Artist Talk & Exhibition Reception
Friday, May 8th, 2026 | 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Free and open to the public

Walter Piehl’s work occupies a distinctive place in contemporary American art, shaped by three interwoven foundations: the discipline of the studio, deep engagement with regional history, and a long career as an educator. Across six decades, he has developed a visual language that merges gestural abstraction with rodeo imagery and Americana, situating the lived experience of the Northern Plains within broader conversations about regional identity, modernist painting, and the mythology of the American West.