Winter 2024 Hours: Tuesday: 11 am- 5 pm ; Wednesday- Saturday 11 am–4 pm
Winter 2024 Hours: Tuesday: 11 am- 5 pm ; Wednesday- Saturday 11 am–4 pm
The goal of the Artist—Wilderness—Connection Residency is to connect artists with the public and our wild lands in Northwest Montana. In 2003, the Hockaday Museum of Art, Bob Marshall Wilderness Foundation, Flathead National Forest, and Swan Valley Connections joined forces to create this unique residency. Each summer selected artists hike into a remote backcountry cabin 5-15 miles from the trailhead in the Flathead National Forest for 7-14 days to create work in a beautiful, remote setting, which is then shared in a public presentation or workshop with the community. To date, 46 artists have participated in the program, which consists of three components: Artist Residency, Forest Experience, and Community Extension. Artists benefit from having a remote setting to focus on their art and the community benefits from the work and presentations created from the artists’ experiences.
To learn more about the AWC exhibition and related programs/events, click here: Artist Wilderness Connection: Celebrating 20 Years
Join the Bob Marshall Wilderness Foundation for a panel discussion moderated by the Hockaday’s Executive Director Alyssa Cordova and featuring the stories of past Artist Wilderness Connection Artists on April 17, 2024
Bri Dostie is a multidisciplinary artist, and outdoor cultural strategist with studio practice spanning visual arts (drawing, watercolor, painting, illustration, digital) and writing. She is also a member of the newly founded Northwest Montana Feminist Birding Club. Her work follows lines of inquiry around identity, environmental influence, queerness, interconnected existence, and maps relational dynamics through observation and celebration of the natural world. Dostie’s visual expressions are reflective and detailed, often exploring narratives of relationship and reclamation. After her residency, she plans on creating coloring pages, identification guides, and sharing stories through visual and written responses through small group experiences.
Griffin Foster is a painter and muralist working as lead artist for a landscape architect in Bozeman. His background in hand drafting, analog rendering, and admiration of historic graphic techniques has shaped his style and view of the world. Foster spends his time trekking into the backcountry with his oil paints. Packing out wet panels reminds him of simpler times without the internet and smart phones. From small on-site sketch studies to large scale urban mural work, he is in constant pursuit of mastering diverse styles and media. During his residency, Foster plans on site analysis of his cabin location, inventory of existing drainages, native and invasive plants, sun angles, viewsheds, topography and observed wildlife create botanical illustrations of native vegetation as well as hand drafted maps that present these layers merged into hybrid drawings and paintings that evoke the feeling of being fully immersed in wilderness areas.
Check out this recent special TV news coverage of Artist—Wilderness—Connection Residency by KPAX news HERE!
Winter Hours:
Tuesday: 11 am- 5 pm; Wednesday through Saturday 11 am- 4 pm
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