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The everyday artist.

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commitment, attention to detail, passion, obsession. It's the thing we must do to make sense of our world.

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I used to think that art was something I had time for when I wasn't doing other things but after becoming a mom last year I realized that it's something I must make time for. Now, artistry is a lifeline—the very thing that defines an old version of myself and the single thread that leads me back to her. How the day begins, what happens in the daylight hours, and how it ends in one heap of exhaustion night after night lends its own artistry. I find myself navigating the day and my career in between naps and meals—feeding myself,

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INSIDE THE ISSUE FEBRUARY 2021

FEATURES 10 The Face You Deserve Erika Schmidt of Crafted Aesthetics gives your skin the attention it craves.

16 Zen Fly Art Artist-In-Residence at the Ranch at Rock Creek, John Piacquadio.

20 The At-Home Hustle Businesswoman and mother Micah Larsen sheds light on work-life balance in this new age.

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26 The Portrait of a Maker An interview with local artist Kara McGrane.

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26 Artist’s Palette 30 DIY 32 Lifestyle Calendar 34 Parting Thoughts

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THE FAC E YO U

ERIKA SCHMIDT OF CRAFTED AESTHETICS GIVES YOUR SKIN THE ATTENTION IT CRAVES.

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“NATURE GIVES YOU THE FACE YOU HAVE AT TWENTY; IT IS UP TO YOU TO MERIT THE FACE YOU HAVE AT FIFTY.” Wise words from none other than Coco Chanel. The French fashion designer knew decades ago what we are still just learning now—that skin care is more than genes and luck. Growing old gracefully, doesn’t mean accepting every sunspot and deep wrinkle. It means taking responsibility for how we want to feel and look not only today, but in the years to come. Enter medical aesthetician Erika Schmidt and her colleagues at Crafted Aesthetics, newly located

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concern among Montana women. This is not only due to our obvious climate but also factors such as indoor heating, more frequent hand washing, winter hobbies that put us in the cold and wind, and longer hotter showers. “Your skin wants to have a 50/50 balance of oil and water and it’s our job to help it get there,” said Erika. For starters, she recommends coming in for a Hydrafacial which hydrates, exfoliates, and infuses antioxidants, peptides, and hyaluronic acid into the skin. Winter months (when we are spending less time in direct sun) are also a great time for peels such as Crafted’s Perfect Peel which corrects sun damage, scarring, congestion, fine lines, and wrinkles. Erika also suggests their new Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy by BioTE Medical.

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“That lab work gives us insight to certain deficiencies you may have

Furthermore, Erika advocates washing your sheets regularly,

with hormones or vitamins,” said Erika. “It’s important to balance

sleeping on silk pillowcases, showering in warm water (not hot), and

necessary nutrients and hormones in order to help with Seasonal

washing your hands before touching your face.

Affective Disorder (SAD) or winter blahs.” Crafted also offers Vitamin

In these times of COVID, Erika and her team have already been

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one step ahead by offering online virtual skin consultations. It’s as

immune system, and promote better sleep.

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Crafted Aesthetics carries premier skincare for home, including more natural lines such as One Love Organics and vegan Herbivore Botanicals, which Erika includes in most of her facials. Her favorite

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TO CALM OUR MINDS EXPERTS SUGGEST BECOM-

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MOMENT. Perhaps closing one’s eyes, drawing inward. They call this “meditation.” In Montana, we just call it fly fishing. John Piacquadio, artist and owner of Zen Fly Art, understands both. As an artist, fly-fisherman, and former

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John grew up in the Bronx. After discovering fly fishing, he found a book and did his best to teach himself. “It took me about a year to catch my first trout. When you go that long and finally catch one it’s like a religious experience,” said John.

In college, John majored in Religious Studies and Fine Arts. Fishing got him in trouble with campus police more than once. “Connecticut College had a large arboretum and I would sneak in at night to fish. The biology department did aquatic surveys so I guess I was messing up their experiments,” John said. After college, John stayed in New York and worked at an Orvis® fly fishing store.

After years working as a drug and alcohol counselor, he began to feel burned out. That’s when he met Bob White. “Bob was a respected artist in the sporting arts community. He

“Just about my entire paycheck went back to that shop,” John

saw that I was bringing my work home and encouraged me to make

joked. “That’s where I learned to tie flies. I found out how meditative

a change. He also bought one of my first paintings so that was a big

it was. It felt almost surgical. It seemed that, no matter where my

booster,” said John.

head was, tying had the ability to ground me.” In 2008, John decided to move to Minnesota and enroll in the Masters of Addiction Studies program at Hazeldon Graduate School.

John’s early work contained simple lines with dervish strokes to highlight large and small details. His creative method is more meta than perfectly planned.

