Triptych Magazine | Spring 2022

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NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS 3 UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS 4 – 6 ONGOING EXHIBITIONS 7 – 9 SUMMERFAIR 10 – 11 PROGRAMMING CALENDAR 12 – 13 ART EDUCATION 14 – 16 UPCOMING IN 2022 17 THANK YOU 18 – 19

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Artmuseum.org/about/triptych The Official Members’ Magazine of the YAM © Yellowstone Art Museum, 2022 All rights reserved.

Cover Art: Michael Haykin, Mask, 2020, oil on canvas, 48 x 36 inches.

From the Executive Director After my first three months in Billings, I want to thank everyone who has so warmly welcomed me to the Montana! I appreciate all the ways that artists, cultural and community partners, museum members, and the YAM’s exceptional staff have helped me feel at home. Thank you, thank you!

As we move into spring and summer, the YAM offers members and first-time visitors an exciting mix of exhibitions to explore. Works from the museum’s collection are displayed alongside special loans, and the diverse work of Montana-based artists are celebrated throughout the building. The galleries will rotate several times in the months ahead and I hope you will visit often to not miss any of the exciting changes!

Photo credit: Amy Nelson from the Billings Gazette.

Alongside a strong exhibition program, the museum calendar is full of engaging programs for visitors of all ages. Join us for an artist talk, experiment with art-making, or enroll a student in summer camp.

Enjoy free museum admission during First Fridays for a mix of art, music, and more. In June, don’t miss SummerFair vendors, performers, and more back on the MSUB campus.

There is excellent work happening at the YAM. It is your continued support that funds exhibitions and expands programs. Thank you for your membership and engagement. The love that I see throughout the community for this institution is inspiring and motivates the full YAM team!

Cheers,

Adam Beaves-Fisher, Advancement Director Adam Beaves-Fisher joined the YAM in February as the museum’s Advancement Director. He brings significant experience in museum fundraising and donor development to this position. In this role, Adam will manage special events, membership, and donor engagement for the YAM. Welcome, Adam!

Carrie Goe-Nettleton, Education Director In March, Carrie Goe-Nettleton was named Education Director at the museum. Carrie has worked at the YAM for four years and has additional experience as an arts educator in Montana schools. She will be responsible for visitor engagement with a mix of audiences, including adult learners, K-12 students and teachers, and summer campers. Thanks for all you do, Carrie!

Remembering Robert E. “Bob” Rickels Bob was an incredible artist, teacher, docent, and friend to the museum. Bob was a docent at the YAM for over 20 years, giving tours, presenting the Art Suitcase program, and helping to build the YAM’s art education program into what it is today. He received the Docent of the Year award not one, but two times, in 2008 and again in 2018, as well a Lifetime Membership to the Museum. An artist himself, he studied with and befriended many Montana artists such as Peter Voulkos and Rudy Audio. He was an advocate for their work and introduced many visitors to the importance of ceramic work not only in Montana art but also Montana history. The impact that he had on the Montana art, artists, and art education will not be forgotten. A true friend of the YAM and “celebrity docent”, Bob, you are greatly missed.

2022 Yellowstone Art Museum Golf Tournament Laurel Golf Club — Friday, September 9, 2022 Presented by

The Yellowstone Art Museum announces its 2nd annual 2022 Golf Tournament as an opportunity for friends to enjoy playing golf and to get to know more about the YAM and its offerings.

Participation in this golf tournament supports YAM’s Art Education Programs for children in Billings and the surrounding communities of Shepherd, Park City, Hardin, Crow Agency, and Greybull, Wyoming. All of YAM’s education programs are aligned with Montana’s state education standards and are taught by certified art educators. Art education is vital to a child’s brain development; it strengthens critical thinking and problem solving skills, enhances reading and writing abilities; and improves test scores…everything a child needs to succeed!

For more information, please contact Adam Beaves-Fisher, at 406.256.6804 x225 or email development@artmuseum.org.

Visit artmuseum.org/engage/special-events to learn more and register a team today!

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Michael Haykin: Painting a Pandemic June 30 – October 2, 2022 // Montana Gallery Sponsors: Deborah Anspach & Dr. John Hanson Michael Haykin’s exhibition, Painting A Pandemic, takes the viewer on a visual journey into cultural behaviors, world and national events, personal experience, and the powerful effect of the COVID pandemic to magnify and dissect a changing new world.

Michael Haykin, Mask, 2020, oil on canvas, 48 x 36 inches.

A Montana based painter known primarily for his large multi panel paintings of nature and of natural phenomena, Haykin introduces an extraordinary new body of work in this exhibition. In March 2020, the artist was at work in his Boulder, Montana studio producing paintings which explore time in its various increments; seasons, minutes, and seconds, when the COVID pandemic rapidly emerged. After his first time wearing a mask for safety in public, and feeling awkward and self-conscious, he returned to his studio to make a painting about his experience. This first painting led to a two-year long exploration of the pandemic’s new world order. The mask image morphs and is replaced by images of natural elements, and the artist explores world and current events framed by the pandemic.

