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Join us at the Emerson for Art Walk on Friday, December 12 from 5-8pm!
A new exhibit by Lauren Ingle will be unveiled in our Jessie Wilber Gallery, and works by Russell Brausch will be on display in our Lobby and Weaver Room Galleries.
PLUS! Shop Galleria Hall:
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The Artists’ Gallery: Local Art Retail Shop and Cooperative with this months' featured artists Fay Ferraro: Oil Painting, Nick Allen: Glass Blowing Artist, Don Sander: Watercolor Landscapes
- Rod Zullo: Sculpture/painter/chocolatier
- Verge Theater: Community theater & Gallery
- Homeroom: Create an ornament/pickup a sock snowman kit to take home
- Just Friends Pop-up: eccentric installation art on display & for purchase
- Faculty Lounge: retail shop featuring work by Emerson Art Instructors
Studios around the building will be open including:
- Cherlyn Wilcox in studio #217: Little Bird painting and her ceramics will be joining Cherlyn Wilcox with some rare, small landscapes and her usual abstract works.
- Stephen Gay in studio #220
- Constructive Solutions in studio #223
- Sharon Iltis in studio #201: The Prairie Schooners will be playing from 7-8pm
- Kelsey Dzintars in studio #5 West Wing
- Heart and Hand Studio in #275 West Wing
- Second Nature Gallery in #15 West Wing: You’re invited to celebrate the opening of Second Nature: a new pop-up gallery and studio in Bozeman. We're excited to share with you our first exhibition called "Relief" –– a solo exhibition by Chris Stoddard. Featuring ceramic drawings and sculptures, the show explores how the body—its limits, forms, and functions—shapes our relationships. Through clay’s resistance, unpredictable firing, memory, observation, and found objects, Stoddard carves out and builds her own language of relief—one shaped by the body, and one that reaches beyond it.
Friday, December 12
5-8pm
| Little Bird Painting & Ceramics in Cherlyn Wilcox' studio #217 | | Second Nature Gallery Opening with Chris Stoddard's Relief in West Wing Studio #15 | | Faculty Lounge offering works from Emerson Art Instructors (Mugs by Robyn Till) | | |
Thursday through Sunday
December 11-14
Thursday, December 11
Après Climb in the Emerson Ballroom: Come meet our sponsors and athletes, troll for belay partners, and have dinner with us with food available from our official food suppliers.
Thursday evening at the Emerson includes screenings of Parallel World, Bridgers, The Marks We Leave and El Chaltén Season Wrap-Up.
Doors at 7:00PM | Films begin at 7:30PM
Crawford Theater
$15 General Admission or $40 VIP movie pass
Friday, December 12
Après Climb in the Emerson Ballroom
Friday evening at the Emerson includes the Bear Canyon Singers & Dancers and screenings of Anna and Shooting the Moon.
Doors at 7:00PM | Films begin at 7:30PM
Crawford Theater
$15 General Admission or $40 VIP movie pass
Saturday, December 13
Après Climb in the Emerson Ballroom
Saturday evening at the Emerson includes screening of Girl Climber.
Doors at 7:00PM | Films begin at 7:30PM
Crawford Theater
$20 General Admission or $40 VIP movie pass
Sunday, December 14
Local Legends Dinner & Wrap Party
“Barronette: A Mountain Profile” - with Sam Hennessey
For the full schedule, tickets, and more information visit the Ice Fest Website.
| | JANUARY ART EDUCATION CLASS REGISTRATION | |
Registration is open for the next session beginning in January! This makes a phenomenal gift and we are now offering gift cards!
More classes to be added.
2D CLASSES:
- Intro to Drawing
- Mondays at 6pm with Emily G.
- Intro to Oil Painting
- Tuesdays at 1pm with Russell B.
- Intro/Intermediate Acrylic Painting
- Tuesdays at 6pm with Kelsey M.
- Intro to Drawing
- Wednesdays at 11am with Emily G.
- Intro to Charcoal Drawing
- Wednesdays at 1:30pm with Emily G.
- Intermediate Drawing
- Wednesdays at 6pm with Emily G.
- Beginner Charcoal Figure Drawing
- Thursdays at 6pm with Martijn S.
- Linocut Printmaking
- Fridays at 3pm with Samantha H.
- Linocut Printmaking
- Fridays at 6pm with Samantha H.
CERAMICS CLASSES:
- Handbuilding
- Mondays at 6pm with Chris S.
- Wheel Pottery
- Tuesdays at 6pm with Chris B.
- Handbuilding
- Tuesdays at 6pm with Christine S. (of Little Bird Painting & Design)
- Wheel Pottery
- Wednesdays at 9:30am with Lauren W.
