Events

The following list of events will be updated on a regular basis - as I can.
Listed below are events we hold on a regular yearly schedule.

Should you be an artist or musician we have some information about cost and entry procedures listed at bottom of page. Please review the procedure.
1st Saturday - every month on the 1st Saturday we have a special celebration of art and music.
Information above describes this event and how to participate is below.
2nd Thursday - every month is a yard concert from 6:30 till 8:30. Hat is passed for the entertainers and this event is amplified. Silo House Restaurant offers hamburgers. Bring your cooler and lawn chair and come hear some great music.
Rogers seconds sale - held on 1st Saturday of April and October. What can I say! Be here!
April Ceramic Weekend - the 3rd weekend of April is the annual Ceramic Weekend.
The San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, Angelo State University and The Chicken Farm Art Center
host this national event. Recognized as one of the best shows in America, I urge you to come see this show. It's GREAT! with Museum show, University symposium, and workshop, dinner and dance at Art Center. Dates and invited artists for 2009 event will be posted later.
You can learn more on the ceramic page and on the museum site.
May Annual Blacksmith Fellowship - since 1985 the blacksmith hold their annual meeting on the 1st weekend of May and host a workshop. This year we are pleased to have Dave Koenig of Houston presenting a workshop on raised metal and repousse. Check out link CVBF.org for more information. Thanksgiving Weekend Open House - Thanksgiving day 60+ of us gather for a 'family' feast, give THANKS for all our friends and art lovers and get ready for the weekend. Then on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday afternoon following Thanksgiving, we have OPEN HOUSE for the public. We invite artists from all over to come show their work. In addition to the regular Chicken Farmers, you'll find a wide range of jewelry, pottery, painting, sculpture, rocks, mosaics, woodwork, hand-sewn and hand-crafted pieces. Enjoy a massage. Drink some hot apple cider & have some cookies. Get your face painted. Play with clay. Raku your own pot.

Come have a great time visiting with old and new friends and
Share the Art Spirit

Artists and musicians interested in joining in should contact us. Entry fee is nominal.

Randy Brodnax Show (Dallas, TX) 2nd weekend of December

In December, Randy Brodnax hosts a show at the Sons of Hermann Hall (located at 3414 Elm where Elm & Exposition intersect) in Deep Ellum, Dallas. The Sons of Hermann Hall is an historic old dance hall and a great place to gather together. About 40 artisans of all kinds gather here to offer the public another chance to get one-of-a-kind Christmas presents. Randy makes some Gumbo. The bartender makes some drinks. The musicians make some music. We have a great time. If you live in or near Dallas, here is your chance to see our pottery without having to make a long drive to San Angelo.

FIRST SATURDAY-EVERY MONTH

The ART

The first Saturday of each month is a special treat at The Art Center. We feature work of special invited artists plus all of the Art Center artists studios are open for visitors.
We offer free clay for kids (of all ages) and we even fire it free for you. Sometimes Joe Morgan has a potters wheel out for people to try and Jeremy puts on a raku demonstration and we have bisque pots ready for you to glaze and raku for a nominal fee.
'Concho Forge' and Concho Valley Blacksmiths Fellowship - for more info CVBF.org Members sit up shop in the forge area. Besides demonstrating, they offer you a hands on opportunity to pound the hot iron. The blacksmith have an annual event 1st weekend of May. That's a whole separate page. Check it out!
Painters, potters, stone and wood carvers, and a variety artist doing their thing make this a special day.

The MUSIC - Chicken Farm Pickers
If you like music... Good acoustic picking, then 1st Saturday at The Art Center is the place to be. David Alexander, Terry Mills and Larry Ward have started a group called Chicken Farm Pickers. Local musicians get together in an informal circle and play their favorite songs. With so many regulars showing up it's hard to name them all. But Roy Don Scott, Coy Moses and many others would love for you to bring your guitar, fiddle (or violin if you hold your nose right), mandolin, or whatever and join in. Believe me, you'll fit in. Picking starts about 12 and goes to 5 generally.

The FOOD
We always have the coffee pot on and soft drinks and some times we have lattes…
and Silo House Restaurant serves lunch on this day. GREAT FOOD!
We always have a great time and invite you to enjoy your day with us.

Many of you know about 1st Saturdays at the Art Center and are faithful visitors.
We still like to send a reminder and welcome new viewers.
You can be added to our mail list HERE

Art Center Artists… visit www.ChickenFarmArtCenter.com
and click on artists button to visit the Art Center artists that will be showing and demonstrating their work, including pottery, blacksmithing, painting, mosaics, photography, metal work, jewelry, wire wrap, glass blowing, stone carving, and more.
1st Saturdays demonstrations are designed to give you an insight to the artist and the how and why they work. Hopefully they will lead to classes at the Art Center for the Spring and Summer months.

Texas Clay Festival ... October 25 & 26 ... Gruene Historical District of New Braunfels
Swirling wet clay, flaming hot kilns and incredible imaginations …
Texas Clay Festival is a craft show featuring over fifty fine crafts people working in clay today. Each artist demonstrates his/her unique style of work in clay, as well as sells their finished pieces. The work ranges from functional stoneware pottery to decorative clay sculpture.Admission to the festival is free. Visitors are able to see work created on a potter's wheel, as well as pieces created using hand-building techniques such as coiling and slab construction. There are kiln firings where visitors can see hot pots pulled from a glowing chamber.The festival is held in Historic Gruene, Texas (4 miles north of New Braunfels) on the grounds of Buck Pottery. While you're there, plan to shop in the many unique stores, dine in any of the five restaurants, & even kick up your heels at Gruene Hall, Texas' oldest dance hall. This is a truly great ceramic event that we don't plan to miss unless we get uninvited. So if getting to San Angelo is a challenge, try to catch us in Gruene. Join us for two days of fun and education in the ancient art of fired clay.