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 MAM's exhibition program is a broad landscape that serves and represents diverse audiences and creative interests.
Each year, 20 to 25 solo and group exhibitions rotate through six state-of-the-art galleries. MAM organizes and rents exhibits, develops programs through community partnerships, and welcomes the opportunity to review exhibition proposals.
MAM does not accept commissions on the sale of artwork but in support of artists, will put collectors in touch with artists or artists' representatives.
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Using over 5,000 painstakingly-cut illustrations from English dictionaries, Dove has created artwork that will bridge MAM's galleries and dominate the second floor of the museum. |
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November 01, 2007 - January 05, 2008 |
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Deep Play is a survey of 29 artworks from MAM's permanent collections that explore symbols and strategies of play. |
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December 04, 2007 - March 22, 2008 |
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MAM is excited to exhibit new paintings by local favorite, George Gogas through the holiday season and into the new year. His new body of work represents a departure from Gogas' most recent narrative paintings with a series of large, non-objective abstract paintings. |
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December 07, 2007 - February 09, 2008 |
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MAM features the work of regional artist Corwin Clairmont in the Lynda Frost Gallery, December 18th, 2007 through March 1st, 2008. |
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December 18, 2007 - March 01, 2008 |
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MAM's 36th Annual Benefit Art Auction exhibition will be juried by a committee of MAM board members, staff and community members. The mix of young emerging artist and nationally recognized artists makes this exciting exhibit a perennial favorite. |
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January 11 - January 31, 2008 |
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Holly Andres presents a series of large format color photographs. The narrative work is based loosely on her childhood and growing up in Missoula. |
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February 12 - April 26, 2008 |
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Cheryl Bannes, a Lewistown artist, directed this project in which students from six Central Montana Hutterite communities were given cameras to document their experiences in these isolated agricultural communities. The photos were taken over a period of three months with students producing over 1000 photos. From these photos, a committee of teachers, artists and community members selected 36 images which were enlarged and framed for the exhibition. |
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February 12 - April 26, 2008 |
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Romanoff is the grandnephew of Russia's last tsar, Nicholas II. Today Romanoff lives outside of San Francisco, California in the small town of Inverness. His preferred medium is Shrinky Dinks (plastic sheets that shrink by two-thirds when cooked in the oven). Romanoff draws and paints, shrinks the inimitable scenes, and then mounts them on panels. |
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February 12 - April 26, 2008 |
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This exhibition is an extensive and in-depth overview of David Shaner's illustrious career, which spanned more than four decades. Trained in the late 1950's at Alfred University School of Ceramics, Shaner became the director of the influential Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts in Helena, Montana. After leaving Helena, Shaner became a nationally acclaimed studio potter, working out of his home and studio in Bigfork, Montana. |
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February 19 - May 31, 2008 |
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Molly was born in Great Falls, MT and is a mixed blood descendant of the Oglala Lakota tribe. She was raised in western Montana and attended The University of Montana. This comprehensive exhibition is featured in the Lynda M. Frost Gallery which is dedicated to showcasing the work of contemporary American Indian artists. |
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March 07 - May 24, 2008 |
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Working primarily with the mediums of glass, electronics and video, and secondarily with metals, wax and fire, McElroy has created video documentation of performances that reflect his broader concerns. His work confronts the issues surrounding human control over nature and the intimate installation includes video documentation as well as some samples of his imaginative glass machinery. The actions of these machines tell a far greater story than the machines themselves. |
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March 26 - May 26, 2008 |
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Katy Stone's installation utilizes all the surfaces in the Aresty Gallery and breaks out into the center of the gallery at key moments. Incorporating her signature aesthetic language of sensitive shadow and light, the work will all be made of Duralar, an archival acetate similar to "mylar" and include a dramatic variety of scale, and complexity. |
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April 04 - May 31, 2008 |
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MAM is proud to host this visiting Arizona artist Richard Lerman for a performance/event in conjunction with Missoula's Bike Walk Bus Week, and in celebration of Bernice's Bakery's 30th Anniversary. Lerman's residency will include a procession, rehearsals and an ultimate performance. The event will use amplified bicycles with riders to ride and walk a route from MAM to Fort Missoula. |
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April 19, 2008 |
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The Encaustic Invitational showcases six artists from the region who have chosen encaustic as their primary medium. Curated by MAM Curator of Education Renee Taaffe, all of the artists invited are well established and have been exhibiting their work for many years. Some of these artists have worked with encaustic for decades, whereas others are relative newcomers to the process; all are still exploring the possibilities of this ancient medium. |
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May 02 - July 19, 2008 |
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"Art is a way to express feelings, opinions, and individuality. At Willard there is a lot of diversity and we'd like to show you the abundance of talent here." - Lydia, Willard Alternative High School student. |
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May 02 - August 22, 2008 |
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Vital Signs, the pulses and patterns of the body, are indicators of essential life functions. The powerful work of Joe Feddersen reveals, like vital signs themselves, the state of the human condition from the vantage point of a contemporary artist who has inherited an ancient aesthetic tradition. Arising from Plateau Indian iconographic interpretations of the human-environment relationship, Feddersen's prints, weavings, and glass sculptures explore the relationships between contemporary urban place markers and indigenous design. |
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June 03 - September 27, 2008 |
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Julia Becker's installation plays in the vertical airspace in the museum entrance, a place where forces of gravity and natural light take precedence, a space that breathes into the other galleries, and is, in a sense, at the heart of the museum. |
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June 06 - October 16, 2008 |
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Gaylen Hansen has lived in the Palouse region of southeastern Washington for most of his life. This exhibition features paintings that span 30 years of Hansen's remarkable career. |
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June 13 - August 23, 2008 |
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MAM's summer exhibition from the permanent collections, features animal imagery embodying ideas as diverse as love for the natural world, political beliefs, shared memories and secret selves. |
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July 30 - October 25, 2008 |
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Persian Visions: Contemporary Photography from Iran, an exhibition of more than 60 works of photography and video installations by 20 of Iran's most celebrated photographers. The exhibition gathers personal perspectives of contemporary Iran filtered through individual sensibilities, while simultaneously addressing public concerns. |
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September 05 - November 22, 2008 |
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Holloway is an experienced printmaker, educator and geographer. He will use the exhibition space to "illustrate" the process of mapping what he calls "Right MAP Making," and will concentrate on the Clark Fork River. |
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September 16 - November 15, 2008 |
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This festive, antique quilt collection is a selection of 16 works from the Jim and Kate Carroll Collection. Viewers will enjoy a variety of hand-quilted traditional and symmetrical patterns featuring stylized flowers and figures, with a decidedly pastel palette. |
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December 05 - December 31, 2008 |
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Staff / Board
Exhibitions
