Showing thru August 2024
The Last Glacier Project: Images of Our Changing Landscape
The Last Glacier: Images of Our Changing Landscape consists of 21 original woodcut and photographic prints by three artists. Photographer Ian van Coller (Montana State University–Bozeman), and printmakers Todd Anderson (Clemson University) and Bruce Crownover (University of Wisconsin–Madison, retired) have traveled the world to find images of retreating glaciers. In 2008, they created The Last Glacier Project, a way of showcasing the artistic images they created from their explorations. Images from The Last Glacier Project have been shown in several exhibit venues and as a portfolio of original woodcut prints and photographic prints.
SHOWING THROUGH JULY 2024
The Magnitude of No One by Sean Chandler
Dr. Sean Chandler is an artist and enrolled member of the Aaniinen (Gros Ventre Nation). He is also the President of Aaniiih Nakoda College (ANC) located on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in Montana. In 2016, Dr. Chandler was appointed to the Montana Arts Council and in 2022, he was appointed to the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies. Additionally, in April of 2018, Sean received the Montana Indian Education Association’s Indian Educator of the Year Award. He acquired a Bachelor of Arts in Art in 1997, as well as a Master of Arts in Native American Studies in 2003 from Montana State University-Bozeman. He also attained a Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership from The University of Montana in 2014, with his dissertation entitled, “The Identity of Indigenous Lifeways.” For the past 22 years Sean has been employed with ANC, serving mostly as an Instructor and Director of American Indian Studies, until 2017 when he began to fill the role of Academic Dean and later as President in 2020. In addition to his administration duties, he also instructed the Aaniiih (Gros Ventre) Language to grade school aged children within ANC’s White Clay Immersion School. His artwork is in the collections of the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Yellowstone Art Museum, Missoula Art Museum and the Eiteljorg Museum. Most recently, Sean was selected as one of five artists for the 2023 Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship of the Eiteljorg Museum of Indianapolis, IN. “My artwork can convey several definitions of Indigenous life created by personal experiences, as well as definitions created by those with misunderstanding—purposeful or not, of Indigenous Lifeways. Many have come to believe the misinformation as truth, as a result, some of us have now have become outsiders or practitioners of that misinformation. My art can contain stories within stories, controlled by a so-called objective source. There is search for wholeness that probably may never exist, but pieces of envy, humor, dependency, independency, loneliness, sarcasm, identity, cultural genocide and other empty spaces make up the whole.”
— Sean Chandler
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SHOWING THROUGH MAY 2024
Silver Linings: Clouds by Michelle Osman
Michelle Osman was born in Wyoming, but grew up in Costa Rica. Eventually,she moved to Montana, where the vastness of the Big Sky seemed to match that of the Atlantic Ocean.In 2005, she received her BFA from Montana State University. In 2016, she received her MFA from Montana State University. Osman has shown nationally and internationally. She is represented by Old Main Gallery in Bozeman, MT, and CK Contemporary in San Francisco, CA. In 2018, she was featured in Western Art & Architecture Magazine. Osman is married with two children, balancing work, family, and career like so many of her female contemporaries. Despite this, she still finds time to wander and take photos of cloudy skies, assuring there will be plenty of Michelle Osman skyscapes for years to come
SHOWING THROUGH MARCH 2024
All Student Art Show
This exhibition features works created by K-12 students all over Rosebud County.
SHOWING THROUGH FEBRUARY 2024
Gone to Pieces Quilt Club
“Stairway to Heaven in 37”
“Stairway to Heaven in 37” is a grand display of the hard work of members of the Gone to Pieces Quilt Club. With over 30 quilts and wall hangings, this show can be seen multiple times and always show the veiwer something new.
SHOWING THROUGH NOVEMBER 2023
Jesse Albrecht: Vessels of War & Recovery
Albrecht was half way through his MFA program (ceramics) at the University of Iowa when he was deployed to Iraq (03-04 medic/security work). His work explores the collision of war myth and reality through the physical and mental aesthetics of compat, national narratives, and the aftermath. Albrecht has taught art in colleges, art schools, non-profits, and workshops across the country. He lives and works in Montana—utilizing ceramic and drawing—and has work in numerous permanent collections including: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Smithsonian, The National Archives, and The Library of Congress.
