It is hard to believe that we are moving so swiftly through 2023, but here we are! I want to first thank all our sponsors, artists, and attendees who participated in Art Auction 55. We had 107 artists participate in the Auction and more than 50 emerging and established artists participate in the YAM’s first ever Drawing Rally! It was truly a success.
The YAM Curatorial team has filled our calendar with upcoming exhibitions that celebrate the depth of creativity in the region. As museum members, I hope each of you will have an opportunity to visit this spring or summer and experience the art of Barbara Van Cleve, Christine Joy, Sara Mast, Will James, and more.
Our celebration of artists extends into this year’s SummerFair at South Park in June. South Park is a beautiful space that we are excited to fill with artists, kids’ activities, musical performances, food trucks, a brewery tent, and more. All perfect for a summer outing! The accessibility of this venue helps us welcome new audiences to this signature event. Mark your calendars now (June 23-25) and extend an invitation to friends and neighbors to join you for the SummerFair festivities!
This summer also continues our tradition of providing quality arts education for the young artists in our community. Registration is open now for Summer Art Studio Classes, YAM Camp, and Summer Art Academy. Families can find additional information on pages 20 & 21, and on the museum website.
Looking ahead to September, save the date for our 2023 Live Art Auction & Gala on Saturday, September 9. You won’t want to miss this extraordinary night!
On behalf of our team at the YAM, many thanks for your commitment to keeping the arts alive and thriving in Billings and beyond. Your membership makes all we do possible. Thank you, and we look forward to seeing you in the galleries again soon!
Cheers,
Photo credit: Amy Nelson from the Billings Gazette.
NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS
The YAM welcomes our newest team members!
Marianne Hagstrom, Facility Rental Coordinator, joined the YAM’s Special Events team at the end of 2022. Marianne has worked extensively in special events and wedding coordination. In addition to her work at the YAM, she runs MarianneMade, a hand-crafted event styling company in downtown Billings.
Kimberly Gaitonde, Curatorial Assistant, is the newest member of the Curatorial team. Kimberly previously interned in the YAM Curatorial Department and has worked at the Georgia Museum of Art.
Elaine McClelland, Temporary Finance Director, is currently leading the museum’s Finance and Administration work. Elaine’s expertise comes from more than 50 years in corportate financial work, including the Chief Financial Officer role at Wellington Technologies.
Legacy Gifts to the YAM
Long-term estate planning is an important part of financial planning. Charitable bequests and planned gifts empower individuals and families to support the organizations they value most. A clear and detailed estate plan can also minimize tax and administrative burdens on loved ones. Planned gifts to the YAM allow the museum to continue the important work of arts programming and education in our community.
To learn more about making a bequest or planned gift to the Yellowstone Art Museum, please contact Precious McKenzie, at 406.256.6804 x225 or email development@artmuseum.org. Precious can share valuable information and help you create a plan that secures your legacy. As always, thank you for your support!
Marianne Hagstrom
Kimberly Gaitonde
Elaine McClelland
Through Her Lens: The Photographs of Barbara Van Cleve
April 13 – June 25, 2023 // Montana Gallery
Sponsors: Sibanye Stillwater, Barb Skelton in honor of Horses Spirits Healing, Inc., Northern Plains Resource Council, Lornel Baker, Mary & David Dobrowsky, Linda Snider, Margit Thorndal, Beverly Ross, Nancy Curriden, John Kennedy, and Anonymous
This exhibition presents fifty black and white photographs selected from the portfolios of Barbara Van Cleve (b. 1935). Since her first solo photography exhibition in Santa Fe at age 50, Barbara Van Cleve has turned her camera lens to contemporary ranch life–a life she’s lived and loved since she was young. Crediting her father for noticing the beauty surrounding her on the Lazy K Bar Ranch on the eastern slopes of the Crazy Mountains, she recalls one frigid winter morning, helping him move cattle on an empty stomach, “I complained that I was hungry, and he said, ‘Red, I need you to help me here, so you might as well sit up and learn to see the beauty in it.’“
Van Cleve has found beauty in ranching life’s dynamic and quiet moments. A portion of her photographs have unexpected angles and embrace accidental and unstructured framing due to her camera work from horseback. And alongside images of branding, moving cattle, and roping are conversations among ranch hands, grazing horses against the backdrop of the Crazy Mountains, and night scenes, such as a canvas pole tent illuminated by a Coleman lantern under a starlit sky. The authenticity of her work also extends to championing tough, hard-working ranch women, a subject to which she devoted an entire portfolio and exhibition in the 1990s entitled “Hard Twist: Western Ranch Women.”
As a practicing female photographer in the genre, Van Cleve is preceded by Evelyn Cameron (1868-1928), who ranched with her husband near Terry, Montana. Cameron also turned her camera to neighbors, friends, ranch life, and the rugged women who rode horses, worked cattle, and ran households. Yet the posed, more static nature of Cameron’s glass plate photography contrasts with Van Cleve’s silver gelatin prints and digital photographs, where seasonal cycles of work and movement predominate.
Barbara Van Cleve earned an MA in English literature at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois; she has been a Dean of Women at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois; and she taught English Literature, and later photography, for over 25 winters at DePaul University, Loyola University, and Mundelein College, all in the Chicago area. At the same time, photography continued to be an avocation. In her free time, she worked for Rand McNally as a textbook photographer and established her own stock photography agency. The long summers were usually spent on the family ranch in Montana.
The YAM is honored to exhibit Through Her Lens: The Photographs of Barbara Van Cleve on the heels of her 2022 Montana Governors Art Award and the forthcoming documentary, “Barbara Van Cleve’s American West,” by award-winning Director and Cinematographer Cynthia Matty-Huber.
Women in Ranching panel discussion with Barbara Van Cleve, Caroline Nelson, Karen Heyneman, and Monica McDowell Thursday, May 4 // 5 PM reception followed by panel discussion at 6 PM.
