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Artmuseum.org/about/triptych The Official Members’ Magazine of the YAM © Yellowstone Art Museum, 2026 All rights reserved. Cover Art: James Florio, Thirtysix Views of Inverted Portal, Image Seven, 2018-2026. Pigment Print on Archival Paper, 19 x 15.75 inches. Permanent Collection of Tippet Rise Art Center.
From the Executive Director Dear YAM Members, Summer is always a lively season at the Yellowstone Art Museum, and this year was no exception! Through the Summer Art Academy at MSU-Billings and YAM Camp, young artists experimented with new ideas and explored their creativity. This year, over 20% of our campers participated in summer programs thanks to donations for camp scholarships. We are grateful to the educators, artists, families, and supporters who make these programs such an important part of the museum’s summer. This summer also marked the completion of an important project that is essential to everything we do: the replacement of the roof on our historic building. We are deeply grateful to Bradford Roof Management, the Montana Department of Commerce, our generous donors, and everyone who helped make this project possible! At the same time, the museum continues to navigate funding cuts from the Yellowstone County Commissioners. We are incredibly grateful to the community members who have stood with YAM at public hearings and advocated for the museum through letters, phone calls, and conversations with our elected officials. Your voices matter, and your support demonstrates just how deeply this community values the arts and the museum. As we look toward fall, I hope you’ll continue to make the museum part of your life. We have exciting openings coming in September for the exhibitions James Florio: Thirtysix Views of Inverted Portal (page 8) and Star WallowingBull: Futuristic Time Keepers (page 6). In October, we will host one of our most energetic community events, the Monster Drawing Rally (page 18). Each of these offer a wonderful opportunity to gather with friends, meet artists, experience new exhibitions, and celebrate the creativity that makes our community so special. We hope you will join us! And looking a little farther ahead, mark your calendars now for our art auction celebrations in early 2027! We look forward to gathering with you to celebrate artists, art, and the incredible generosity of our museum community. Most of all, thank you. Your membership is at the heart of the Yellowstone Art Museum. Your support makes our exhibitions, education programs, collections, and community partnerships possible—and allows us to continue creating meaningful experiences with art for everyone. Cheers,
Jessica Kay Ogdin The Deborah Anspach and John Hanson Executive Director
NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS Welcome, Heather Storey! We’re delighted to welcome Heather Storey as the new Museum Store and Guest Services Coordinator at the Yellowstone Art Museum. Heather looks forward to creating a warm, welcoming experience for every visitor while helping guests discover distinctive art, gifts, and handcrafted items that celebrate creativity and community. Heather brings years of specialty store experience with her as she embarks on this new role at the YAM.
Welcome, MIKE JONES! This May, Mike Jones joined the museum as our new Facilities Manager. Mike was previously at the Ronald McDonald House, where he gained valuable experience caring for and maintaining a welcoming environment. We are glad to have his expertise and energy on the YAM team and look forward to all he’ll contribute to the museum. Be sure to say hello when you see him around the building!
Welcome, Spencer Gallagher! If you’ve been to the YAM on Thursday evenings or Saturdays, you’ve been greeted by our newest front desk team member, Spencer Gallagher. Spencer has been providing excellent customer service at Kirk’s Grocery and The Art House and now, we are fortunate to have him welcoming guests to the YAM. An artist himself, Spencer is excited to further his involvement in the arts and cultural community.
Congratulations, Terrin This fall, Terrin Bisel will move to the YAM’s Curatorial team as Registrar and Curatorial Assistant for the Airport Partnership. Over the past two years, Terrin has done wonderful work as the museum’s Office Manager, bringing care, dedication, and professionalism to the role. We’re grateful for all he has contributed and excited to see him bring his talents to this new position.
Thank you, Barbara! We extend our sincere gratitude to Barbara Schneeman for her dedication, leadership, and service throughout her time at the YAM. Working to strengthen relationships with members, donors, sponsors, and community partners, and helped rally support for the museum. Her warmth, professionalism, and belief in the power of art and culture have left a lasting mark. We are deeply grateful for her service and wish her every success in the exciting new chapter ahead.
