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EMERSON E-NEWS: DECEMBER
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Hello Emerson Friends,
I hope this finds each of you safe, healthy and looking forward to the holidays!
This has been a challenging year for everyone and we truly appreciate your continued support. We may be a tad biased - but we believe that ART should be at the top of everyone's gift giving list! So, please fill those wish lists while also supporting your local artists and galleries. Your support will help many wishes come true! As this year draws to close, please keep all the amazing arts organizations responsible for enriching and enhancing the culture and vibrancy of Bozeman in your thoughts.
Wishing each of you a healthy and joy filled holiday season!
Peace,
Susan Denson-Guy
Executive Director
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WE MISS YOUR MUG
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 Help us spread cheer this holiday season by sharing a picture of yourself with your favorite mug on our Facebook or Instagram pages.
We miss gathering with our friends and community, a lot. It's the little things like friendly smiles and casual conversations that we miss the most. Our holiday wish is to share a moment with you, even if it is virtual.
You can make our wish come true by:
- grabbing your favorite mug
- find a safe space where you don't need a mask
- take a photo of your smiling self and your mug
- post to the Emerson Instagram (@theemerson_mt) or Facebook
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use #EmersonMissYourMug
- Invite your friends to share their mugs
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EVENTS
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Christmas Stroll REIMAGINED
December 2 - 5
Christmas Stroll looks and feels a little different this year. While making gingerbread houses and meeting Santa on the front steps isn't possible right now, the spirit of Christmas Stroll and community is still shining bright.
The tree is lit! Emerson galleries and studios are filled with unique, hand-crafted items that will make perfect gifts for everyone on your list this holiday season.
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Shop Small Saturdays In December
Find the perfect gift AND support local creative businesses by shopping small
this holiday season. Many Emerson tenants offer shopping online, by appointment, and commissioned work.
Find a full list of tenant galleries and studios including contact information online.
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SUPPORT THE EMERSON
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The Magic of Year-End Donations
Community support allows the Emerson to serve as a community gathering place for arts and culture. We are grateful for your support. This has been a long year full of unexpected challenges. COVID 19 has paused our ability to gather and has challenged our organization.
We're still here, working hard to keep arts and culture accessible! We are adapting our education programs to meet the needs of students and families. We are curating meaningful exhibits and finding new ways to share them. And, we are caring for our historic building that is home to 58 small creative businesses. While the Crawford Theater is quiet, we are resurfacing the stage and making improvements throughout the building. We are continuing to promote the arts and artists. We are working hard to ensure that the Emerson is ready to start making awesome memories as soon as we can safely gather again.
This year, your support means more than ever before. Please help us keep the magic of arts & culture thriving for our community! Consider making a year-end tax-deductible donation to the Emerson.
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FEATURED TENANT
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 Becca Joy
Studio 213
Becca Joy is a painter and illustrator settling into Bozeman, splitting her time between the studio and teaching art at a local Reggio Emilia day school. In the studio she works with acrylic paint and watercolor to portray people and life in Bozeman with the goal of highlighting both the beauty of her medium and the beauty of our local people. Becca's current body of work centers around acrylic portraiture.
"The driving force behind my portraits is an enduring interest in people; in the value of the human spirit, and in the beauty of relationships. I love listening to peoples' stories, celebrating individuals and immortalizing moments."
Learn more about Becca and her works:
Instagram: @beccajoy.art
Facebook: Becca Joy
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News from Emerson Tenants
New for the holiday/winter season:
Happy Hour!
Tuesday - Sunday | 4 - 5pm.
$4 drafts and $5 glasses of red or white wine.
New Weekly Specials!
Tuesdays: free order of 4 bread sticks with pizza purchase
Thursdays: half-price bottles of wine
Fridays: half-price hot Hawaiian pizza, aloha!
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Through December, Bruce Muhlbradt of 406 Photo is gifting one free head shot each week for an individual who is unemployed due to COVID 19 and is actively looking for work. Find more information and an application online at www.406Headshot.com. Bruce is also holding mini-photo sessions for holiday Photos on Saturday, December 6. |
| World Language Institute - Montana
WLIMT is offering three fun holiday craft workshops for families. All workshops are $45/family. Materials delivery is available for most Bozeman addresses. For more information and to register, email info@wlimt.org.
