2nd Annual Youth Image Project Gallery & Fundraising Event

Please join us for the 2nd Annual Youth Image Project Fundraising & Gallery Event on Thursday, May 3rd, 6-9PM.  Several framed images donated by local, regional & nationally recognized photographers and printed by Photo Video Plus in Kalispell will be auctioned off with 100% benefiting YIP.  Above images by Lido Vizzutti & Jessica Lowry-Vizzutti. Youth Image Project'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.  For more information about Youth Image Project, go to www.youthimageproject.com or contact Jenn DeMonte at 406-270-3377.  

 

A variety of images by Glasgow photographer, Sean Heavey, will also be on display.  Get your chance to bid on The Mothership for YIP!  Live music by Dan Dubuque and light refreshments offered for a fun filled evening.   For more information, call 406-863-ARTS.  Kick off the Whitefish Gallery Nights season by supporting a great arts program in the Flathead Valley!

14th ANNUAL STUDENT SPRING SHOW & ICE-CREAM SOCIAL

In the heart of Whitefish, Montana is the non-profit community art center Stumptown Art Studio.  It was founded in 1995 to offer art opportunities for all ages and art interests including: classes, workshops, camps, art parties, an artists' cooperative, art outreach programs with the Van Gogh, and daily walk-in pottery painting, 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 works, new works and provide exhibition space for emerging artists.  The public is invited to stop by and enjoy this year's 2012 First Thursday Gallery Night season from May through

October between 6 and 9 p.m. during opening receptions or for a month following anytime during regular open hours: Mon-Sat, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. and Sundays, noon-5 p.m.

The public is invited to the opening reception of this popular exhibit featuring the artwork of students of Stumptown Art Studio.  Come see the art by our talented young neighborhood artists during the opening reception from 6-9 p.m. on Thursday, May 3.  The evening is accompanied by the delightful Ice-Cream Social, where everyone can create their own treat.  The exhibit will be on display until May 28 at 145 Central Avenue in Whitefish.

Linda Christensen - May - The Purple Pomegranate

The Purple Pomegranate, a fine craft specialty store, is featuring work by Kalispell artist, Linda Christensen during the month of May. Linda has worked as a full time professional artist since 1992.  Painting with a combination of surrealism, expressionism and realism and using symbols to communicate the nuances of what she sees, Linda is currently creating paintings based on her dreams and visions.

Linda speaks about her work, "I see paintings as I listen to the world.  Messages emerge through dreams and visions.  The waking dream and sleeping dream are equally powerful in this time of transition on the earth.  The shift from domination of the masculine mind to the feminine heart impacts my dreaming as it impacts the earth.   My dreams flow through my watercolor paintings in playful symbolism." Linda feels that watercolors express her visions and dreams in glowing, transparent layers or in vibrant opaque color.  She expresses emotion through the vast possibility of watercolor technique.  Flowing colors create a feeling of movement.  Free and mingling paint permits the imagination to flow.  Transparency portrays illusion.   Dark opacity indicates strength, power and surety. 

Meet Linda during Whitefish Gallery Night, Thursday, May 3rd, 2012 from 6-9 PM. Her work will be displayed during the opening and throughout the month of May.