In Painting A Pandemic, the paintings are large, often monumental in scale. Figures in the paintings appear frozen in space, many with vacant, detached gazes, while the colors around them are bold, and even artificially vibrant.

While creating these works of art, Haykin shared images with Jessica Argyle, a Florida-based author. Responding from nearly 3,000 miles away, Argyle’s perspective on the paintings led to a deeply meaningful cooperative experience during a time of frequent isolation. Her poetry and flash fiction inspired by the artworks will be incorporated into the exhibition experience. Public programs related to the exhibition will center around this collaboration.

Painting A Pandemic explores collective and individual experiences of a global pandemic while celebrating creative collaborations across time and distance.

Exhibition opening with Michael Haykin on June 30; reception at 5 p.m. and artist talk at 6 p.m.

Michael Haykin, Isolating Venus, 2021, oil on canvas, 144 x 108 inches.

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Robert Royhl, Walking Along Yellowstone Lake, 2013, Mixed media, 30 x 38 inches, Museum purchase funded by Carol and Jim Spielman.

Robert Royhl: Voids and Blooms

July 14 – August 21, 2022 // Charles M. Bair Family Gallery & Northwest Projects Gallery Sponsors: Deborah Anspach & Dr. John Hanson, Gareld Krieg “The world lost a great artist when Robert Royhl, aged 72, died in Bozeman on January 12, 2022. We were particularly fortunate to have him among us in Montana for the better part of 35 years. His vivid surreal landscapes of the Northern Rockies, Yellowstone and the Missouri Headwaters are among the most significant representations of these places ever made. At the same time, these paintings, in Royhl’s words, ‘travel along the outer edges of the visible spectrum toward the unseen.’ They are meant to expand perception beyond the literal, both for the artist and for us.

A true visionary with transcendent aims for his art, Robert Royhl skillfully melded imagination and creative invention with objective observation and techniques learned from the European Old Masters and contemporary traditional Japanese painters. The energized perceptual fields of his intricately colorful paintings teem with figures, plants and mysterious beings that are animated and mutable in multiple physical, temporal and spiritual dimensions. Robert Royhl once said: ‘The job of the artist is the reenchantment of the world.’ There is no better way to describe what he accomplished.” — Gordon McConnell The story of Robert Royhl’s artistic life is seeded in the dry, parched earth of the Sonoran Desert. Upon arriving in Tucson with his family in 1954, he recalls the awakening he experienced when stepping out of the car — the sensation of bare feet against burning pavement and describes the experience as his “dramatic introduction to the desert world, a baptism by fire.”

The Sonoran Desert, in all its ecology and spiritual power, became the place he felt most at home — his primal landscape. Unrestrained expressions of what passed in his dreams, ideas, diagrams, and concepts fill his sketchbooks and worked their way into his art. Working with a mixture of materials and techniques, Royhl continually experimented. Even the traditional method of Japanese woodblock printing was altered by soaking the backside of the paper and applying ink that would visually interact with the denser inks applied on the frontside by the woodblock. Referring to his work with a Japanese silk screen kit called Gocco, he wrote, “I love messing around with this machine and as the inks dry up all sorts of accidental blooms and voids take place that I find enchanting.”

The upcoming exhibition, Voids and Blooms, is created in collaboration with Associate Professors of Art History and Art at Montana State University in Bozeman, Melissa Ragain and Rollin Beamish. The exhibition seeks to explore Royhl’s development by selecting works from his forty years of turning real world narratives into a structure of floating planes and passing elements. By merging realism, and diagrammatic depictions of ideas with his black paper subconscious images, a visual language is mastered.

Robert Royhl studio, 2019, Emerson Cultural Center, Bozeman, Montana, Robert Royhl Estate

After graduating with an MFA from the University of Arizona, Royhl taught at the Tucson Art School, and San Diego State before landing in Bozeman, where he taught as a Professor of Art at Montana State University from 1987 to 2006.

The reception for Robert Royhl: Voids and Blooms will be held on Thursday, August 4 at 6 p.m.

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Keeara Rhoades: The Shape of a Corner

August 15 – November 13, 2022 // Mildred Sandall Scott Galleries The Shape of a Corner is a multimedia installation exploring intersections and transformations of character, condition, and vantage, provoking boundaries to expose, hide or identify. The exhibition includes an original feature-length screenplay, stop-motion animated film, lyrical soundscape, painted and sculpted forms, photographs, and artificial intelligence-generated studio backdrops.

Please visit the YAM website (artmuseum.org) for upcoming programming and artist talk for The Shape of a Corner.

Keeara Rhoades in the Gary and Melissa Oakland Artist in Residence Studio, 2020.

Image courtesy of the artist.

Keeara Rhoades, Encampment Homes (outline zones), Film still from, The Shape of a Corner, 2020–2022

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Jesse Albrecht & Sean Chandler: The Un-homecoming of Uncle Dirty and Jimmy Cardell April 1 – July 3, 2022 // Charles M. Bair Family Gallery & Northwest Projects Gallery Sponsors: Karen A. Ferguson, The Montana Arts Council Uncle Dirty: A nickname earned by Albrecht while serving in Iraq for doing the dirty work (good and not-so-good).

