Artist Burneta Venosdel

Burneta Venosdel Bronze Sculpture

“Capturing animal attitudes in bronze that last forever.”

A fourth generation member of a pioneer Oklahoma family, Burneta grew up on a farm surrounded by wheat fields and native pastures with”Buffalo wallers”, wild prairie critters, horses and cattle. By the age of eight, Burneta's artistic ability was being discovered by painting lessons that she had been taking with local artist Jack Hayward. While attending Northwestern State College, in Alva, Oklahoma in 1964, she took her first art class. Living in St. Louis, Missouri, while raising a family, she harbored a deep desire to express herself artistically. In 1974, she attended Northeastern Oklahoma State University in Tahlequah, and majored in art. She earned a BSED from the University of Missouri in Columbia in 1980 and began her teaching career in Missouri. Her art teaching career in Oklahoma began in 1982.

Late in her teaching career, Burneta discovered sculpting and foundry at Bacone College in 2003. This began her journey from clay to bronze. She honed her skills, taking workshops from contemporary sculptors Garland Weeks, Sandy Scott, Harold T. Holden and Cynthia Rigdon. Burneta continues to learn and experiment, discovering new ways to create her sculptures. Many paintings and bronzes are in private collections. Burneta has exhibited and won many awards and was recently juried into the Art Show at the Dog Show in Wichita, Kansas. Burneta's art is represented in both Oklahoma and Colorado.