Thank you, Marilu! We are deeply grateful to Marilu Metherell for her tremendous contributions to the YAM as she leaves her position to focus on family, teaching, and her own Ceramics’s practice. Marilu has made a lasting impact on museum audiences through her leadership of YAM’s Summer Art Academy and Adult Programs, including our partnership with the Montana Women’s Prison. Over the past three years, she has grown these collaborations and others significantly. We are deeply grateful for her creativity, dedication, and all the good work she has done on behalf of the arts in Montana, and we wish her every success in this next chapter.
Summer Camps at the YAM Thank you, camp families for another successful summer! 120 students attended Summer Art Academy on the campus of Montana State University, Billings (MSUB). Thirteen fantastic artists and educators made Summer Art Academy a truly special experience for our young artists. Additionally, we hosted four weeks of YAM camp at the museum. Each week, students showcased their creative ability and made fantastic work in all artistic techniques and mediums. All camps culminated in a wonderful student art show, where each student shared the work that they created throughout the week. artmuseum.org NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS | 3
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Star WallowingBull Futuristic Time Keepers
September 4, 2026 – January 9, 2027 // Charles M. Bair Gallery Sponsors: Gareld Krieg, Bev Ross, Sarah Grau & Vince Long, Deborah Anspach & John Hanson, Anonymous Special thanks to Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota Exhibition Celebration with Star WallowingBull and Todd Bockley of Bockley Gallery Thursday, September 17 // Reception 5 PM
Star WallowingBull, Chief Bio-Dioxide, 2024. Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 36 inches. Photo Credit: Courtesy of the artist and Bockley Gallery. Collection of Thomson Family.
A figure sits at a bar somewhere beyond the limits of ordinary time. Beneath the watchful presence of Jupiter, he smokes a crystal wine stopper like a cigarette and drinks from a can of Red Indian Motor Oil. His war bonnet is composed of glass stoppers that radiate like circuitry, while a circuit board hangs nearby, joined by a wasp and a ladybug. Titled Chief Bio-Dioxide (2024), Star WallowingBull’s painting is at once humorous and disorienting, inviting viewers into a world where mechanical systems, Indigenous iconography, commercial products, and celestial bodies occupy the same imaginative space.
Nothing in the painting feels impossible. It simply operates according to a different logic. That logic extends throughout Futuristic Time Keepers, WallowingBull’s first solo exhibition presented in the Yellowstone Valley. The exhibition brings together new and recent works in which images move freely between memory and speculation, autobiography and popular culture. Corporate logos, toy robots, grocery store emblems, butterflies, powwow dancers, planetary bodies, and mechanical forms accumulate across densely layered surfaces. Rather than arranging these references into a linear narrative, WallowingBull lets them circulate, connect, and transform one another. His paintings keep time differently. For much of the last century, dominant representations of Native people in American visual culture have tethered Indigenous life to a distant past—fixed in time rather than actively shaping the present. WallowingBull refuses that chronology. His paintings insist that Indigenous experience holds childhood memories of Transformers and Saturday morning cartoons alongside Ojibwe and Arapaho cultural traditions, family histories, science fiction, and speculative futures, as parts of one lived world rather than opposites. This is what distinguishes WallowingBull’s engagement with Native futurism. Rather than imagining a future disconnected from history, he reorganizes time itself: the past remains active, the future presses into the present, and familiar images become available for new meaning. Growing up in Minneapolis, he absorbed the visual language of advertising, comic books, toys, and neighborhood businesses alongside the artistic influence of his father, the celebrated Ojibwe artist Frank Big Bear, and his later mentorship with pop artist James Rosenquist, which expanded his sense of scale and the visual force of commercial imagery. But where Pop Art elevates commercial imagery into fine art, WallowingBull dismantles and rebuilds it. Logos, mascots, and consumer products no longer perform the roles they were designed for—they become participants in Indigenous narratives that are humorous, autobiographical, and profoundly imaginative. Untitled Diptych takes up the Red Owl grocery store logo, an image tied to everyday life and memory across the Upper Midwest. Warped, multiplied, and reconfigured across two panels, the familiar owl becomes a vessel for personal history and imaginative possibility, stretching from the everyday world of neighborhood stores into unfamiliar cosmic territory. Nostalgia, here, becomes active rather than fixed—a source of invention rather than a fixed memory to preserve. WallowingBull’s paintings rarely isolate a single subject; instead they operate as intricate visual systems in which every image gains meaning through its relationship to another. His colored-pencil drawings are built mark by mark, layer upon layer, so 6 | EXHIBITIONS artmuseum.org