SHOWING THROUGH SEPTEMBER 2023
MARC STEINBERG
Currently on our walls is a moving exhibition by the late artist Marc Steinberg. Marc Steinberg was a Missoula resident and retired doctor (who served the White Sulphur Springs area for many years) diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. He took up painting as a way to cope and created this art exhibit. To go with this exhibition, we will be hosting a luncheon with guest speaker, Melanie Williams, head of the Montana Chapter of the Alzheimer's Association. The luncheon will be at SHAC on September 14th, noon-12:30, RSVP is requested.
SHOWING THROUGH AUGUST 2023
Communities West V
Communities West V is the fifth iteration of a biennial exchange co-curated by Andrew Rice and Sukha Worob. The folio was created with the intention of building community among printmakers living in, or with unyielding ties to the Western United States. As members of the Western printmaking community, we have a vested interest in reinforcing the printmaking community in the West. The folio, through organically built additions to the group, provides a lens into the state of printmaking in the West. For this 5th iteration of the project, participants from the first four folios were asked to participate again. The original list has also been added to through suggestions from members and from seeking out connection where we find ourselves around other printmakers. The work represented in the folio is rich and varied in technique and concept. The artists in the folio are as diverse as the work. The community is made up of veteran and emerging printers, academics, and working artists. The subset of prints juried for display is presented under sponsorship from the Montana Art Gallery Directors Association (MAGDA).
Juror’s Statement
While jurying this show, I thought about what the West meant to me. What it looked like, what notions it conjured. I was struck by how it’s remarkably both a place and a mindset. That while its evolution seems increasingly rapid, so much of it remains reassuringly the same. The West is fascinating because it is complex. Taking a blind approach to jurying, with no artist information to guide me, I looked for pieces that resonated with these themes of complexity. Ones that—like the West—expand our definitions, create new vantage points, and challenge us to seek greater understanding. - Jen Garcia
SHOWING THROUGH JULY 2023
COLSTRIP CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION
This collection of memories encapsulates the culture and history of the town of Colstrip. Starting in the 1920’s as a railroad town, Colstrip has seen its fair share of characters and changes. The centennial exhibition is to celebrate the community while also helping us to understand the hard work and value that this place holds.
SHOWING THROUGH May 2023
BROAD SPECTRUM
Studio Art Quilt Associates, Inc. (SAQA) defines the art quilt as ‘a creative visual work that is layered and stitched or that references this form of stitched layered structure.’Broad Spectrum proudly represents the SAQA Montana/Idaho region with works by 21 artists, chosen by juror Sarah Justice, Executive Director, Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls, Montana. The exhibition debuted in 2020 at Northcutt Steele Gallery at Montana State University Billings.According to then Northcutt Steele Gallery Director, Dr. Leanne Gilbertson, “The art quilt as form, technique, and idea promises some solace in a moment of segmentation and necessary isolation. The range of content and skill expressed in the exhibition is inspiring,offering a bounty of colors, textures, and concepts. Like the best meal and best dinner party, each artwork exists as an entity unto itself made richer by the company it keeps. I hope this collection enlivens your senses and provides some sustaining comfort in these challenging times.”This exhibition is touring to five venues in Montana in 2022/23 through the auspices of the Montana Art Gallery Directors Association and is accompanied by a full-color catalog.
SHOWING THROUGH APRIL 2023
REMNANTS OF YESTERDAY
Logan Claire Bloxham (Lewis)
I want to embrace relics of bygone eras. The old homestead near the Wyoming line, the rusty pickup on weathered tires, and the stories they could tell. I find endless inspiration imagining these days under vast skies. Oceans of sagebrush and waves of grass. Lands of iron, pine, rust, and rot. The good ‘ol days when life was simple, and time moved slow, and when rest only came when the hard work was done. Working the land through hardships and earning its reward. The west has a tremendous number of remnants from years past with relics frozen in time as life progressed and technology advanced. They have been discarded but not forgotten.
SHOWING THROUGH MARCH 2023
All Student Art Show
This exhibition features works created by K-12 students all over Rosebud county.