German Straw Ornament Workshop
December 19 | 10am - 12pm
Chinese Panda Ornaments December 15 & 16 | 6pm - 7pm
Lunar New Year Firecrackers and Calligraphy Art January 3 | 10am - 12pm |  |
Becca loves working with and celebrating people and their stories through painting portraits. Stay tuned for a peek at some of the holiday portraits she is currently working on. Becca is scheduling commissions for the upcoming year! Contact her to discuss what a commissioned portrait would entail.
Studio Hours: Monday - Friday 9am-2pm
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LeeAnn Ramey Art features new paintings, prints and cards by LeeAnn, Adair Peck encaustics and paper mâché, Hannah Uhde oil paintings, Amy Ross hand-knit mittens, Moonstone Clay, Basiclai pottery, Little Pitterpat masks, Sarah Deopsomer prints and a full selection of wares from Alpacas of Montana! Free gift wrap, local delivery, and curbside pickup available.
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TRIPP studio holiday SALE!! December 4 -11th.
15% off glass & jewelry
25% OFF EVERYTHING else
December Hours: Tuesday - Friday | 12 - 3pm
TRIPP studio features palette knife paintings by Artist Kara Tripp, jewelry, pottery, glass and gifts made by 15 local artisans. Kara also offers commissioned pieces, pet portraits, and private painting lessons.
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Looking for unique holiday cards that reflect Montana's signature stye? Caroline Price's "Christmas Fly" is featured in pack of 10 cards sold at Heyday!
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Please visit our website to for a full list of tenants with contact information.
Find more information about Galleria Hall on the Emerson's website.
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JEWEL BOX GALLERY
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Stormy DuBois and Patrick Gillis
Stormy DuBois' works describe the vividness of dreams, a longing for a feeling, and the whimsy of escape. Horrible places and beautiful ships become habitats for fantastical creatures representing a completely despondent regard for reality. These nonsensical works, she believes, create a space for the mind to wander and indulge in childlike fantasy without shame or disapproval.
 Patrick Gillis's highly personal collages and paintings explore negativity and its importance in processing current events. What most shamefully reject, Gillis confronts and exaggerates to the point of humor in an attempt to accept them as a fundamental part of the human experience without dampening one's identity.
Although their styles in expression are different, DuBois and Gillis both offer solutions to the pandemonium which has defined the year. Like a cat chasing its tail, their works wrestle with grief, denial, loss, shame, and disassociation by means of tedious process, which hints at hope but never resolution.
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EXHIBITS
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The Jessie Wilber Gallery is closed until January. Please note that masks and social distancing precautions are required in gallery spaces for your health and well being. Follow our social media for spotlight posts on the artists and their works. Facenook: @theemersondotcom Instagram: theemerson_mt
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COMING EXHIBITS
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JESSIE WILBER GALLERY
We Are Still Here and This is Our Story
Contemporary art, beadwork, and fashion design
Jessie Wilber, Lobby, & Weaver Room Galleries
January 8 - February 28, 2021
A group exhibit co-curated and featuring work by Indigenous women artists to honor and advocate for our nations Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.
If you would like to sponsor this exhibit, please reach out to our education curator, Alissa Kost at education@theEmerson.org.
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THANK YOU
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 Bozeman Tree & Lawn Service
and Montana Crane
These great local businesses place 2,000 lights on the very tall Emerson Tree each year. We thank them for making sure the lights continue to shine brightly even when celebrations and comforts must be re-imagined.
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JOIN THE EMERSON
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Emerson Membership is a Great Gift! 
Emerson Membership has many great benefits, including special offers and discounts at Emerson tenant studios and galleries participating in the MEMBER PARTNER program! Check out the new list of participating Member Partners and their offers along with the rest of the awesome benefits of Emerson Membership.
Individual: $40 | Household: $75
Premier: $150 (Includes a second membership to give as a gift)
More Information online: www.theEmerson.org
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Membership Benefits
- Support of the Emerson
- Special pricing for educational programs
- Early access to registration for education programs
- Special offers through participating tenant studios and galleries
- Monthly Emerson newsletter
- Invitations to Emerson events
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