Summer Art Walk

Featuring local MT artists

Artist: Marga Lincoln

Marga Lincoln will be signing copies of her new book, Montana Grit

Artist: Ebbie Hansen

Artist: Bray, Clay, & Brews Community Gathering

In conjunction with the Park Avenue Block Party!

Bray, Clay & Brews is a gathering welcoming the entire greater clay community, including the Montana Clay Tour artists, local art center artists and patrons, Bray board members, current and former resident artists and community students. The event takes place at Blackfoot River Brewing Co. where we will be able to spread out indoors and out! Gather with clay aficionados for a laid-back evening of mingling and live music before the Montana Clay Tour kicks off on Saturday! Non-alcohol beverages will be available.

Afterparty at Miller’s Crossing with the Big Sky Mudflaps ($10 cover to mitigate the cost of the band)

Artist: Park Avenue Block Party

Artist: Clay Arts Tour Hosts

The Montana Clay Tour is a collective of Montana based ceramic artists committed to cultivating the
appreciation of contemporary ceramics through an annual open studio tour. The tour’s objective is to
showcase the talent and diversity of Montana’s ceramics community by inviting the public to engage
​with the artist’s intimate studio setting, thereby creating meaningful connections and enriching
​our communities.

Artist: Sam Momeyer

Samantha Momeyer was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She obtained a BFA with a concentration in ceramics from California University of Pennsylvania in 2013. After graduating, she worked as a summer studio technician at Touchstone Center for Crafts in Farmington, PA. There she became enamored with the process of woodfiring and living in the woods. She spent the off seasons working as an apprentice at Ton Pottery in Pittsburgh. In 2015 Samantha was awarded the Pozefsky Fellowship at Baltimore Clayworks. After a year in Baltimore she longed to leave the hustle of the east coast for adventure. She was accepted as a post baccalaureate student at the University of Alaska Anchorage in 2016 and made the long drive from Baltimore to Anchorage with her partner, Shelsea Dodd. The rugged landscape and colors of Alaska have made a great impact on her work and life. After two years of studying in Alaska, she moved to Helena, Montana to work as Tara Wilson’s studio assistant before becoming a long term resident at Studio 740, where she now maintains a full-time studio practice.

Artist: Anne Pichette

Artist: Alicia Pichette

Artist: Janelle DeBray

Artist: Matt Paulsen--Edwin Glass Photography

orn and raised in Helena, MT, my passion for photography began on what was soon to be one of many adventures with my faithful golden companion Sunny, and partner Chandler. The initial spark was lit while hiking along Trout Creek Canyon, surrounded by towering cliffs on both sides, with the creek running beneath my feet. After buying my first camera, the spark took flame on a trip into the Dearborn Valley, a once favorite hiking spot of my Grandfather’s. “Going up the Dearborn” as he would say.

– My name, Edwin, is a centuries-old family name that has been passed down for generations, from father to son; a family with deep roots in Montana, dating all the way back to the territorial years and settling of the region. This deep history has helped foster my love and appreciation for Montana as a whole.

– I combine my love of photography with the traditional Japanese form of poetry, known as Haiku, to create a unique marriage and true-to-heart message that puts you right inside the glass lens of my camera.

Artist: Claire Horton

Artist: Mackenzie Petersen

Artist: Danielle O'Malley

Danielle O’Malley is a large-scale sculptor working and residing in Helena, Montana. O’Malley received her MFA from the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, completed a ceramics focused post baccalaureate program at Montana State University, and her BFA from Plymouth State University. She has been a resident artist at: Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, the Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, and the Red Lodge Clay Center. She consistently participates in solo and group exhibitions. O’Malley’s work can be found in the permanent collections of: the Northwest Art Gallery in Minot, ND, the Silver Bow Art Gallery in Butte, MT, and the Taoxichuan Art Center in Jingdezhen, China.

Artist: Kait Doyle

Artist: Kelly McLaughlin

Kelly McLaughlin grew up in Washington State where she received her BFA in Printmaking and Ceramics from Pacific Lutheran University in 2014. She completed a Post Baccalaureate program at the University of Alaska, Anchorage in 2017 and received her MFA in Ceramics from Ohio University in 2020. Since graduate school, McLaughlin continues to make work with the support of residencies at both the Archie Bray Foundation and Studio 740 in Helena, MT, where she currently lives as a full-time studio artist. She is deeply influenced by her upbringing in the PNW, as well as her time spent in the mountains of both Washington and Alaska. Her work has been showcased throughout the US and can be found in numerous private and public collections.

