Stephen Isley Jewelry Presents Margaret Graziano

Stephen Isley is pleased to present local artist, Margaret Graziano. He will hold a receptions and exhibit her new and recent works beginning Thursday, September 2nd during the Whitefish Gallery Nights 6PM - 9PM at 241 Central Avenue.

The gallery will be showing her bronze sculptures depicting Native American children at play and a selection of Margaret's original oil on canvas paintings.

Station 8 Presents David Spangler

" I've been producing my art since my college days in the late '60's and graduate school in the early '70's. My work years include 22 years teaching art full-time not to mention years of other career diversions.

My style and choice of materials is always changing even in a given week. My favorite mediums are watercolor and acrylic painting or drawings using colored pencil or ink. My inspiration comes mainly from nature or natural objects. Often the visual image is solved in my mind during awakened moments in the middle of the night.

Currently, I manage the "Performing Arts Center" for the Whitefish School District. If you have questions or would like to visit my studio, please give me a call at 862-3528.

Thanks,
Dave Spangler

Station 8 invites you to join us this Thursday, September 2 from 6 - 9 PM to meet the artist and enjoy viewing his work. David is a most versatile artist in both subject and medium. The best way to describe his work is that he is able to find the "soul" of his subject. Color, light, line and elements of size and spatial relation are utilized to communicate so much more than the most realistically accurate renditions ever could!

He will be showing works in various mediums including watercolor, pen and ink, colored pencil, and acrylic. Most recently, David has been creating three-dimensional pieces using wood. He will be showing an example of this medium as well. David also enjoys doing commissioned pieces, including greeting card design and logo design.

We'll look forward to seeing you this Thursday. Refreshments will be served.

Andrea Brew-From the Ground Up at The Walking Man Frame Shop & Gallery

Please join us for our opening reception for Whitefish artist, Andrea Brew. From the Ground Up will feature vibrant acrylics on canvas of flowers & local landscapes. Thursday, September 2nd, 6-9PM. Refreshments & live music by Dan Dubuque! For more information, call 406-863-ARTS!

Fiber Art Group Show - The Purple Pomegranate - September

The Purple Pomegranate, a fine craft specialty store, is featuring works by three Flathead Valley fiber artists during the month of September. Carole Moseley, Sally Kimmel Glutting and Becky Pallies-Jacobsen will have a group show of a range of their fiber art including art quilts.

Carole learned to sew as a teenager from her Mother, an expert seamstress. She originally started traditional quilting which then led her to discover the wonderful world of art quilts. She was overwhelmed and soon became hooked on the textures, shapes and color that could be achieved through the use of many different materials, dyes, paints, threads, and surface stitching that create new dimensions in art. Trying her hand at every form of textile art and surface design led her on an exciting adventure and has provided her with the life-long learning process associated with all artistry.

Sally’s adventures as a Quilt Artist began more than 25 years ago when her children were babies. She loved the traditional designs with piecing, appliqué and the quilting then, and her art continues to reflect her mastery of these skills while expressing an ongoing appreciation of nature as well as the importance of expressing beliefs using fabric, design, color, and texture. Taking big pieces of fabric and cutting them into little pieces to create something new is always starts an exciting adventure for Sally. She skillfully combines quilting tradition with an extensive contemporary palette of fibers, photographs, paint, beads and designs from nature to create both large and small fascinating art quilts, each with its own charm and character.

Becky began her textile adventure many years ago in garment construction, evolving into quilt creation and fiber exploration. On her journey she collected fabrics, textures, fibers and beads that eventually began to combine the beauty of tradition with her unique flair for the obscure. Each piece she creates is like a pearl in the sense that it has been years in the making with collections of fabric scraps, pieces of thread, and broken beads one day manifesting into a single work of art. She builds her pieces around color and texture... Color speaks to the soul, while texture holds the movement and tells each fibers story.

Meet Carole, Sally and Becky during Whitefish Gallery Night, Thursday, September 2nd, 2010 from 6-9 PM. Their work will be displayed during the opening and throughout the month of September.

Justin Anthony-Mixed Media Sculpture

Please join us Thursday, August 5th, 6-9PM, for a display of Missoula artist, Justin Anthony's mixed media sculpture. Functional lights, weather vanes, trophies & "toys" are all part of the plethora of sculpture that Anthony has to offer! Join us for fine art & refreshments!!

Station 8 presents Cortni King

Artist Biography - Cortni Janelle King

Encouraged and inspired by her family Cortni King started her endeavor to communicate visually at the ripe age of four, some say even earlier if you include avante garde expressionism in split peas and squash. This innate drive to create continued to inspire her throughout her educational career receiving her BFA from Arizona State University in 1993. She then vacillated between accepting a position as a high school art educator in Yuma, Arizona or to continue on at ASU for a masters degree in sculpture. She opted to take the teaching position and began working on her masters in secondary education with an emphasis in art through Northern Arizona University, which she completed in 1996 while teaching art and ceramics at Vista High School. Continuing her passion for the arts and arts education Cortni became an active member of the Arizona Art Education Association, even winning an award as secondary art teacher of the year in 2000, and started teaching evening art history courses for the local community college in addition to her daytime duties as a high school art specialist. All of this did not impede her desire to continue to create, show and sell her own work. In 2005, along with a group of other local artists, she began an artist cooperative establishing collaboration with the municipal art center for space and advertising. In addition to her involvement with the artist co-op, Cortni also showed her work in a variety of juried exhibitions throughout the state, bid private commissions and completed collaborative public art pieces for the municipality of Yuma. In 2008, after a twenty plus year hiatus, Cortni made the leap of faith to leave Arizona and return to Flathead where she and her extended family hail from. Cortni is one of those oddities that can claim both maternal and paternal roots in the valley dating back to the turn of the century. In Arizona she left behind a vibrant artist community, several public art works as well as large scale private murals, and throngs of students inspired by her passion. Cortni currently lives and works in West Glacier, which she loves, and although inspired by the beauty of the place she lives you will not find an elk among her subjects. She loves the patina of aged metals, weathered wood and worked canvas and often incorporates these surfaces into her work. Although she loves color and the tactile experience of the brush, she also loves to construct and often incorporates the two into her non-traditional wall pieces. As a privately commissioned muralist, Cortni specializes in children’s murals creating inviting, vibrant spaces for youth, quite different from her studio
work.
A full portfolio of her work is available for viewing by contacting Cortni at 406-260-6532 or via email at vh_king@hotmail.com. She would like to thank Station 8 and Betsy Paugh for providing her the opportunity to share her studio work with the public.