Russell Auction sets all new records
The 40th annual C.M. Russell Auction, held March 14-15 in Great Falls, eclipsed last year's record $2.4 million weekend with sales of $2,972,400. Highlights of this year's auction included a single-night auction record of $2,052,750 on Saturday night, smashing last year's $1.46 million record. Read more
New DVD offers opportunity to study with Peter Voulkos
With a cigarette dangling from his lips, Peter Voulkos slams balls of clay into a lump, then wedges the 30-pound mass, muscles straining as he rocks and rolls it into a spiral form. Student vassals carry it to the wheel. His clothes are smeared with mud; his fingers, oozing slip, shape and pull, shape and pull; the wheel spins. It's wet, dripping water while Voulkos uses a paddle and then a knife, mumbling comments to students, making jokes. Read more
April Art Notes | Accomplishments from Montana’s art community
Livingston artist John Banovich’s one-of-a-kind NASCAR hood was sold during a live auction Jan. 25 at the Safari Club International convention in Reno, NV. “Inside the Red Zone,” an original oil creation, graced the hood of driver Kevin Harvick’s number 29 racing car. Proceeds benefited the new Banovich Wildscapes Foundation and Safari Club International Foundation. Read more
“Speaking Volumes” tours Montana
Coming to a town near you ...After "Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate" closes April 15 at the Holter Museum, the exhibit travels around the state from 2008-2010, with stops at: Copper Village Museum and Art Center in Anaconda, Custer County Art and Heritage Center in Miles City, Paris Gibson Square Art Museum in Great Falls, ... Read more
“Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate”
The catalogue for the Holter Museum’s exhibition of “Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate” begins with a preface by executive director Liz Gans that quotes the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the approach to the “darkness” of hate and violence. Read more