Jane Waggoner Deschner: Often, All That Remains
Missoula Art Museum
May 3 – August 25, 2013
Missoula Art Museum is pleased to host Often, All That Remains created by Billings, MT artist Jane Waggoner Deschner. This new work has a different sensibility. In Often, All That Remains the works are generated from discarded and abandoned photographs. According to Deschner there are three elements that come together in this body of work.
Ric Gendron: Rattlebone
Missoula Art Museum (MAM)
November 2, 2012 – March 31, 2013
Missoula Art Museum is honored to host Spokane artist Ric Gendron’s exhibition entitled Rattlebone. Gendron, a member of the Arrow Lakes Band of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville, has an expressive style elucidating compositions rooted in his culture’s traditions and the stories of his own experiences.
Gerri Sayler: Evanescent
Missoula Art Museum
October 5, 2012 – January 31, 2013
The installation Evanescent in the Travel Montana Lobby in the Andrew Precht Addition of the MAM was created by Moscow, ID artist Gerri Sayler. Sayler created the site-specific work in response to her study, exploration, and understanding of Glacial Lake Missoula. Appropriately, the title Evanescent is defined as, “Ephemeral or transitory, likely to vanish quickly like vapor” and expresses exactly the essence of the installation.
Lois Conner: Montana Prairie
Missoula Art Museum
September 7 – January 13, 2013
MAM is presenting an exhibit of Montana prairie photographs by acclaimed photographer Lois Conner in our Travel Montana Lobby.
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.
Wendy Red Star: My Home is Where My Tipi Sits Missoula Art Museum August 5 – November 27, 2011 MAM is pleased to present Wendy Red Star’s first solo museum exhibition My Home Is Where My Tipi Sits (Crow Country). Born in Billings, MT and raised on the nearby Crow Indian Reservation, Red Star’s visual […]
Pat Hoffman: Polar Opposites
Missoula Art Museum
July 7 – October 31, 2011
This ceramic wall installation by Patrick Hoffman is a masterful composition taking advantage of the sensibilities of gravity and magnetism by organizing the objects into a unified composition in the space. Hoffman organizes ceramic objects into a suggestive cluster of molecular and organic worlds.
Expressing Montana
Missoula Art Museum
June 10 – August 28, 2011
Montana is a place where artists are not afraid to use their work to speak out about the state of things. The diversity of their commentary says a good deal about the state. Expressing Montana is an exhibit, hour-long Montana Public Radio special, and event that focuses on social, political, and environmental commentary –poets, songwriters, visual artists — from right to left, from folk to fine, from rural to urban.