SHOWING THROUGH FEBRUARY 2023
Gone To Pieces Quilt Club
36th Annual Quilt Show
“What about this in 36?”
Come see all the beautiful quilts made by members of the community. Vote for your favorite, bid on silent auction items, purchase a raffle ticket for a quilt, then join us all for a reception on February 26th from 1 pm-3 pm
SHOWING THROUGH DECEMBER 2022
Robbie Mann
Boy Howdy
Artist Statement
What started off as a joke of this abstract cowboy, (imagine a Jackson Pollock painting walking around with spurs, boots, and a ten-gallon hat) standing out in the arid southwest region, became a series of weird western paintings and drawings. Having grown up in Montana I became accustomed to seeing a plethora of imagery related to cowboy culture. It’s weird thinking that there is a space, maybe an office or garage, somewhere where both a print of a Charlie Russell painting and a headshot of John Wayne as a cowboy exist together. These two interpretations of what the west is perceived as existing together.
With my paintings and drawings, I wanted to move past trying to be another Charlie Russell painter and make western artwork that was fun to me. I want to deconstruct the typical identity of the rough rugged lands of Montana, the stoic lone ranger, and his faithful steed; putting these characters in colorfully satirical situations.
SHOWING THROUGH NOVEMBER 2022
Stephen Glueckert
The Oddessy of Thomas Francis Meagher
To describe Meagher’s life journey as an odyssey is not an exaggeration. Like the legendary Odysseus, he was blown by the winds of war and fate to the four corners of the earth. Art engages the heart as well as the mind and is one of the most effective ways to engross an audience, pique their interest, and increase their awareness of history.
SHOWING THROUGH OCTOBER 2022
Sean Chandler
The One Defined to be No One
ARTIST STATEMENT
“Gathering up myself is probably the toughest task to begin the process of creating some kind of artwork. Not out of laziness, but to know that I am about to express some feeling or experience that I’ve kept inside, in order to hide from others, is the task that I tend to procrastinate. These experiences aren’t necessarily horrible or negative things, but they’re sometimes just things. Gathering up in this sense has to do with collecting my sorrows, happiness, frustration, hope, and emptiness in order to arrange or control them all for understanding.
SHOWING THROUGH MID-SEPTEMBER 2022
Co-Flourish
A group exhibition featuring works of art created during the pandemic.
SHOWING THROUGH JULY 2022
In house collection by Nancy Erickson
SHOWING THROUGH JUNE 2022
Color Your Dreams
This group of work is the traveling portion of the WaterWorks Annual Juried Art Exhibition. Up through June, "Color Your Dreams," is a delightful mix of medias, artists, and ideas.
SHOWING THROUGH MAY 2022
MACK SCHROER
POP CARS II
SHOWING THROUGH MARCH 2022
SHAC’s 2022 All Student Art Show
This is an eclectic exhibit that showcases the artwork of students in Rosebud County. This show includes two-dimensional art, like paintings, drawings, and photographs, as well as three-dimensional art such as clay works and sculptural pieces.
Closing Reception will be March 31st, 2022 from 4-6 pm
SHOWING THROUGH FEBRUARY 2022
Gone To Pieces Quilt Club
35th Annual Quilt Show
“Come Alive in 35”
Come see all the beautiful quilts made by members of the community. You can vote for your favorite, bid on silent auction items, purchase a raffle ticket for a quilt, then join us all for a reception on February 27th from 1 pm-3 pm
SHOWING THROUGH NOVEMBER 2021
Veterans Day Display
With Respect, Honor and Gratitude
This display consists of collections of uniforms from several branches of the United States Military. As we display these pieces of history, we are honoring the sacrifices that many of our fellow Americans have made.
SHOWING THROUGH OCTOBER
Beauty on the ‘Bud
Photos by Shirley Skinner
Shirley is a Rosebud County local, residing on the picturesque Rosebud Creek. Her photos capture amazing colors with great views and are a pleasure to see.
Showing Through August
BOYD Sand Artist
From BOYD:
Speaking to you, without speaking.
My Art connects nature to your subconscious mind. These patterns are deeply rooted in each of our core existences. Using intricate geometrical and natural design, I WILL speak to you, without speaking to you.
