Richard Parrish Glass Work: Jest Gallery

Please join us at Jest Gallery for new works from Bozeman, Montana glass fusion artist Richard Parrish. His bright and colorful pieces are just the thing for the dreary rainy weather. Make sure to stop by and see his latest pieces.

Fashion and Photography

Join Us

for

Fashion & Photography

Featuring Famed Montana Photographer

Randall Roberts

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Art Walk Thursday

June 2, 2011

At Ethos Paris

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Randall works with Bromoils, a photography medium akin to Etching that creates truely one-of-a-kind pieces. His subjects range from Architecture to Wild Horses to Landscapes. Tonight we will be presenting some of his most thought-provoking Landscape pieces that are sure to please the senses in every way!

Ethos Paris is located at 525 Railway in Whitefish, across from Depot Park.

Mark Baumbach-Say Yield to See-at The Walking Man Frame Shop & Gallery

Please join us for "Say Yield to See"-an exhibit of abstract-style landscapes by Whitefish artist, Mark Baumbach!! Thursday, June 2nd, 6-9PM. Fine art, live music & refreshments served! For more information, please contact 406-863-ARTS!!

Student Spring Show & Ice-Cream Social - JUNE - Stumptown Art Studio

Art students of all ages will be featuring their creations from 2011 in this extravaganza of artwork ranging from drawing and painting, mixed media, sculpture and clay. An opening reception on Thursday, June 2 from 6 - 9 p.m. is accompanied by the popular "create-your-own-artistic-ice-cream-treat" event for young and old alike. Families are welcome to this special exhibition honoring our youngest community artists at Stumptown Art Studio.


(Oil pastel batik painting by
Finn Anderson)






Stumptown Art Studio is a non-profit community art center in the heart of Whitefish, Montana. It was founded in 1995 to offer art opportunities for all ages and art interests including: classes, workshops, art camps, art parties, an artists' cooperative, painting pottery, glass fusing and mosaic making in the Ceramics Annex, art gifts, retail art supplies and exhibits.

Exhibits hosted at Stumptown Art Studio feature guest artists, group displays, student work, new works and provide exhibit space for emerging artists. Each month during the Whitefish First Thursday Gallery Night season from May through October a different artist is featured.

Open hours to view exhibits and take part in the many other art offerings are: Monday - Friday, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. & Sundays, noon - 5 p.m.

Stephen Isley Jewelry June 2, 2011 Gallery Nights

Stephen Isley Jewelry will feature "Busy Woods" artist, Wayne Murray on Thursday, June 2, as part of Whitefish First Thursday Gallery Nights. The reception will be from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM. "Busy Woods" creates ducks and loons, each individually hand crafted from 100 year old cedar fence posts. All are welcome.

June - Deb Stika - The Purple Pomegranate

The Purple Pomegranate, a fine craft specialty store, is featuring work by Whitefish artist, Deb Stika during the month of June. Upon deciding to retire from a career as an Art Director in Minneapolis, Deb sought just the right environment for pursuing her own art. She found Whitefish, Montana and it was love! Deb settled in, Projectmyplace.com was born and she started the first installment of drawings called Project Whitefish. These drawings are a visual narrative of what Deb feels makes a place a home. Deb has drawn the iconic buildings of Whitefish such as Nelson's Hardware, the Presbyterian Church, Montana Coffee Traders, The Buffalo Cafe, Third Street Market and City Hall.

Many of the places in Deb's collection have undergone iterations of looks and even functions in their lifetimes. You will discover some of them have even changed since she drew them! But one thing remains constant, the comfortable hometown feeling that is indelibly book-marked in Deb's soul.

Meet Deb during Whitefish Gallery Night, Thursday, June 2nd, 2011 from 6-9 PM. Deb’s work will be displayed during the opening and throughout the month of June.

Raffia and Seeds from Madagascar

Organic Raffia from Madagascar
All Ethos raffia is 100% organic and is harvested, processed and crocheted into original Paris Ethos accessories according to Fair Trade practices. Our raffia initiative in Madagascar is our oldest partnership, established in 2002 with a cooperative of local women artisans. Ethos also helped train the local marginalized women to fabricate original accessories such as hats, bags and necklaces that are exclusive to the Ethos line. Today our Fair Trade partner is thriving in Madagascar and pays its artisans 50% higher than the local rate for their work.