Jimmy Cardell: A name taken from Chandler’s father, Al Chandler, who would use the name in vulnerable situations or when other individuals couldn’t be trusted.

Albrecht’s ceramic vessels and Chandler’s paintings share an autobiographical, visual language driven by the effects of war, generational trauma, self-preservation, and healing. Albrecht, a veteran of the Iraq war, paints, decals, and impresses on roughly formed ceramic vessels, capturing the overwhelming experience of war and post-war life. Chandler, an artist, and president of Aaniiih Nakoda College in Harlem, Montana, paints expressionistic figures layered with narrative scenes and hybrid creatures, capturing his experience of Aaniinen life and the lasting impacts of colonialism.

Gallery talk with the Jesse Albrecht and Sean Chandler on May 12; cash bar at 5 p.m. and artist talk at 6:30 p.m.

Film screenings of I’d Rather be Powwowing, a film that features Al Chandler, Sean Chandler’s father, at 6 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

Sean Chandler, Going On, Under and Over the Golden Gate, 2022, Oil, oil paint stick, charcoal on canvas, 72 x 170 inches.

Jesse Albrecht, A Light Machine Gun, A Bridge Over the Tigris, & The Horse Whisperer, 2022, Underglaze, decals, glaze on low fire clay, 16 x 13 inches.

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Companion Species

March 17 – May 29, 2022 // Montana Gallery Sponsors: Marie Watt’s Companion Species (Speech Bubble) serves as the central installation around which works from a diverse group of artists from multiple times and in various media celebrate the web of relationships among humans, animals, and nature.

Marie Watt (Seneca) embraces community and connectedness in her monumental textile, Companion Species (Speech Bubble). The uniquely stitched words reflect the hands of the many contributors to her sewing circles; words such as we, mother, and ancestor, are not used solely to indicate family relationships, but to extend to all humans, and in Iroquois teaching, to animals and land as well. This exhibition places artwork from Native and non-Native artists in dialogue with Watt’s work to examine these connections. Companion Species is organized into three thematic sections: Section 1: Relationships: Native and non-Native artists across time have depicted animals, used animal materials, and reinforced the value of relationships between various species, in their artworks.

The boundaries between humans, animals, and the land are often blurred. In our human relationships, we sometimes look to animals to model reciprocity and understanding.

Marie Watt (b.1967), Companion Species (Speech Bubble), 2019, reclaimed wool blankets, embroidery floss and thread, 136 5/8 in. x 198 ½ in. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2019.30.

Section 2: Storytelling: Storytelling helps humans make sense of the world and build lasting, and often collective memories. Artists use stories as inspiration for artmaking and visual storytelling, sometimes to convey moral or personal lessons. Humans may understand or relate better to stories where animals and nature represent more abstract concepts.

Section 3: Community: The definition of community expands beyond a group of people to include animals, plants, and the land. Artists depict and embrace collective activities, such as sewing circles, dancing, or hunting, to reinforce that we are all connected and related. New communities are formed when cross-cultural understanding is fostered.

Companion Species and its national tour is organized by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, and Art Bridges Foundation, in collaboration with the Museum of Native American History. Support for the national tour of Companion Species is provided by Art Bridges.

Join the YAM on Saturday, May 21 for a Celebration of our Companion Species with drumming, dance, and food from 11:30 a.m. – 2 p.m.

I Refuse to Be Invisible

July 15, 2021 – July 24, 2022 // Mildred Sandall Scott Galleries Sponsors: The premise of I Refuse to be Invisible is to present artworks that speak to the theme and experience of invisibility through the lenses of Black and Native American artists.

The YAM is honored to exhibit three works by nationally recognized artists in the first Scott gallery: Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Glenn Ligon, and Kerry James Marshall.

I Refuse to Be Invisible continues into the next gallery with work by contemporary Native American artists, selected by guest curators Dr. Mara Pierce and Michael Largo, from the permanent collections of the Yellowstone Art Museum and the Missoula Art Museum. As a means of elevating the artist’s voice, QR codes are printed on text labels throughout the exhibition, allowing visitors to listen to artists discuss the subject of invisibility and its relevance to their work.

Njideka Akunyili Crosby; I Refuse to Be Invisible, 2010; Ink, charcoal, and transfer paper; 117 3/4 x 82 inches; Art Bridges

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Excerpt from essay written by Bently Spang

Women by Will

Ongoing // Mildred Sandall Scott Galleries Sponsors: Karen Ferguson, The Will James Society, The Lloyd Shelhamer Memorial Endowment Conservation provided by: The Susan Scott Heyneman Foundation, Ted Waddell & Lynn Campion, Charles Nightengale, The Montana History Foundation Drawn from the Yellowstone Art Museum’s extensive permanent collection of Will James’ work, Women by Will features drawings, first edition books, and memorabilia depicting women and girls by Joseph Ernest Nephtali Dufault (1892 – 1942), a.k.a. Will James. More than 30 never-before-exhibited drawings depict cowgirls and rugged frontier women shooting rifles, riding broncs, posing on log fences, and strolling down city streets by the celebrated author and cowboy artist.