Artist Talk with Barbara Van Cleve | Thursday, June 1 // 5 PM reception followed by artist talk at 6 PM.
May 18 – July 16, 2023 // Charles M. Bair Family Gallery & Northwest Projects Gallery
Sponsors: Beverly Ross, Jon Lodge, Aunt Dofe’s Gallery
Passage is an exhibition exploring the mystery of our connection to the Earth. By transforming natural and recycled materials in their work, Christine Joy and Sara Mast introduce forms and paintings that invite the viewer into a contemplative and exploratory space.
Working exclusively with willow, Christine Joy cycles her work with the seasons—cutting and gathering her material in autumn, then sorting, bundling, and storing. Throughout the year, she pulls from her cache, and working branch by branch, she bends and constructs twisted and tied forms as if borne by wind or water. Her largest piece in the exhibition, God’s Ear (2022), expresses a concern for listening to the earth, echoed by Sara Mast, who writes, “We must engage in a more enigmatic and unmediated conversation with the natural world around us. And keep our ear to the ground.”
Sara Mast, a descendant of miners from Cornwall, England, resides on the site of Storrs, Montana, outside of Bozeman, an early Anaconda Company mining town. Today she reclaims her connection with the earth by incorporating PEM (plasma-enhanced melter) glass, a byproduct of plasma gasification, an advanced waste management technology that transforms any trash into inert, non-toxic glass and clean fuels. The result is an obsidian-like rock that she breaks down with mortar and pestle and integrates into her encaustic painting. Mast writes, “PEM glass is not just another art material, but represents a profound paradigm shift in using technology to heal our environmental dilemma by keeping waste out of landfills and greenhouse gases out of the air. My use of PEM glass is one way I am able to reclaim a healthy relationship with the earth.”
The physicality of Joy’s willow forms surrounded by Mast’s tactile, abstract paintings engages the viewer’s senses in the presence and depth of our relationship with the natural world around us.
Christine Joy was born in upstate New York in 1952. She graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology in 1976 with a B.F.A. in Printmaking. In 1980, after completing a master’s program in art therapy at Vermont College, she moved west and settled in Bozeman where she still lives.
Sara Mast received her MFA from Queens College in New York. Her work is in over thirty corporate, private, and museum collections worldwide and is featured in several publications that include: Encaustic Painting: Contemporary Expression in the Ancient Medium of Pigmented Wax (Watson-Guptill, NY, 2001), Art & Science Now (Thames & Hudson, NY, 2010), Encaustic Art in the 21st Century (Schiffer Publishing, PA, 2016) and Launching the Imagination (McGraw Hill, NY, 2017). Mast is a drawing and painting professor in the School of Art at Montana State University. She lives and works in Bozeman, Montana.
Artist Talk with Christine Joy and Sara Mast | Thursday, May 18 // 5 PM reception followed by artist talk at 6 PM.
Christine Joy, Connecting to the Sky, 2016, willow, 32 x 28 x 24 inches.
Sara Mast, Forest, 2002, Oil, cold wax, & ash on canvas, 60 x 100 inches.
ART EVOLVED: INTERTWINEd
Studio Art Quilt Associates Global Exhibition
June 30 – October 22, 2023 // Mildred Sandall Scott Galleries
Sponsors: Linda Shelhamer & Stephen Haraden
The Yellowstone Art Museum is honored to be the opening venue for Art Evolved: Intertwined, SAQA’s global exhibition organized in partnership with the National Basketry Organization.
Studio Art Quilt Associates, Inc. (SAQA) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote the art quilt: “a creative visual work that is layered and stitched or that references this form of stitched layered structure.”
Central to the exhibition theme is the continuum where beauty and function blend and diverge in the hands of the contemporary artist. Even when traditional materials such as thread, fabric, wood, reed, and paper are used, these artists combine skill, imagination, and vision to meld their materials into compelling and beautiful art which resonates in today’s world. Following a jury process, twenty-nine artists were invited to participate in this conversation between media to illustrate the continuum between beauty and functionality.
Following the Yellowstone Art Museum, the exhibition will travel to the Pacific Northwest Quilt and Fiber Art Museum in LaConner, Washington, and the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, Massachusetts.
Karyl Sisson, Piece Work IV, 2022, 34 x 34 x 18 inches, Photo Credit: Heather Cleary.
Jennifer Solon, Clutter, 53 x 31 x 1.25 inches, 2021.
Cheri Dunnigan, Centrifugal Form, 2018, 8 x 9 x 4.5 inches, Photo Credit: Berlian Arts.
Will James in Magazines
June 2023 – June 2024 // Mildred Sandall Scott Galleries
Sponsor: The Foundation for Montana History
Will James, a French Canadian born as Joseph Ernest Nephtali Dufault, always dreamed of being a cowboy. James was indoctrinated into the world of ranching at a young age and eventually worked as a hand for cattle outfits in Montana, Idaho, and Nevada. However, several injuries and an Army draft into World War I rerouted the cowboy’s career from one who handled horses into one who observed and recorded them instead.
Cows, horses, and bears were just some of the subjects that James portrayed in his drawings and writings, ones which told of the raw and exhilarating force of nature in the West. The artist’s ability to realistically capture these rare moments gained him a successful career in illustrating images for various Western magazines. His work was featured in several venues, from the cheapest pulp magazine to premier titles like Sunset Magazine and The Saturday Evening Post.
Meanwhile, James practiced storytelling of his own, beginning with his 1920 series “Keno the Cow-Horse,” a forerunner to the chronicling of Smoky. Previews of his books appeared in magazine serial form, and many were later published as full books into the collections from Charles Scribner’s Sons. As he began to concentrate on his novels, less and less appeared in short form, ending this phase of his career in 1935. However, these depictions still provide modern viewers with a unique look at the cowboy and the rancher’s West.
