Plein Air painters create lasting memories of
Silver City and the surrounding forest.

The 1st annual Silver City Plein Air event will be held the same weekend as the
Pie & Ice Cream Social.   The annual social is the largest fundraiser of the year
for the Silver City Volunteer Fire Department.   Please mark the dates. (flyer)

Schedule of Events
July 10       8am - 5pm Registration & Check-in
         All day - Watch art happen

July 11       All day - Watch art happen
         7pm  Cowboy chuck wagon dinner

July 12       8am - 4pm   Pie & Ice Cream Social (flyer)
         7am - 3pm   Volksmarch (info)
         1pm - 4 pm  Wet sale

Artist Entry Fee  $17
Complimentary Chuck Wagon dinner at Silver City Community Hall (Saturday)
Complimentary Lunch at the Silver City Pie & Ice Cream Social (Sunday)

Wet-sale commissions:  20%.  Proceeds benefit the Silver City Volunteer Fire
Department

Pre-registration: Please make $17 check payable to Silver City VFD
Mail payment to:     Janet Sohl
                          3901 Wonderland Drive
                          Rapid City, SD 57702
               
Questions?  Contact Jan Sohl at (605)343-0959 or e-mail

Artists (tentative participants)
Janet Sohl    Rapid City, SD
Dorothy Snowden   Newell, SD  
Tim Peterson  Spearfish, SD
Clarice Hynes  Edgemont, SD
Delores Ekberg  Black Hawk, SD
Pamela Cranfill  Whitewood, SD
Marsha Knopf
Sandra Newman  Rapid City, SD
Jill Tesnow   Sturgis, SD
Nancy Cadwell  Edgemont, SD
Cindy Skillman  Silver City, SD
Chris Budden   Rapid City, SD
Phil Schlief      Silver City, SD
Mark Armstrong  Rapid City, SD
Richard DuBois    Rapid City, SD
Linda Swan      Rapid City, SD

Sponsors

Metz Baking Products

The Sugar Shack
The Silver City Paint-Out
A Plein Air Event
July 10-12 2009
Plan Your Trip

Lodging Within Silver City:

Silver City Lodge: 605-574-9007

Happy Trails Cabins: 605-574-2177


Lodging Close to Silver City:

Coyote Blues Village B&B
605-574-4477

Edelweiss Mountain Lodging
605-574-2430

Jenny Gulch B&B
605-343-1004

Whispering Pines Campground &
Lodging: 605-341-3667

Additionally, Silver City Residents
have opened their cabins to the
artists.  Please contact Tonya Gomez
(605-574-4429) to make
arrangements.
July 13, 2009  The event was a huge success!  The SCVFD would like to
thank the artists, the sponsors, and the art enthusiasts for a wonderful
plein-air weekend (pictures).    Twenty two  paintings were sold at the
wet-sale with over $3,400 in sales.  Thanks to the art patrons and the
community of large.  See you next year!

The Silver City Plein-Air organizing committee