These drawings, like all of James’ work, combine Western myth with the artist’s personal experience. Will’s male characters are often based on his own likeness: high cheekbones, square jaw, and prominent nose. Many of the women are based on his wife Alice. They met when she was 15 and married one year later, in 1920. Alice was smitten. She gently prodded him to go to art school, to write down his stories, and devote himself to making art.

The original drawings from the 1932 book, Uncle Bill: A Tale of Two Kids and a Cowboy, follow the young wannabe cowgirl and boy, Scootie and Kip, as they learn to saddle, rope, and ride. Illustrations from the 1928 book Sand show a female rider steer her horse into a charging bull to protect a man on the ground. Others depict domestic scenes on the ranch: a woman in an apron and heels curries a horse, Alice and Bill watch a new foal take its first wobbly steps, and a cowgirl leans against a log fence modeling her fanciest western attire.

Generous exhibition sponsors have enabled the YAM to photograph, catalog, and frame all of the work in the exhibition. Most of the work has never before been shown by the YAM.

Will James; Untitled; 1920; Graphite on paper; 22 1/2 x 16 3/4 inches; Yellowstone Art Museum Permanent Collection; Gift of Virginia Snook (VS1999.28).

A Russell Chatham Day

Ongoing // M.J. Murdock Gallery Russell Chatham was a local legend in Livingston, MT, who found himself inspired by the area’s landscape, especially rainy mornings and hazy sunsets. These scenes became locally known as “Russell Chatham Days,” when the horizon line disappeared, and the sky and land become one ethereal plane. His work grew in popularity as he began making fine art prints, eventually becoming one of the world’s leading lithographers. The Missouri Headwaters series (Featured in this exhibition) was conceived by Chatham in 1985 as a way to expand upon his newly-acquired printing skills. The twelve lithographs portray the confluence of the Jefferson, Madison, and Gallatin rivers at Three Forks, Montana, and roughly 10,000 square miles of the Missouri. According to Chatham, “Each print is designed to make a statement. Each month can more or less be distilled into a feeling or mood composed of what actually is at the moment, what has just passed, and what is to come.”

Russell Chatham; Missouri Headwaters Series — May; 1987; Stone lithograph; Gift of the artist (1987.19)

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Friday, June 24, 4 – 8 p.m., Saturday, June 25, 10 a.m. – 7 p.m., & Sunday, June 26, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. on the Green at MSU-B SummerFair is a time-honored tradition, and a seasonal favorite for the Billings community. Now in its 44th year, SummerFair is the largest arts and crafts festival in the region, featuring artisans from near and far. Again this year, we will partner with our downtown neighbors and host the three-day event on MSU-Billings’ beautiful campus. The proximal university location offers ample parking, shade, and sidewalks throughout the footprint for better accessibility to those with strollers and mobility differences. Visitors will enjoy a full weekend of culture, entertainment, artistic demonstrations and the best food trucks in the area!

More than 100 artists, community groups, and food vendors participate every year. Artist booths at SummerFair include painting, photography, pottery and ceramics, art from nature, glass, wood, metal, fiber art, body products and artisan foods. All vendor’s products must be handmade making it a perfect place to find sustainable and unique gifts for yourself of someone special while supporting artists and the Billings community.

We will have fun for the whole family with free admission for kids ages 6 and under. Plus, the YAM Education team will have craft supplies and activities for kids of all ages all weekend long.

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While SummerFair is a fundraiser for the museum, it truly meets the YAM’s mission by enriching the community through interactive experiences and creative exchange. It is also a weekend of cultural collaboration with participation from many of the Billings Cultural Partners, particularly MSU-B’s exceptional art department. SummerFair 2022 is sure to be another spectacular weekend in Billings and one you don’t want to miss!

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F irst Friday: Companion Species Storytelling through Art Studio Activity, 4 – 6 p.m.

Artist Talk with Kristen Cliffel, 6 p.m.

allery Conversation with Jessie G Albrecht & Sean Chandler, cash bar at 5 p.m., artist talks at 6:30 p.m., film at 6 & 7:30 p.m.

Adult Cooking Class: Recipes from the U.K., 10 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

Studio 2nd Saturday: Alternative Ensemble, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.

International Museum Day, FREE admission all day!

Connections at the Art Museum, 10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Adult Art Class: Watercolor Batik with Carol Welch, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.

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A Celebration of our Companion Species, drumming, dance, food, 11:30 a.m. – 2 p.m.

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Last day for Companion Species: We Are All Relatedl

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First Friday: ArtWalk at the YAM, 5 – 8 p.m.

Will James’s Birthday (honored), FREE admission all day!

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Summer Art Academy at Rocky Mountain College

Summer Art Studio: Living Large, Session 1: 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Session 2: 1 – 3 p.m.

