Art + Culture News // June 24, 2019
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Upcoming Missoula Events!
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Arts Missoula Pint Night
Fundraiser at The Dram Shop
Tuesday, July 2, 5 - 9 PM
The Dram Shop
229 E Front St
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You're invited!! Please join us on
Tuesday, July 2 from 5-9 PM
for a pint or two at The Dram Shop on Front St! $1 from every beverage sold will be donated to Arts Missoula. We will also be holding a silent auction with lots of exciting items to bid on!
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New Public Art!
'We Are But One Thread'
by Lillian Nelson
City of Missoula
Public Art Committee
& Lower Rattlesnake Neighborhood Council
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A massive new mural at the Van Buren exit on I-90 will pay tribute to the Salish tribes who first called Missoula home. The Rattlesnake neighborhood council leadership team partnered with the City of Missoula’s Public Art Committee to bring in a local artist to paint a mural honoring the Missoula Valley's history.
“I love live-painting,” Nelson said of the outdoor studio she’s built for herself next to the roundabout. “You get a real feel for human nature out here. There’s one old couple that walk by every day and take pictures.
She started prepping the surface on June 1, and began the color work last Tuesday. The mural will be finished by the end of the month, and then sealed by the Department of Transportation.
Check out the great media coverage at the links below!
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Open AIR Summer Luncheon Series
Tuesdays in July, 11 AM - 1 PM
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Join us for an intriguing luncheon series during the month of July! Guests will have the opportunity to visit a unique site each week, enjoy a short tour of each site, and hear from our summer Artists-in-Residence who will be making art on that very site! Lunch provided by Western Montana Creative Initiatives and supportive partners. $10 donation encouraged the day of the event to help off-set the cost of meals.
Schedule:
11-11:15 - Arrival
11:15-11:30 - Brief tour
11:45 - 12:15 - Artist talk & beverage
12:15-1 - Lunch
Weekly Locations:
July 2nd
- Moon-Randolph Homestead
July 9th
- Ten Spoon Winery (meet artists-in-residence from the Rattlesnake Creek Dam)
July 16th
- Home ReSource
July 23rd
- Historical Museum at Fort Missoula
July 30th
- Board Member's house in the Rattlesnake (meet artists-in-residence from the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness)
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Flying Fish Cove & Friends
Monday, June 24, 8 - 11 PM
Live Performance at the ZACC!
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Flying Fish Cove are coming to Missoula to grace us with a truly magical evening of dreeeaamy tunes -
Clem is coming back to town to wow us with their new project Mulberry. Gonna be Grrrreat!
Linus is amazing chill pop from right here in Missoula!! It's real good!!
Music at 8:30 done by 11:00
Bring $5 for the touring bands and some extra money for some very good merch!
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Volcanus // Freedom Loaders // Nightwitch at the VFW!
Saturday, June 29, 9 PM - 12 AM
Ole Beck VFW Post 209
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Come on out to the VFW on Saturday, June 29th! We're going to be closing out the month with a stacked line up of local rippers. We Hope you'll join us!
Volcanus
(Missoula MT)
Freedom Loaders
(Missoula MT)
Nightwitch
(Missoula MT)
21+
$5 Cover
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Book Readings
at Shakespeare & Co
Ben Nickol, Reading from
Sun River
Tuesday, June 25, 7:00 PM
Pete Fromm, Reading from
A Job You Mostly Won't Know How To Do
Thursday, June 27, 7:00 PM
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June 25
Author Ben Nickol joins us from Wichita, Kansas, for a reading from Sun River. his new collection of short stories, set in and around Big Sky country. Ben Nickol was raised in Idaho and attended the University of Arkansas and the University of Notre Dame, where he played basketball for the Fighting Irish.
His prose has been recognized by the Arkansas Arts Council, Best American Sports Writing, and the University of Arkansas, among other organizations, and he's the author of the books Sun River (2019), Adherence (2016) and Where the Wind Can Find It (2015). His stories and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Alaska Quarterly Review, Boulevard, Fourth Genre, Crab Orchard Review, Redivider, Fugue, Tin House Online, The Greensboro Review, CutBank, The Los Angeles Review and elsewhere. In 2018, he joined the Creative Writing faculty at Wichita State University.