Artist: Will James Author: Unknown Date: 1931 Medium: Paper (Magazine)
Companion Drawing: VS1995.17
Title: “In such stretches is when the cowboy is needed”
1931
Will James
Activating the Surface: Paul Harris
August 3 – October 1, 2023 // Charles M. Bair Family Gallery & Northwest Projects Gallery
Sponsor: Diane Boyer Jerhoff
Through the years, Paul Harris returned to his wax and pigment drawings with subjects ranging from still lifes to abstracts, from figures to landscapes and many more in between. Although known as a sculptor, his go-to medium remained the art crayon.
Harris’s drawings pulsate with energy as the movement he puts into the pieces, etched into the composition, can be felt as much today as the moment they were created. The lines, nearly frantic with color, keep the eye traveling, yes, but they also keep the mind engaged in the images, searching, reaching, in continuous dialogue with the viewer. Harris, always concerned with pattern and texture, understands the spatial relationship inherent in a finite drawing. These pieces, intimate and compelling, relay an accessible, inspirational narrative.
Harris said about his use of crayons, “I remember in sixth grade the teacher wanted a lot of things made that she would use the next year and the next, I didn’t do much work in her class except make these big drawings. I became very accustomed to crayons, and I’ve never been able to let them go. Crayons are still my best friends in making drawings. I don’t think it will ever end.”
This exhibition will also feature bronze sculptures on loan from the Paul Harris and Marguerite Kirk Gallery and an example of Harris’s most known life-size stuffed and upholstered female figures from the permanent collection.
This exhibition is sponsored by the Montana Art Gallery Directors Association (MAGDA), a state-wide service organization for non-profit museums & galleries, and supported in part by grants from the Montana Arts Council, a state agency funded by the State of Montana; coal severance taxes paid based upon coal mined in Montana and deposited in Montana’s Cultural and Aesthetic Projects Trust Fund; and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Paul Harris, Gallon Jug and Others, 1967, Bronze, 15 x 21 x 16 inches, On loan from Marguerite Kirk Harris and the Paul Harris Art Collection.
Paul Harris, Woman IV, 1999, Art Crayon and paste on paper, 24 x 18 inches, On loan from Marguerite Kirk Harris and the Paul Harris Art Collection.
Paul Harris, Flores Rosa Vicuña, 1991, Art Crayon, 18.25 x 13.5 inches, On loan from Marguerite Kirk Harris and the Paul Harris Art Collection.
Paul Harris, Black doors, 1987, Art Crayon, 17.5 x 11.75 inches, On loan from Marguerite Kirk Harris and the Paul Harris Art Collection.
The Montana Modernists: Shifting Perspectives
November 10, 2022 – June 11, 2023 // Mildred Sandall Scott Galleries
Sponsors: Charles M. Bair Family Trust, Linda Shelhamer and Stephen Haraden, Gordon McConnell and Betty Loos, and Dr. Ralph and Sheryl Costanzo
The Montana Modernists exhibition opened on November 10th following the investigation of twentieth-century postwar Montana art in guest curator Dr. Michele Corriel’s new book Montana Modernists: Shifting Perspectives on Western Art. Examining the emergence of an avant-garde movement in the state, Dr. Corriel profiles the pioneers of this movement, Jessie Wilber, Frances Senska, Bill Stockton, Isabelle Johnson, Robert DeWeese, and Gennie DeWeese. Together, these artists implemented an aesthetic philosophy and a modern understanding of form, color, and abstraction that expanded the way Western art in Montana is defined.
Drawing primarily from the extensive collection of the Yellowstone Art Museum, the exhibition explores the first-generation modernists in Montana through the themes of Place, Artistic Lineage, and Community—all crucial elements in the lives and works of these artists. As the early movement grew and took hold across the state, it not only affected artmaking but allowed Montanans access to new ways of viewing themselves, society, and nature, and a way of seeing that had lasting effects on the struggle for a broader, more authentic Montana narrative.
This wave of postwar artists found the need to express themselves differently from the Western illustrative work permeating the state. Their experiences, their point of view, and the changing world they found themselves in required something more. As Robert DeWeese noted, “The art students in 1949 were a completely different lot. They’d been in the war worldwide, and they were hungry for all of it.” It is not a leap to suggest that so many veterans who saw the world, the war, the dropping of the atomic bomb, the devastation of Europe, and the reckoning with fascism needed a new way to communicate.
Isabelle Johnson and Bill Stockton were native-born Montana ranchers, and Wilber, Senska, and the DeWeeses came from elsewhere to teach at Montana State in Bozeman. They were all missionaries of modernism who developed an authentic, personal style of expression in response to the land and society of contemporary Montana. Showing the works of all six of these artists together in one place demonstrates what these artists did and how in their interactions with one another, in their teaching, and, most of all, in the works they left behind, created an art movement that still resonates today.
Michele Corriel researched these artists for years before writing her book, and this show reflects her deep consideration for each of them. “This project, culminating in a show at the Yellowstone Art Museum, validates the last five years of my academic life. I am thrilled to work with the YAM and to fulfill my personal promise to these amazing artists. I hope to keep their work in the eyes of the public for years to come.”
Corriel is a well-published art writer and has covered the region for the last 15 years. Her Ph.D. in American Art helped to guide her work through the rich history of Montana and to bring light to the largely untold story of modernism in the state. Her book Montana Modernists, published by Washington State University Press, is available for sale in the YAM store.
Montana Modernists Reception and Curator’s Talk featuring guest curator Dr. Michele Corriel May 13, 2023 // 2 PM exhibition preview followed by curator talk and book signing.
Installation view of The Montana Modernists: Shifting Perspectives, 2022.
Master Printer: Robert Blackburn (1920–2003)
November 10, 2022 – June 11, 2023 //
Mildred Sandall Scott Galleries
Thirteen compositions of bold color and form by influential artist, master printmaker, and modernist Robert Blackburn are now on view in the firstfloor gallery, coinciding with the long-running exhibition, The Montana Modernists: Shifting Perspectives. Blackburn, an internationally known artist, exhibited throughout the United States and worldwide. His work is held in the collections of the Baltimore Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Howard University, and many others.