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Connections at the Art Museum, 10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Last day for Park City Elementary School K–2 YAG exhibition Summer Art Studio: Set the Scene, Session 1: 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Session 2: 1 – 3 p.m.

SummerFair at MSU-B 4 – 8 p.m.

SummerFair at MSU-B 10 a.m. – 7 p.m.

Greybull Middle and High School YAG exhibition Opens SummerFair at MSU-B 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. ichael Haykin: Painting a Pandemic M Opens and Gallery Conversation with Michael Haykin, 5 p.m. reception, artist talk at 6 p.m.

Summer Art Studio: Ceramic Stories, Session 1: 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Session 2: 1 – 3 p.m.

2022 Guest create fiber art sculptures in the Education Studio during the Companion Species: Biodiversity & Traditions event.

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Jesse Albrecht and Sean Chandler pose together during the opening of their exhibition The Un-homecoming of Uncle Dirty and Jimmy Cardell.

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Author Jessica Argyle, 10 a.m. brunch reception, 10:30 a.m. author talk First Friday: free admission from 4 – 8 p.m.

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Last day for The Un-homecoming of Uncle Dirty and Jimmy Cardell

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Summer Art Studio: Sculp-loration, Session 1: 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.

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Robert Royhl: Voids and Blooms Opens

Summer Art Studio: Letter by Letter, Session 1: 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.

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YAM Camp Ages 6–8: 9:30 a.m.–12 p.m.

Ages 9 – 12: 1 – 3:30 p.m

Reception for Robert Royhl : Voids and Blooms, 6 p.m.

First Friday: ArtWalk at the YAM, 5 – 8 p.m.

Last day for Greybull Middle and High School YAG exhibition Hardin 6th Grade YAG exhibition Opens Keeara Rhoades: The Shape of a Corner Opens Connections at the Art Museum, 10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Annual Members Meeting 3:30 p.m. meeting, 4:30 p.m. reception Summer Art Studio: Paint a Face, Session 1: 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Session 2: 1 – 3 p.m.

FREE ADMISS ON THURSDAION Y NIGHTS!

Last day for I Refuse to Be Invisible

YAM now from 5 – 8offers free admissio n p.m. on Th ursdays.

Jessica Kay Ruhle gives a tour of Art Auction 54 to YAM board members.

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Todd Forsgren shares insight to his work in Art Auction 54.

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Art Auction 54 artist, Georgia Rowswell, discusses her work with Ryan & Holly Cremer.

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EDUCATION

SAFETY. The YAM is committed to a safe and healthy environment for enjoying and creating art. Our safety protocols are subject to change based on CDC guidelines and the circumstances in the community.

CHILDREN, FAMILIES, & TEENS Check Facebook and our website for updated info and pricing.

Studio 2nd Saturday

Ages 5 – 12 | 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Register online or by calling 406.256.6804 x238 or email outreach@artmuseum.org Every Studio 2nd Saturday class includes touring the galleries and creating art that is connected to current exhibitions.

May 14 | Alternative Ensemble

Summer Art Studio

Ages 5 – 12 | Each Thursday has 2 Sessions Session 1: 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Session 2: 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Register by calling 406.256.6804 or email outreach@artmuseum.org Thursdays in June and July explore the galleries and create art in the education studio that is connected to current exhibitions.

Create a great disguise and explore your own alter ego inspired by Laurel Roth Hope’s Dodo II in the Companion Species exhibition.

June 16 | Living Large

Special Programming

June 23 | Set the Scene

In conjunction with the exhibition Companion Species: We Are All Related.

Free! No advanced registration required.

Friday, May 6 | Companion Species: Storytelling through Art Studio Activity from 4:00 – 6:00 p.m.

Artist Talk with Kristen Cliffel at 6 p.m.

Join Billings artist Louis Habeck and ZooMontana in the YAM’s Education Studio to create animal portraits using live animal models from the zoo! Then join Companion Species artist Kristen Cliffel as she discusses telling her story through ceramic art.

Saturday, May 21 | A Celebration of our Companion Species 11:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Explore the Companion Species: We are All Related exhibition while listening to the drummers and dancers. Drummers will play at 12:15 and 1:30. Enjoy Indian tacos, berry pudding, dry meat stew with fry bread, and pemmican with mint tea made by Delora Old Elk.

Explore the work of Sean Chandler in the Un-Homecoming of Uncle Dirty and Jimmy Cardell exhibition and tell your own story using multiple mediums on a large-scale canvas.

Be the Star of your own collage. Create artwork inspired by the I Refuse to be Invisible exhibition.

June 30 | Ceramic Stories

Use storytelling to create a ceramic vessel based on work by Jessie Albrecht in the Un-Homecoming of Uncle Dirty and Jimmy Cardell exhibition.

July 7 | Sculp-loration

Try different 3D techniques based on sculptures in the YAM’s permanent collection.

July 14 | Letter by Letter

Explore typography and create a work of art using words inspired

by Glen Liegon’s I Am Somebody.

July 21 | Abstract Dreamscapes

Combine multiple techniques to create abstract dreamscapes based on work by Robert Royhl in the Voids and Blooms exhibition.