June 27
Five-time winner of the Pacific Northwest Bookseller Award Pete Fromm returns with his big-hearted new novel, a love story about family and resiliency and second chances. For young couple Taz and Marnie, their fixer-upper is the symbol of their new life together: a work in progress, the beginning of something grand, all the more so when they learn a baby is on her way. But the blueprint for the perfect life eludes Taz when Marnie dies in childbirth, plummeting the taciturn carpenter headfirst into the new, strange world of fatherhood alone, a landscape of contradictions, of great joy and sorrow. With a supporting cast as rich and compelling as the wild Montana landscape, the novel follows Taz’s first two years as a father— a job no one can be fully prepared for.
Pete is a five-time winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Literary Award for his novels
If Not For This
,
As Cool As I Am
and
How All This Started
; the story collection Dry Rain; and the memoir Indian Creek Chronicles. He is on the faculty of Pacific University’s low-residency MFA program, and lives in Montana with his family.
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Exhibit Tour at Radius Gallery
Exhibit Tour with Trey Hill
Thursday, June 27, 5 PM
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June 27 at 5 PM:
Featured artist Trey Hill of Missoula will take you on a spin through Radius' current exhibition featuring functional and sculptural ceramics by Nick DeVries, Steven Godfrey,
Autumn Higgins, Trey Hill, Sara Morales-Morgan, Richard Notkin, Jill Oberman, Joseph Pintz, Kevin Silkwood, Mitchell Spain and Cary Weigand.
Trey Hill will share insights into the production of works, reputations and the genius innovations of these 11 talented artists. Learn more about the historic role Montana has played in this celebrated art form.
Call to RSVP: 541-7070
We need to keep the crowd size to 25 to facilitate moving about the gallery.
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Color Me In Layers
Print making multi-session
with Odette Grassi
Wednesdays, July 17 - August 21
4:30 - 6:30 PM
Living Art of Montana
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Together we will explore the process of creating 3+ colored prints. Using hand printing techniques and soft carve materials, each participant will create a multi-layered image. There will be many opportunities to make choices through the process, and to "up our thinking game!"
Living Art of Montana offers workshops for people who have cancer, an acute or chronic disease, are suffering the consequences of treatment, have a significant loss in their lives, and caregivers.
Registration Required. Call
(406) 549- 5329 to register.
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Bill Bowers
All Over the Map!
Tuesday, July 2, 7:00 PM
MCT Center for the Performing Arts
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Missoula native and Hellgate High School graduate, Bill Bowers, has been to “places so unbelievable, they could only be true.” An award-winning actor, writer, teacher, and mime, Bill will share those places and experiences at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts, Tuesday, July 2, at 7:30 pm with his original show,
All Over the Map
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The hour-long, multi-media performance recounts Bill’s memorable, international adventures that include “50 states, 30 years on the road, 2 hookers, 1 bunny, and a mime.” A PG-13 performance that the New York Times praised as “zesty and entertaining,”
All Over the Map
colorfully illustrates how alike we all are, no matter where we are, or who we are. “The only thing that makes us different,” says Bill, “is how we treat each other.”
Bill has performed in more than 30 countries throughout Asia and Europe, on Broadway, at the Kennedy Center, the White House, Radio City Music Hall, the New York International Fringe Festival, as well as “some of the finest grade school cafetoriums across the country.” His Broadway credits include Zazu in
The Lion King
and Leggett in
The Scarlet Pimpernel
. A student of Marcel Marceau, Bill's physical performance style suggests classic performances by Charlie Chaplin, Harrold Lloyd, and Red Skelton.
All Over the Map
is a fundraiser for MCT’s Next Step Prep scholarship fund. A summer musical theatre training program for high school students, Next Step helps aspiring young performers from around the country and beyond take the next step in their journey toward a career in professional theatre. One of the unique opportunities Next Step offers is the chance to learn one-on-one from Broadway professionals such as Bill, who has been a visiting guest artist at Next Step since its inaugural session in 2009.
All Over the Map
will take place at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts Tuesday, July 2, 2019 at 7:30 PM. Tickets are available at
MCTinc.org
; by calling 406-728-PLAY(7529); or at the MCT Box Office, which is open Mon.-Fri. between 9AM and 5PM and one hour prior to the performance. To arrange an interview, please contact
Terri Elander
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We've Got You Covered!