Artist: Omertà Arts

Artist: Park Avenue Block Party

Artist: Park Avenue Block Party

Artist: Park Avenue Block Party

Artist: Jeremy McFarlane

Jmac makes pottery for everyday use. He makes functional, fun and useful pottery.

Artist: Joshua Reeder

Josh has created many new lines of work, including his very popular mountain scene line of functional pottery.

Artist: Elizabeth Finley

Elizabeth Finley loves creating pottery that is made for everyday use. She enjoys playing around with different textures and colors. Her most popular line of work is her pottery decorated with pine trees.

Artist: Holden Mountain Designs

Jennifer McCullough of Holden Mountain Designs creates quality, captivating jewelry for a chic, minimalist lifestyle. Located in Helena, Montana.

Artist: Kevin League

Kevin is a Helena, Montana based award-winning professional landscape, lifestyle and wildlife photographer capturing Montana and the western United States’ most beautiful, fleeting and fascinating moments.

Artist: Alexia Lynn Design

Artist: Dale Beckman: Makoshika

The badlands are nature’s sculpture garden, an environment born from erosion creating intense shadows and contrast, of interweaving land formations and marked by the passage of elements and time. This exhibit explores this otherworldly landscape in abstraction.

Montana is famous for its mountains and fishing streams, but much of the eastern third of the state is badlands, sandstone hills sculpted for millennia by wind and water. Next to the town of Glendive is Makoshika State Park, home to some of the most fascinating and bizarre rock formations in the state. The name Makoshika (Ma-ko’-shi-ka) is a variant spelling of a Lakota phrase meaning ‘bad land’ or ‘bad earth’.

Drawing on the influences of artists like Georgia O’Keefe and Evelyn Cameron, Beckman captures the energy of the landscape, honing in on specific features to highlight quiet contemplative works out of a rugged environment.

Born in Eastern Montana, Dale Beckman continued to earn a B.A. at Rocky Mountain College in Billings and conducted post-graduate work at the University of Montana. Following graduation, Beckman moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, exhibiting in regional and online galleries. After eleven years in Santa Fe, Dale moved to Abiquiu, New Mexico, and spent the next eight years painting the desert badlands. He now continues his art practice in Helena, Montana.

Artist: Work by Faculty Artists from Colleges Across Montana: Across the Divide 2023

Artist: Stephen Glueckert: The Odyssey of Montana's Thomas Francis Meagher

“Would that he had died on the battlefield”

To describe Meagher’s life-journey as an odyssey is not an exaggeration. Like the legendary Odysseus, he was blown by the winds of war and fate to the four corners of the earth.

Art engages the heart as well as the mind and is one of the most effective ways to engross an audience, pique their interest, and increase their awareness of history. As you spend time with Stephen Glueckert’s expressive oil pastel drawings you will feel the danger, energy, and emotion of Meagher’s odyssey.

Glueckert’s 24 colorful vignettes are filled with the celestial, earthly, and man-made symbols that governed Meagher’s life:

His birth and privileged upbringing in Waterford City, Ireland in 1823. His leadership in the Young Irelander Rebellion of 1848. His imprisonment in Van Diemen’s land and escape to the United States in 1852. As a commander on the bloody battlefields of the American Civil War. And finally, his mysterious and tragic death at Fort Benton, MT in the churning waters of the Missouri River in 1867.

Though Meagher’s time in Montana was short, he remains a source of Irish pride in our state and his story continues to capture the imaginations of Montanans of all types.

This exhibit is dedicated to Samuel Robert Robinson, a humble Irish immigrant who left Dunfanaghy, Donegal and found refuge in Butte, MT. And to his children James, Mary and Roberta and to his children’s children, many of whom remained in Montana.

Artist: Rob Leonard, Alex Camara, and Tyler Martin: Mathscaper

The branch of mathematics concerned with the study of discrete maps (or functions) is known as dynamical systems. Some maps exhibit the properties of self-similarity and mathematical chaos. Visualizations of the dynamics of these maps generate fractals.

In this series, Mathscaper has expressed the beauty of complex plane dynamics visually through machining in wood and metal, illustrating and mirroring fractals in stunning works using wood, metal, and light.  Mathscaper mirrors nature in illustrating mathematically perfect spirals that become infinitely smaller, linking chaos, art, and our understanding of infinity in this symbiotic and graceful exhibit.