Antique Wayer Color Painting Mari Cass
The 18th division of the ArtWalk in city Billings opens with the Friday, May 4, anniversary from 5 to 9 p.m.
The affiliation is arrive to appointment the 28 galleries and businesses who will be hosting chargeless receptions for bounded and bounded artists and their new artwork. The Fun Express Bus will accomplish a chargeless guided ride to the ArtWalk venues alpha at 5 and 7 p.m. at the Good Earth Market/Wetzel parking lot.
The Terpsichore Ball Aggregation will accomplish avant-garde ball pieces city as a examination of its accessible abatement appearance at Petro Theater. The aggregation is fabricated up of 11 dancers, including administrator Ricki Feeley. Alpha at 5:15 p.m., Terpsichore will accomplish a abounding allotment at the Good Earth Market, and again move to the alleyway adjoining to the Sandstone Gallery, again to the Arcade in the Babcock Theatre, and assuredly do an ad-lib at the four corners of Skypoint. They will again echo this absolute performance.
A account of accommodating galleries follows:
Prodigal Gallery, 2517 Montana Ave., assuming works by Dan Palaygi.
McCormick Café, 2419 Montana Ave., will host the aboriginal art affectation of 17-year-old Senior Aerial art apprentice Nolee Anderson. “Tap Shoes & Trash Cans” will accommodate recycled, alone or scavenged surfaces that serve as her canvases. Anderson affairs to accompany a amount in art.
Q’s Art & Frame Shop, 1511 Sixth Ave. N., will appearance oil paintings by P.J. Smith. Live demonstrations during the black by bounded artists Grace Bailey and Jayme Mitchell in the studio. Special accession to Montana metal sculptures by Pigcasso.
CTA Atrium Gallery, 13 N. 23rd St., will host the anniversary Billings Art Affiliation Auction that allowances and expands art opportunities for breadth schools and the association. “Images Art Grant” includes baptize media, oil, pastel, pencil, photography, pottery, jewelry, sculpture, bottle and metal. Artwork will be offered at a bashful auction/buy now price.
Susan Germer (susang) will accessible her flat at 2501 Montana Ave. in the Carlin Hotel. On appearance will be her jewelry, watercolors, bean adornment and pastels. For the accomplished 14 years, Germer’s capital focus has been adornment architecture application best beads, tiny berry chaplet and adored metal clay.
Navigate Art, amid aloft Don Luis restaurant, 15 N. 26th St., will present the works of Unreal, a Billings-based aggregation of artists, appearance designers, musicians, photographers and comestible artists. “Navigate Goes Unreal” will be a mixed-media acquaintance with canvas paintings, photography, music and cupcakes. Megan Nielsen, Pierre Hart, Stoni Sell, Amanda Brown and Nate Smith will be the artists on hand. Live music will be featured.
Apple Arcade at Good Earth Market, 3024 Second Ave. N., will accessible “Cellular,” a accumulating of photographs by Luke Boyd. With the appearance of cellphones, activity has afflicted dramatically, and with the accession of high-definition agenda cameras, the average of photography has amorphous to advance as well. His photo studies affectation life’s moments captured in an instant. Boyd will do a arcade allocution at 6:30 p.m. Live music is scheduled.
Sunrise Studio, 2923 Montana Ave., will affection the assignment of owners Lance Johnson and Dawn Ness. Landscapes, horses and wildlife will be the subjects, forth with charcoal studies. The accumulating of Ellen Feldman, which includes works by Bev Doolittle and Carol Hagan, will be on affectation and for sale. Beverages and a array of hors d’oeuvres will be offered.
The MSU Billings Potters’ Guild, a apprentice and affiliation organization, will affection sculptural and anatomic works at 2804 Third Ave. N.
The Billings Arcade of Accomplished Art, amid beneath Skypoint, will affection Built-in American painter Allen KnowsHisGun. With a master’s amount in American Indian studies from University of Kansas, he alternate to Montana to paint. New artists represented by the arcade accommodate Linda Sanders (feather jewelry) Randy Redekopp (photography) and Arnold Aragon (sculpture). In the Babcock Theatre’s Arcade, the arcade is hosting artists, Elizabeth Shumaker and Elizabeth Almann. Music and achievement art will be provided by the Billings Youth Orchestra and Terpischore Ball Company. Hidden Legend Winery will be confined its award-winning wines and Jimmy John’s and Z Pizza will accommodate appetizers.
The Lore Law Firm, 2921 Second Ave. N., will present new oils by longtime Billings artisan and sculptor Bill Rains. Register for the chargeless painting by Rains that is actuality offered as a gift.
Papa Bear Gallery, in the above Depot Antiques Building on the bend of Montana Avenue and North 23rd Street, will host Troy and Coila Evans from Blockhorse Designs of Roundup. Troy will present his woodwork and added beheld pieces while his wife, Coila, will affectation her paintings. Tom Mulford will appearance watercolor and ink drawings, Travis Delp displays watercolor and oil paintings, and Anastasia Swarthour will appearance ceramics.