Missoula Downtown Foundation
& First Interstate Bank
Bring shade umbrellas to Caras Park
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The Missoula Downtown Foundation partnered with First Interstate Bank to provide ten new shade umbrellas for the Out to Lunch and Downtown ToNight Summer Series. The place-making project
We’ve Got You Covered
is in response to the feedback provided by event attendees in 2018.
Last year the Downtown Missoula Partnership staff members surveyed customers at all major festivals produced by the Missoula Downtown Association, and the Institute for Tourism & Recreation Research (ITRR) at the University of Montana summarized and analyzed the data from more than 2,000 surveys to help inform Downtown leadership on how to improve the experience at these major community events.
All Missoulians and their guests can enjoy the new shade umbrellas at Out to Lunch on Wednesdays from 11am-2pm or Downtown ToNight on Thursdays from 5:30-8:30pm through August.
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Summer Writing Workshops
with Missoula Writing Collaborative
Registration now open for young writers in grades 3-12!
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Founded in 1994, each year
Missoula Writing Collaborative
teaches over 1,500 kids to love to write. We place writers in school classrooms, after-school programs, youth homes and other venues to show young people the power of words and help them find their voices as writers.
Words with Wings Camp for grades 3-8: July 8-12, July 15-19
Have a writer in the house? Bring them to Words With Wings summer camp, where they can write poems inspired by mucking around the Clark Fork River, studying creative work at the art museum, or making pasta at Caffe Dolce. At the Missoula Writing Collaborative's intensive writing summer camp for students entering grades 3-8, students receive one-on-one attention from professional writers. You can choose from half day or full day sessions. Half day sessions will be held on The University of Montana campus. Full day sessions will offer students the opportunity to embark on field trips around the Missoula community to observe and write about the world around them.
Price:
$160 for half day (9a.m.-Noon), $265 for full day (9 a.m.-5 p.m.)
Rattlesnake Writing Studio Workshop for Grades 9-12
: July 8-12th
The Missoula Writing Collaborative is offering two week-long workshops for high school students this July. Two workshops will be taught this summer, one on fiction and poetry by professional writers Catalina Baker and Caroline Patterson and one on songwriting by musician Caroline Keys. They will both take place on the University of Montana campus. Students will be encouraged to share their work, receive feedback, and collaborate with their peers in a variety of genres.
Price:
$160
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Dream it! Draw it! Do it!
Drawing Summer Camps
with Mark Kistler
July15 - 18
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Mark Kistler is coming to Missoula! Mark is an Emmy award winning artist starring in both Secret City and Imagination Station on PBS. He is the author of numerous art books and has trained some of the best artists in the industry to include those who draw for Disney and Pixar! If your child loves to draw, or if you are hoping they will take an interest in art, this Summer Art Camp is perfect for YOU! Mark makes art fun, and is a master at breaking down tricks to drawing. He will inspire your child to LOVE art!
His camp will be held in Missoula
July 15-18
. Parents and Grandparents are welcome to sit with their child to participate in the camp. The cost for 1 child is
$99
,
$49
for second child,
$25
for 3rd child, and FREE for
the 4th
child (immediate family only please). Don’t miss out on this incredible opportunity! Spots will fill quickly!
If you’re not familiar with Mark, you can currently watch his show Imagination Station on Amazon Prime and follow him on his
YouTube channel.
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Youth Camps
Zootown Arts Community Center
June 24 - 28
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Inspiration and Expression: 1/2 day summer camp
June 24 - 28, 9 AM - 12 PM
Campers will explore the concept of inspiration while practicing written expression. Students will be guided through poetry and songwriting techniques. Using keyboards, xylophones and other instruments, they will generate melodies to match the tone of their lyrics. Poems and songs will be shared, recorded, and celebrated. This camp starts on Monday June 24th, and ends Friday June 28th.