July 28 | Paint a Face

Inspired by the work of Michael Haykin in the exhibition Painting a Pandemic, use negative space to create a self portrait.

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YOUNG ARTISTS’ GALLERY Exhibitions

Park City Elementary School K–2 Saturday, April 23 – Sunday, June 19 Greybull Middle and High School Saturday, June 25 – Sunday, August 7 Hardin 6th Grade Saturday, August 13 – Sunday, October 8

SUMMER CAMPS Summer Art Academy

YAM Camp

Register online atartmuseum.org/educate/childrens-camps or in-person at the YAM.

Register online atartmuseum.org/educate/childrens-camps or in-person at the YAM.

Ages 7 – 14 | Monday, June 6 – Friday, June 10 8:30 a.m.-4:15 p.m. | Opening day begins with orientation from 8:00 – 8:30 a.m. for children and families.

Ages 6 – 12 | Monday, August 1 – Friday, August 5 Ages 6 – 8: 9:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

Ages 9 – 12: 1:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

YAM Members: $300 | Not-Yet-Members: $335 Sibling Price for YAM Members Only: $275

YAM Members: $95 | Not-Yet-Members: $125 Sibling Price for YAM Members Only: $75

Summer Art Academy is in its 22nd season! At this camp, young artists study under professional artists in concentrated areas, which they choose. Class sizes are limited. Art supplies are included in the cost of tuition. Students bring their own snacks and lunches.

Summer Art Academy is located on the campus of Rocky Mountain College. Registration opens March 22. Classes fill at a first come first served basis.

At YAM Camp young artists spend a week at the YAM creating art, exploring the galleries and making friends. This year create over the top artworks using a variety of new and unique art mediums.

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ADULT ART CLASSES ADULT COOKING CLASSES For more information visit artmuseum.org/educate/adult-education.

Please email Carrie Goe Nettleton at outreach@artmuseum.org with any questions. Register online or call the front desk at 406.256.6804.

Watercolor Batik with Carol Welch Saturday, May 21 | 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Members: $80 | Not-yet Member: $105 Use a variation of the traditional art of batik to create beautiful effects on rice paper using melted wax as a resist with the application of watercolor in layers. When complete, wax is removed with an iron. Bring an image for reference or some will be provided. All levels welcome. A lifelong Montana resident, Carol Welch paints with watercolor, acrylic and encaustic. Her background includes elementary classroom teaching, owning a gallery and frame shop, and having been Museum Art Educator at the YAM. She is a full-time artist, in Huntley, where she enjoys a panoramic view from her studio of the hills overlooking Pryor Creek.

For more information visit artmuseum.org/educate/adult-education.

Please email Carrie Goe Nettleton at outreach@artmuseum.org with any questions. Register online or call the front desk at 406.256.6804.

SATURDAY CLASSES

10:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

Price: $55 members, $65 not-yet-members May 14 | Recipes from the U.K.

Favorite dishes from England, Scotland, & Ireland. Includes supply fee.

CONNECTIONS AT THE ART MUSEUM with the Montana Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association Every 3rd Friday | 10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.

No cost to participate. Registration in advance is required. Call 800.272.3900 or email montana@alz.org to register.

This monthly program promotes connection and companionship for individuals living with early-stage memory loss and their care partners through art.

Join us to view, discuss, and create art with trained docents and volunteers.

May 20 | June 17 | July 15 | August 19

VOLUNTEER AT THE YAM! Now is a great time to get involved with the YAM Volunteer Program!

We have three new, fun, and exciting ways to get involved: Office: We need volunteers to help with the daily business of running the museum. This can be helping with filing, some typing, making flyers, and general help. Catch up on your podcasts while helping the YAM and catch up on office work!

Front Desk: Be the Face of the YAM. This volunteer position includes greeting guests upon their arrival, accepting admittance fees, selling items from the consignment gallery, and informing patrons about what’s new at the YAM. We train you to work with our Point-of-Sale portal.

Small Events: We cannot say enough good things about our SummerFair, Auction, Masquerade volunteers, but have you ever considered volunteering for our smaller events such as exhibit openings or gallery talks? These events are shorter in duration, a great chance to meet new people, and to be part of the fun. Volunteers will help the bartender, bartend, empty trash, or clean up tables with enough down time to view the art or listen to a lecture.

If you are interested please visit artmuseum.org/about/volunteer-opportunities, scan the QR code, email membership@artmuseum.org, or call the YAM at 406.256.6804. We look forward to hearing from you!

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Also in 2022 FIRST FRIDAYS First Fridays at the Yellowstone Art Museum offer programs related to current exhibitions and free admission from 4 – 8 p.m.

May 6 | June 3 | July 1 | August 5

PIANO PLAYERS Do you play piano? Does art inspire you musically? The YAM invites you to play the main floor piano whenever you visit the museum. Before playing, check-in at the front desk and staff will help you get settled. Players of all ages welcome.