that looking becomes a slow experience— images reveal themselves gradually, encouraging viewers to follow unexpected connections rather than search for a single point of focus. The paintings work the same way: the longer one spends with them, the more they shift, offering new pathways through their dense visual terrain. This expansion of time reaches its fullest expression in Sky People (2026), the exhibition’s anchor work. At five by eight feet, the monumental acrylic painting brings ancient imagery, celestial presence, and speculative futures into a single field of Star WallowingBull, Untitled (diptych), 2021. Acrylic on canvas, 20 x 16 inches (each). Photo credit: Courtesy of the artist and possibility. Figures inspired by Indigenous Bockley Gallery. Private Collection. petroglyph traditions emerge alongside cosmic forms, resisting any separation of the ancestral from About the Artist the futuristic. Rather than treating ancient Native imagery as evidence of some external or extraterrestrial origin—a Star WallowingBull (Ojibwe/Arapaho) is an artist familiar move in science-fiction narratives—WallowingBull whose drawings and paintings explore intersections returns it to an Indigenous framework, where such imagery of Indigenous identity, American popular culture, and represents presence, imagination, dreams, and relationships speculative futures. Working primarily in colored pencil across time. Here, time is not a line of progress but an on paper and acrylic on canvas, WallowingBull creates expansive constellation of connections: ancient histories densely layered compositions in which mechanical forms, and possible futures are not competing narratives but cultural references, personal memory, and historical interconnected dimensions of experience. imagery converge. The exhibition’s title offers a useful metaphor for this practice. A timekeeper does not create time; it establishes how time is measured. WallowingBull proposes another way of keeping time—one grounded not in chronology but in continuity. His paintings reject the notion that Indigenous histories exist apart from technological innovation, popular culture, or speculative imagination, revealing these experiences instead as deeply entangled, shaped by generations of adaptation, creativity, and survival.
A member of the White Earth Band of Chippewa, WallowingBull was raised in Minneapolis and is currently based in Fargo, North Dakota. His artistic practice was shaped by the mentorship of his father, the Ojibwe artist Frank Big Bear, whose influence established a foundation in highly detailed drawing, and later by Pop artist James Rosenquist, whose guidance expanded his engagement with large-scale painting and the visual language of mass media.
In Chief Bio-Dioxide, that proposition arrives with characteristic wit. The painting does not ask whether Indigenous people belong in the future—it assumes they always have. The more compelling question is what becomes possible once the familiar images of American culture are released from the stories they were made to tell. WallowingBull’s answer, across Chief Bio-Dioxide, Untitled Diptych, and Sky People alike, is generous and expansive.
WallowingBull’s work has been presented in solo exhibitions including Mapping and (Meta)Morphing (2025), Machine Head (2021), Transformer (2015–16), and Mechanistic Renderings (2015). His work has been featured in exhibitions at institutions including the National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, the Detroit Institute of Arts, and the Museum of Contemporary Native Art. His work is held in public collections including the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, the British Museum, the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, the Tweed Museum of Art, and the Weisman Art Museum.
His paintings dismantle inherited visual hierarchies only to rebuild them as worlds where Indigenous presence is neither symbolic nor nostalgic, but continuous, inventive, and cosmic. Perhaps that is what it means to keep time: not simply to measure its passing, but to recognize the many worlds already unfolding within it.
Lisa Ranallo Senior Curator
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James Florio, Thirtysix Views of Inverted Portal, 2018–2026. On view at Tippet Rise Art Center. Permanent Collection of Tippet Rise Art Center.