Blackburn grew up during the Harlem Renaissance, becoming involved with several art programs funded by the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Most notably, the Harlem Art Center (1937 – 1942) was a meeting place for artists, writers, and dancers. There, he befriended fellow artists Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, and was first introduced to lithography.
This was a rich period of cross-disciplinary artistic and cultural activity, where Blackburn was mentored by a collaborative and innovative community.
In 1941, Blackburn received scholarships to the Art Students’ League, where he studied painting and apprenticed in Will Barnet’s printmaking studio. In 1948, with Barnet’s help, he started the Printmaking Workshop located on 114 West 17th Street in New York City. The workshop welcomed artists worldwide, and became a lively communal space nurtured by Blackburn’s philosophy that “artists of all ages, colors and backgrounds could flourish together while developing themselves and the creative potential of the printmaking medium.” In 1949 he was designated a Master Printer by the National Academy of Design.
When the Abstract Expressionist Movement captured the imagination of the commercial gallery world in the 1950’s and ‘60s, printmakers had few real exhibition opportunities. The lithographic medium was so strongly associated with the social realist style of American art of the 1930’s and ‘40s that few galleries conceived of its potential as an expressive medium for this new movement. However, by following the formal boundaries of Cubism, Blackburn found incredible flexibility in printmaking, leading him to discoveries about form, color, surface, ground, and figure. His still-lives and engraved collage compositions, created out of geometric forms, became translucent and opaque surfaces of color and shape.
Between a fellowship in Paris (1953 – 54) and working as a master printer at Universal Limited Editions (ULAE), Blackburn became a significant force. He introduced American artists, often for the first time, to the potential of the lithographic medium and printed editions for Larry Rivers, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Motherwell, and Helen Frankenthaler.
In 1962 Blackburn returned to the Printmaking Workshop full-time. His innovative, masterful expertise helped to define the overall aesthetic of the American “graphics boom.” Among his many awards are Skowhegan Governor’s Arts Award and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Award in 1992.
This exhibition is generously on loan from the Nelson/Dunks Collection.
Gallery Talk by Richard Nelson | Friday, May 5 // 5 PM reception followed by artist talk at 6 PM.
Installation view of Master Printer: Robert Blackburn, 2022.
Recent Acquisition
The Yellowstone Art Museum is continuously growing the permanent collection through generous gifts and museum purchases. All acquisitions build the museum’s collection of modern and contemporary art from the Mountain West region.
Adjusting for Parallax, 2021, by Keeara Rhoades is the newest artwork in the Yellowstone Art Museum’s permanent collection. This work was included in the 2022 exhibition Keeara Rhoades: Shape of a Corner. In the photograph (seen above and below), Rhoades explores boundaries, which join, disrupt, or give pause, activated by moments of intersection. The scene is Sheridan, Wyoming, on a morning when the fog bank enveloped the town and settled upon the foothills of the Big Horn Mountain range and joined with the fog-frosted tree along I-90 en route from Gillette, Wyoming, to Billings, Montana.
Keeara Rhoades
Adjusting for Parallax, 2021, Archival pigment print, 15 x 208 inches (image) 17 x 210 inches (paper). 30-frames (video stills) extracted from motion video and stitched into a 1:14 ratio panorama, for reanimation as a scrolling horizon in the animated film, “The Shape of a Corner.”
Adjusting for Parallax
Driving along a highway this pavement decides my lines confining my eyes to the scrolling view as light finds time and line and shine
fog-frosted trees freeze a moment still impressed by this space
i press my face beside the lens and film these all white trees frozen against the horizon showing and hiding the landscape within
feeding my shutter a constant speed scene through wyoming and montana i finally see a y-shaped tree along the panorama
beyond the storm the “y” transforms panning 75 miles per hour sight shifts and slides as one view hides while aligned with another that grew behind the branch line a new point-of-view reveals not two but three branches forming an upside-down peace sign fork or spoon true or untrue the sign delivers me to a time when i was possibly three
memory disputes but i was alive seeing a porcupine nested in the “y” of a tree thinking about quills in the skin of a villain
i remind my devouring eyes that sight can often deceive still, the smell of turpentine transports me to the “y” pine tree
beyond the highway line i maintain my gaze locking into this shape
torquing my head behind to identify the third branch was so perfectly aligned to hide a neighboring tree much larger indeed to reach her trunk so vertically in hindsight these separate trees free me to see perception is perspective a point-of-view; and the past a fleeting memory true
Keeara Rhoades, Adjusting for Parallax (Detail) 2021, Archival pigment print, 15 x 208 inches (image), 17 x 210 inches (paper).
MEET THE NEW CURATORIAL TEAM AT THE YAM
By Anna Paige
As the Yellowstone Art Museum heads into its next chapter serving the region, executive director Jessica Kay Ruhle has been busy filling critical roles with an emphasis on the curatorial department. Lisa Ranallo, who joined the YAM staff in 2018 as registrar, has taken on the role of curator for the permanent collection. New staff members include Kimberly Gaitonde, curatorial assistant, and Laura Krapacher, registrar.
“Every department is critical at the YAM, but a museum can’t shine without a strong curatorial team,” said Ruhle. “It’s fantastic to have Lisa Ranallo leading the curatorial effort with her deep knowledge of the region, as well as her years of working with the YAM’s permanent collection and Board of Trustees. Growing the size of the department gives her the professional support she needs to coordinate exhibitions from our collection and host installations from other institutions.”
Ranallo and her team are asked to interpret the YAM’s immense collection of national and regional art for a series of rotating exhibitions installed in the permanent exhibition galleries, while also selecting works to add to the permanent collection by noted emerging and established artists of our time. Through such roles, the curatorial department contributes to preserving Montana’s artistic legacy.