YES Fest: 1/2 day summer camp
June 24 - 28, 9 AM - 12 PM
YES FEST embraces the idea of "yes and" in theatre by saying yes to children's imaginations and bringing them to the community via a public stage. Over the course of a week, children participating in YES FEST write, design, build, and direct a series of short plays. The festival then gives these plays to an acting ensemble made of community adult performers and leaders: asking them to say "yes and" to these creations and bring them to life through performance. YES FEST is not only fun, but educational for all ages, teaching youth skills in stagecraft, collaborative creation, and social skills; and teaching the adults of our community how to free up their creativity through the power of YES. This camp starts on Monday, June 24th, and wraps up on Friday, June 28th.
Comedy Camp: 1/2 day summer camp
June 24 - 28, 1 - 4 PM
Learn to make people laugh through stand-up comedy and improvisation! We’re going to explore everything about comedy performance, from joke writing to storytelling to physical humor to ad-lib. At the same time, learn about building your confidence and connecting with audiences through humor. It all ends with a live performance on Friday night.
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Children's Theatre Performance!
MCT Center for the Performing Arts
Friday, June 28, 4 & 6 PM
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MCT Summer Day Camps present
Rapunzel
this Friday at 4 & 6 PM. Come enjoy LIVE family-friendly theatre with this classic tale put on by students in grades 1-12!
Would it surprise you to know that the story of Rapunzel happened in France? Well it didn’t really, but our story takes you on a frivolous frolic through the French countryside. The Ogres garden in the Mushroom patch while the Corn and Potato spies report back to Madame Gothel. Frenchy and his intense friends, the Wood Elves, do their best to help Rapunzel escape the grasp of Madame Gothel. The lost Prince, Rapunzel’s parents, and her friends the Unicorns try to help. Just when you think it’s safe to cross the bridge, a Troll and Three Billy Goats Gruff get in the way. It doesn’t help that the Three Bears (or is it four) confuse Rapunzel with Goldilocks and chase her through the forest. Add to that the Gremlins trying to play tricks on everyone and you have chaos! Well, it’s not that bad because the Pixies foil the Gremlin’s plans most of the time. In short, Rapunzel and all the rest of the characters tell a silly tale of personal triumph and friendship.
Or call the MCT Box Office at 406-728-7529
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Summer Art Classes
At Missoula Art Museum
Registration now open
for kids and teens!
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NEW! Teen Artist Summer Open Studio
Wednesdays Weekly // June 19 – August 14 (except July 3)
2 – 5 PM // FREE
NEW! Each Wednesday MAM hosts open studio time for teens. Teens work closely with professional artists and art mentors in a fun and informal environment. This is a unique opportunity for teens to learn different techniques and methods from professional artists and create artwork of their own. All materials are provided (choose from MAM’s supply) or you are welcome to bring your own.
July 8 – 12,
9 AM - Noon // Ages 8 - 12 // $80/$72
START PAINTING! With Jessie Novak
Learn to paint with watercolors and acrylics. Learn different techniques that are combined to create successful pieces of art and increase knowledge of and skill using these mediums. Learn about artists from multiple artistic movements, including (but not limited to) Georgia O’Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, and Winslow Homer, and complete exercises inspired by their work. Paint from reference images as well as from life (weather permitting, spend time painting outside).
July 15 – 19,
9 AM – noon // Ages 6 – 12 // $80/72
DRAWING LIONS, TIGERS AND BEARS (AND YOUR FAMILY DOG!) With Tony Gregori
Learn how to draw basic animal anatomy, from reptiles, bears, cats (big and small), all the way down to a household canine. Work from reference materials and one live model!
July 22 – 26,
9 AM – noon // Ages 6 – 12 // $80/72
MIXED MEDIA MADNESS! With Jolena Ryan
Create collaborative art with peers: painting, sculpture, masks, photos. Explore mixed media artists and MAM’s own museum, learning how photography, various objects, and thought can be incorporated into artwork. Have fun working together to create collaborative and individual collages, paintings, sculptures, assemblage and photos.
July 29 – August 2,
10 – 11:30 AM // Ages 3 – 5 // $35/31.50 or $10 drop-in
SENSORY FUN! With Jolena Ryan
Little ones are encouraged to engage, explore, and experiment with a wide variety of artmaking tools. Campers make prints, craft with nature, sculpt, collage, and more! This camp is designed to nurture and encourage art exploration. Multiple art-making stations and fun projects keep little hands and minds busy.
