May 26 - October 01, 2016
Dwayne Wilcox: Above the Fruited Plain
Dwayne Wilcox: Above the Fruited Plain
Hockaday Museum of Art, May 26 - July 16, 2016
Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, August 1 - October 1, 2016

June 03 - October 01, 2016
Karen Shimoda: Field Notes
Shimoda moved from Missoula to Portland, OR, at the beginning of 2015. During her daily walks in this new environment, she took notes to learn the flora of the unfamiliar forest and as a diary of observations. The observations and patterns worked their way into her art practice and are on display in this solo exhibition titled Field Notes.

August 05 - December 10, 2016
Not Vanishing: Contemporary Expressions In Indigenous Art, 1977-2015
MAM is pleased to present Not Vanishing, a survey of significant artworks by American Indian artists from the Pacific Northwest region. The exhibit was curated by Gail Tremblay and Miles R. Miller, and organized for travel by the Museum of Northwest Art in LaConner, WA.

September 01 - December 03, 2016
Willem Volkersz: On Paper
This exhibition celebrates recent gifts donated to the Missoula Art Museum Permanent Collection by Willem and Diane Volkersz. Included in the exhibition are 12 drawings donated in 2014 and 38 drawings donated in 2015. These works were exhibited as part of a drawing retrospective titled, A Paper Trail, Drawings 1954-1999. The drawings range in theme from those Volkersz created as a high school student during his studies of the geometric De Stijl movement native to the Netherlands, to a series of playful self-portraits, spare conceptual exercises, and hat 'excerpts' drawn from famous paintings throughout art history. As a whole, they are a testament to the power and breadth of which drawing is capable and to the artist's development over a period of 60 years.

September 09, 2016 - January 07, 2017
Stephen Glueckert: All Mixed Up
Missoula Art Museum presents this survey of Stephen Glueckert's prolific art career from the 1970s to present. A consummate artist and educator, he has created a vast outpouring of work influenced by folk and intuitive artist traditions, as well as modernism. Included are early films, handmade games, drawings, conceptual pieces, drawing machines, collages, interactive sculptures, and inventive assemblages.

September 13 - October 18, 2016
AFTER SCHOOL ART ADVENTURE 1
Times: 3:45 - 5:15 PM
Young artists will work with Bev on a variety of 2-D and 3-D projects, including clay sculptures, oil pastels, and tempera scratch drawings. Bev never fails to come up with new and exciting projects.
Teachers: Bev Beck Glueckert
Price: $50.00
Members: $45.00

September 21, 2016 - January 21, 2017
Leslie Van Stavern Millar II: Montana Peepshow Stories
More than 20 years ago, Leslie Van Stavern Millar II appeared as her Science Woman persona to present the first Montana Peepshow Stories. Queen Elizabeth I is a time-traveler visiting historic moments in Montana as part of the Caravan Project, a mobile art collective that visited rural communities throughout the state. For the MAM exhibition, Millar has added five paintings to the original five in the series. The new works depict the Queen and specific people and events in Missoula's history, such as the Black Bicycle Corps of Fort Missoula, the Salish Pow Wow in Arlee, and President Roosevelt on the occasion when he spoke on Higgins Avenue in 1911. The series of 10 paintings are housed in freestanding wooden boxes, calling to mind the peepshows of yesteryear. Visitors will find the peepshows featured in MAM's Travel Montana Lobby and encounter the works throughout the museum's three floors.

September 22 - December 31, 2016
Courtney Blazon: The Year Without a Summer
Missoula artist Courtney Blazon, noted for her stream-of-consciousness narrative drawings, will create a drawing-installation at Missoula Art Museum that takes inspiration from the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora on the island of Sumbawa in present-day Indonesia"one of the most powerful eruptions in recorded history. Blazon describes the series as interrelated, "surrealistic, symbolist, and fantastical drawings" in which she imagines "the dead and living" coming together to narrate a story with far-reaching cultural and social consequences.