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It’s more about the act of fishing for me now. Being in the present moment. “I learn the fly in and out, from how the hackle looked before

“Western Montana is like the Vatican of fly fishing. There are just

it was palmered (covered/wrapped), to where the lead-free is

so many types of water that make it the best. I want people to have a

positioned under all that thread and dubbing (material for the

special experience, especially when it’s their first time fishing. After a

bodies of artificial fishing flies). The actual tying of the fly gives

catch we take a picture and I cut the fly from their line. Then, I paint

me a good feel for the painting. Though, when I go fishing with

that fly. We mat and frame it all together. Instead of a fish on the wall,

that fly, that can change. Sometimes fish like chewed up flies,

they have an original, one-of-a-kind piece.”

instead of pristine. When I paint, I work with all that, see where it goes, and build on it.”

At the same time he’s creating mementos for new casters, John finds his addiction to the strike waning.

Today, John’s work decorates The Ranch at Rock Creek

“It’s more about the act of fishing for me now. Being in the present

in Philipsburg where he works as a guide and permanent

moment. You need to focus so you can react before the fish spits

artist-in-residence.

out what it just discovered isn’t real. That moment has become a sacrament and gets me into a meditative way.”

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BUSINESSWOMAN AND MOTHER MICAH LARSEN SHEDS LIGHT ON WORK-LIFE BALANCE IN THIS NEW AGE

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PREGNANT AND HOSPITALIZED, MICAH LARSEN SPENT

“I make a commitment to myself to look

HOURS CONSIDERING THE LIFE BEFORE HER: BUSINESS-

for silver linings,” she explained. “Since

WOMAN PLUS MOTHER. She wondered and worried about the

COVID, so many people have come up with

pull between two lives and how she would make it all work.

flexible and creative ways to make revenue.

Many mothers, especially in a time of pandemic, are no stranger to Micah’s hospital bed meditations on work-life balance—a concept

We’re seeing the American spirit of ingenuity because it is a necessity.”

often spoken of but rarely achieved. Transitioning office jobs to work-

She’s seen hair stylists offer instructional

from-home careers, coupled with remote learning for kids, brought the

haircare videos to clients when salons were

idea of having and managing it all to front and center stage in 2020.

closed and seen designers who’ve taught

“I don’t want women to have to choose between motherhood and having a meaningful career,” Micah explained. As a social scientist

online classes on creating professional at-home backgrounds for Zoom meetings.

and business owner herself, Micah describes her work not with a

Life during the pandemic’s social dis-

title but with an action: teaching others how to market their business

tancing requires integration on all fronts,

sustainably and efficiently.

Micah explained.

In 2020, many of Micah’s clients searched for ways to grow and build

“There’s no ‘work-life balance’; it’s really

their businesses from home, while managing an extra workload of respon-

mashing them together,” Micah said. “I hate

sibilities with family time. While the hustle of business development came

for people to choose either-or. I want people to

with special challenges in 2020, Micah sees the positives as well.

be able to have both-and.”

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Many Americans worked from home in 2020, requiring a juggle between work time, family

“Hopefully, this time paves the way for future generations,” Micah said.

time, and distance learning time for kids—a

Through her online How to Hustle program,

concept not unfamiliar to Micah, who brought

Micah teaches businesswomen to develop and

her infant son along when she taught marketing

perfect marketing strategies to book their calen-

classes at the University of Montana.

dars with ideal clients and sell their products to

“I would get emails from women in my classes

their target market.

who’d never seen that before,” Micah explained.

“I really believe in the power of teaching live,

“We used to hide our kids when we tried to

in a group,” Micah explained. “It’s like having

work. I really love the warmth we’re feeling now.

lunch with a group of friends every week.”

There really is a permeable boundary between working and parenting.” Micah said that oftentimes working mothers feel anxious about their children infiltrating their

Micah’s clients tend to be makers and creatives, a group of people dear to her heart. Growing up with an artist father, Micah was surrounded by creative people.

professional world, leading to emotional burden

“It’s deeply meaningful to work with people

and guilt. Another one of her silver linings in

who create in that way—making things from

2020? More acceptance and fewer apologies.

their soul,” Micah explained.

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WE USED TO HIDE OUR KIDS WHEN WE TRIED TO WORK. I REALLY LOVE THE WARMTH WE’RE FEELING NOW. THERE REALLY IS A PERMEABLE BOUNDARY BETWEEN WORKING AND PARENTING.

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As a former social science researcher, Micah offers a different approach to marketing, one based on not only getting people to say ‘yes,’ but also in creating relationships with the people who will really love the products or services a business offers. 2020 made for the ultimate collision of working, creating, parenting, and homemaking. And while that mash-up can make for plenty of challenging and frustrating moments, it also leads to opportunities. “The flexibility we’re seeing is really more of a culture,” Micah said. “There’s more acceptance, more understanding. It will be really interesting to see how these trends continue.”

