🎉 Happy 9th Birthday Frame of Mind - Juried Art Show in our Gallery

Happy May Artists and Framers!

So many things to celebrate in May.

Happy Mother's Day!

We are celebrating our 9 year anniversary at

Frame of Mind!

We want to send a shout out to all the Mom's out there. We see you and we think you are awesome!!! We are wishing you the best Mother's Day and hope that you are showered with all the love!!!

Frame of Mind is 9!!!

We are so excited to be hitting this milestone! We could not have gotten here without the support of our local community and we want to say

THANK YOU!!!!!

Thank you for all your support these past 9 years. We wouldn't of gotten here with out you all!!

Cheers to another year!!!

In the Gallery...

Our 5th Annual Juried Art Expo is hanging in our gallery for the rest of May!

This years Juried Art Expo is bigger than ever before. We have a wide variety of very talented local and regional artists. We invited two local art gurus to be our judges this years and we are excited to announce the winners!

3rd Place

Red Jack Rabbit

By: Naomi Birkett

Naomi Birkett is a largely self-taught artist and aspiring illustrator located in Missoula, MT. Her art career was put on hold after high school when she entered the “real world”, but she’s been working hard to reclaim her creative roots since 2019 and has been selling and showing her work around Missoula since 2021. Naomi primarily mixes watercolors and ink drawing with the occasionally marker or acrylic paint thrown in. Her heavy use of bright colors and abstract florals is constantly at odds with her desire to be dark and edgy. She aspires to one day illustrate children’s books and inspire future generations in the art of “creepy-cute.”

2nd Place

Equinox

By: Andrea Morgan

Andrea is a painter, sculptor and restoration ecologist living in the Blackfoot River Valley of western Montana. She brings curiosity to the table wherever she sits. Her past lives as a wilderness trail builder, a vegetable farmer, and restoration tree planter inspired her deep connection to the lands around her. She is working at standing still and learning to be astonished while living in the quiet middle of nowhere.

1st Place

Rainy Day Along the Bitterroot

By: Kim Phillips

I am compelled to paint by an unknown force. The patterns in nature light up something in me, my mind’s eye seeing just how to frame the picture. Often, the subjects aren’t the grand scenes, but more ordinary ones in which a moment’s convergence of atmospheric factors creates a mood. The audience may or may not share the same mood, but it is my hope they come away with their own appreciation for the many moods that nature produces. My style developed naturally, without a lot of formal training and only later did I find my kin in the Tonalists, who created landscape forms with muted, often dark colors and emphasizing ambiance. This is a small look through my window on the world.

Juror’s Choice:

Running Blue and Canopy

By: Laura Blue Palmer

I was born and raised in Roanoke, Virginia. I moved to Montana in 1994, and studied fine art at the University of Montana in Missoula for two years. I completed my formal art education at the San Francisco Art Institute, earning a BFA in 1999. City life was exciting, but my affection towards Montana was too strong, and I returned to the Big Sky state in 2000. Today, I make my home in Missoula where I paint in my studio. I have a true passion for the wild spaces of the west, as I document my experiences of nature in evocative abstract landscapes. I love to work with color and light in representing the moods and places I have seen in the wilderness. I have backpacked extensively in Montana, Canada, Wyoming, and Alaska, and draw on these locations to create my oils. My work is as much about memory as it is about place. I look upon my paintings as a map of my life, which I am constantly creating. In addition to making landscapes, I began making birds after moving into a home near the river where the bird habitat is abundant. I’ve been studying the birds in this region and learning about them through painting. I love to represent them in portrait format, each a unique example of their species. I love observing them through binoculars, choosing one, then painting it with rich oils.

🤩 🎉 Stay tuned for our feature articles about our winners in our upcoming newsletters!!! 🎉 🤩

Upcoming Classes...

Jason C. Poole is back for a “Dinosaur Draw Along” at Frame of Mind!

Mr. Poole will draw a cool dinosaur from Montana as guests draw along and see the process of putting flesh on the bones. Jason will explain his process as the the image progresses. Dinosaur questions are encouraged from adults and kids.

Click here to learn more about our Guest Educator and the class!!!

LIVE ANIMAL DRAWING WITH JASON POOLE AND ZOOTOWN EXOTICS

Join National Geographic illustrator and Missoula based artist Jason C. Poole and some cool live animals from Zootown Exotics animal Rescue for a fun and instructive evening of sketching live animals. This event is open to all ages and artistic ability.

Click here to learn more about our Guest Educator and the class!!!

Framer's Corner

We are excited to bring you a new Framer's Corner from our owner, Amy.

While usually we tell you about special projects and how we frame them this is a new kind of story about something we framed in our shop way back when Frame of Mind was a one woman show...

Click here to read all about it!