Angela Babby: Wolakota
Missoula Art Museum (MAM)
September 16, 2010 – February 6, 2011
Missoula Art Museum is thrilled to host Wolakota, a new exhibition featuring the enameled art glass mosaics of Angela Babby. The subject matter in these works includes a combination of floral designs and portraits of significant tribal influences and is made entirely from glass, mortar, and tile board. The ritual required to plan and execute the design, coupled with the resulting luminescence, places Babby amongst a very few artists in the region working with this medium and very unique practice.

Snippets from the Bright and from the Shade: The Camera Work of David J. Spear
Missoula Art Museum
September 3 – December 23, 2010
Missoula Art Museum (MAM) is pleased to present Snippets from the Bright and from the Shade: The Camera Work of David J. Spear. David Spear has long journeyed with camera in hand. From his high school days in Connecticut when he walked into his school’s newspaper pronouncing himself a photographer, through his early years in Montana, and onto the present, he has carried a camera, refining the craft of shutter speed and decisive moment.

Behind the Vault Doors
Missoula Art Museum (MAM)
June 11 – August 31, 2010
MAM’s Behind the Vault Doors exhibit is part of a statewide collaborative venture between six Montana museums spurred on by the film project of Allen Powers. This project highlights the rich artistic heritage found in the collections of our Montana museums, home to many of our most precious cultural treasures. Powers is concerned that these collections too often remain hidden from the public “behind vault doors”.

Joshua Meier: The Parables (and other impossible events)
Missoula Art Museum
June 4 – September 19, 2010
“The power of the parable lies in its ability to speak directly about our reality while existing completely outside of that reality,” states photographer Joshua Meier about his new exhibition of photographs at the Missoula Art Museum. A traditional parable is a succinct story, fictitious in nature and with a moral or religious lesson that touches on a universal truth. Meier carefully and meticulously stages models and props to create his photographs of visual parables.

Peter Keefer: Images of the Great War
Missoula Art Museum
May 28 – September 19, 2010
Missoula artist Peter Keefer has been working on the series since 1981. Inspired by historical events, these contemporary, expressive works are collage drawings intended to represent the actions of the political and military participants most involved in “The Great War” of 1914-1918.