October 07, 2016
Courtney Blazon: The Year Without a Summer
Times: 5 PM - 8 PM
Join Missoula artist Courtney Blazon for the opening night at Missoula Art Museum of her new works entitled, The Year Without a Summer.
Location: MAM

October 07 - December 31, 2016
Stephen Glueckert Contemporary Montana Art Collection
Missoula Art Museum will debut a new category of the Permanent Collection dedicated to MAM Senior Curator Emeritus, Stephen Glueckert. The collection, established in 2015 on the occasion of his retirement, primarily comprises work by living artists who had the fortuity to work with and know Glueckert. Many of these artists began making art in the 1960s and 1970s, laying the groundwork for contemporary art as we know it today.

October 08, 2016
Mud Ponies
Times: 11 AM-12:30 PM
We will create in the style of author/illustrator Caron Lee Cohen, combining strength and movement, splatter backgrounds, and flat perspective.
Teachers: Amy Friedman

October 08, 2016
Open Figure Drawing
Times: 3 PM - 5 PM
On alternate Saturdays beginning September 10, these sessions provide artists the opportunity to draw from a live model. Some supplies are available for use. Participants must be 18 years or older.
Teachers: non-instructed
Price: $10.00
Members: $8.00

October 18, 2016
Visiting Artist Lecture
Times: 7 PM
Sara Siestreem, a Hannis-Coos artist from the Pacific Northwest, will present a lecture at Missoula Art Museum in conjunction with her residence at the UM's School of Art Matrix Press and her work entitled, Thanks Giving: Giving Thanks.
Location: MAM

October 19, 2016
Drawing One Step Further
Times: 4 PM - 6 PM
Simple tools such as pen, paper, and ink will be used to create surrealistic drawings that dip the real world into the well of the weird and fantastical.
Teachers: Courtney Blazon

October 22, 2016
Open Figure Drawing
Times: 3 PM - 5 PM
On alternate Saturdays beginning September 10, these sessions provide artists the opportunity to draw from a live model. Some supplies are available for use. Participants must be 18 years or older.
Teachers: non-instructed
Price: $10.00
Members: $8.00

October 25 - November 29, 2016
AFTER SCHOOL ART ADVENTURE II
Times: 3:45 - 5:15 PM
Bev continues to inspire and challenge young students with a wide selection of materials and processes, including mixed media and printmaking.
Teachers: Bev Beck Glueckert
Price: $50.00
Members: $45.00

October 27, 2016
End of the World Masquerade and Costume Party
Times: 7 PM
Dress like any of the characters in Courtney's detailed illustrations from her exhibition in this historically-inspired masquerade party.
Location: MAM
Price: $20.00
Members: $15.00

November 04, 2016
Leslie Van Stavern Millar II: Montana Peepshow Stories
Times: 5 PM - 8 PM
Come enjoy First Friday at MAM and an opportunity to discover Missoula History through the lens of Leslie Van Stavern Millar II and the First Queen Elizabeth. Enjoy live DJs from KBGA, a no host bar and a Gallery Talk at 7 PM. Special thanks to the Missoulian for supporting First Fridays at MAM.
Location: MAM

November 05, 2016
Saturday + with Leslie Van Stavern Millar II
Times: 11 AM-12 PM
Leslie Van Stavern Millar will guide you through her fascinating exhibition, Montana Peepshow Stories.
Location: MAM

November 05, 2016
Open Figure Drawing
Times: 3 PM - 5 PM
On alternate Saturdays beginning September 10, these sessions provide artists the opportunity to draw from a live model. Some supplies are available for use. Participants must be 18 years or older.
Teachers: non-instructed
Price: $10.00
Members: $8.00

November 11 - December 16, 2016
Experimental Drawing
Times: 2 PM - 4 PM
End your Friday afternoons doing something creative. This class is a series of drawing exercises in varied lighting conditions intended to develop a personal awareness that enhances practice of contour and gesture drawing.
Teachers: Dennis Kern
Price: $130.00
Members: $117.00

November 12, 2016
Symbolic Self-Portrait Box Sculpture
Times: 11 AM-12:30 PM
Using small boxes, wire, thread, colored paper, and other objects, you will create a textural colorful sculpture that symbolically represents who you are.
Teachers: Katy Cannon

November 15, 2016
Gallery Talk, Willem Volkersz: On Paper
Times: 7 PM
Get an in-depth view of the drawings of Willem Volkersz, and the development of this prolific artist over forty years.
Location: MAM

