Sherman, Bair and Millikan Galleries
April 9 – May 2
Reception: April 9
Young Helena-area art students from elementary, middle and high school will once again showcase their ambitious art work during Youth Electrum. Come and support the enthusiasm and creative talent of these emerging artists.
Sherman Gallery
May 4-June 18
Reception: Fri, May 7
Live Auction Gala: Fri, June 18, 5:00-9:30 at the Great Northern Hotel
“There is something quite special about Montana artists, and nowhere is it more evident than at the Holter Art Auction. The auction exhibition reflects the great range and depth of Montana’s artist community . . . . The exhibition is a compelling statement about the beauty of our landscape, the diversity of artistic vision, and, ultimately, the experience of being human, in all its joy and mystery.”
Bair Gallery
May 7-Aug 8
Carroll College reception at the Holter Museum: Thurs, May 6
Holter Reception: Fri, May 7
In the series of photographs that comprises Traces, Montana’s Frontier Re-visited Richard Buswell brings together the elements of time, memory, Montana history and nature. More abstract than in previous series, this work takes a “micro” view at the inevitable march of time. Richard Buswell’s intimate, poetic approach of pulling images out of their original context offers a visual puzzle to solve.
Richard Buswell has been a fastidious collector of images since he dedicated himself to photography in the early1970s. He is a consummate printer who follows closely the exacting procedures first outlined by Ansel Adams in the1930s. Traces is a collaboration between the Holter Museum and Carroll College’s celebration of its centennial.
Millikan Gallery
May 7-Oct 15
Reception: Fri, May 7
This photographic exhibition pairs historic photos of glaciers in Glacier National Park with contemporary images. The pairs have striking visual effect, showing obvious glacial recession and landscape change. USGS researcher/photographer Dan Fagre blends the science of climate change research and repeat photography comparison with the aesthetic of landscape photography. Glacier: Losing a Legacy coincides with the centennial of Glacier National Park that will be celebrated throughout Montana.
High Gallery
May 1- June 30
Reception Friday, May 7
Do artists living together, breathing the same creative air, influence each other’s art? Or does the everyday give-and-take of shared experience create an artistic tension reflected in their work?
Montana is a haven for couples engaged in the act of making art. In Double Vision: Partners in Art, the Holter Museum will bring together the work of regional artist partners, and explore the influence on each other’s work, both individual and collaborative and across media. The exhibition will begin with the works of Frances Senska and Jessie Wilber and continue through to contemporary artists.
Sherman Gallery
Jan 19-April 4, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, Jan 29, 2010
Artists-in-Residence: Feb 16-20
Turkish Reception: Thurs, Feb 18, 6-8:30 pm
Student Tours: Tues-Fri, Feb 16-19
Adult Ebru Class: Fri, Feb 19, 4-7 pm
Adult Calligraphy Class: Sat, Feb 20, 9am-noon
Family Festival: Sat Feb 20, 1-3pm
Sofras are the center of Turkish village hospitality and generosity. Woven by women, they are places to gather and share food, to welcome family and guests. Unlike pile carpets, they use traditional flat weave techniques such as kilim and sumak. The intricate patterns use natural dyes and echo age-old motifs and designs.
The exhibition will include artist residencies by Turkish calligraphy and ebru (marbled paper) artists Burcu Kinay and Murat Cabuk who will lead workshops for school children and the public. Come join us for workshops and a Turkish Family Festival, enjoy Turkish hospitality, food and craft activities. Lectures and workshops on Turkish rugs and art will also be held during the exhibition. The artist-in-residence program is generously co-sponsored by:
HELENA INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS COUNCIL
For more information on Turkish art, go to www.turkishculturalfoundation.org
Baird Gallery
Jan 19-April 4, 2010
Reception: Friday, Jan 29, 2010
Artist Talk: Saturday, Jan 30, 10:30am
Twenty years ago, renowned Montana textile artist Nancy Erickson held her first exhibition at the Holter Museum. Erickson returns with a stunning series of quilted fabric works from 1998 to 2007 that speak to the connection we all have with one another and the land — and what’s left of the wilderness. In all her works, it is the animals that are the seers.
As a child Nancy spent hours wandering the mountains and foothills of the Absarokees on her family’s ranch. She has lived with her husband, Ron, in the same mountain canyon near Missoula, Montana for 35 years, enjoying the company of cougars, bears and deer. She has been making fabric constructions, quilts, paintings and drawings since the 1960s.
Former director of Humanities Montana Margaret Kingsland provides insight into the evolution of Nancy’s provocative works: Nancy Erickson essay by Margaret Kingsland
For more information on Nancy’s work, go to http://www.nancyerickson.com
Forget-Me-Not: Mothers and Sons;
Forget-me-not: Blossom
High Gallery
Jan 29-April 25, 2010
Reception: Fri, Jan 29, 2010
Residency Sat, Jan 30-Fri Feb 5, 2010
Artist Talk, Thurs Feb 4, 6:30 pm
Marie Watt, a 2008 winner of the PDX Contemporary Northwest Art Awards, fabricates sculptural webs and wall hangings to show the interconnectivity of storytelling, history and collective memory. In Forget-me-not, she honors the lives lost in the war in Iraq and Afghanistan with embroidered portraits. Her fabric webs call attention to the invisible human bonds ever-present between strangers, neighbors, acquaintances friends and family. While at the Museum, she will add portraits of Montanans lost in the current wars and include sewing circle workshops and storytelling. Born in 1967 to the son of Wyoming ranchers and a daughter of the Turtle Clan of the Seneca Nation, Watt identifies herself as “half Cowboy and half Indian.”
For more information on Marie Watt, go to www.mkwatt.com
Artworks Gallery
Jan 19-March 7, 2010
Artist Reception: Jan 29, 2010
Kevin Red Star was born on the Crow Indian Reservation in Lodge Grass, Montana. He was raised in a family that values art and culture, where he developed an early love of drawing and music. This exposure and encouragement sustained him during his years in grade school during the time when Crow students were denied association with their language and cultural heritage. Later, when he was one of 150 students chosen to attend the newly established Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, he was encouraged to explore his history and culture through modern art techniques.
Upon graduation, Red Star and several other Native students received scholarships to the San Francisco Art Institute. Here he was exposed to the avant garde and political and social concerns of post-modern art. Since embarking on his professional artistic journey, the acknowledged master artist is considered a visual historian and ambassador for his Native Crow culture. In 1997, Kevin Red Star received an Honorary Doctorate Degree in Fine Art from the Rocky Mountain College in Billings, Montana.
Red Star’s works are the focal point of several important museum collections, including The Smithsonian Institution – National Museum of the American Indian, CM Russell Museum, Heard Museum, Denver Art Museum, Eiteljorg Museum, Southwest Museum, Whitney Museum of Western Art, Institute of American Indian Arts Museum, United States Department of State and scores of others. Pursuing a successful career spanning three decades, over 100 large scale exhibitions have featured the celebrated artist’s works on canvas and paper.