Additionally, the museum is interested in organizing volunteer piano players for scheduled days and times. If you would like to commit to a set schedule for playing at the YAM, or if you would like more information, contact artinfo@artmusuem.org.

ANNUAL MEMBERS MEETING Join us on Saturday, July 23 for the annual members meeting In in the Murdock Gallery. The meeting will start at 3:30 p.m. with a reception to follow.

Together we will celebrate all the YAM has accomplished in the past year, as well as exhibitions and programs to come!

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THANK YOU CONTRIBUTORS We would like to give our sincerest thanks to all members, donors, and sponsors who contributed $125 and above.

This cumulative list was compiled on 4/13/2022.

$100,000+ Yellowstone County $50,000 – 99,999 M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust $25,000 – 49,999 Anonymous Linda Shelhamer & Steve Haraden George R. Wanlass $10,000 – 24,999 Anonymous Deborah A. Anspach & Dr. John Hanson Ms. Doak & Bair Family Trusts Hilltop Inn by Riversage Riversage Billings Inn Diane Boyer Jerhoff Jill Krutick Tracy & Mike Linder Bess Lovec Larry & Ruth Martin Gary & Melissa Oakland Kim & Don Olsen Susan Shelhamer Treacy Foundation US Bank National Assoc.

Charlie & Jeanne Widdicombe $5,000 – 9,999 Tim Brocopp Dr. John & Patricia Burg The Honorable William & Anne Cole First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Ms. Val Jeffries Gareld Krieg Mary Alice Fortin Foundation Tim & Trish Matteson Dr. Donald & Carol Roberts Jim & Chris Scott Paige Spalding $2,500 – 4,999 Randy & Cheryl Bentley Brian Brown Conoco Phillips Cynthia Foster Drs. Robert & Linda Merchant Java Kitrick & Puffin Foundation West, Ltd. Barbara Sample Susan Sullivan & Stephen Zabawa

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$1,000 – 2,499 B.H.C.S.D Carole W. Baumann Billings Scheels Lisa & Jeff Berke Janet Carpenter Crowley Fleck Joy & Gene Culver Wesley & Nicole Fangsrud Paul & Dona Hagen Dr. Don & Georgia Hicks Jodi Delahunt Hubbell & Todd Hubbell Chris & Kristie Jessup Pam Jones & Edward Hahn Frank & Margo Kelley Gordon McConnell & Betty Loos William & Kathe McDaniels Thad & Shannon McGrail Patti Morledge Davi Nelson NorthWestern Energy David Orser & Ossie Abrams Dr. Walt & Mary Peet Mr. Scott Johnson Betsy Scanlin & Jeff Anderson Dr. William & Suzanne Smoot Linda J. Snider Dr. Kris Spanjian & Ray Gilbertson Shirley Steele James & Valerie Anne Taylor Leslie Taylor Mrs. Holland Margit Thorndal Steve & Pauline Tostenrud Bill & Mary Underriner Will James Society Ron & Amy Yates $500 – 999 Dr. William & Gail Andrus Dr. Bruce & Susan Barrow Garry Brayko Tari & Randy Broderick Douglas & Karla Carr CHS Brian Christenson Patrick & Carla Cobb Cuda Directional, LLC Shari & Bob Dayton Laurence DeBoer & Lisa Malody Karen A. Ferguson First American Title Company of Montana Michael Fitch

Fred Fleischmann Marilyn Floberg Michelle & Glenn Foy Gainan’s Midtown Flowers John Hanson Harry L. Willett Foundation Pat & Brenda Hittmeier HUB International Terry & Jane Indreland Brad & Carole Jensen Lynette & Bruce Jensen Rodney Kastelitz Dr. Steve & Marilyn Kramer Dorothy Long Dr. Robert & Sharon McDermott Dr. Sheldon & Sheryn Nelson Susan Ogden Michael & Susan O’Leary Sharon Peterson Kevin Rookhuizen Dianne Root Sign Products Carol & Jim Spielman Kevin Stenberg & Vicki Copeland Matthew & Stephanie Stroud Parker Swenson Dr. Stewart & Mary Jane Taylor Donna Todd VIP Services, Inc $125 – 499 Lyda Adair Jenni Aleksich & Andy Bottman Dale & Tomi Alger Erin Allen Lisa Atwood Susan Baack & Dan Gross Dustin Baker Carol Beam Ben Beasley Jeanne & Ron Bender Terry Bentz Donna Bernhardt Wayne & Jean Biberdorf Sandra & Francis Blake Jeanette Blanchard Diana Blank Ruth Blott Mildred Boyd Nancy Boyer James Brien & Hollis Hall Virginia Bryan Gary & Norma Buchanan Judith Burnam Dr. William Choat