After working behind the scenes in research, collections management, conservation, and registration, Ranallo’s role as curator requires her to engage with the museum’s visitors and artists as much as the art. She is no stranger to museum life. Prior to the YAM, she worked at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, and Fallingwater, and as a global art courier. While at MIA, she traveled on many courier trips to Italy, Spain, Germany, Japan, and Austria. “As a result, I could see some fabulous shows behind the scenes,” Ranallo said. Her new role is a collaborative one, working closely with the executive director and a collections subcommittee, comprised of community members with vast art knowledge and institutional history. The museum also abides by a collections management plan.
Ruhle is most excited about moving forward with a full team and filling the YAM calendar with exhibitions that celebrate the rich artistic history of the Mountain West, while also spotlighting emerging artists doing innovative work, she said. “That kind of curatorial balance tells a more complicated, and a much fuller, art historical story.”
Get to know the team a bit more as they answer questions about their new roles. What do you love most about the curatorial process?
Lisa Ranallo: I most enjoy listening to artists discuss their work and discovering the threads that pull an exhibition together. It’s a creative process, in many ways akin to art making, because the exhibition is an interpretation that is shaped and shared. The best day is opening the exhibition to the public and feeling the gratification of bridging art and community.
Laura Krapacher: One of my favorite things about working in a museum is the ability to be hands-on with the artwork. There is something about the behind-the-scenes efforts that I find very interesting and enjoyable. I used to be the person walking through the galleries, but now I am the one setting them up!
Laura Krapacher: I like having this intimate relationship with the collection. I get to hold it, examine it, and care for it. I know what the backs of paintings look like. I document every “boo boo” an artwork may have and monitor it in case it needs conservation down the line. I enjoy quietly being a steward of the collection, so the public may enjoy it.
What attracted you to the position?
Laura Krapacher: I liked that the collection specialized in contemporary art from the region. It’s hopeful to know that contemporary art exists and is appreciated everywhere, not just in large cities like New York, Seoul, Paris, Lima, Growing up in an immigrant family has informed my experiences more than being from the NYC metro area. I have this constant awareness that the world is bigger than wherever I find myself. This is also true for the art world. The main selling point, however, was the opportunity to work with Lisa Ranallo. She just seemed like such a lovely person throughout my interview process not to mention her own museum street cred. She has worked at some major institutions like MIA and NMAI making me feel like I could really talk shop with her and get things done.
Kimberly Gaitonde: I’ve always wanted to combine my love for the arts with an opportunity to serve the Billings community, and the YAM is such a wonderful institution that is at the forefront of arts and culture in Montana. My previous experience interning for the museum helped prepare me, as far as being comfortable with the museum and ‘knowing the ropes,’ so when I had the opportunity to work there, I didn’t waste a second!
What objects are you are excited about bringing from the vault? What objects have surprised you?
Lisa Ranallo: I’m excited to pull together a print show from our collection. We have fabulous works on paper that have yet to be exhibited or placed in new contexts. This past year I came across the suite of 12 prints (lithographs and serigraphs) from the Kent Bicentennial Portfolio Print Collection from Lorillard (collected in 1976). Included are works by Red Grooms, Alex Katz, Marisol, Larry Rivers, Robert Indiana, and others. As for works that have surprised me—most recently a life-sized fabric sculpture by Paul Harris entitled Flo Waiting. The female figure stands between three walls covered in patterned wallpaper. We hope to display this work with the upcoming MAGDA exhibition, Paul Harris: Activating the Surface.
Kimberly Gaitonde: Sculptures and installations always surprise me. It’s amazing to see what artists do with certain materials and how they bring certain forms to life. I would love to learn more about Native peoples and tribal imagery, and more about the traditions and stories that inspire their forms. I plan on doing as much research as I can, attending lectures and talks and hearing directly from Native artists and intellectuals about what inspires their work. What is your vision for the position?
Laura Krapacher: In the context of a museum, the registrar keeps records for the collection, exhibitions, and object loans. At the YAM, the registrar is also responsible for object care, preventive conservation, as well as upholding best storage, packing, and handling practices; collections manager responsibilities. Right now, I am working on an audit of the collection. Once this audit is done, I would like to do some storage rearrangement that facilitates curatorial initiatives. I would also like to set up an art cleaning schedule, mark artworks for re-framing, and create better storage housing for some of our artwork.
Kimberly Gaitonde: I have enjoyed my indoctrination into the YAM family, or ‘Yamily.’ Everyone has been so friendly, kind, and welcoming. It is also very exciting for me to be surrounded by fellow academics who are passionate about upholding the spirit of the museum and serving the community like I am. The YAM is the perfect environment to exercise my skills while also learning from hardworking people, and at the end of the day, feeling proud of what you’ve put together. I plan on soaking up as much information as I can from my peers and mentors and from the events that the YAM will host.
Lisa Ranallo: I believe a successful exhibition program—one that excites, challenges, and enriches lives, is possible through strong relationships. So much of my work depends on meaningful connections with artists, collectors, and others–so building relationships is central to my work and makes it possible for the museum to present different perspectives and speak to contemporary issues. I’ll also continue the museum’s ongoing efforts to diversify the collection, not only in media but to ensure representation that reflects our communities, past and present.
Celebrating 45 Years
SummerFair is a seasonal favorite for the Billings community. Now in its 45th year, SummerFair has become one of the largest arts and crafts festivals in the region, featuring artisan vendors from near and far. We are excited to announce that SummerFair is expanding to South Park to provide all our visitors and vendors with an optimal experience. South Park features mature trees throughout a larger footprint, a performance pavilion for this year’s entertainment lineup, a designated food truck court, and many other park amenities like a pool and a splash pad that draw in locals seeking summertime fun.
So Much to See, So Much to Do!
