Art & The Animal, 2014/2015 Society of Animal Artists Traveling Exhibition

Apr 17, 2015 - Aug 30, 2015

The National Sporting Library & Museum is pleased to be the final venue to host Art and the Animal, the 54th annual Society of Animal Artists’ (SAA) exhibition.  Art and the Animal refers to both the juried annual exhibition and the smaller traveling exhibit that is generated from it.  This year’s exhibition opened with 125 paintings at the Wildlife Experience, a wildlife conservation museum in Parker, Colorado, on August 23, 2014. From this, sixty paintings, works on paper, and sculptures of domestic and wild animals were chosen by the SAA Selection Jury to travel. This selection was on view at two other venues before coming to the NSLM.

The mission of the Society of Animal Artists is to promote excellence in the portrayal of animals, domestic and/or wild, in art.  The Society was founded in 1960 and boasts almost 500 members from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America.  

organized by David J. Wagner, Ph.D., Tour Director