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September, 2017 • Mid-South Horse Review www.midsouthhorsereview. com book & art nook Susan’s Saddle Stands Student Art usan Barackman cus - stom designs and paints Contest saddle stands. each stand is By Lucy Cogbill, Education Coordinator, signed and numbered by the The Bird Dog Foundation artist, and susan uses a vari - ety of objects to customize he Bird dog Foundation sponsors saddle stands for her clients. Tan annual student art contest for she also designs custom sad - public and home school students in grades dle stands for horse show k-12 who are within the area near the na - awards. tional Bird dog museum in grand Junc - along with decorating tion, Tn. This area includes students saddle stands, susan paints attending schools in Fayette, hardeman, horse and pet portraits, west - Tipton, mcnairy, madison and chester ern landscapes and Texas members were impressed, asking if she counties in West Tennessee, and marshall, bluebonnets. hailing from paris, Texas, could do more, and thus a business was Benton, Tippah and alcorn counties in the western terrain and cowboy traditions born. north mississippi. The contest encourages are prominent in her art. her media are The stand blanks are supplied by a students to submit artwork along the labrador Retriever: oil painting by graphite, watercolor, and acrylic. her wood worker in east Texas and susan does themes of sporting dogs, hunting with 11th Grader, Brody Herndon, whose art paintings have won several awards. the rest. after staining, susan adds west - dogs on horseback, nature and conserva - teacher is Ms. Patricia Ayers of Hickory susan grew up as one of those horse- ern décor, which can consist of old leather tion of wildlife, and related themes. prizes Valley, TN. Herndon was the top winner loving children who never got to have a horse tack, hair on hide, conchos, fringe, are awarded to the winners in all grade cat - in the 2016-2017 contest. horse as a child. But she filled that void by tooled leather, old horse shoes, and other egories. drawing horses on just about everything. items that fit the design. each stand is a students and/or their teachers may sub - mid-march, after the Field Trial activities susan began drawing horses at age 4 on unique creation and gets its own produc - mit student artwork anytime throughout are completed at the museum. the back of her father’s blueprints. school tion number. the school year, as long as the work is sub - For more information on the contest work often carried horsy scribbles in the she has several types of stands: Rustic, mitted by January 15th. The judging will rules, visit : www.birddogfoundation.com margins. at age 12 she went door to door Western heritage, Royal heritage, and be soon after that date, and the Bird dog and select the art & essay contests Tab or to sell pencil drawings for 25 cents each. Trophy stands, which are made for spe - museum schedules a ceremony to award e-mail: [email protected] her parents advised her that if she cific events and can include the event’s prizes and honors to the students around or phone: (731) 764-2058. wanted a horse, she would have to go to logo, lettering, and are custom designed college, earn a degree, and find a job to for the organization. Rodeo, paint, make some money. so she got her degree palomino and reining horse associations in teaching and eventually landed a posi - have had trophy stands designed for their tion as an art teacher in Texas. how fitting events. was that? she was also able to have her she has produced stands that follow a own horses, and now has two mares, theme, such as barrel racing, or an exotic which she shows. arabian with tassels, bangles and beads. after 27 years, susan retired from stands can be a memorial for a family teaching in 2012. This allowed her more member, and horse portraits can be part of time to do paintings of horses, pets, and the design. other subjects – and find a second career: Find photos and more information creating unique saddle stands. in her first about her saddle stands and custom por - attempt, she bought a saddle stand and traits at: susanssaddlestands.vpweb.com. decorated it for her horse club. club Find out more about Fergus and Jean Abernethy at: http://bit.ly/2s3ovyd www.midsouthhorsereview.com September, 2017 • Mid-South Horse Review 5. dazzling mix of visual and “scenographi - Odysseo cal” effects that transport audiences “from the african savanna to nordic glaciers.” avalia’s Odysseo premieres august impressively detailed backdrops are pro - c30- september 10, 2017 in jected onto a colossal 8,400-square-foot nashville, Tn. The touring production cyclorama. in the production’s stunning fi - makes its nashville debut under the sig - nale, 40,000 gallons of recycled water rush nature “White Big Top” near opryland (at the stage, creating a magical lake effect, 2750 pennington Bend Road, off Briley complete with virtual waterfall. parkway, exit 12). Founded by cirque du The White Big Top also adds to the soleil’s co-founder, normand latourelle, spectacle. standing 125 feet tall, the struc - Odysseo combines the equestrian arts, ture is roughly the size of a football field stage arts, and high-tech theatrical effects and houses the main stage/backstage, seat - to create a magical, musical experience. ing, and lobby areas. Four other tents sup - The bond between horse and human is port the traveling production, including a the spotlight of the show. The production climate-controlled stable tent (with show - features 65 horses along with 50 multi-tal - ers, tack shop, and blacksmith facilities), ented riders, acrobats, dancers, and musi - a warm-up tent where riders can rehearse, cians. “The beautiful, gigantic and a vip ticket holders area, and a staff breathtaking set, coupled with moving in - kitchen that prepares more than 300 meals teractions between human and horse, are a day. the centerpiece of this theatrical experi - latourelle says, “This isn’t a type of ence,” said normand latourelle, founder, show the people of music city have seen creator, and artistic director of cavalia, before. our larger-than-life production inc. latourelle has earned a reputation for blends equestrian arts, stage arts, and high- combining different forms of artistic ex - tech theatrical effects at never-before seen pression and “reinventing the scenic levels.” he believes that spectators “will space.” be totally moved by the spectacular visu - cavalia’s first show debuted in mon - als and stunning scenery, but even more by treal, canada in 2003.