- Wheel Pottery
- Wednesdays at 6pm with Robyn T.
- Wheel Pottery
- Thursdays at 6pm with Chris B.
- Wheel Pottery
- Saturdays at 9:30am with Lauren W.
METALSMITHING CLASSES:
- Metalsmithing I
- Tuesdays at 3pm with Sarah P.
- Metalsmithing I
- Tuesdays at 6pm with Sarah P.
- Metalsmithing I
- Mondays and Wednesdays at 6pm with Sally O'Neill
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THEY ARRIVED LIKE FATE
Rachel Ingel
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Rachel Ingel's They Arrived Like Fate in our Jessie Wilber Gallery
Through printmaking, Rachel Ingel explores a new expression of her original interests in photography and drawing. The print matrix proposes new directions for mark making, and the ink gives new textures and smells. The community of the press room and the skill sharing that happens there creates collaboration in every individual print. The print is a new thing birthed from the conglomerate of community, process, material and idea.
The prints in “They Arrived Like Fate” consider ideas of identity and place, through the lens of tourism and landscape. By layering wildflowers, weeds, and invasive species over pictures of family vacations the artist ruminates on human movement and relationships through metaphors of the natural world. The way we attribute morality to the existence, growth, and movement of plants gives us insight on how we are striving to be present in the world
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NOT SO FAR AWAY
Russell Brausch
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Russell Brausch's Not So Far Away in our Lobby and Weaver Room Galleries.
"A century of fire suppression, the loss of Indigenous cultural burning, and climate change have created today’s wildfire crisis. It is not a matter of if a fire will come, but when. Federal land employees work tirelessly with little progress, caught between containing fires and restoring damaged landscapes. As hotter, drier climates push fire back into the land through both destruction and controlled burns, my creative process seeks to illuminate this complex history. Through painting, burning, drawing, and textiles, I open different entry points into the wildfire conversation. My research expands on acknowledging and redefining America’s relationship with fire."
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JUST FRIENDS
by Animoscillator & Sex the Cat
| | Dan Haywood (Animoscillator) and Jacob Garvin (Sex the Cat) have launched a pop-up titled Just Friends featuring a collaborative apparel line in the Emerson's Galleria Hall! There is also an immersive installation of originals to check out. Only here for a limited time! | | |
It’s been a phenomenal year and we are so excited to reminisce on the past months and also look forward to 2026! Every class attended, event enjoyed, or donation made have all contribute to lifting up the arts in Bozeman. Thank you for your support as we continue to evolve, and improve, in all that we do, for you, our community.
Some of the things we are proud to have accomplished this year include:
- Inspiring creativity at every age through increased adult education offerings, summer camps, workshops, performance opportunities, and more.
- Building community through the arts! Our Emerson events are sprinkled throughout the calendar year and bring around so many new and familiar faces. These events celebrate local and regional talent, invite participation, and offer fresh ways to connect through a variety of creative avenues.
- Directly invested in building improvements. We renovated restrooms and did a complete overhaul of or north side stairway. Both projects were significant upgrades to our historical building.
- Added two new spaces to Galleria Hall! Faculty Lounge is a retail shop featuring work by our Emerson Art Education instructors. Come by to see their work and shop for the holidays! Also down the hall is Homeroom, a free community art room.
We are excited to close out this year and move into the next. Thank you for being a part of the Emerson, and supporting the work we do. We look forward to seeing you soon!
| | GALLERY AND STUDIO SPACE AVAILABLE | | |
If you're an artist or creative business owner, we welcome you to apply for a space in the Emerson. There are just two studios that are currently available and we would love to help you find the perfect fit!
To walk through our available studios, swing by the Emerson during business hours Monday through Friday 9am-5pm, or fill out the inquiry form below.
| | COUNTDOWN TO NOON YEAR'S EVE | | We're bringing back Countdown to Noon Year's Eve! Mark your calendars for December 31 from 10:30-12pm. This is a fun, chill, family event that allows a New Year's celebration for the kids without staying awake until midnight. We'll have activities, music and dancing, light refreshments, and of course, a countdown and ball drop at noon. Tickets now on sale! | | |
Summer Art Camp registration is officially open!
Summer Art Camp runs weekly from June-August, Monday-Friday 9am-3pm. This full-day camp allows campers to enroll in multiple weeks throughout the summer and still experience all new projects, themes, and skills.
Camp makes a great holiday gift option for children ages 5-11!
| | Thank you for supporting the Emerson and our mission to build community through art and culture! | | | |
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www.theEmerson.org
(406) 587-9797 | office@theEmerson.org
111 S Grand Ave, Bozeman, MT 59715
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