Again this year, visitors will enjoy a full weekend of culture, live music and entertainment, artistic demonstrations, local brews and the best food trucks in the area! Over 75 artists, community groups, and food vendors participate every year. Artist booths at SummerFair include painting, photography, pottery and ceramics, art from nature, glass, wood, metal, fiber art, body products, artisan foods and local organizations. All vendors’ products must be handmade, making it a perfect place to find sustainable and unique gifts for yourself or someone special while supporting artists and the Billings community.
Family Outing
SummerFair is always fun for the whole family with free admission for kids ages 6 and under. Plus, the YAM Education team will have craft supplies and activities for kids of all ages all weekend long. While SummerFair is a fundraiser for the museum, it truly meets the YAM’s mission by enriching the community through interactive experiences and creative exchange. It is also a weekend of cultural collaboration and a chance for the YAM to step into the community! SummerFair 2023 is sure to be another spectacular weekend in Billings and one you don’t want to miss!
Live music is back!
Friday Night
Live music from Montana’s Favorite 7-piece Funk band Reverend Slanky from 5 – 8 PM.
Saturday Night
Live music from Outlaw Pop Country legends Calvin and the Coal Cars from 5 – 7 PM.
sponsors:
3:30 –
Women in Ranching panel discussion, 5 PM reception, 6 PM panel discussion
First Friday at the YAM, Gallery Talk by Richard Nelson, 5 – 8 PM, free museum admission
FAM at the YAM with Erika Wilson from Windy Mill Press, 4 – 6 PM
Adult Cooking Class: Curries Around the World, 5:30 – 7:30 PM
Curator’s Talk with Dr. Michele Corriel, 2 PM exhibition preview, 2:30 PM curator’s talk
Studio 2nd Saturday: Shifting Perspectives, 10 AM – 12 PM
Last day for Crow Agency 3rd, 4th, & 5th Grade YAG Exhibition
Teens, 3:30 – 5 PM
Christine Joy and Sara Mast: Passage Opens
Artist Talk with Christine Joy and Sara Mast, 5 PM reception, 6 PM artist talk
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Class: Pastel
with Ev Bergeron, 10 AM – 4 PM
Adult Art Class: Prints and Pints with Shane De Leon, 5:30 – 7:30 PM
Artist Talk with Barbara Van Cleve, 5 PM reception, 6 PM artist
First Friday at the YAM, 5 – 8 PM, free museum admission
Summer Art Academy at Rocky Mountain College
Will James Birthday, Free Museum Admission
YAM Teens: Comic & Manga Workshop with Billings Public Library Teens, 3 – 5 PM
Last day for The Montana Modernists: Shifting Perspectives and Master Printer: Robert Blackburn
Summer Art Academy at Rocky Mountain College
Connections at the Art Museum, 10:30 AM – 12 PM
Teens, 3 – 5 PM
Summer Art Studio: Playing with Light Charcoal Drawing, Session 1: 10 AM–12 PM, Session 2: 1 – 3 PM
SummerFair at South Park 4 – 8 PM
SummerFair at South Park 10 AM – 7 PM
Last day for Park City Elementary School Exhibition
SummerFair at South Park 10 AM – 4 PM
Last day for Through Her Lens: The Photographs of Barbara Van Cleve
Summer Art Studio: Painting Passages, Session 1: 10 AM – 12 PM, Session 2: 1 – 3 PM
Art Evolved: Intertwined (SAQA Global Exhibition) Opens
JUL AUG
Greybull Middle and High School YAG Exhibition Opens
YAM Teens, 3 – 5 PM
Summer Art Studio: Fabric Collage, Session 1: 10 AM – 12 PM Session 2: 1 – 3 PM
First Friday at the YAM with Christine Joy, 5 – 8 PM, free museum admission
Summer Art Studio: Whirling Wire Sculptures, Session 1: 10 AM – 12 PM Session 2: 1 – 3 PM 16
Last day for Christine Joy and Sara Mast: Passage
YAM Teens, 3 – 5 PM
Summer Art Studio: Miraculous Mobiles, Session 1: 10 AM – 12 PM Session 2: 1 – 3 PM
Connections at the Art Museum, 10:30 AM – 12 PM 24– 28
31– 04
YAM Camp for Ages 9 – 12, 9 AM – 3 PM
Activating the Surface: Paul Harris Opens
YAM Teens, 3 – 5 PM
First Friday at the YAM, 5 – 8 PM, free museum admission
Last day for Greybull Middle and High School YAG Exhibition
Connections at the Art Museum, 10:30 AM – 12 PM 19
Hardin Middle School YAG Exhibition Opens
YAM Camp for Ages 6 – 8, 9 AM – 3 PM 31– 04
YAM Camp for Ages 9 – 12, 9 AM – 3 PM
CHILDREN, FAMILIES, & TEENS
Scan the QR code to visit the education page on YAM’s website or check Facebook for updates, registration info, and pricing. artmuseum.org/educate
STUDIO 2ND SATURDAY
Ages 5 – 12 | 10 AM – 12 PM
Members: $10 | Members sibling rate: $8
Not-yet Member: $20
Register online, by calling 406.256.6804 x238 or email arteducator@artmuseum.org
Every Studio 2nd Saturday class includes touring the galleries and creating art that is connected to current exhibitions.
May 13 | Shifting Perspectives
Explore and play with oil pastels using multiple techniques to create a work of art inspired by Gennie DeWeese’s work in Montana Modernists.
FAM AT THE YAM
All ages welcome | 4 – 6 PM at the YAM Free! No advanced registration required.
FAM at the YAM is for every type of family. Bring yourself, children, friends, grandparents, and more. Create art together with a professional artist and learn about their process. It’s a great way to kick off your First Friday evening.
May 5
Join Erika Wilson, owner of Windy Mill Press, and us for a community printmaking workshop in connection with Robert Blackburn’s exhibition Master Printmaker. Stay after FAM at the YAM for a Gallery Talk by Richard Nelson at 6 PM in the exhibition.
