Call for Artists: Art Markets at the Emerson

Local artists are sought for the Emerson’s second annual Art Market, held in conjunction with the Bozeman Winter Farmer’s Market. The Emerson Center for the Arts and Culture seeks local craftspeople selling handmade arts, crafts, jewelry and more. Products must be handmade locally by the vendor and vendors must attend all dates. Applications are due by October 24th.

Art markets will take place on the following Saturday mornings, from 9am – 12pm: November 14th and 28th, December 12th, February 13th and 27th, March 13th and 27th, April 10th and 24th.

For more information or an application, visit www.theemerson.org, email cherlyn@theemerson.org or call 587-9797.

Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate

Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate is a visual arts exhibition encouraging a re-examination of international social justice. The exhibit features works by forty artists from across the United States reflecting upon and transforming volumes of white supremacist propaganda into thought-provoking, relevant works of art.

The impetus for the Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate exhibit came from the Montana Human Rights Network that acquired a large quantity of white supremacist books from a defector. The books were used as a catalyst for change through collaboration with curators at the Holter Museum of Art in Helena, Montana. The Holter Museum issued a national call to artists to participate in the exhibition to create art from the hate books and turn them to constructive, positive use. The impressive result—sculpture, painting, photography, collage, printmaking, book art, beadwork, and mixed media is insightful and inspiring.These artworks will be on display at the Emerson’s Jessie Wilber Gallery from October 15 – December 15 and the Helen Copeland Gallery at Montana State University from November 23 – December 18.

In addition, artworks by the curator, activist-artist Katie Knight, will be on display in the Emerson Lobby from October 15 – December 15. This exhibit, Travels to Namibia is a collection of Knight’s photographs, woodblock prints and quilts interpreting her human rights advocacy experiences in Africa. Katie Knight is also the curator of the Speaking Volumes exhibit that is traveling throughout Montana.

Meet Katie Knight at the opening reception for the Emerson exhibits, on Tuesday October 20th at the Emerson. She will give a gallery talk about her mixed media works at 5:30 pm followed by a 6 pm talk in the Wilber Gallery on curating the Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate exhibit.  Refreshments and a question/answer session will follow. The event is free and open to the public.

For further information please consult our website:; www.theemerson.org or contact  Ellen Ornitz, (406) 587.9797, ext. 104 or email: ellen@theemerson.org.

Mia Anima Gallery and Art Studio

The newest art gallery in The Emerson is the Mia Anima Gallery and Art Studio, located in the main gallery hall in Suite 110. A great time to check it out would be at this Friday’s Galleria art walk, October 9, 5-8 pm. The owner, artist Hallie Zolynski, tells about the gallery in Art Bozeman’s brief gallery interview format:

1. Please introduce yourself and your exhibit space.
Mia Anima Gallery and Art Studio is located in the Emerson Galleria Hall, Suite 110. We feature local artwork, apparel, and handmade crafts from Nepal and Tibet.

2. Do you have a defined mission or niche?
Our goal is to provide artwork that is affordable, local, and out of the ordinary.

3. What local/regional/national mix of artists have you had?
We have about 50% local, 25% regional, and 25% international work.

4. How do artists usually connect with you?
Artist come into the gallery usually, although I’m always on the look out when I’m out and about.

5. How should an artist looking for a show or advice best approach you?
By email (hzolynski@yahoo.com) (406-580-3597), then make an appointment.

6. Anything else you’d like to tell artists and art aficionados?
I love making art and showing art. Never give up on your goals and dreams!

Hallie is currently seeking another artist to show in Mia Anima. Please contact her if you’re interested!

Bonnie Glock and Stuart Bond @ Artists’ Gallery

The Artists’ Gallery at the Emerson invites the public to a reception for artists Bonnie Glock and Stuart Bond, to be held on Friday, October 9 from 5 to 8 PM. Their works will be on display from September 28 through October 24. Glock will present a series of abstract graphite and pastel drawings, most of which will be in black, white, and gray tones. Bond will be showing his beautifully carved wood hangings, using trout, birds, wildlife, and celtic designs as his inspiration.

Bonni Glock’s early artistic inclinations were shaped by her mother, a realistic artist out of the Minneapolis Institute of Art.  Having received a B.S. in Education from Texas Tech University and a B.A. in Art from M.S.U., Bonnie now combines mediums, styles and rhythms into her own individual expression.  She has painted and exhibited in eight states.

Stuart Bond started carving at age thirteen when his father enrolled them both in woodcarving classes. His instructor was a master woodcarver from Norway. From then on, with the encouragement of his artistic parents, he learned and practiced on his own, working in wood and stone. Living on the Oregon coast gave him inspiration and plenty of subject matter. Then he experienced the dramatic change of moving to Montana, and a what a good change it has been. Here he’s honed his skills and added clay and wax to his sculpture mediums.  Sculpture is a passion for Stuart and there is nothing he would rather be doing.

Celebration of the Arts fundraiser @ The Emerson

It’s not too late to attend this year’s Celebration of the Arts at the Emerson, 6:00pm on Saturday, September 12th.

Quick Draw artists Aaron Schuerr, Susan Blackwood, Tom English, Tina DeWeese and Howard Friedland will create art before your eyes. The Bountiful Table will serve up an inspired buffet. A plethora of live and silent auction items should provide a little something for every taste. You can get a sneak preview of some of the auction items on the Emerson web site.

