Mosaic Project celebrates Glacier’s iconic red buses
Published: May 4, 2010
In celebration of the Glacier Park Centennial, the Hockaday Museum of Art in Kalispell is sponsoring the Community Mosaic Project. The project is an opportunity for artists and non-artists alike to enjoy, participate and create a group painting based on a Bret Bouda photograph.
Bouda’s photograph of a red bus on Going-to-the-Sun Road with Mt. Oberlin in the background will be enlarged and divided into 300 squares. Each Mosaic Project participant may purchase one or more 2” x 2” pieces of canvas and will receive a square of the photograph to reproduce on that canvas.
Any media may be used as long as it is permanent and dry when returned to the Hockaday. Participants may draw, paint, collage or use another interpretation of their square or squares of the photograph.
Mosaic Project participants are invited to stop by the Hockaday at 302 2nd Avenue East in Kalispell to register and pick up their canvas. Canvas pieces are $2 each to cover the cost of supplies for the project, and finished pieces are due by May 29.
The Mosaic Project will be reassembled and then unveiled on June 26 at the museum’s Plein Air Paint Out Party.
The project is part of the museum’s summer celebration of the park’s centennial. “The Art of Preservation: Official Centennial Art of Glacier National Park” is on display through May 15 and includes 14 works of art that were chosen to celebrate the park’s 100th birthday.
“John Fery: Artist of the Rockies,” on display June 17-Sept. 18, showcases works by the artist who was originally commissioned by the Great Northern Railroad to paint the scenery along its route, including Glacier National Park, in order to attract visitors. On display June 15-Sept. 18: “100 Years, 100 Days: Photographs by Chris Peterson" The editor of Glacier Park Magazine chronicled the park in photos for 100 days, beginning May 1, 2009, using cameras that would have been used over the course of the park’s first century.
For more information, visit www.hockadaymuseum.org or call 406-755-5268.
