DENVER, CO. – Tickets are on sale now for the Annual Young Guns Reception at the National Western Complex in Denver. This year’s Reception is December 7th, kicking off the 2023-2024 Stock Show season. The Young Guns Pop-Up Exhibit features local, emerging artists selling work in price ranges more accessible to Young Guns attendees. Join hundreds of young professionals for an evening of art, country music, entertainment and philanthropy. Proceeds from the event and art sales help support the National Western Scholarship Trust, giving support to 120 Colorado and Wyoming students.
About the Young Guns of the Coors Western Art Exhibit & Sale
The Young Guns Art Show engages the next generation of art collectors by recognizing emerging Western Artists and, through the National Western Scholarship Trust, raising money for 120 youth pursuing degrees in agriculture, rural medicine and veterinary medicine at institutions throughout Colorado and Wyoming.
The Young Guns combines art, fundraising, and western culture into a party celebrating everything the National Western Stock Show and Denver have to offer. Suited to Colorado’s Young Professional community, the Young Guns is all about meeting new people, visiting with artists, learning about art, and raising money for the National Western Scholarship Trust. The National Western Scholarship Trust, gives 120 scholarships to Colorado and Wyoming students studying agriculture, veterinary sciences, and medicine.
The Young Guns of the Coors Western Art Exhibit & Sale are a part of the National Western Stock Show, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
2024 Coors Western Art Event Schedule:
- Thursday evening, December 7, 2023 – YOUNG GUNS RECEPTION. 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the National Western Complex, Expo Hall, Third Floor. Tickets on sale now at Eventbrite: Young Guns
- Wednesday evening, January 3, 2024 – RED CARPET GALA RECEPTION, 30th Annual Coors Western Art Exhibit & Sale opening night, 5:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the National Western Complex, Expo Hall, Third Floor. Tickets on sale now at: Eventbrite: Red Carpet Reception
- Saturday, January 6 through Sunday, January 21, 2024, Coors Western Art Exhibit and the National Western Stock Show open to the public, hours on www.coorswesternart.com.
For more information or images of artists’ work, please contact show coordinator Grace Weihs [email protected] or curator Kate Hlavin at 973-670-8479.
About Coors Western Art Exhibit & Sale
The Coors Western Art Exhibit & Sale has become known as one of the nation’s most-attended western art exhibitions, as well as one of the largest fundraisers for the National Western Scholarship Trust, the philanthropic pillar of Colorado’s National Western Stock Show. The 2024 Coors Western Art Exhibit & Sale opens Wednesday evening, January 3, 2024, with the Red Carpet Gala Reception. The exhibit features 73 contemporary realists from across North America who capture the western way of life. The exhibition is open to the public during the National Western Stock Show, January 6-21, 2024. Last year over 700 people attended the Red Carpet Gala Reception on opening night, and over 30,000 viewed the exhibit during the National Western Stock Show.
The National Western Scholarship Trust was formed in 1983 to provide scholarships to students studying agriculture, rural medicine, and veterinary sciences. Since then, the Trust has grown to award 120 scholarships annually, ranging from $2,500 to $15,000 per student.