Upcoming Visiting Artists / Fall 2023
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Dates: Sept 20-22, 2023
T.J. Demos Art History Public Lecture/ "Radical Futurisms: Art at the Intersection of Climate Justice and Social Justice", Thursday, Sept 21, 5:30-7:00 pm LA 11. T. J. Demos is the Patricia and Rowland Rebele Endowed Chair in Art History in the Department of the History of Art and Visual Culture, at University of California, Santa Cruz, and founding Director of its Center for Creative Ecologies. Demos is the author of several books, including Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today (Sternberg Press, 2017); Decolonizing Nature: Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology (Sternberg Press, 2016); The Migrant Image: The Art and Politics of Documentary During Global Crisis (Duke University Press, 2013) – winner of the College Art Association’s 2014 Frank Jewett Mather Award – and Return to the Postcolony: Spectres of Colonialism in Contemporary Art (Sternberg Press, 2013). He recently co-edited The Routledge Companion on Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Climate Change (2021), was a Getty Research Institute Fellow (Spring 2020), and directed the Mellon-funded Sawyer Seminar research project Beyond the End of the World (2019-21). Demos was Chair and Chief Curator of the Climate Collective, providing public programming related to the 2021 Climate Emergency > Emergence program at the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (Maat) in Lisbon. His new book, Radical Futurisms: Ecologies of Collapse, Chronopolitics, and Justice-to-Come, 2023, is now out from Sternberg Press. |
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Dates: Opens September 29-October 26, 2023
MATRIX Press: Indigenous Voices Radius Gallery, Missoula, MT Opening reception: Friday, October 6, 5-8 pm. This exhibition will feature works by seven indigenous artists created through MATRIX press printmaking residencies at the the University of Montana. Artists included in the exhibition include: Marwin Begaye (Navajo), Ka'ila Farrell-Smith (Klamath Modoc), Jason Clark (Creek), Neal Ambrose-Smith (Flathead Salish, Metis and Cree), Lillian Pitt (Wasco/Yakima), Duane Slick (Meskwaki) and Molly Murphy-Adams (Oglala, Lakota). The works included highlight a range of visual expressions, from large scale woodcuts talking about climate change, to works mixing concepts of Indigenous identity and pop culture. Additional works in the exhibition explore myths and legends or investigate cultural patterns found in beadwork or basketry. Together these seven artists embody a bold and vibrant approach to the medium. |
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Dates: October 2-6, 2023
Lisa Jarrett Matrix Press Printmaking Residency Lisa will be working in the printmaking studio all week creating a series of prints with MATRIX Press. Artist Lecture at Missoula Art Museum, Tuesday, October 3rd, at 5:30 pm. www.lisajarrett.com Lisa Jarrett is an artist and educator. She is Associate Professor of Community and Context Arts at Portland State University. Jarrett exhibits nationally and co-founded/co-directs KSMoCA (Dr Martin Luther King Jr School Museum of Contemporary Art); the Harriet Tubman Middle School Center for Expanded Curatorial Practice; and Art 25: Art in the Twenty-fifth Century. Her intersectional (and often collaborative) practice considers the politics of difference within a variety of settings including: schools, landscapes, fictions, racial imaginaries, studios, communities, museums, galleries, walls, mountains, mirrors, floors, rivers, and lenses. She exists and makes socially engaged work within the African Diaspora. She recently discovered that her primary medium is questions. Lisa lives and works in Portland, OR. Lisa is also a past UM graduate, receiving her M.F.A. in 2009. |
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Dates: Oct 23-25, 2023
Anne Yoncha Drawing
Anne Yoncha is currently Assistant Professor of Art + Painting Area Coordinator at Metropolitan State University Denver. She was born and raised in Wilmington, Delaware. After earning her MFA at the University of Montana in 2019, she was awarded a Fulbright fellowship at the Natural Resources Institute Finland, working with restorationists to make collaborative art-science work about former peat extraction sites outside Oulu. Her practice combines digital sensing technology, such as bio-data sonification, and analog, traditional processes including painting with ink she makes from locally-sourced plant matter. Her ongoing research with the HAB (High Altitude Bioprospecting) working group began in Fall 2019 at Field_Notes, a residency of Finland’s Bio Art Society at Kilpisjärvi Biological Station in subarctic Lapland, where she worked with artists, biologists, and programmers to detect high-altitude microbes using a heli-kite. |
Molly Murphy-Adams
Lizard Spine in Green, drypoint, beadwork, 15"x 11" Printed at MATRIX Press |
Dates: Nov, 2023
Molly Murphy-Adams Art Education Artist Lecture, Wednesday, Nov 1, 10:00-11:30 at the University Center Theater. Exhibition at the Missoula Art Museum / Molly Murphy Adams: The Space Between, September 1 2023 - January 8 2024 Gallery talk & walk, Thursday, Nov 2, Missoula Art Museum at 5:30 pm Murphy Adams (descendant, Oglala/Lakota) was born in Great Falls, raised in western Montana, and now resides in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She learned beadwork at a very early age. Much of her work stems from combining traditional Native arts and contemporary art. This exhibition is about exploring Indigenous beadwork historically, philosophically, and visually. Murphy Adams says the title came from a desire to “reclaim and reexamine historic beadwork through an art history lens whereas it has always been examined and understood through an anthropology lens. For me there’s a space between disciplines—art history and anthropology—and between historic and contemporary.” Murphy Adams employs abstraction, Indigenous design, and beadwork to dispel myths and stereotypes about Native people and cultures. Her work illustrates a blend of cultures, identities, and histories. She says, “Mixed media beadwork is the most authentic means of storytelling for me. The hybridization of technique, imagery, and materials accurately tell my story of mixed blood ancestry, contemporary struggle, and gender roles. And that struggle for authenticity is the core of my work.” MAM presented Murphy Adam’s first solo exhibition in 2008 and collaborated on her MATRIX Press residency in 2017, including the resulting prints in a group exhibition, The Shape of Things, in 2018 (exhibition catalog available here). She received her BFA from the University of Montana in 2004 and earned a master’s degree in art history focused on Indigenous writing and criticism. In her spare time, she creates absurdist beaded props for the hit series Reservation Dogs. |