James Florio: Thirtysix Views of Inverted Portal
September 3, 2026 – January 9, 2027 // Northwest Projects Gallery Sponsors: In Memory of Marilyn M. Kramer Opening Reception, Documentary Film Viewing, and Conversation with James Florio Thursday, September 3, 2026 // Opening Reception 5 PM; 5:30 PM Documentary Film/Conversation Member Exclusive: An Afternoon with James Florio Tuesday, September 15, 2026 // 10:30 AM – 2 PM // Cost $20 (see page 19 for more information) Education Workshop: Photography Intensive with James Florio Saturday, October 24, 2026 // 10 AM – 2 PM // Cost: $45 (see page 26 for more information) Billings Symphony Cello Soundscapes respond to James Florio: Thirtysix Views of Inverted Portal Friday, November 13, 2026 // 1 PM & 3 PM (see page 13 for more information) There is something quietly radical about returning to the same place 482 times. Over seven winters, photographer James Florio climbed the same hill at Tippet Rise Art Center carrying an 8 × 10 large-format camera. His destination was Inverted Portal, Ensamble Studio’s monumental sculpture set within the vast landscape below Montana’s Beartooth Mountains. What began as an unexpected attraction to the site gradually became a pilgrimage—one shaped by snow, wind, darkness, light, and the changing conditions of the natural world. Florio’s subject is Inverted Portal, yet the work extends far beyond the sculpture itself. Cast directly from the earth before being raised into its monumental form, the sculpture carries the textures of the landscape within its surface. Its weathered contours appear at once ancient and contemporary, a human-made form continually transformed by the forces around it. The title recalls Katsushika Hokusai’s Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, which understood that a mountain is never simply one thing—its appearance shifts with weather, season, distance, and the lives unfolding around it. Claude Monet found the same at Rouen Cathedral, and Paul Cézanne returned for decades to Mont Sainte-Victoire, each discovering that a familiar form holds more than a single look can register. Florio extends this lineage into the American West, where the Beartooth Mountains are not backdrop but participant: weather moves across the open land, snow reshapes the scene, and winter light continually alters the sculpture’s presence. 8 | EXHIBITIONS artmuseum.org
James Florio, Thirtysix Views of Inverted Portal, Image Seven, 2018–2026. Pigment Print on Archival Paper, 19 x 15.75 inches. Permanent Collection of Tippet Rise Art Center.
The process demanded patience, and often something closer to endurance. A short documentary on the project shows Florio trudging up the foothill into a blowing wind, hauling an 8 × 10 camera that resists being hurried under the best conditions. At one point, as he tries to set up the shot, a piece of equipment tears loose in the wind and he has to chase it down across the slope. It is a small, almost comic moment, but it captures the climate Florio was working under: he could not simply collect images; he had to wait, and sometimes fight, for the conditions to allow one. As he writes, “It was the wind that decided if an image would be made.” Photography here is not an act of control but an act of attention—the photographer arrives, observes, and lets the place take part in the making of the image, wind and all. Installed together as a grid, the thirty-six photographs ask viewers to experience the work in the same spirit in which it was made. Moving from one image to the next, we notice what might otherwise escape attention—the weight of snow, the drift of clouds, the changing character of winter light. What first looks like a series of similar views gradually becomes a record of transformation. This is the experience at the heart of The One Artwork Gallery, where visitors are invited to spend time with a single work and let it reveal itself gradually. Florio’s sevenyear engagement with Inverted Portal is a reminder that attention accumulates: returning to the same subject doesn’t confirm what we already know, but reveals what we could not have seen the first time. Seeing, in the end, is not a single moment but an ongoing relationship—one shaped by presence, patience, and the willingness to look again.
