Day of the Cowboy
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Our nonprofit organization has been working since 2005 to secure official status for the 4th Saturday in July as the National Day of the Cowboy; a day to celebrate cowboy culture and pioneer heritage. Currently, ten states have passed our bill permanently into law (WY,CA, NM, AZ, OK, OR, MS, KS, & VA).
One of our main sources of funding for this effort is our commemorative Hatch poster series. We began making these traditional style posters in 2005, using Hatch's vintage woodblock art and text, but in 2006, we decided to ask western artists, each from a different state, for original art which could be carved into a plate for our posters alone.
Our first artist was Jennifer M. Ward of AZ. Artists who followed were Teal Blake - TX 2007, Zane Mead - NM 2008, Christina Holmes - CA 2009, Jim Harrison - FL 2010, the late Jo Mora 2011, Jim Clements - KS 2012, Don Weller - UT 2013, and Tyler Crow - OK 2014.
Here we are, up to 2015 and we're excited to tell you our artist this year is Alex MacAskill, from Halifax, Canada.
Alex is a graphic artist, who currently resides in Nashville, Tennessee while working for the iconic Hatch Show Print. Since 2015 is the 60th Anniversary of Gunsmoke, we're happy to tell you our poster this year offers a tip of her hat to your western TV and movie heroes. In fact, the theme for this year's poster "Stand Tall with your Reel Heroes."
We hope you'll consider helping us with the cost of getting our 2015 poster produced, and also, that you'll want to become a collector of all the other National Day of the Cowboy Hatch posters as well. These are all limited edition posters, still hand-printed and hand-cranked on a letterpress. Hatch has been making posters this same way since 1879.
No one in our organization is paid, but we do have significant ongoing operating expenses and we still have 41 states to round up on this trail drive and we need your help and support to reach the goal!
One of our main sources of funding for this effort is our commemorative Hatch poster series. We began making these traditional style posters in 2005, using Hatch's vintage woodblock art and text, but in 2006, we decided to ask western artists, each from a different state, for original art which could be carved into a plate for our posters alone.
Our first artist was Jennifer M. Ward of AZ. Artists who followed were Teal Blake - TX 2007, Zane Mead - NM 2008, Christina Holmes - CA 2009, Jim Harrison - FL 2010, the late Jo Mora 2011, Jim Clements - KS 2012, Don Weller - UT 2013, and Tyler Crow - OK 2014.
Here we are, up to 2015 and we're excited to tell you our artist this year is Alex MacAskill, from Halifax, Canada.
Alex is a graphic artist, who currently resides in Nashville, Tennessee while working for the iconic Hatch Show Print. Since 2015 is the 60th Anniversary of Gunsmoke, we're happy to tell you our poster this year offers a tip of her hat to your western TV and movie heroes. In fact, the theme for this year's poster "Stand Tall with your Reel Heroes."
We hope you'll consider helping us with the cost of getting our 2015 poster produced, and also, that you'll want to become a collector of all the other National Day of the Cowboy Hatch posters as well. These are all limited edition posters, still hand-printed and hand-cranked on a letterpress. Hatch has been making posters this same way since 1879.
No one in our organization is paid, but we do have significant ongoing operating expenses and we still have 41 states to round up on this trail drive and we need your help and support to reach the goal!
Organizer
Bethany Braley
Organizer
Prescott Valley, AZ