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THIS WEEK AT THE EMERSON

SUMMER ART CAMP

REGISTRATION

We have Summer Art Camp registration open with new themes and exciting projects to inspire your little artists! Check them out- space is limited and filling quick!


One-week sessions offered from June 16-August 15

Ages 5-12

M-F 9am-3pm / $330


This year's camp themes:

Print Makers- June 16-20 & June 23-27

Artists and Architects- July 7-11 & July 14-18

Color in Motion- July 21-25 & July 28-August 1

Express Yourself- August 4-8 & August 11-15

REGISTER

BOZEMAN DOC SERIES: PORCELAIN WAR

Porcelain War world-premiered at the Sundance Film Festival where it won the Grand Jury Prize in the U.S. Documentary category. The film has gone on to screen at festivals around the world winning several major awards and garnering widespread critical acclaim. It was recently shortlisted for the Best Documentary Oscar.


Amidst the chaos and destruction of the brutal Russian invasion of Ukraine, three artists defiantly find inspiration and beauty as they defend their culture and their country. In a war waged by professional soldiers against ordinary civilians, Slava Leontyev, Anya Stasenko, and Andrey Stefanov choose to stay behind, armed with their art, their cameras, and, for the first time in their lives, their guns. Despite daily shelling, Anya finds resistance and purpose in her art, Andrey takes the dangerous journey to get his young family to safety abroad, and Slava becomes a weapons instructor for ordinary people who have become unlikely soldiers. As the war intensifies, Andrey picks up his camera to film their story, and on tiny porcelain figurines, Anya and Slava capture their idyllic past, uncertain present, and hope for the future.



Sunday, January 26

Doors open at 6:30pm

Screening begins at 7:00pm

Emerson's Crawford Theater

TICKETS

BEAST OF BOZEMAN AUDITIONS

Who will be crowned the 2025 Beast of Bozeman?! We want to see your talent, your charisma, & your showmanship at auditions March 3-5 at the Emerson's Crawford Theater! SINGUP for your audition slot via the link below!


Beast of Bozeman is an annual talent competition featuring local and regional performing acts of all types and ages (5+)! This Emerson event provides professional sound, lighting, and production for each performer, and a theater filled with an excited and supportive audience! Whether you are a solo act, a duo, or a group, we want to see what you've got. Final acts will be selected to perform and compete for audience votes and cash prizes at the Beast of Bozeman show on Saturday, April 26, 2025.


Sound fun? It is! Plus, we're actively seeking sponsors. If this sounds like something your business would like to support, please contact Emily Wrotny at outreach@theEmerson.org

AUDITION SIGNUP

ACCEPTING DONATIONS

FOR OUR NEW TO YOU ART SALE

Mark your calendars for our second-annual New to You Art Sale on May 1!


Now accepting art donations! Do you have original (not mass-produced) pieces you're willing to part with? Drop your art (any kind- paintings, drawings, photographs, ceramics, sculpture, etc) by the Emerson to help it find a new home. We will fill our ballroom with secondhand, original art, and open this unique marketplace to the public to shop on Thursday, May 1. More details to come. 


Art donations accepted Monday-Wednesday from Noon-3pm in the art curator's office, across from the Jessie Wilber gallery on the Emerson's main floor. 

For questions or additional drop-off times, please contact Emily Wrotny at outreach@theEmerson.org

CURRENT EXHIBIT:

Made For These Times

by Ophelia Easton


This body of work is about how it feels to be a young woman, born in the

windblown plains of North Central Montana, facing an era of great change

and pressure from all sides. It is about survival, saying ‘hell no,’ and

standing up for what I love.

COMING SOON

Susie Mathre

The Botany of Math(re); Further into the Weeds, Jessie Wilber Gallery

February 7 - April 30



Susie Mathre is an artist living and working in Bozeman, Montana. As the daughter of botanists, she spent many hours in the family garden and also enjoyed exploring all things mechanical. She attended the University of Oregon, where she majored in fine art, taking a variety of studio classes, including printmaking, photography, letterpress printing and fiber arts. She graduated with a BFA in Fiber Arts in 1989.


Before becoming a full-time artist, she worked for the Community Food Co-op in Bozeman for over 20 years designing and fabricating signs and creating limited edition letterpress posters. She was fortunate to acquire a Vandercook Universal 1 letterpress in the early 1990s, (and thousands of pounds of lead type) which she currently uses in conjunction with metals, encaustic wax, and plant materials.


She is a recipient of a MAGDA (Montana Art Gallery Directors Association) traveling exhibition grant, and won Awards for Excellence for Distinctive Downtown Signage (The Co-op Downtown), and Sculptured Landscape from the City of Bozeman.

(Left) Penrose Tiling P2

(Right) White Campion /(Silene latifolia)


Edd Enders in the Lobby and Weaver Room Galleries

February 3 - April 30



Livingston Montana native Edd Enders was born in 1962, graduated from Park High, and studied art at Montana State University, Bozeman from 1990-1993. Growing up, he spent his free time outdoors observing nature, drawing, camping, and hunting. As a young man he worked on archeological survey teams throughout the West and as a hunting guide, packer, wrangler and cowboy from Alaska to Arizona. Enders has been painting since 1989 and has been a prolific full-time painter for two decades. Widely admired, Enders has collectors ranging from New York to Key West to Chicago to Shanghai and has shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions.


"I consider myself a contemporary western painter. I’m not interested in portraying the West as it’s commonly idealized with pristine landscapes and romanticized wildlife, cowboys and Indians. I am deeply connected to the western environment where I’ve grown up, worked, and lived. I want to portray human’s inevitable activity and impact on this region. In the bigger picture, I hope that in 100 years people will look at my paintings and learn something about this place and time, as I see it.”

Thank you for supporting the Emerson and our mission to build community through art and culture!

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(406) 587-9797 | office@theEmerson.org

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