November 16, 2016
Blowing in the Wind
Times: 4 PM - 6 PM
Glueckert will guide you to experiment with different and exciting new drawing techniques and tools, including atomized ink, cattle marker, and much more.
Teachers: Stephen Glueckert

November 19, 2016
Open Figure Drawing
Times: 3 PM - 5 PM
On alternate Saturdays beginning September 10, these sessions provide artists the opportunity to draw from a live model. Some supplies are available for use. Participants must be 18 years or older.
Teachers: non-instructed
Price: $10.00
Members: $8.00

December 01, 2016 - June 01, 2017
Neil Chaput de Saintonge & Keith Graham, Chasing Time: Montana's One-Room Schools
Chasing Time: Montana's One-Room Schools
Neil Chaput de Saintonge & Keith Graham
December 1, 2016 - February 1, 2017: MonDak Heritage Center, Sidney
February 15 - March 15, 2017: Northcutt Steele Gallery at MSU-Billings
April 1 - June 1, 2017: Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls

December 02, 2016
Binary Form: Ceramic Abstraction by Trey Hill and Andrea Moon
Times: 5 PM - 8 PM
Join Trey Hill and Andrea Moon for opening night of this masterful ceramic exhibit. The pairing of artists generates dialogue about similarities and differences in the artists' formalist sensibilities
Location: MAM

December 02, 2016 - May 13, 2017
Binary Form: Ceramic Abstraction by Trey Hill and Andrea Moon
This exhibition at Missoula Art Museum brings together two Montana ceramists, Trey Hill and Andrea Moon. The pairing of artists generates dialogue about similarities and differences in the artists' formalist sensibilities. Binary Form showcases the variable strengths of ceramics as a sculptural medium and how two artists working in contradictory ways use form to express content. Each uses a single recognizable object as the basis to work through introspective themes. The craftsmanship, subtle surfaces, and elegant forms have holding power and encourage contemplation.

December 03, 2016
Trey Hill and Andrea Moon Artist Discussion
Times: 11 AM-12 PM
Join Trey Hill and Andrea Moon for an in-depth discussion of this masterful ceramic exhibit. The pairing of artists generates dialogue about similarities and differences in the artists' formalist sensibilities and processes.
Location: MAM

December 03, 2016
Holiday Drop In Family Art Project
Times: 1 PM- 3 PM
In conjunction with the Missoula Downtown Association's Parade of Lights, MAM will host an open studio for families. Drop in and make a special holiday project with MAM.
Teachers: MAM staff

December 03, 2016
Open Figure Drawing
Times: 3 PM - 5 PM
On alternate Saturdays beginning September 10, these sessions provide artists the opportunity to draw from a live model. Some supplies are available for use. Participants must be 18 years or older.
Teachers: non-instructed
Price: $10.00
Members: $8.00

December 06, 2016
Musical Holiday Soiree MAM Member Event
Times: 5 PM
Come celebrate the season and MAM's year end with festive music, drinks, and light hors d'oeuvres.

December 10, 2016
Candle Lanterns
Times: 11 AM-12:30 PM
Create beautiful lanterns using recycled glass jars.
Teachers: Amy Friedman

December 14, 2016
Go Gothic!
Times: 4 PM - 6 PM
Create a unique, ceramic gargoyle five inches in size with characteristics derived from your favorite books, games, food, toys, and films.
Teachers: Elisha Harris

December 16, 2016 - April 22, 2017
Ryan! Feddersen: Resistance
Seattle-based artist RYAN! Feddersen (Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation) creates multi-layered environments and interactive sculptures. Feddersen's work is tongue-in-cheek, but with a pointed message that considers the role that art and creative industries play in creating sustainable communities. For the exhibition at Missoula Art Museum, she has created four interactive installations that address equitable development and resource use: Unveiling the Romantic West; Disconnected Towers; Coyote Now! and Martha Stewart Cocktails.

December 17, 2016
Open Figure Drawing
Times: 3 PM - 5 PM
On alternate Saturdays beginning September 10, these sessions provide artists the opportunity to draw from a live model. Some supplies are available for use. Participants must be 18 years or older.
Teachers: non-instructed
Price: $10.00
Members: $8.00