SUMMER ART STUDIO
Ages 5 – 12 | Each Thursday has 2 Sessions
Session 1: 10 AM – 12 PM | Session 2: 1 – 3 PM
Members: $10 | Members sibling rate: $8
Not-yet Member: $20
Register online at artmuseum.org/educate/childrens-classes
Every Summer Art Studio class includes touring the galleries and creating art that is connected to current exhibitions.
June 22 | Playing with Light: Charcoal Drawing
Play with charcoal and graphite to create dynamic still life drawings inspired by the use of light and shadow in Barbara Van Cleave’s exhibition Through Her Lens.
June 29 | Painting Passages
Explore various materials and painting techniques as you create artwork inspired by artist Sara Mast in the exhibition Passage.
July 6 | Fabric Collage
Tell your story with art using fabric and collage influenced by selected works in the SAQA exhibition Intertwined.
July 13 | Whirling Wire Sculptures
Use organic and man-made materials to create sculptures like artist Christine Joy in the exhibition Passage.
July 20 | Miraculous Mobiles
Cut, color, twist, and tie to create mobiles inspired by kinetic sculptures in our permanent collection.
SUMMER ART ACADEMY
Ages 7 – 14 | June 5 – 9 & June 12 – 16
YAM Members: $335 | Not-Yet-Members: $375
Sibling Price for YAM Members Only: $300 Register online atartmuseum.org/educate/childrens-camps or in-person at the YAM.
For questions email Marilu Metherell at adulted@artmuseum.org or call 406-256-6805x250.
Need-based scholarships from the Sally Mcintosh Scholarship fund are available. For an application, email Carrie Goe Nettleton at education@artmuseum.org. At this camp, young artists study under professional artists in concentrated areas, which they choose. Class sizes are limited. Art supplies are included in the cost of tuition. Students bring their own snacks and lunches. Summer Art Academy is located on the campus of Rocky Mountain College.
Classes this year include: Watercolor, Collage, Puppetry, Wearable Indigenous Art, Ceramics, Art Journaling, Stop Motion Animation, Printmaking, Digital Photography, Drawing, Yoga, Painting, Improv, Cookie Decoration, Animal Sculpture, Stage Combat, Drumming, and Kite Making.
YAM CAMP
Ages 6 – 8 | July 24 – 28 from 9 AM – 3 PM
Ages 9 – 12 | July 31 – August 4 from 9 AM – 3 PM YAM Members: $260 | Not-Yet-Members: $300
Sibling Price for YAM Members Only: $235 Register online at artmuseum.org/educate/childrenscamps or in-person at the YAM.
For questions and membership discount codes email Angel Shandy at arteducator@artmuseum.org or call 406.256.6805 x238.
For Scholarship applications email Carrie Goe Nettleton at education@artmuseum.org.
Intertwine art, storytelling, and imagination to create functional works of art that bring art into life. Young artists spend a week at the YAM creating art, exploring the galleries, and making friends.
YOUNG ARTISTS’ GALLERY
Crow Agency 3rd, 4th, & 5th Grade
Saturday, April 8 – Sunday, May 14, 2023
Free admission to Crow 3rd, 4th, & 5th grade students and their families and friends.
Park City Elementary School
Saturday, May 20 – Sunday, June 24, 2023
Free admission to Park City students and their families and friends.
Greybull Middle and High School
Saturday, July 1 – Sunday, August 13, 2023
Free admission to Greybull students and their families and friends.
Hardin Middle School
Saturday, August 19 – Sunday, October 8, 2023
Free admission to Hardin students and their families and friends.
YAM TEENS
Ages 12 – 18 | 3:30 – 5 PM in May
Summer hours from June – August: 3 – 5 PM
Every 1st & 3rd Wednesday of the month
Free! No advance registration required. Make art, meet artists, build community, and explore endless possibilities. The 1st Wednesday we dive into the YAM’s exhibitions, learn new techniques, and discover your artistic voice. The 3rd Wednesday is your chance to create in our fully stocked education studio. You can finish a work in progress or start a new project.
May 3 & 17 | June 7 & 21 | July 5 & 19 | August 2
Comic & Manga Workshop with Billings Public Library Teens
June 7 | 3 – 5 PM | Free! Registration required. To register email Angel Shandy at arteducator@artmuseum.org.
Our Museum Art Educator and comic artist, Angel Shandy is partnering up with the BPL Teens program for a teen only workshop on how to start and create your own comic, manga, or graphic novel! Spots are limited.
ADULT ART & COOKING CLASSES
For more information scan the QR code or visit artmuseum.org/educate/adult-education. For questions email our Adult Education Coordinator, Marilu Metherell at adulted@artmuseum.org. Register online or call the front desk at 406.256.6804. Space is limited and pre-registration is required.
Art CLASSES
Prints and Pints with Shane De Leon
Thursday, May 18 & 25 | 5:30 – 7:30 PM
Members: $25 | Not-yet Member: $35
Join local artist Shane de Leon for a 2-class exploration into the fascinating art of screen-printing. Come ready to design your very own screen and print multiples. You can bring along imagery or find inspiration on the fly. We will enjoy pints of beer while we dive into this incredible handson process art. You will not want to miss this cool class.
Pastel Workshop with Ev Bergeron
Saturday, May 20 | 10 AM – 4 PM
Members: $35 | Not-yet Member: $45
Local artist, Ev Bergeron, will teach you that pastels are an easy and fun medium to use for painting. This class will lead you through the steps to complete a pastel painting. You will receive information on pastels, pastel papers, and the supplies you will need. We will talk about shapes, values, edges, focal points, and color--all the basics of a good painting.
Willow Sculpture Demonstration with Christine Joy
Friday, July 7 | 5 – 7 PM
Free for First Friday!
