Cody Nite Rodeo arena
— — the dust the arena lights hold in the air.
Not only on a wall.
“The Cody Nite Rodeo has run at Stampede Park every summer night since 1938, eight o'clock sharp, June through August, the longest continuous nightly rodeo run in the country. The town bills itself as the Rodeo Capital of the World on the back of it. The light over the arena is white and high; the dust stays in the air for the length of a bronc ride. — from the studio
Cody Nite Rodeo arena, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
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The place, in three passes.
The Cody Nite Rodeo runs at Stampede Park on the western edge of Cody, Wyoming, just off U.S. Highway 14-16-20 on the road in from Yellowstone's East Entrance. The rodeo has held nightly performances every June, July, and August since 1938, the longest continuously running nightly rodeo in the United States. Cody itself was founded in 1896 by William F. Cody, known as Buffalo Bill, and the town has built its summer identity around the arena.
The summer season runs from the first of June through the end of August, ninety-odd consecutive nights of bareback, saddle bronc, bull riding, tie-down roping, team roping, steer wrestling, and barrel racing. Over Independence Day weekend the schedule expands into the Cody Stampede, a four-day PRCA event that draws contestants from across the circuit. The nightly run, smaller and looser, is where local stock contractors and developing riders cut their teeth.
Stampede Park sits at about five thousand feet on the high western edge of the Bighorn Basin, with the Absaroka Range catching the last sun on the way to the East Entrance of Yellowstone. The arena lights come up well before the sky goes fully dark, so the first events run under a mix of stadium white and a long red western sky behind the chutes. By the eighth o'clock bull riding, the sky is black and the dust stands in the beams.