Grafix Level 504, 504 N. 20th St., will affection art by Matt Taggert, Aaron Nathan and Kerry Epley forth with music by Lee Nelson. Sidney Ayers will appearance woodworking, Justin Choriki will appearance photography, Sharon Karlson will affectation wildlife paintings, and Tyler Murphy has new paintings from his cruise to Canyon de Chelly in Arizona. Big Brothers Big Sisters will present art by Derek Cross.
Purple Sage Gallery, 2511 Montana Ave., is hosting Janet Bedford demonstrating her different painting style. Her art reflects her adulation of Western wildlife, mural and lifestyle. New artists represented by Purple Sage accommodate Barbara Gerard-Mitchell and Brenda Wolf. Added arcade artists accommodate Greg Eiselein, Thomas English, John Felten, Dale Marie Muller, Diana Mysse, Tana Patterson, Dione Roberts, Judy Robertus, Steve Schrepferman, Carolyn Thayer, Robert Tompkins, Shirle Wempner, Scarves by Neck Candy, Jewelery by Buffalo Gals Designs and Mountain Stonewear.
Global Village, 2720 Third Ave. N., will affection award-winning bean artisan Catherine Dove demonstrating and affairs her work.
Guido’s Pizzeria, 3011 Aboriginal Ave. N., will affection “Transitions,” a anatomy of assignment by Sarah Morris, a built-in Montanan. Guido’s is a new ArtWalk member.
Cline Accomplished Art, 120 N. Broadway, will host the assignment of three acclaimed Montana artists. Freeman Butts, who Gordon McConnell characterizes in his book, “Freeman Butts: Legacy of a Painter,” as “a big animated man who reveled in all of the carnal architect and pleasures of life.” Sheila Miles will appearance allegorical work. As a action painter, Miles is aggressive by the abstruse qualities of the material. Rob Akey’s paintings draw on assorted capacity and acknowledge his admiration and adeptness to abduction the ablaze and actualize atmosphere.
Jens Arcade & Design, 2822 Third Ave. N., introduces the assignment of accomplished craftsmen and artisan James McGregor in an affectation blue-blooded “Concrete Ideas.” McGregor is apprenticed by two passions: creating characteristic forms and perfecting aerial achievement architectural concrete.
Gallery Interiors, 2702 Second Ave. N., acclaimed for its autogenous design, accomplished appliance and accessories, and representation of bounded artists, will present assignment by Connie Herberg.
Big Top Flat & Gallery, 421 N. 20th St. beyond from Grafix Level 504, appearance its final affectation of artworks by Sherri Love. See the acme of assignment that Adulation has been creating back her move to Billings from Nashville, Tenn., bristles years ago.
Billings Aliment Bank will host a accession for Built-in American artisan Leland Stewart, a affiliate of the Crow Whistling Baptize and Knight Hawks Society. He is a alum of the Fortin Comestible Center at the Billings Aliment Bank. The chef from the comestible affairs will adapt aliment with Built-in American flavors for ArtWalkers.
Barjon’s Books plays host to paintings and carve by James Seward, a carve abecedary for the YMCA Poets on the Prairie program.
Sandstone Gallery, 2913 2nd Ave. N., will affection Billings artists Dick Cottrill, John Havener, and bedfellow artisan Matthew Berg for ArtWalk. Their works will be displayed during May. Cottrill is a wildlife artist, Havener is alms California and Oregon vistas in accurate form, and Berg is a representational artisan with a abundant faculty of humor.
Stephen Haraden will accessible his flat and arcade at 2911 Second Ave. N. to affectation his latest works created by accumulating portions cut from antecedent paintings that are again congenital into new pieces.
Toucan Gallery, 2505 Montana Ave., is extending the affectation of bolt artisan and the Artisan in Residence at the Yellowstone Art Museum Brooke Atherton through May 25. The bolt and mixed-media assets are congenital up in layers of silk, affection and absolute from canvas backings. She acclimated nontraditional methods such as ripping, burning, and rusting.
Yellowstone Art Museum, 401 N. 27th St., offers chargeless acceptance to the museum’s accepted exhibits, “Creative Force: The Flat Art Quilt” and East/West: Visually Speaking.”
Kennedy’s Stained Bottle will present new assignment in accord with metal artisan Rick Byam. Bottle and metal abreast art pieces can be viewed.
Amy Dean McKittrick will accessible her studio/gallery to appearance watercolor paintings, including “The Korea” series.
Prairie Blossoms, 225 N. Broadway, will affectation the assignment of Montana botanical artisan Cheri Moss. Moss uses aged windows for her frames and lays out apprenticed botanical flowers central of them.
Harry Koyama Accomplished Art, 2509 Montana Ave., will affection new oil paintings by Koyama.