August 5 – 9,
9 AM – noon // Ages 6 – 12 // $80/72
WEARABLE CARDBOARD CREATIONS! With Elisha Harteis
Bend, cut, and glue cardboard to create a robot or animal costume. Cardboard is a versatile material well-suited for creating costumes. Add a few furry, round elements and whiskers and you can have an animal/robot hybrid. This camp ends with a brief, costumed parade around the block!
August 12 – 16,
9:00 AM – noon // ages 6 – 12 // $80/72
SO MANY KINDS OF BOOKS TO MAKE! With Susie Risho
Create several different kinds of books, from accordion fold to Turkish Map-style books. Experiment with dyeing cloth for covers, sewing pages together and using care in folding papers and designing a well-balanced appealing progression of pages. Book content includes drawing imaginative creatures, using humor, and working with memory.
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Painted Color Ceramics
(Corvallis)
For more details on Painted Color Ceramics & Classes,
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Lakebottom Sound
Free Sessions
FIRST Sundays 6-8PM at Imagine Nation Brewing
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Zootown Arts Community Center
For upcoming classes and details, please visit the
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Playing With The Band
2019 REGISTRATION OPEN
(406) 396-3352
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Bare Bait Dance
Modern Dance Class
Open Space, 005
PARTV Building, U of M
Tuesdays 5:30-7PM
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Unity Dance & Drum
African Dance Class
Missoula Senior Center
Tuesdays, 7-8:30PM
Contact: 549-7933
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Missoula Art Museum
Lunch Club - 30min tours & chats at MAM!
For full listings and more information on MAM's classes:
Website!
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People's Market
Saturdays 9 AM - 1 PM
May through September
@ Higgins and Pine
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The Clay Studio
of Missoula
For information on ALL Adult and Kid classes at The Clay Studio of Missoula,
click here!
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Downtown Dance Collective
Drop-In Classes
Ages 13+
For all experience levels
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Missoula Writing Collaborative
Writing camps!
Grades 3-8: July 8-12th &
July 15-19th
Grades 9-12:
July 8-12th
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Flamenco Montana
Mondays at
The Barn Movement studio
Beginners: 6:45-7:45PM
Continuing: 7:45-8:45PM
542-9270
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OULA Fitness is seeking an artist to paint a large winged mural on the exterior wall of the
OULA Studio
, located at 1900 W Broadway, Suite E!
If interested, please contact the
OULA Studio by July 1
info@oulafitness.com
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Open art call for
2019 Traffic Signal Boxes!
Submission deadline:
July 19
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KBGA Missoula artists radio show. Talk about an art event, life as an artists, etc.
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Apply now to be part of Missoula's biggest New Year's Eve music and arts festival. We are accepting proposals from
artists of all disciplines.
This is paid opportunity to showcase your talent on New Year's Eve! Click the button below to get started.
Deadline: June 30
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International Choral Festival
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Missoula's International Choral Festival would cease to exist without the support of hundreds of volunteers! The ICF is currently seeking volunteers for numerous positions!
The festival is especially in need of hosts
for these international singers. Hosting allows for a uniquely personal festival experience, and many lasting friendships have developed between host and guest(s) throughout the years, sometimes lasting a lifetime!
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Wood Fire Invitational 2019
The Clay Studio of Missoula
Featuring a variety of established & emerging talent in the ceramics field. Organized by Scott McClellan, featuring works by Tom Alward, Jerry Baldwin, Katy Drijber, Trevor Dunn, Denny Gerwin, Todd Hayes, Shasta Krueger, Joshua Kuensting, Quinn Maher, Scott McClellan, Dan Murphy, Ayla Murray, John Neely, Anthony Pearson & Josh Scott.
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4th Annual Ceramics Invitational
at Radius Gallery
Featuring new artwork by Nick DeVries, Steven Godfrey, Autumn Higgins, Trey Hill, Sara Morales-Morgan, Richard Notkin, Jill Oberman, Joseph Pintz, Kevin Silkwood, Mitchell Spain, and Cary Weigand.
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Click the links below for more information
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Sister Cities:
Palmerston North, New Zealand & Neckargemünd, Germany
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