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American Folk Art

American Folk Art from the Volkersz Collection
Missoula Art Museum
September 24 – December 22, 2013
Strange and Wonderful represents a selection of works from the collection gathered by Willem and Diane Volkersz. The Volkersz are artists and collectors and their Self Taught/Folk Art collection is truly a collaborative, life-long endeavor. This traveling exhibition represents a fraction of the hundreds of objects in the Volkersz collection and range from works by Alva Gene Dexhimer to Rev. Howard Finster.

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Jared Shear

Jared Shear: Cougar Peak-A-Boo
Missoula Art Museum
July 12 – September 29, 2013
Thompson Falls, MT artist Jared Shear created a body of work with the intention of creating an animated film and MAM is eager to share this unusual and multifaceted endeavor. Shear created a plain air painting of Cougar Peak every day for one year. Consequently, he catalogued all of Cougar Peak’s seasonal changes and the resulting 365 acrylic paintings on paper are worthy of celebrating.

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Jay Schmidt #MissoulaArtMuseum

Jay Schmidt: Warning Shots
Missoula Art Museum
June 7 – September 15, 2013
Jay Schmidt has been making art for thirty years in Bozeman, MT. The Missoula Art Museum is excited to work with Schmidt on mounting this comprehensive one man exhibition, his first major museum show in Montana. As visitors to the exhibit will see, Schmidt is a prolific painter and sculptor with a strong vision. A primary exhibition of his work is long overdue in our state.

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Gary Horinek

Gary Horinek: The Gathering
Carnegie Galleries
March 1–May 19, 2013
Missoula Art Museum is no stranger to installations, and neither is Gary Horinek. The Gathering, created by Hingham, MT artist Gary Horinek, is the most recent in a long line of installations created by this regionally important artist.

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Montana Triennial: 2012

Montana Triennial: 2012
Missoula Art Museum
May 4 – August 26
Missoula Art Museum pleased to host the Montana Triennial: 2012. A Biennial or in this case, a Triennial, is intended to serve as a survey exhibition of contemporary work from a particular region. The Triennial is a perfect fit for the Missoula Art Mueum’s programming, whose mission states, “… strives to engage artists and audience in the creative exploration of contemporary art relevant to our community, state and region.”

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James Lavadour, Missoula Art Museum

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.

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Wendy Red Star at Missoula Art Museum

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 […]

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MAM’s 39th Benefit Art Auction

MAM’s 39th Benefit Art Auction exhibition features over 100 wonderful contemporary artists from near and far. The exhibition, with 26 pieces of Silent Auction artwork and 76 pieces of Live Auction artwork, represents a diverse spectrum of media from painting and drawing to ceramics and photography. It is an impressive survey of the best emerging and established contemporary art in our region. This is an exciting year for the auction exhibition.

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Angela Babby at MAM (Missoula, USA)

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.

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Sign Language: The Pop Art of Sister Corita

Sign Language: The Pop Art of Sister Corita February 27 – June 13, 2009 Gallery Talk with Ted Hughes, MAM Registrar: April 3, 7 PM [ad#lb] Missoula Art Museum (MAM) / MAM is honored to present the serigraph prints, drawn from the MAM Collections, by Sister Corita Kent (November 20, 1918 – September 18, 1986). […]

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