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2016 Symposium2016 SympOSium“Animals, Art, and the Environment” “Picturing a Di erent Wild West: Charles M. Russell’s Animal Art”B. Byron Price currently holds the Charles Marion Russell Memorial Chair and is Director of Charles M. Russell Center for the Study of Art of the American West at the University of Oklahoma and Director of the University of Oklahoma Press.Price is the author of several books and more than three dozen journal articles on the art and history of the American West, including Fine Art of the West (2004). Price is also the editor of the award-winning Charles M. Russell: A Catalogue Raisonné (2007). Of interest to this symposium is his work as curator of Harmless Hunter: e Wildlife Artwork of Charles M. Russell and his forthcoming book on the same subject.“ e American Serangeti and an Imagery of Loss and Remorse”Dan Flores is a writer and A. B. Hammond Professor Emeritus at the University of Montana who lives in the Galisteo River Valley outside Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is the author of ten books, including 2010’s Visions of the Big Sky: Photographing and Painting the Northern Rocky Mountain West. His next two books, Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History, and American Serengeti: e Last Big Animals of the Great Plains, will be published in the spring of 2016.“ e Wilderness Cowboy”Chad Poppleton, a resident of Cache Valley, Utah, has been interested in artever since he can remember. His interest began while he was on the farm and ranch with his grandfather, working with the animals and understanding their attitudes and behaviors. Poppleton’s father, also an artist, taught him how to draw and to look at things through an artist’s eye. His work is represented in the most prestigious galleries and shows across the U.S. and has been pro led in all leading art publications. Poppleton is a proud member of the Russell Skull Society of Artists.