Tuesday, Sept 14, 2010
5:30pm
Holter Museum of Art

All Members are invited and encouraged to attend. The Board and staff will provide brief annual reports on the museum’s programs and financial positions. New board members will be placed in nomination and elected at this meeting. Please show your support of the museum by attending the meeting!

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Mark your calendar for September 16, 5-8pm!

September’s 3rd Thursday is all about WOOD!  Come and marvel at our major wood exhibition Outside the Box: The Art of Wood, an incredible exhibit of studio woodworking and furniture that highlights the innate beauty of wood—whether in the form of a sculpture, rocking chair or teapot (yes, a teapot!). The exhibition combines the studio furniture-making skills of Montana and Northwest master craftsmen with the work of renowned international and national sculptors and turners. 

In addition, Helena Woodworkers’ Guild, our featured artists in the Held Family Hallway, will give a wood-working demonstration.  We will also have wood toys for kids of all ages to play with, so bring the whole family!

Our featured musician for September will be Tim Drackert who will play his 12-string gypsy guitar, (also made of wood!)

In keeping with our wood theme, Bert & Ernie’s will offer tasty skewers as well as an oak barreled Chardonnay. Members receive a discount on food and drinks.

And as always, 3rd Thursday events are FREE!

Helena artist Barry Hood’s exhibition Flow explores the interaction of alchemy and accident. His exquisite poured molten glass, sand castings, and etchings echo natural images, forms and forces. Grounded in Montana landscape, Barry’s artwork celebrates simplicity and purity, vast spaces, and  the natural flow of life.

Above: Barry Hood, Bow River Reserve, cast glass, braided horsehair and leather, and metals, 2010.

Barry Hood: Flow is part of the Holter’s Earth, Wood, Fire, and Ice  series that features five overlapping exhibitions celebrating Montana.

Visit the Holter Store to purchase a copy of the accompanying catalogue BARRY HOOD with essays by Rick Newby and Brandon Reintjes.

The landscape of Montana cannot be captured on a single canvas or by a single artistic style. In Montana Landscape: The Eye of the Beholder, the Holter Museum brings together a sweeping range of works by approximately 70 regional artists responding to our shared landscape. Together they demonstrate that Montana’s landscape is large enough to hold contradictory points of view.

To read a review in the Independent Record’s Your Time, go to http://helenair.com/entertainment/yourtime/article_663ff0fa-840e-11df-a1dd-001cc4c03286.html

Works by the following artists:

Jean ALBUS  + Anne APPLEBY  + Lela AUTIO  + James BASON + Elizabeth BASS +  Kevin BELL  + Susan BLACKWOOD  + Kathy BONNEMA-LESLIE  +Christopher BOYER  + Freeman BUTTS + Janie CAMP  + Pam CAUGHEY  + Russell CHATHAM +  Shirley CLEARY  + Andy CLINE  +  Sandra DAL POGGETTO  + Dudley DANA  + Gen DEWEESE + Len ECKEL  + Josh ELLIOT  + Edd ENDERS  + Thomas ENGLISH  +  Katherine FEHLIG  + Hadley FERGUSON  + Howard FRIEDLAND  + Charles FULCHER  + Tom GILLEON  + Kristi HAGER  + Michael HAYKIN  + Suzy HOLT  + Jerry INMAN  + Peter KEEFER  + Louise LA MONTAGNE  + Dale LIVEZEY  + T.J. LYNDE  + Nancy MACDONALD  + Bobbie MCKIBBIN  + Dave MENSING  + Caleb MEYER  + Leslie Van Stavern MILLAR  + Davi NELSON  + Carol NOVOTNE  + Nick OBERLING  + Bill OHRMANN  + Bruce PARK + Nan PARSONS  + PARVIN  + Richard PENCE  + Bob PHINNEY  + Jim POOR  + Carol POPPENGA  + Rex REIKE  +  Karen RICE   + Robert ROYHL  + Greg SCHEIBEL + Aaron SCHUERR  + W. Steve SELTZER  + Edgar SMITH  + Laurie STEVENS  + Janet SULLIVAN  + C. David SWANSON  + Francis SWITZER  + Linda TIPPETTS  + Doug TURMAN  + Ron UKRAINETZ  + Michael Ome UNTIEDT  + Willem VOLKERSZ  + Jeff WALKER +  Laura Way WATHEN  + David WILSON

Above: Michael Ome Untiedt, Randall and Edward Intend Shooting the Bull, oil on canvas, 2010

Montana Landscape is part of the Holter’s Earth, Wood, Fire, and Ice series
that features five overlapping exhibitions celebrating Montana.

This exhibition is generously sponsored by the following:

Scott Mainwaring
and Susan Benedict

and Holter members

Sherman Gallery
July 1 – October 10, 2010
Reception: Thursday, July 8, 5:30-8pm
Gallery Talk: Saturday, July 10

This major exhibition of studio woodworking and furniture highlights the innate beauty of wood—whether in the form of a sculpture, rocking chair or teapot (yes, a teapot!). The exhibition combines the studio furniture-making skills of Montana and Northwest master craftsmen with the work of renowned international and national sculptors and turners.

Join us Saturday, July 10 for a gallery talk by Gary Rogowski, Director of The Northwest Woodworking Studio and Contributing Editor for Fine Woodworking Magazine.

Above: Ron Gerton, Desert Dancer, spalted maple burl and bronze, 2002

Outside the Box is part of the Holter’s Earth, Wood, Fire and Ice series that features five overlapping exhibitions celebrating Montana.

This exhibition is generously sponsored by the following:

 and Holter members. To read a review in the Independent Record’s YourTime, go to: http://helenair.com/entertainment/yourtime/article_bb8e4026-898a-11df-82c1-001cc4c002e0.html

To make my unique hand-painted solar plate etchings, I combine contemporary non-toxic solar plate etching methods with laborious hand inking, wiping and hand-pulling though an old-fashioned cranked etching press. I then isolate the damp inked impression with rabbit skin glue and painstakingly paint on top of it with oils. The edition sizes are very small, and each painted etching is one-of-a kind.

Come to the Holter’s August 3rd Thursday and meet our new Executive Director, Chris Taylor!

6pm: Intro by the Holter Board and talk by our new Executive Director, Chris Taylor

Food & Libations provided by the Holter Board

Music by Mini MDB

Bair Gallery
May 7-Aug 8
Carroll College reception at the Holter Museum: Thurs, May 6,
5pm-6pm
Holter Reception: Fri, May 7, 5:30-8pm

In the photographs that comprise 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.

Artworks-Nicholson Gallery

Late in 2008 George Gogas re-injured his left rotator cuff increasing a former tendon tear. His orthopedic surgeon advised him against surgery, recommending therapy instead. However, this has limited his ability to handle and paint large canvases. As a result his current option is to work with smaller pieces; thus the Rotator Cuff paintings. Without a theme to hold them together, they are a non-series.