The Wiegand Gallery
Wiegand Gallery, 2014 Expressing the Rural West exhibition, photo courtesy of AlJazeera.com .
On View Now
30 years of contemporary cowboy Gear
Admission: $5.00 Adults ~ $3.00 Students/Seniors ~ $1.00 Children age 6-12
Members Free; $3.00 for each adult guest. Join now.
Free admission to all ~ first Saturday of every month.
Hours of Operation:
Monday - Friday, 10 am - 5:30 pm
Saturday, 10 am - 5 pm
Closed Sundays and Holidays
Located in the historic Pioneer Hotel in downtown Elko, Nevada, the Wiegand Gallery is an exciting space featuring interactive exhibitions and multimedia presentations, including semi-permanent and temporary exhibitions drawn on the Western Folklife Center's own collections as well as traveling exhibitions.
The Gallery and Black Box Theater have been reconfigured to provide a safe environment for our visitors. Forgot your mask? We've got plenty of bandanas and are happy to share!
For over 35 years, the Western Folklife Center has produced numerous educational exhibits based on our original research and fieldwork with traditional artists and art forms. As a part of this work, we have had the pleasure of working with hundreds of talented artists and displaying documentary work of photographers and other visual artists to showcase the creativity, stories and voices from throughout the western United States and from horse cultures worldwide.
Current Exhibitions
Read about and view some of the pieces of our most recent exhibitions that opened for the 36th National Cowboy Poetry Gathering:
I’m Gonna Take My Horse
Vintage Black Heroes: The Chisholm Kid
Southern Riders
and more!
Black Box Theater
Still Photo from Why The Cowboy Sings video.
Our Black Box Theater is currently closed while we change over our exhibitions. When the gallery re-opens, the Black Box Theater will be showing:
A 16-minute high definition adaptation of Why the Cowboy Sings.
Banner image by Cal Bracklin, of our late friend and cowgirl poet Georgie Sicking and her exhibition curated by Cal Bracklin, 2014.
Top photo: 2014 Expressing the Rural West exhibition, courtesy of AlJazeera.com
