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.