Natural Sustainable Resource
The raffia palm (Raphia farinifera or R. ruffia) grows to 60ft and is a sustainable organic resource that grows in abundance in Madagascar. The enormous leaves of the palm are composed of 80 to 100 leaflets, which are peeled from either side of the palm fronds then hung out in the sun. Once dry, they are collected and sorted into different classifications, pressed and dyed. The finished raffia is not only soft, pliable and strong but is also non-shrinking. This natural fibre also offers excellent colourability.

Featured tonight at Ethos Paris - 525 Railway Suite 101 - Across from Depot Park!

Whitefish Goldsmiths

Whitefish Goldsmith is excited to present Jodi Monahan, an up and coming artist from Missoula Montana. Jodi's passion for painting was unearthed while she was designing a Touch of Tuscany room in her home and wanted a fresco painted. That room project began a journey into a painting emphasis on the exploration of anything Italian, with special attention paid to the Tuscan region and the colors it brings to life. This wonderful, creative world of oil on canvas and oil on textured board allows you to use her art to stay connected to the feelings, tastes, and rich colors of the region in your in your everyday life. Being married to an Irishman from Butte Montana, her body of work adds a bit of Irish and Celtic tradition. Jodi's sense of family history is richly evident in her paintings with Irish and Italian influences. Meet Jodi at Whitefish Goldsmiths on May 5th from 6-9pm, 420 Third Street Whitefish.

Jest Gallery May Opening

Please join us May 5th for new works from many of our most favorite artists including Laura Miller, Louise Lamontagne, Shawna Moore and our newest artist Michael Haykin. Live music with Dan Dubuque from 6-9 p.m. See you then!

Introducing Youth Image Project at The Walking Man Frame Shop & Gallery

Please join The Walking Man Frame Shop & Gallery for a fundraising event and introduction of Youth Image Project! YIP's mission is to empower at-risk teenagers by providing photographic training with which they can share their personal vision, expand their skill sets and advance their life opportunities.

The basics of event...
What: Presenting donated works from local, regional and internationally-renowned documentary photographers in support of Youth Image Project. Participate in a raffle and silent auction for the opportunity to take home a professionally framed print with 100% of all proceeds benefiting YIP. Learn more about the program, mission and commitment to local youth and meet YIP staff and board members. Learn how you can become involved or just stop by to say hello!!
When: Thursday, May 5 2011 6-9PM
Where: The Walking Man Frame Shop & Gallery, 305 Baker Avenue, Whitefish, MT

More about the gallery event...
Dozens of award-winning photographers will be featured, whose works have appeared in publications such as The New York Times, Newsweek and National Geographic as well as student work from similar successful existing educational photographic programs around the country.

Thank you to all the photographers, Visual People Design, Photo Video Plus and The Walking Man Frame Shop & Gallery for all the kind donations given in support of this event!!

Local supporters include Healing Arts Project, Youth Court Services, CASA for Kids and Child & Family Services.

For more information contact Jennifer DeMonte @ (406) 270-3377 or visit the website at www.youthimageproject.org

Photo credits:
Lido Vizutti-Flathead Beacon Photographer
Slope of Horses-Jennifer DeMonte-Executive/Program Director of Youth Image Project
Images in banner-faces kindly "borrowed" from local Whitefish youth!!

Rosella Mosteller - MAY - Stumptown Art Studio "Reading Between the Lines"

Stumptown Art Studio is pleased to be featuring its original founder, Rosella Mosteller, in the photographic exhibition: Reading Between the Lines. A resident of Whitefish, Montana for 31 years, Rosella Mosteller has been involved in the arts since the beginning. She started photographing seriously in 1995. At that time, she was intrigued by the emotional content of Parisian cemeteries and later, how that translated into a multi-media work of art. Years and education have taken her down the photographic path to focus on black and white fine art landscape imagery.
(pictured at right by Rosella Mosteller:
"Winter Writing, Volume Two, Line One Hundred)

In Reading Between the Lines, she presents her traditional and abstract visual perspective with photographs. This exhibition is part of completing her Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, where she was awarded a summer portfolio grant in 2007. Other awards she earned include a Talbots Scholarship in 2007 and a merit scholarship from 1999-2001 at the Art Institute in Chicago. Over the past 10 years, her photographs have been juried into annual exhibitions at the Hockaday Museum of Art.