About the Artist James Florio is a Montana-based photographic artist focused on the built environment and the life surrounding it. He works slowly whenever possible, visiting a place repeatedly to gain a greater understanding of it and to deliver a thoughtful and profound interpretation. He is currently working on several long-term projects documenting the unique changes of nature, climate, and time on architecture and landscapes. Using the camera as a means to investigate, understand, and document, he works primarily with large format film for its depth and deliberation. You can see more of his work in various publications and books, including the four recently released books: ThirtySix Views of Inverted Portal, Radius Books: Sticks, FOG, and the initial book from the MAS Context House Series: Sam and Ruth Van Sickle Ford House. As well as: Radical Logic, On the Work of Ensamble Studio, the Divisare Book set: Structures of Landscape, Gio Ponti in the American West, Kengo Kuma: Portland Japanese Garden, National Geographic Traveler, Domus, Architectural Record, Modern in Denver, and others. He is currently an artist in residence at Tippet Rise Art Center in Fishtail, MT, and Grace Farms in New Canaan, CT. He was awarded the 2022 Julius Shulman Institute Excellence in Photography Award. Lisa Ranallo Senior Curator
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Rebecca Hutchinson Embedded in the Overlap
April 3, 2026 – January 9, 2027 // Montana Gallery Sponsors: Riversage Inns, Aunt Dofe’s Gallery, Yellowstone Law, Deborah Anspach & John Hanson, Lornel Baker, Bess Lovec, Beverly Ross, Nancy Curriden Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant. In gratitude for partial support from the Provost Office and UMassD CVPA; Hutchinson currently serves as full professor at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. With generous support from the Western Sugar Company. Embedded in the Overlap features work by Rebecca Hutchinson, an award-winning sculptor and three-decade resident of Helena, Montana. The site-responsive exhibition engages directly with Yellowstone Art Museum’s location in Billings, inspired conceptually by aspects of the city’s distinctive character: the history of settlement along the geographically prominent Rimrocks, the industries that sustain its communities, and the Rebecca Hutchinson dramatic, and often unpredictable, weather of the plains. For the exhibition, diverse materials from the region such as beet pulp, blue jeans, creek willow, and regional clay are carefully collected and transformed by Hutchinson for artmaking. Much of the organic and fibrous content is boiled, pulped, and poured into large sheets of paper; the paper sheets are further cut, coated in clay, and coiled to build up the vessel forms. In addition to sculpture, printmaking serves as a medium through which Hutchinson expresses her concept of place. An innovative artist in ceramics and paper clay, Rebecca Hutchinson began working with ceramics as an undergraduate student at Berea College (Kentucky) and studied under renowned ceramic artists and papermakers while pursuing an MFA at the University of Georgia (Athens). Hutchinson’s training in both clay and paper coalesced into a single practice while in residency at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, MT. Ultimately, Hutchinson uses her innate connection to nature and expansive paperclay practice to examine how place-making emerges from historical and cultural forces. Embedded in the Overlap exhibition catalog, available now in the YAM Museum Store. Education Workshop | Vessel Making with Rebecca Hutchinson: Responding to a Sense of The Vernacular Saturday & Sunday, October 10 & 11, 2026 // 12–4 PM both days (see page 26 for more information) Billings Symphony Chamber String Trio responds to Embedded in the Overlap Friday, October 23, 2026 // 3 PM (see page 13 for more information)
Will James in Hollywood
May 8, 2026 – May 6, 2028 // Earl E. Snook Gallery Family Gallery
Will James, The Reel and the Real, 1925. Ink on paper, 10 x 13.25 inches. Yellowstone Art Museum Permanent Collection, Gift of Virginia Snook.
Before he became the celebrated author of Smoky the Cowhorse, Billingsbased artist and writer Will James (1892 – 1942) brought his skills as a working cowboy to early Hollywood. In 1916, as Western films were rising in popularity, James worked as a horse stuntman, capturing, training, and riding wild horses for the screen. His firsthand knowledge of ranch life lent authenticity to a genre that was shaping the nation’s image of the American West. Through dangerous stunt work and expert horsemanship, James helped translate the realities of the range into cinematic myth. His later successes—including the 1927 Newbery Medal for Smoky the Cowhorse and its adaptation into three different films—grew from these experiences in the saddle and on set.
American Western Shoot Out, an adaptation of Will James’ The Lone Cowboy (1930) at Art House Cinema & Pub Thursday, November 5, 2026 // 6:30 PM // Tickets are limited and must be purchased through Art House; please email assoccurator@artmuseum.org with any questions. 10 | EXHIBITIONS artmuseum.org
Of Neon & Bones: New Acquisitions to the YAM Permanent Collection, from 2020 to now
May 9, 2025 – February 13, 2027 Mildred Sandall Scott Galleries 1 & 2 Sponsors: Larry & Ruth Martin, Gordon McConnell & Betty Loos, Linda Shelhamer & Stephen Haraden, Hilltop Inn by Riversage Of Neon and Bones celebrates a selection of artworks that have entered the Permanent Collection of the Yellowstone Art Museum from 2020 to now. Frequent and intentional rotations of artworks invite viewers to see brand new acquisitions and consider how the objects further expand the YAM’s collection of diverse art from the region. Michael Peed, Hi, I’m Mike!, 1993. Steel, rubber, plastic, wood, 50 x 26 x 72 inches. Gift of the artist.
