Art + Culture News // August 12, 2019
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Upcoming Missoula Events!
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GERMANFEST 2019
September 1, 2019
2 - 6 PM, Caras Park
Celebrating Missoula's sister city Neckargemund, a festival featuring authentic German brats, beer, pretzels, and steins.
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MONTANA BOOK FESTIVAL 2019
Wear your shirt to the festival to get a high-five from Co-Directors Sam and Tess! Support the Montana Book Festival and look good doing it at only $24.99 a shirt.
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The Missoula Symphony Association (MSA) welcomes guest conductor Gordon Johnson to lead their annual Symphony in the Park. This year’s performance will begin at 7 PM on Sunday, August 18 in Caras Park and will include a mix of pop hits, patriotic favorites and light classics. This event is family friendly, free to the public and guests are encouraged to arrive early to reserve a space.
Guest conductor Gordon Johnson has been described as a dynamic leader who creates energetic performances. In addition to his 35 years of experience as a conductor, Johnson has also worked with many world-renowned artists such as Yo Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Art Garfunkel, Trisha Yearwood, Kansas, America, LeAnn Rimes and Charlie Daniels.
For the first time, a food drive for the Missoula Food Bank and Community Center will be held in conjunction with Symphony in the Park. Donations of canned food and non-perishable items will be collected at the concert, but donations are not required for entry into Symphony in the Park. All donations are greatly appreciated and will go towards helping nourish our community.
This year’s Symphony in the Park kicks off what is sure to be an exciting new season for the MSA as they continue their vetting for a new music director, to lead the Missoula Symphony Orchestra & Chorale. The 2019 season will include five masterworks series, each featuring one of the current five finalists. Season tickets for this upcoming season are now on sale and can be purchased online or by calling the Missoula Symphony Association at 721-3194.
For more information on finalists, performances and season tickets, please visit
missoulasymphony.org.
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Fundraiser for Our Community Record
Two Eagle River School
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In January 2002 in association with the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, the photography project Our Community Record Two Eagle River School began at this alternative Tribal school in Pablo, Montana and has served students each year since. Our Community Record is a collaborative project between photographer David J. Spear and Two Eagle River School. David works closely with school faculty and staff to implement and carry out the project for Native American students living on the Flathead Reservation in western Montana in grades eight through twelve. Through storytelling and photographic studies, Our Community Record, seeks to teach students to explore and document their community, culture and history. This learning process broadens student interest in their surroundings, builds self-esteem, encourages creative expression through the arts and prepares them for higher education. The project has been ongoing for nearly eighteen years. An archive of images of this community made by students from the project is housed at the school and is available for student and community use. Student work from the project has been exhibited locally and nationally.
In 2006 the non-profit organization A VOICE-Art Vision & Outreach In Community Education, was founded. A VOICE sponsors the project through federal funding, foundation grants and private support A VOICE is a non-profit arts educational organization that serves Tribal and rural youth living on the Flathead Reservation and in Lake and Sanders counties. At the A VOICE website student work is celebrated in the Project Gallery, http://avoice.accionpower.com/)
We are planning to take fifteen student photographers and several staff on an intensive one-week educational trip to New Mexico in September 2019. We are fundraising to cover the costs of: Airfare, Motel/Hotel, Van Rental, Food, Travel Bags, Film, Museum Admissions, and Spending Money. These students have earned this trip by honing their camera skills through a project entitled Our Community Record, an educational outreach program.
This selected group of 15 students has been studying photography with David Spear at Two Eagle River School for the past 1–3 years. They have explored photojournalism, documentary and art photography, and have learned the nuances of the medium through the practice of shooting manual SLR cameras and developing and printing images with traditional black and white darkroom processes. While at home in Montana students study images, hear stories, and make their own work in the school’s darkroom. This trip, for most of these young people, will be their first opportunity to experience new places, communities and cultures using their photographic skills to develop a new portfolio of work to share their experience with others. Students on this trip will also build new cultural bridges with visits to homesite pueblos to meet families, share customs and to learn about the ways of the First People’s from this area. In 2016, fourteen students from the project at that time traveled on the first Two Eagle River School Trip Of A Lifetime-Destination New York City. The video uploaded at this site documents this trip. Online links below include the same video of the trip, a radio interview and follow up news stories about the students and their work from that trip.