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ARTIST’S PALETTE

the portrait of a maker AN INTERVIEW WITH LOCAL ARTIST KARA MCGRANE

ARTICLE SUSIE WALL PHOTOGRAPHY INSPIRED BY MONTANA

TO SAY ARTIST KARA MCGRANE IS A CREATIVE PERSON IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT. She paints, she sews, she teaches ceramics and if she ever has more free time she hopes to explore stained glass, fiber arts, and woodworking. Look for examples of her unique pet portraits and sewing projects on Instagram @companion.portraits and @new.oldfriend. You can also enjoy her pet mural traffic signal box at the corner of Russell and Wyoming. TELL ME ABOUT YOUR BACKGROUND IN THE ARTS. I moved to Missoula for school in 2012 and received a fine arts degree with a specialization in painting and a minor in art history. My full-time job is with Opportunity Resources doing ceramics for the clients. I wasn’t trying to do pottery but that’s what I do now and it’s wonderful. It’s a fantastic organization.

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WHAT SORT OF ARTWORK DO YOU CREATE? I feel like I dabble in so much. I have been doing custom pet portraits for about two years. I call that business Companion Portraits. I work off photographs of pets that people send me and I make custom mixed media water color paintings. Then at the beginning of quarantine in March (2020) I got a sewing machine and started sewing every day when I had time. At first I was making clothes for myself and it’s turned into making more universal products. I found that if I ever were to sell things, clothing would be really hard because I want to be inclusive for every size, body, and person and I thought that a way to avoid any issues with that would be to make bags. So I’ve been creating a lot of waxed canvas bags, toiletry bags, fanny packs, and backpacks. DID YOU HAVE ANY EXPERIENCE SEWING BEFORE LAST MARCH? A little bit. I took a home economics class when I was in middle school but I haven’t used a sewing machine in probably 15 years. I picked it right back up. YouTube helped a lot and social media has been a great tool to find other makers and see their ideas. I sew every day now so I feel like every time I’m at the machine I learn more just by doing it. I HEARD YOU MADE YOUR OWN WEDDING OUTFIT. I did! I got married October 28 and I thought, this day is going to be so special I’m going to remember it forever. I found a fantastic jumpsuit pattern and a white linen fabric that was just screaming for the pattern. I was expecting the weather to be mild but of course it was about 25 degrees, so a day before I sewed myself a jacket. It was great that I can have that item forever and hopefully pass it on one day.

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ARTIST’S PALETTE (CONTINUED)

I WAS ONCE TOLD BY AN ARTIST THAT CREATIVITY IS LEARNED AND YOU’RE NOT NECESSARILY BORN WITH IT. DO YOU FEEL LIKE YOU WERE BORN A CREATIVE PERSON OR IT WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS FOSTERED IN YOUR LIFE? I think it’s a mix of both. If you were to ask my parents I’m sure they would say I was born with it. I was a very eclectic child. I’m so thankful that my parents gave me a warm and accepting environment and allowed me to explore that creativity and that self-expression. But definitely as you get older you have to make more time for it. I can see it not being a priority if I weren’t practicing every day and if I didn’t set time aside for it. The more I practice and use it the stronger it gets and the better I get at articulating how I want my creativity to come across. You’re not going to be an all-star artist, sports player, baker, or expert at any hobby unless you work for it. But I’m thankful I was given creative roots, too. IS THERE ANY MEDIUM YOU’D LIKE TO EXPLORE THAT YOU HAVEN’T? I’m very grateful for the art program at the university because I was able to explore so many mediums. I’ve done iron sculptures and welding, DO YOU HAVE A FAVORITE MEDIUM? Any art form that I come across I find myself enjoying and diving in. I love learning new projects and with sewing every time I make some-

print making and photography. I think stained glass would be really fun to explore. And woodworking. Or fiber artwork, maybe weaving.

thing I feel like I’m learning. When I have free time I find myself always reaching for my sewing machine. Everything can be so crazy in life and

WHAT DO YOU ENJOY ABOUT BEING A PART

when you have something that is A, B, C, D, this is the order you do it in,

OF THE MISSOULA ART COMMUNITY?

it’s nice to have that structure when you can’t find that elsewhere.

Just seeing all the support Missoula gives to local artists is inspiring and I feel like that situa-

WHERE DO YOU FIND YOUR INSPIRATION?

tion is not always common. What I love about the

My love for all animals is definitely where my paintings stem from.

local artists themselves in Missoula is the sense

And I feel like life is vibrant and so interesting and colorful and unique.

of community. When certain people are aspiring

I try to get that in all the paintings that I make. I want each painting to

to be independent artists it seems everyone that

have a soul of its own so people can connect and know that’s definitely

is an artist gives them a pat on the back and says,

their pet. For my sewing my inspiration comes from making things I

“Go for it! I stand with you and support you.”

enjoy and find useful. I want to make something that I can be proud of,

It’s not a very proud and boastful community.

that will last for a really long time, and will be loved.

Everyone just seems to cheer you on.

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I turned these toys into some fun photo holders, but they are also super fun used as table place settings at a kid’s birthday party. They double as a party favor!

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PARTING THOUGHTS

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