Meet The Alvars at Stumptown Art Studio December 28

Stumptown Art Studio is featuring an exhibition of limited edition lithographs by Spanish artist Sunol Alvar. The opening reception from 6-9 on that Saturday night is the first opportunity to Meet “The Alvars”, the stunning work of the artist.

The artwork on display consists of 10 different lithographs. The “Carmen Suite” consists of a limited edition grouping of five, signed by the artist and numbered 5 of 20. Each lithograph is preceded by a page bearing a lithographed sketch by the artist, combined with several bars of the music from the opera “Carmen” by Bizet, from which the subject of each lithograph was derived. These pieces are available for sale as a suite. Five additional lithographs in a similar style of Alvar are also on display and will be sold individually.



Alvar was born near Barcelona in 1935. He began painting oils at the age of twelve and continued his art education in Barcelona and Paris. Since a decisive one-man-show in Paris, 1963, he has exhibited regularly throughout Europe, the U.S. Canada and Japan. Stumptown Art Studio is the first Montana location to show his work.

Kim Waldman - The Purple Pomegranate

The Purple Pomegranate, a fine craft specialty store, is featuring work by Whitefish artist Kim Waldman during the month of December. In her mid twenties after graduating from nursing school, Kim found an old toolbox full of oil paints at a garage sale. She began painting portraits of friends in hats and became interested in self-portraits. A few years later Kim began painting with gouache, an opaque watercolor, and soon combined gouache with ink. Her artwork evolved into colorful and whimsical circus performers, musicians and dancers.

Kim currently resides in Whitefish and recently completed the Montana Artrepreneur Program (MAP) helping her to create a business called Mother Bird Art. Over time Kim felt thoroughly captured by the creative process and this is when birds flew into her work. Maybe it is the beauty of birds--or their vulnerability--maybe their quiet intelligence, but birds have permeated her art and life in a way she never could have imagined. 

Meet Kim during Whitefish Gallery Night, Saturday, December 28, 2013 from 6-9 PM. Kim's work will be displayed throughout the month of December.