Doug Russell: Confluences
Missoula Art Museum
February 16 – April 22, 2012
Doug Russell is a visual artist who lives and works in Laramie, WY. His exhibition, Confluences, is a large, concise body of work encompassing three separate series of drawings. Each series explores the passage of time and cyclic changes through Russell’s visual language of layered, evolving marks and transparency centered on monumental compositions.

James Lavadour: Horse Stories
Missoula Art Museum
February 15 – May 25, 2012
Missoula Art Museum is delighted to host James Lavadour: Horse Stories, one of the region’s most celebrated and respected artists. James Lavadour was born in Pendleton, OR in 1951. Today, he lives and works on the Umatilla Indian Reservation, where he is artistic advisor to the Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts.

Dog’s Journey: A 20 Year Survey
Missoula Art Museum
November 4, 2011 – January 31, 2012
Missoula Art Museum is honored and delighted to host Dog’s Journey: A 20 Year Survey by one of the region’s most celebrated artists. Rick Bartow was born on the coast of Oregon at Newport in 1946, not far from his ancestral lands in northern California. Bartow is a Native American of Wiyot heritage and this cultural foundation has played a large role in his art as a source of imagery and story. Additionally, he has always acknowledged a deep debt to contemporary Native American artists such as Fritz Scholder, Joe Feddersen, Lillian Pitt, and James Lavadour.

Haddon Hufford: Silversmith
Missoula Art Museum
November 4 – April 15, 2011
Missoula Art Museum is pleased to present Haddon Hufford: Silversmith. Haddon Hufford is a master silversmith practicing his craft near Frenchtown, MT. Though he has lived in the Missoula Valley since 2006, the Missoula Art Museum was unaware of this inimitable craftsman working within close proximity until Hufford submitted to the Montana Triennial in 2009.

Ansel Adams: A Legacy
Missoula Art Museum
October 7, 2011 – April 15, 2012
Missoula Art Museum is proud to host a definitive exhibition by one of America’s most legendary photographers. The exhibition Ansel Adams: A Legacy consists of over 130 gelatin silver prints by the artist whom many consider an American master.