Circle K Stores Mona Clark Lynn Conaway Ryan & Holly Cremer Bruce D. Crippen Patricia & David Crisp Nancy T. Curriden Sondra Daly Jan & David Dietrich Dr. Eugen J. Dolan & Marietta Reviczky-Dolan Clarice Dreyer Brenda Dugas Cindy Dunkle Karen Durfey Linda & David Eckhoff Jackey Emery Micheal Engblom-Bradley Bruce L. Ennis & Margaret S. Davis Kay Foster & Mike Matthew Ms. Denice Fraser Stacie & Brett French Angus & Marjorie Fulton Edgar Garcia & Tiffany Burnam Garcia MaryKay Gartland & Tom Lynaugh GFWC — Billings Junior Woman’s Club Leanne Gilbertson Mike & Cathy Glennon Jim & Karen Gransbery Jody K. Grant Dr. Paul Grmoljez & Alice Gordon Jeffery A. & Kerry Gruizenga Rich & Sally Hall Dave & Judy Halter Tom & Robin Hanel Greg & Carol Hardy Stephanie Harper Dr. Brian & Molly Harrington Jim & Linda Healow Robert & Donna Healy Steph Hecker Melody Heide Joan & Jeffrey Heser Mitch & Becky Hillier Edward Hughes & Roberta Anner Hughes Eric & Allyn Hulteng Jeff A. & Cristi Hunnes Allen & Karen Huso David & Susan Irion Val Jeffries & Allen Powers Erin & Chris Jimison Dave Johnson

Tyrel Johnson Kent & Michael Ann Johnson Pierre & Sandy Jomini James Jones Eric & Katherine Jore Aiko Kawano George Kelly & Jo Newhall James & Marie Kelly George T. Kelting Susie Kemmis Dr. Phillip Key & Donna McCool Paul & Phoebe Knapp Warren Donna & Keith Kohnke Kent Koolen & Susan Nybo John & Michelle Koppelman Mike & Jan Kransky Gary & Brooks Leete Jodi Lightner Leif & Julie Linderman Vincent Long & Sarah Grau Frederick Longan Janet Ludwig Robert Mackin & Elizabeth Adcock Lisa Malody Ann Marie Maltby Herbert & Gerry Mangis Frank & Janet Mann Myrna Martinson Matt & Elizabeth McDonald Sally McIntosh Dr. Precious McKenzie & William Stearns Mary McNally & Monte Smith Elizabeth McNamer Donna J. Meyer Paul & Ann Miller Jeff & Paula Mjelstad Louis Moore Penny & William Morgan Leigh Morrison

Fred & Patsy Muller Ty & Mendy Nelson Judy Northam Nancy O’Brien O2 Architects Allison O’Donnell & Mark Sanderson Dennis & Nikki Olson Mary Pickett Parker Eric Paterson David J. Patterson & Mary Palffy Dale & Judy Peterson Catherine & Maurie Petterson Dr. Victoria Porter Jean Posusta Debbie Potter Paige Presler-Jur & Dr. Jess Jur Veronica Procter Beth & Kenneth Pumo Jaq Quanbeck Dr. Mark & Chris Randak Sunny Sky Red Star Mark & Veronica Restad Suzanne Reymer Keeara Rhoades Mark Richlen Thelma Rickels Thomas Romine & Susan Walton Jim & Lin Roscoe George & Heather Rosenfeld Betty Roy Theresa & Dennis Rubin Dale Ruff Kay & Gary Ruhle Loren Salsbury Colleen Salvatore Dr. Rachel Schaffer & Deborah Schaffer Patrick & Mary Schelle John Scheuering

Barry & Arlee Scott Steve & Kathie Shandera Michael Shaw Dr. George F. & Olivia Sheckleton Larry & Nina Sheneman James Siegman Corby Skinner Gary Smith & Halcyon LaPoint Linda Snedigar Brownie Snyder Donald Sommerfeld & Susan Kennedy Sommerfeld Jacque Stannebein Noelle Sullivan Dr. Beth Sullivan & David Floerchinger Karen Svenby Renée Tafoya Bill & Debbie Tierney Kristi Tolliver Patti S. Townsend Thomas Tully & Barbara Archer Dr. Douglas Turgeon Tvetene Turf, Inc. Morgan Tyree Jane Urbaska Ted & Barbara Weiss Robert & Rita Wells Betty & Paul Whiting Roger & Patricia Williams Rebekah & Brock Williams Suzanne Wilson Daniel & Michelle Wohlgenant Dixie & YungBen Yelvington Caryn Youngholm

Executive Officers Deborah Anspach President Matthew Stroud Vice-President Steve Tostenrud Secretary/Treasurer Kim Olsen Immediate Past President

Board of Trustees Tari Broderick Juni Clark Paul Cox Katherine Euler Lynette Jensen Bess Lovec Thad McGrail Dr. Robert Merchant Gary Oakland Sharon Peterson Kevin Red Star Susan Sullivan Donna Todd

National Council John Buck Deborah Butterfield Paul Farr Abe Hays William I. Koch Carla O’Rorke Nathaniel Owings Joseph Poindexter Jaune Quick-to-See Smith Mark Stevens

Leadership Team Jessica Kay Ruhle Executive Director John Greenberger Finance & Admin. Director Adam Beaves-Fisher Advancement Director Carrie Goe Nettleton Education Director Nickolas Olson Marketing Manager Diana Geiger Leadership Associate

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