If you are able, please help get these kids to New Mexico! Every dollar helps!
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domestic topography
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Works by Ben Jordan
August 2 - 30
Clay Studio of Missoula
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Matthew Hamon:
Ratljóst
July 12 - October 31
PARTV Building
UM
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Another Alphabet
July 12 - August 17
Radius Gallery
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More Than Words
Sept 1 - 30
Opening Reception
Sept 6 - 5 pm
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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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Flamenco Montana
Mondays at
The Barn Movement studio
Beginners: 6:45-7:45PM
Continuing: 7:45-8:45PM
542-9270
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Call For Art
48th Benefit Art Auction
Missoula Art Museum
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Important Dates:
- Submission Deadline: September 16, 2019 (midnight Mountain Time)
- Notification of jury results sent via email: November 1, 2019
- Last Day to deliver artwork: December 27, 2019
- Exhibition dates: January 3-29, 2020
- Opening Reception: January 3, 2020, 5-8 PM
- 48th Benefit Art Auction and dinner: February 1, 2020, UC Ballroom, University of Montana
Eligibility: Open to all artists. Submissions are not accepted from dealers, galleries or any third party.
Terms: The jury will consider all submissions for inclusion in either the Live or the Silent Auctions. The donation amount you choose (100%, 75%, or 50%) is calculated from the final sale price. The Reserve Price is set at 50% of declared value.
Artist Benefits:
All auction artists
will receive one discounted ticket to the 48th Benefit Art Auction and dinner and a one-year MAM Individual Circle Membership that provides invitations to member-only receptions and exhibition previews, a subscription to MAM’s print newsletter, and discounts on books, classes and beverages at receptions, a $50 value.
Artists that choose to donate 100% of their sale
to MAM will receive
one free ticket plus one discounted ticket to the 48th Benefit Art Auction and dinner, and a one-year MAM Friend Circle Level Membership giving you and your partner all the membership benefits listed above plus reciprocal membership to over 600 museums nationwide, a $125 value.
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Friends and Family Art Call!
All past and present staff, board members, volunteers, studio holders, instructors, students, ZACC Main & Hallway Gallery artists, and ZACC collaborators are invited to submit to our 2019 Friends and Family Show! Anyone belonging to any of these groups who submits work will be accepted!
Deadline: November 3
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KBGA Missoula artists radio show. Talk about an art event, life as an artists, etc.
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AUDITION FOR FREAKY FRIDAY MUSICAL AT MCT
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The Missoula Community Theatre will hold an open audition for Disney’s Freaky Friday on Sunday, August 25 from 12:30-4:00 PM. Please use the Main Street entrance and go to the third floor.
In this lively new musical based on the popular novel and Disney movies, mom and daughter, Katherine and Ellie, both have strong opinions on how the other should live her life. In one magical moment, the frazzled single mom and her rebellious teenage daughter switch bodies, and a chaotic comedy of errors ensues! In addition to the delightfully heartwarming story, Freaky Friday contains a score/lyrics composed by the Tony and Pulitzer Prize winning team of Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey (Next to Normal).
The audition is open to women, men, and children ages 12 and up. Director Joseph Martinez will audition adults (age 17 and up) from 12:30-2:00 PM. Children/teens (ages 12-16) will audition from 2:00-4:00 PM. Martinez is expecting to cast approximately 14 females and 14 males.
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Other than Katherine and Ellie, some of the roles to be cast are Katherine’s eccentric young son, Fletcher, and easy-going fiancé, Mike, as well as Ellie’s teen love interest, Adam. Martinez says there are “lots of fun roles for adults and teenagers.”
No advance preparation is required to audition. Call-backs will take place the same evening. Martinez expects that rehearsals will be weeknights from 7-10:30 PM. Those auditioning should note that Disney’s Freaky Friday performances are October 24-November 3.
**For questions regarding auditions, or to inquire about a perusal script, please call MCT at 728-PLAY(7529) Monday-Friday between 9AM and 5PM.
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Radius Gallery invites artists far and wide to submit original artworks to its 6th annual Holiday Show!
This show aims to bring together an abundance of original art by artists across Montana and beyond, and to offer collectors and gift givers alike a wide variety of unique, high quality and affordable works.
Submission Deadline: September 30
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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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