Showing thru June 2021
2021 Traveling Collection from the 42nd Annual Juried Exhibit Unbridled Happiness
The 2021 Traveling Collection features 17 pieces that were represented in the 42nd Annual Juried Exhibit Unbridled Happiness at WaterWorks Art Museum (WAM). The exhibit includes professional, local, regional and national artists. Cash prizes were awarded at the opening.
There is a great variety of mediums in this collection. Some of the work in the traveling collection are oils, acrylics, and digital paintings as well as photography and photograms. The artists worked on portraying what brings them great joy in this world. We believe that artists displayed an exceptional diversity of style, characteristics, and perspectives that we hope brings enjoyment for all.
SHOWING THROUGH MAY
Photography by Evelyn Broadus
The Evelyn Broadus photography collection allows one to see the beauty in the small, everyday things that are often overlooked. Evelyn’s photos range from moody sunsets to the bright flowers and animals of Rosebud Creek. As part of SHAC’s permanent collection, the exhibit is constantly evolving with new prints being added often.
SHOWING THROUGH MARCH
SHAC’s 2021 All Student Art Show is an eclectic exhibit that showcases the artwork of students in Rosebud County. This show includes two-dimensional art, like paintings, drawings, and photographs, as well as three-dimensional art such as clay works and sculptural pieces.
SHOWING THROUGHFEBRUARY
The Gone to Pieces Quilt show is the most popular show every year, here at SHAC. This colorful show features hand-made quilts by some of the most talented women in our community.
SHOWING THROUGH CHRISTMAS
Jodi’s Artist Statement
My work explores the relationship between our environment and ourselves as being both physical and perceived. I consider that a place must coexist with what we are thinking, imagining and sensing. As we experience structure through our lens of knowledge and understanding we perceive what is not present. Looking beyond the physical or obvious, I find that architecture and structure provides a sense of order we submissively adhere to. We live in and around these structures, move up and down stairs, and walk around walls. We also skirt around the outside of buildings and climb over fences. The order these fabrications provide is the foundation for our experiences within them.
I see my work as journal entries depicting the metaphors of relationship through the use of structures, architecture, and space. Perceived correlations between these environments and life’s moments indicates that they are fully integrated into our movements and experiences. My interaction within a space can connect directly to human relationship and its tenuous state. It can also depict the temporal and changing physical elements around us. Using structural elements to discuss the break down or build up of the ongoing relational patterns and connections I find between others, the environments where we place ourselves, and the living objects around us, provides me with a language that gives meaning to the human fabricated world around me.
Unraveling how we identify with these personal places is integral to my work. I seek out situations where structure is subverted and the idea of place becomes challenged by our own perceptions, ideas or desires altering the architecture from a static backdrop or prop for our life. Utilizing this response to structure, I am uncovering the discrete variations of our relationship to place and to each other.
SHOWING THROUGH THE MONTH OF OCTOBER
Laurin Kluver was raised in eastern Montana and found a love for horses early on in life. That appreciation for the power and beauty of the horse is what first led her to pick up a camera in an attempt to capture it. Laurin, who operates a portrait photography business, recently returned to her photographic roots and began documenting western life and animals in her colorful, sun-drenched style. When she sets the camera down you can find her enjoying life with her husband and two daughters on their Montana ranch.
SHOWING THROUGH THE MONTH OF MARCH
The All Student Art Show is an exhibit that showcases the art of students from our community. The show includes art from students in Colstrip, Lame deer, Busby, St. Labre in Ashland, and home schooled children in the area as well. Closing reception will be held on April 2nd from 5-7 pm.
SHOWING THROUGH THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY
The Gone to Pieces Quilt show is the most popular show every year, here at SHAC. This colorful show features hand-made quilts by some of the most talented women in our community.
Unlimited: Healing Light by Nicole Keintz
This contemporary photography exhibit is a testament to the healing power of art. Each piece was created by artist Nicole Keintz after her second brain surgery in August 2016. Every image was captured at sunrise, reflecting her gratitude for each new day. Using a slow shutter speed and intentional camera movement, she collaborates with Earth, Sky and Light to bring a beautiful work of art to life. All the while, bringing her self back to life too.
Showing through December