"I think of my abstract landscape photography as part of the whole," Mosteller says. "It is another way to view the traditional. So in that way my traditional landscape and abstract landscape photography connect." Reading Between the Lines Combines the overall with the introspective, the traditional with the abstract and demonstrates how they both mutually exist.

Stumptown Art Studio is a non-profit community art center in the heart of Whitefish, Montana. It was founded in 1995 to offer art opportunities for all ages and art interests including: classes, workshops, camps, art parties, an artists' cooperative, painting pottery and glass fusing in the Ceramics Annex, art gifts, retail art supplies and exhibits.

Exhibits hosted at Stumptown Art Studio feature guest artists, group displays, student work, new works and exhibition space for emerging artists. Each month during the Whitefish First Thursday Gallery Night season from May through October a different artist is featured.

Hours of operation to view exhibits is Monday - Saturday, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. & Sundays, noon - 5 p.m. (Closed on May 30 for Memorial Day holiday).

Rick Kom - May - The Purple Pomegranate

The Purple Pomegranate, a fine craft specialty store, is featuring work by Kalispell artist, Rick Kom during the month of May. Rick learned to draw from his father at an early age. Growing up in northern Idaho, he learned to love its abundant wildlife and natural beauty. He now lives minutes from Glacier National Park with his wife, Shannon, and their two dogs, Koko and Ollie. A self-taught artist, Rick developed a technique in watercolors, clayboard, acrylics, and colored pencil that captures in deepest detail the eyes, fur, and feathers of his beloved animal subjects.

Rick is passionate about meticulously detailed wildlife art. His unique clayboard technique is quite similar to scrimshaw on ivory. Nothing but a sewing needle is used to intricately etch a black India ink surface revealing a layer of white Kaolin clay underneath. Opaque watercolors are then gently brushed into the exposed clay lines, giving his animal subjects a life like appearance.

Meet Rick during Whitefish Gallery Night, Thursday, May 5th, 2011 from 6-9 PM. Rick’s work will be displayed during the opening and throughout the month of May.

Going To The Sun Gallery Presents: Rochelle Lombardi Bronze Artist and Jeweler And Bronze Artist Jack Muir!

Going To The Sun Gallery Presents Jack Muir and Rochelle Lombardi for Gallery nights in June! Come celebrate the Bronze art of Jack Muir and The Bronze art and Jewelry of Rochelle Lombardi.

Montana artist and gallery co-owner Rochelle Lombardi comes to her art with the passion of her love for wildlife as well as domesticated animals who share her life space. She has been featured in Western Art Magazine as well as our own Montana Woman magazine and has art featured on the cover of Rural Montana Magazine. Rochelle is a bronze artist and an accomplished Jeweler. Come and view her new selection of Spectacular Colored Diamonds, Blue and Yellow, set in Rings and earings in 14k White gold. Along with an array of Sterling Silver Creations, and many beautiful bronze sculptures.

Jack Muir Was born and raised in Great Falls, Mt. His interest in art began at an early age with a visit to the C.M. Russell Museum. After receiving a degree in Fine Art from the Montana State University, Jack wet on to cofound Kalispell Art Casting in 1978. Kalispel Art Casting is currently one of the largest art casting foundries in the west, employing over 45 people. Jacks sculptures can be found in many private collections and are available in fine art galleries across the country.

Now semi retired, Jack spends his time getween Montana, wher he sculpts and Mexico, where he and his wife Sydney Anne sail on their 40' sailboat, "Tambourine"

Please join us June 2nd 1st., Thursdays Gallery Night, featuring the pottery of Robert Markle a local artist from Columbia Falls, Mt. This is a wonderful opportunity to view new works of art as well as meet the artist in person at MiCasa Pottery.

Upcoming Gallery Nights

This is the time of year, when all the galleries are getting together and planning for upcoming Gallery Nights. We'll be updating this blog and our Facebook page soon with the participating galleries. But I thought you might want to mark down the dates in your calendar so you can plan on attending each month. The dates this year are: May 5th, June 2nd, July 7th, August 4th, September 1st and October 6th. Or if you can't be bothered with all that, just remember to come to downtown Whitefish on the first Thursday of the month starting in May. We'll be open from 6-9pm with refreshments and wonderful local art. We'd love for you to stop by!