The San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts in Texas invites the public to experience the EnPleinAirTexas 2025 Ranch Fellowship with a curated exhibition, sales, an artist panel at the museum, and pop-up sale at the Christoval Winery, all happening October 23-26, 2025.
From the organizers:
The EnPleinAirTexas (EPAT) Ranch Fellowship bonds the area’s 100-year plein air painting history with an immersive invitational experience for five competition artists in the authentic ranch culture of West Texas where the selected artists have the opportunity to live and paint on a ranch for three weeks. During their fellowship, the artists also spend a day guiding local students through a live plein air painting activity. The fellowship culminates in a weekend-long series of events and exhibitions.
The public is welcome to attend a free exhibition of curated ranch fellowship paintings during the Spirit of the Ranch opening reception on Thursday, October 23. Join us as well in the museum’s Grand Hall for the Stampede show and art sale featuring more work from the fellowship artists plus student art. Live music and refreshments provided.
On Friday, October 24, the public is also invited to attend the Ranch Round-Up Panel. Invited artists Kirsten Anderson (WY), Zufar Bikbov (CT), Lon Brauer (IL), Durre Waseem (CA), and Jeff Williams (OK) will discuss their plein air painting experience, moderated by Tim Newton, publisher emeritus of Western Art and Architecture Magazine.
On Sunday, October 26, be sure to make your way to the Christoval Winery for a special pop-up experience celebrating the original West Texas plein air painters from the 1920s with the Artist’s Camp Revival show and sale at the chapel on the Winery grounds. The public will have another chance to purchase paintings and to visit with the artists as they paint the sunset in Christoval. Food and drinks will be available for purchase.
The exhibition and sale will continue throughout the weekend at SAMFA during regular museum hours. For more information, go to www.samfa.org.
