Curatorial Vision

Made from bones, seeds, leather, fur, branches, bronze, resin, and time, Linder's sculptures represent cycles of growth, death, and rebirth. Labor is embodied in stitches through unyielding materials, the weight of accumulation, and the traces of care spent shaping, stretching, and assembling. More...

“The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.” 

—James Baldwin 

This collections exhibition highlights art made from things of the world and features Steve Wellman’s “Useless Objects." More...

Bill Stockton was many things: artist, sheep rancher, soldier, sign painter, storyteller, and dyed-in-the-wool Modernist.  He was a prolific artist in winter, between haying and lambing, using livestock markers to remember briers and drifting snow, and the quality of light on cold mornings. More...

The Yellowstone Art Museum's second annual juried North x Northwest exhibition features the theme “Women’s Work.” Open to artists of all genders and backgrounds, working in fine art or craft mediums, the Juror was MIA associate curator Jill Ahlberg Yohe. Interview with curator and juror.

Jessie Wilber, Frances Senska, Gennie DeWeese, and Isabelle Johnson were among the first and most influential Montana artists to embrace Modernist art and values. They mentored students and connected other creatives to construct an alternative to the nostalgic cowboy culture of mid-Century Montana. More (external link)...

“I paint because I don’t know how else to define myself and my emotional response to the world surrounding me.”

Neltje's paintings, like the artist, are intense, complex, and larger than life. Her colors and patterns reflect the life and abundance she feels in the presence of nature. Virtual tour...

For Mary Beth McKenzie, painting is a way to see and understand the world. She works intuitively, starting with an idea and then finding her way to the finished canvas one brush stroke at a time. McKenzie’s intimate portraits offer windows into her world and the inner lives of her subjects. More...

Bill Brady learned metalwork from his father. He supported himself by making traditional New England tinwork. He got bored and moved to California.  His hippie bus finally came to rest on his family's farm near Erie where he spends his days hammering tin into graceful kinetic sculptures.   More...

Gary Spinosa’s sculptures, drawings, and shrines invite contemplation of the universal human search for the divine.. Raised in the Catholic faith, Spinosa connects the spirituality, ritual, and iconography of the world’s religions with the power and beauty of the physical world.