Join Christine Joy for a demonstration on how she creates her extraordinary willow sculptures in her joint exhibition with Christine Joy and Sara Mast: Passage.
Coming up in September!
Floral Centerpiece with Marie Taylor from Roots Garden Center
Saturday, September 30
Session 1: 10 AM – 12 PM
Session 2: 1 – 3 PM
Members: $50 | Not-yet Member: $65
Create a floral centerpiece for your home inspired by the artwork of Paul Harris’ exhibition Activating the Surface, with guidance from Marie Taylor, local artist, and floral designer at Roots Garden Center.
THURSDAY EVENING Cooking CLASSES
5:30 – 7:30 PM
Price: $55 members, $65 not-yet-members
*$20 supply fee included
May 11 | Curries Around the World
Go on a global culinary adventure with curry dishes from India, Thailand, Japan, Jamaica, and more.
CONNECTIONS AT THE ART MUSEUM
with the Montana Chapter of the Every 3rd Friday | May 19 | June 16 | July 21 | August 18 from 10:30 AM – 12 PM No cost to participate. Registration in advance is required. Call 800.272.3900 or email montana@alz.org to register. This monthly program promotes connection and companionship for individuals living with early-stage memory loss and their care partners through art. Join us to view, discuss, and create art with trained docents and volunteers.
THE YAM AT THE WHITNEY MUSEUM IN NYC
In early April, the Whitney Museum of American Art opened the retrospective Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map. This groundbreaking exhibition opens with two artworks on loan from the Yellowstone Art Museum, Ronan Robe #2 (1997) and Tongass Trade Canoe (1996).
For the Yellowstone Art Museum, it is a tremendous honor to be part of this important exhibition. National and international celebrations of artists from our permanent collection recognizes the important work done here in Billings. With our utmost gratitude, we thank the individuals who donated these works to our permanent collection: John W. and Carol L.H. Green and Miriam Shapiro. Visitors to New York City may view this installation through August 13, 2023. It is one not to miss!
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Ronan Robe #2, 1977, Mixed media: Dyed cotton canvas and wax; wood tipi pole, Gift of Miriam Shapiro to the Yellowstone Art Museum.
Tongass Trade Canoe (1996) and Ronan Robe #2 (1977) installed at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
John W. and Carol L.H. Green in front of Tongass Trade Canoe (1996) installed at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Tongass Trade Canoe, 1996, Mixed media: Acrylic, plywood, plastic, canvas, Gift of John W. and Carol L.H. Green to the Yellowstone Art Museum.
The Night Live Auction & Gala
Save the Date: Saturday, September 9
The Night Live Auction & Gala is the premier black-tie event of the season in Billings! A select number of curated artworks will go up for sale during a competitive live auction. Enjoy fine wines, cocktails, and a gourmet dinner catered by Scratch Kitchen of Billings, following by dancing the night away!
For more information on table sponsorships, please contact Precious McKenzie, at 406.256.6804 x 225 or email development@artmuseum.org.
2023 YAM GOLF TOURNAMENT
Join the YAM for its 3rd annual Golf Tournament! Spend the day with friends. Enjoy food and drinks at the Laurel Golf Club and get on the green for a great cause! The tournament supports the YAM’s Art Education Programs for children in Billings and the surrounding communities. Gather your team and
For more information, please contact Precious McKenzie, at 406.256.6804 x225 or email development@artmuseum.org. Visit artmuseum.org/ engage/special-events to learn more and register a team.
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2023 Yellowstone Art Museum Golf Tournament
Laurel Golf Club
Monday, September 11, 2023
Presented by
$100,00+
THANK YOU CONTRIBUTORS
We would like to give our sincerest thanks to all members, donors, and sponsors who contributed $125 and above. This cumulative list reflects gifts to the YAM given from April 1, 2022 through April 14, 2023.
Yellowstone County
$50,000 – 99,999
The Montana Community Foundation
$24,999 – 49,999
Deborah A. Anspach & Dr
John Hanson
Anonymous
Tippet Rise Fund of the Sidney E. Frank Foundation
Kathryn Caine Wanlass
Charitable Foundation
Linda Shelhamer & Steve Haraden
Treacy Foundation
$10,000 – 24,999
Anonymous
Lornel Baker
Gary & Norma Buchanan
Dr John & Patricia Burg
Charles M. Bair Family Trust
Hilltop Inn by Riversage
Riversage Billings Inn
Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation
Diane Boyer Jerhoff
Mr. Jorgensen
Larry & Ruth Martin
Gary & Melissa Oakland
Susan Shelhamer
Matthew & Stephanie Stroud
Charlie & Jeanne Widdicombe
$5,000 – 9,999
Steve & Jennifer Corning
Paul & Rachel Cox
Paul & Dona Hagen
David & Maggy Rozycki Hiltner
Intermountain Distributing Company
Gareld Krieg
Jon Lodge & Jane Waggoner Deschner
Tim & Trish Matteson
Rimrock Subaru
Jim & Chris Scott
Sibyane Stillwater
US Bank National Association Morgan & Dan Warthin
$2,500 – 4,999
Randy & Cheryl Bentley
The Honorable William & Anne Cole
Karen A. Ferguson
First Interstate Bank Kristi Conroy John & Carol L.H. Green
Ted Lovec
Bess Lovec
Gordon McConnell & Betty Loos
Dr. Precious McKenzie & William Stearns
Kim & Don Olsen
RBC Foundation
Kevin Red Star
Beverly T. Ross
Linda J. Snider
Dr. Kris Spanjian & Ray Gilbertson
Susan Sullivan & Stephen Zabawa
$1,000 – 2,499
Joel Anderson
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Scheels
Bonnie Burks
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Dr. Doug & Karla Carr
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Leslie Crawford
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$500 – 999
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OUR MISSION
The Yellowstone Art Museum exhibits, interprets, collects, and preserves art, for the enrichment, education, inspiration, and enjoyment of all.
