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 Welcome! We hope you enjoy your virtual tour of one of the most exciting art museums in the northwest. Whether it's the incredibly diverse contemporary art scene or the work of groundbreaking artists from the past, our mission is ART! We are Montana's premier art museum, presenting Montana's most forward-looking artists and bringing here to Montana historic and world art significant for our region.
Travel through our web site, find information about our collections and programs, and discover ways to help us continue to build on our past and present successes. Join us and be where the art is!
Robyn G. Peterson, Executive Director
 With many thanks to our 2012 Exhibition Season Sponsor
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East / West: Visually Speaking
March 22, 2012 through July 29, 2012
Opening reception on Thursday, March 29, 2012, 5:30 p.m.
In East/West: Visually Speaking, a new generation of contemporary Chinese artists has burst onto the world stage with an exciting and unprecedented body of work. In this major exhibition, thirteen of China's leading young artists explore China's culturally taboo subjects, western ideas, and individual freedoms through painting, embroidery, mixed media, and sculpture. This exhibition explores the very nature of artistic freedom.
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Read more: East / West: Visually Speaking
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An excellent artic le about Brooke Atherton, our current artist-in-residence at the Visible Vault, is featured in the Billings Gazette. For more information, click here. |
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 Creative Force: The Studio Art QuiltMarch 22, 2012 through June 10, 2012Opening reception on Thursday, March 29, 2012, 5:30 p.m.
This is not your grandmother's quilt! Merging craft and fine art, the art quilter "paints" with thread and "sculpts" with fabric, pushing the boundaries of fine art with new materials, techniques, and interpretations. Creative Force revels in the joy of fine craftsmanship and surprises the viewer with extraordinary effects in fiber and the breadth and diversity of its styles and subject matter. This exceptional exhibition, juried by fiber artist Chunghie Lee, challenges and inspires. Artists from Canada, France, Hungary, the U.K., Australia, Belgium, the Netherlands, and the U.S. are included.
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Read more: Creative Force: The Studio Art Quilt
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Permanent Collection
A Canadian who began his life in the saddle as a teenager in western Canada, Will James knew the ways of the cowboy trade inside out. A natural storyteller and observant draftsman, James turned to a career as a writer and illustrator about 1920. Between 1922 and 1942, Scribner's published nearly two dozen books written and illustrated by James. The Billings area was home base for him between 1926 and 1942. .
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