Community Days

Themed around Briscoe’s pillars of Western Art, cowboys and ranching, Native Americans, vaqueros, and the wildlife of the West, the Briscoe Community Festival Days are created for families. 

Wild West Wildlife

Briscoe Western Art Museum Wild West Wildlife Festival

Wild West Wildlife

This day will include activities for adults and children, including arts & crafts, interactions with native wildlife, and hands-on demonstrations. Fun for the entire family, kids and kids at heart will get to make memorable wildlife crafts, interact with native wildlife, experience hands-on demonstrations, have story time, and much more! Admission is FREE for the entire family and includes access to the museum.

Saturday, January 27, 2024

10:00 am - 4:00 pm

FREE

National Day of the Cowboy

National Day of the Cowboy stick horse craft

National Day of the Cowboy

Celebrated on the fourth Saturday of July each year. Attracting Western fans of all ages for a day filled with fun, music and art throughout the museum’s home on the River Walk, the day is filled with boots, hats and all things cowboy, cowgirl and vaquero. The celebration typically includes western lessons like the art of the lasso, cowboy poetry, chuckwagon treats and cowboy crooning filling the air of the museum’s McNutt Sculpture Garden.

Saturday, July 27, 2024

10 am - 4 pm

FREE

Yanaguana Indian Arts Festival

Yanaguana Indian Arts Festival at the Briscoe Western Art Museum

Yanaguana Indian Arts Festival

Highlighting the continued vibrancy and artistic traditions of Native American communities, Yanaguana Indian Arts Festival offers a glimpse into traditional and contemporary Native American culture. Featuring Native American artists, musical performances and dancing, the event features storytelling, artist demonstrations of painting, printmaking, pottery, weaving and carving, as well as Native American-inspired food. Yanaguana Indian Arts Festival also features workshops and lectures celebrating Native American culture.

Saturday, November 9, 2024

10 am - 4 pm

FREE

Community Days Events

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MON
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Painting Workshop

6:30-8:30PM

Join us for a fun night of painting and sipping beer on the Briscoe lawn.

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SAT
SEPT

Date Night Workshop

8:30 – 9:30 PM

Get creative with date night this week and spend time learning how to sculpt.

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SUN
OCT

Pottery of the Southwest

1:00 - 3:00 PM

Join us to explore the night sky by studying Kim Wiggins’s painting “Colonel Crockett’s Return to Cibolo Creek”. After a short study of the painting, families will have the opportunity to create a bedroom Planetarium.

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