Call the Emerson at 587-9797 for tickets ($100 per person) and information.

“tilt”: altered monotypes by Kerry Corcoran @ tart

Using trees as a foundation, Bozeman artist Kerry Corcoran prints, paints, draws and collages layers of texture, pattern and calligraphic characters to create writhing, animated pieces that “tilt” a bit off center.  Drawn to the imperfection of old, gnarled trees and the history they contain, Corcoran creates richly textural pieces that draw the viewer into a maze of visual narrative.

Opening reception on Friday, August 14th 5-8p.m, in tart, room #107C of the Emerson Center, 111 S. Grand Ave.,  call 582-0416 for more information.  The show will be on display from August 14th through September 9th.

Robert DeWeese: A Look Ahead

Robert DeWeese: A Look Ahead is a survey of the life work of one of Montana’s pioneering modernist artists. Beginning August 5th the DeWeese retrospective will be on display in Bozeman’s Jessie Wilber Gallery at the Emerson and the Copeland Gallery at Montana State University. The community is invited to an opening reception at the Wilber Gallery on Friday, August 14th, with a gallery talk by Josh DeWeese at 5:30 pm. Refreshments will be served from 5–8 pm in conjunction with Bozeman’s Art Walk.

Robert DeWeese (1920-1990) studied art at Ohio State University and moved to Montana in 1949 with his wife, Gennie Adams DeWeese. As professor of art at Montana State University in Bozeman from 1949 to 1977, DeWeese taught and influenced many of the artists now working in Montana and beyond. DeWeese’s immense creativity, protean productivity, and personal warmth and generosity made him a Montana art legend. His radical experiments influenced two generations of Montana artists and collectors, and his artistic explorations still reverberate today.

A Look Ahead is on loan from the Holter Museum of Art and is traveling throughout the state of Montana under the auspices of the Museum and Art Gallery Directors Association–Montana (MAGDA). It is based on the Robert DeWeese retrospective presented at the Holter Museum in 2006 and curated by Bozeman artist Terry Karson.

“We hope this exhibition provides a fresh, in-depth look into Bob DeWeese’s legacy, offers a significant addition to the historical record of this important artist, and stimulates renewed dialogue on the history of modern art in Montana and what it may offer to future generations,” Karson said.

For further information contact Ellen Ornitz, ellen@theemerson.org or consult our website: www.theemerson.org.

New Work by Jim Madden @ Ecce Gallery

New Work by Jim Madden will open on Thursday, July 9th 5-8pm at the Ecce gallery in The Emerson. Jim Madden is a Bozeman local and painter who captures in his small format paintings the search for sense of place and the desire for harmony and balance. Jim’s work will be shown through the start of September.

The opening will feature wine and light appetizers provided by the Emerson Grill. Ecce Gallery is located on Level 1 of the Emerson Cultural Center. Ecce Gallery can be reached at 406-586-5247 or on the web at www.emersongrill.com or fan us on Facebook at Ecce Gallery.

Gabriel Kulka and Jennifer Pulchinski @ tart

Jennifer Pulchinski

Barbed Wire, Ink, Rocks, Wood, Wax, Wire and String, featuring work by Gabriel Kulka and Jennifer Pulchinski, explores the minutely detailed and the enormously abstract.  Sculptor Gabriel Kulka creates tiny sculptural assemblages with found objects, exquisitely crafted frames, and cast figures with out of proportion limbs.  These little worlds are perfectly tattered and exquisitely odd.  Jennifer Pulchinski crafts large panels of wood with abstracted prints of barbed wire rendered in layers of ink and paper, as well as woodblock prints of faces done in her trademark slightly off kilter way. Together, the two artists present a body of work both prickly and compelling.

Gabriel Kulka

Opening reception on Friday, July 10th 5-8p.m, in tart, room #107C of the Emerson Center, 111 S. Grand Ave., call 582-0416 for more information.  The show will be on display from July 10th through August 12th.

Whitehouse and Williams paintings @ Artists’ Gallery

The Artists’ Gallery at the Emerson invites the public to a reception for painters Kitty Whitehouse and Linda Williams, to be held on Friday, July 10 from 5 to 8 PM. Their works will be on display from June 29 through July 27.

Whitehouse will be showing her latest oil paintings of both landscapes and wildlife, many of which are of local scenes that Bozeman residents will recognize. Williams will be featuring new oil paintings of classically inspired still-lifes and plein-air studies of Montana’s western landscapes.

Kitty Whitehouse –  Landscape and Wildlife Artist
Kitty Whitehouse has an art degree from the University of New Hampshire as well as having studied western landscapes, lighting, and techniques with several local and nationally known artists.  Working primarily in oils, her subjects are usually horses, wildlife, and the Montana and Yellowstone landscapes. However, her paintings are usually about the light, using the subjects to portray an emotion, a unique lighting condition, or time of day.  Many of her latest paintings are of local scenes that Bozeman residents will recognize.

Linda Williams – Landscape and Still-Life Painter
Linda was born in Atlanta, Georgia and grew up in New York, New Orleans, and Memphis.  She graduated Phi Kappa Phi from MSU with a degree in Fine Arts, receiving the Strand Award.  She was included in the “35 Important American Women Artists” show in July 1992 at Saks Gallery in Denver and currently resides in Bozeman, Montana. Over the last few years she has been sharpening her skills in oils paints through “plein-air” studies and still-life works.