Mildred Sandall Scott Galleries
November 5, 2024 – January 12, 2025
In celebration of the museum’s 60th anniversary, the YAM is pleased to work with Montana artist Elizabeth Stone on a commissioned artwork that honors the region’s public and personal histories.
Throughout 2024, Elizabeth Stone worked with the Billings community on the I Remember Project, a participatory multi-generational community engagement project that results in public artwork(s). The project, inspired by Joe Brainard’s book I Remember, was conceived during the imposed isolation on the pandemic in 2020 and created during an artist-in-residency at Cassilhaus in Chapel Hill in October of 2021.
The I Remember project will incorporate photographic negatives and slides collected from community members in Billings and surrounding areas. Each donation depicts individual and family histories. Collectively, the artwork functions as a record of the area’s identity.