Kate Hunt: Recent Works
MAM is thrilled to share this exhibit of work by one of the West's most important and innovative artists: Kate Hunt. Hunt has mastered transforming an everyday material that is usually used once then discarded into a powerful medium. She uses newspaper to create formally and conceptually strong sculptural works of varied shape, thought provoking content, and strange beauty.
DATES:
September 12, 2014 - February 21, 2015

Elizabeth Dove: Corpus of the Unknowable
This intimate exhibition of nine works from the Corpus of the Unknowable series was created in 2004 by Elizabeth Dove, Associate Professor of Art at the University of Montana. Dove incorporates text into her graphic works as a way of exploring memory and knowledge.
DATES:
September 23, 2014 - January 31, 2015

Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts: Selected Works
Crow's Shadow's growing and extensive collection and archive is the source of this traveling exhibition of more than 45 prints presented here. With an emphasis on contemporary, fine-art printmaking, they also function as a venue for traditional Native American art practices.
DATES:
October 17, 2014 - March 21, 2015

Montana Triennial: 2015 Call for Submissions
Montana artists are invited to submit artwork for consideration in the Missoula Art Museum's 2015 Montana Triennial. The exhibition will be featured in MAM's Carnegie Galleries during the summer of 2015.
DATES:
October 19, 2014 - January 05, 2015

Pat Zentz: Trio
Trio is a sound installation artwork donated to MAM in 2011 by Billings art collectors and connoisseurs John and Carol Green. The Greens have made a focused effort to ensure that significant works of contemporary ceramics, painting and sculpture remain in Montana, available for the enjoyment of Montanans.
DATES:
October 21, 2014 - March 28, 2015

Heavy Metal from The Collection
Come on in and take a look at this small, lobby exhibit featuring four pieces of steel sculpture by two accomplished artists: Ted Waddell and Manuel Izquierdo.
DATES:
December 01, 2014 - April 04, 2015

Fifth Grade Identity-In A Box!
This year students involved in the 28th Fifth Grade Art Experience were inspired by the work of artist Kate Hunt and encouraged to experiment with materials, found images, paint, wire and wax to create boxes that expressed who they are.
DATES:
December 01, 2014 - March 13, 2015

Ruby Jubilee Auction Exhibition
The exhibition will open January 6 with the Ruby Jubilee Auction occurring at the UC Ballroom Saturday, February 7. Sponsored by U.S. Bank
DATES:
January 06 - February 04, 2015

Big Sky Interactive, BSDFF at MAM
Big Sky Interactive, A Part Of The Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, At MAM
Documentaries, at their heart, are a reflection of reality. The features exhibited here are as much an exploration of the possibilities of documentary filmmaking as they are of their individual subjects.
DATES:
February 10 - February 20, 2015

Theo Ellsworth: Thought Clouds
Ellsworth is a self-taught artist, comics creator, and elaborate storyteller. He is also a painter, sculptor, mixed-media artist, as well as an illustrator. MAM is thrilled to share a cross section of more than 50 original illustrations to celebrate his first solo museum exhibition. The selected works will be representing a cross-section of his publications.
DATES:
February 20 - June 26, 2015

Renée Brown: Profusion
Missoula-based artist Renée Brown is no stranger to the ceramics community, and we are excited to present her first solo MAM exhibition. The exhibition explores the natural world, with Brown reexamining stones and minerals which so fascinated her in her youth. It is no coincidence that the installation feels like a mineral show. A mature ceramic artist, Brown has been attracted to the natural compositions in gems, minerals, and stones, and in exploring the resulting vision.
DATES:
February 27 - June 20, 2015

Big Sky High School Art Club
MAM has asked the high school art students from Big Sky High Sky to share their work in MAM's Education Gallery. The majority of students are involved with the High School Art Club, and others are students from the advanced art classes. Thanks to Big Sky art reachers Dustin Hoon and an DeGrandpre for helping to organize this exhibit.
DATES:
March 13 - May 29, 2015

Four Decades Of Collecting: Selections From The Permanent Collection
This eclectic selection of artworks showcases a 40-year tradition of giving art to the Missoula Art Museum's permanent collection. Artists, individuals, and estates have contributed over the years to
developing a body of painting, sculpture, print, ceramic, photography, and textiles that capture the variety, dynamism, and genius of contemporary art in Montana.
DATES:
March 13 - April 18, 2015

Jeneese Hilton: Raven Reviewing Modern
St. Ignatius artist Jeneese Hilton is a painter's painter. Her lush canvases of expressively applied paint deftly capture light and color, form and content. The themes of her paintings are richly layered, drawing from myth, history, literature and spirituality, the personal and the communal. Imagery from her own Blackfeet tradition recurs, with creatures suggestive of Native American animism and sacredness, such as the horse, turtle, raven, bison, and bear. The fields of thick color and compelling forms invite the viewer to ponder and find meaning in the paintings.
DATES:
April 03 - August 22, 2015

Andy Warhol Collection: Museum of Art, WSU
In 2008, the Museum of Art/WSU was awarded a gift of 100 original Polaroid photographs and 50 silver gelatin prints by Andy Warhol from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The gift derived from the Andy Warhol Photographic Legacy Program, which sought meaningful homes in museums across the United States for selections of more than 28,500 of his photographs.
DATES:
April 09 - August 15, 2015

John Thompson: A Celebration
In celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the Carousel for Missoula, MAM is excited to host one of the gifted artists who made this project a reality. John Thompson was trained as a printmaker, has taught MAM art classes, and became involved the carousel project nearly 25 years ago.
DATES:
April 15 - June 20, 2015

Montana Triennial: 2015
The works range from the abstract to the figurative, but all reflect years of artistic preparation honed by schooling, travel, experience, critical theory, knowledge of place, and repeated trips to the studio revisiting themes and craft. Whether black-and-white or color, intimate or world-weary, rendered by manipulating clay or pushing paint, the works in this exhibition relate private tales and shared subject matter.
DATES:
May 01 - September 04, 2015

American Abstract Artists
The American Abstract Artists (AAA) is a democratically artist-run organization founded in 1936 in New York City to promote and foster understanding of abstract and non-objective art. In 1997 they donated 40 prints to MAM, and a portion of this remarkable portfolio was exhibited. For the first time, we are thrilled to show all 40 prints at MAM.
DATES:
June 05 - August 29, 2015

Chasing Time: Montana's One-Room Schools
Across the United States, there are fewer than 200 one-room school houses in operation. Montana is home to approximately 75 of them "more than any other state. Neil Chaput and Keith Graham travelled to one-third of the Montana schools in 2013/2014 to meet the teachers and students and to document their experiences.
DATES:
July 02 - September 19, 2015

Kathryn Schmidt: Seen In Broad Daylight
Bozeman artist Kathryn Schmidt is a distinguished artist in the region. MAM is honored to celebrate Schmidt's vision in her first exhibition at MAM. Her paintings and sculptures never spell everything out, leaving enough unsaid that there always remains a mystery for us to fill in. This is the magic in her works, the mystery offered by content served up in dark compositions with content that remains unsaid.
DATES:
July 07 - October 24, 2015

A Few of My Favorite Things
A Few of My Favorite Things is an exhibition selected by MAM's Senior Exhibition Curator Emeritus Stephen Glueckert. Glueckert selected 12 seldom-seen works from the MAM Collection, which will be accompanied by some brief text describing why each work has become a favorite of his.
DATES:
October 02 - December 23, 2015