In A Nutshell
November 14, 2025 – December 4, 2027 // M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust Gallery Drawing from the YAM Permanent Collection holdings, In A Nutshell presents sculpture and 2D works that explore the themes, aesthetics, and expressions of art made in the Funk and ‘Nut’ Art movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Artworks in a wide variety of media and styles are exhibited for their embrace of the experimental, humorous, and irreverent, and invite viewers into their playful versions of reality.
Harold Schlotzhauer, The Young Militant, 1971. Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 66 inches. Gift of the artist.
Visions of America: Spirit of Independence
June 5, 2026 – February 13, 2027 // Mildred Sandall Scott Gallery 3 Sponsors: Larry & Ruth Martin, The Yellowstone Art Museum celebrates the 250th anniversary of the United States of America with the exhibition of the Kent Spirit of Independence Bicentennial Portfolio, gifted to the museum in 1975. The portfolio was created in 1974, sponsored by the Lorillard Tobacco Company and named after the Kent cigarette. Lorillard commissioned twelve (12) of the country’s most celebrated artists to create an edition of 125 lithographs or serigraphs which were then to be distributed to museums throughout the country. An inaugural exhibition of the portfolio was held at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Colleen Browning, Union Mixer, 1975. Color lithograph on wove paper, 28.125 x 40.1875 inches. Gift of the Lorillard Company, A Division of Loews Theatres, Inc.
Understandings, Impressions, and Offerings: The Paintings of Eric Jensen
Eric Jensen, Ward Creek Cedar, 2022. Oil on canvas, 89 x 55 inches.
June – November, 2026 in Billings-Logan International Airport Concourse B. Sponsors: Dave & Cynthia Hummel The Yellowstone Art Museum (YAM) and Billings Logan International Airport (BIL) are excited to exhibit the work of Eric Jensen as the first exhibition of a solo artist in Concourse B. Jensen is a Billings-based abstract landscape painter with a focus on spiritual relationships with place. He received an MFA in painting from the University of Montana, Missoula, and now lives in Billings where he teaches art at both Montana State University and Rocky Mountain College. artmuseum.org
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Robert Royhl, Birth of Lewis Rock, 2010. Multiple plate color etching, A.P., 35 x 25 7/8 x 1 ¼ inches. Gift of Gesine Janzen in memory of Robert Royhl.
Jennifer Pulchinski, Wind Writes #1, 2022. Reclaimed barbed wire, reclaimed mining timber, steel. 77 x 90 x 19 inches. Gift of Linda Shelhamer and Stephen Haraden.
2026 Recent Acquisitions 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. Acquisitions not pictured: Gift of Gesine Janzen in memory of Robert Royhl: Robert Royhl, Crossroads, 2001. Etching, 26 ¼ x 31 ¾ x ¾ inches. Robert Royhl, Ghosts (In the Wilderness [Shimogamo]), 2003. Oil on linen on canvas, 43 x 57 1/8 inches. Robert Royhl, First There Is A Mountain: Eight Visions of Montana, 1992 – 1996. Portfolio, 1.25 x 16.375 x 25.25 inches. Robert Royhl, Sanctuary, 2018. Oil on wood panel, 24 x 38 7/8 inches. Robert Royhl, Across the Wide Missouri, 2021. Oil on board, 31 7/8 x 52 inches.
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Rosie Weiss, Violin
Samantha Inez, Viola
Cody Byrum, Cello
New! Billings Symphony Chamber Musicians at the YAM The YAM is delighted to partner with the Billings Symphony (BSO) for a unique two-performance series that brings chamber music and visual art together in the museum galleries. This fall, we will feature the Billings Symphony’s Assistant Concertmaster, Principal Viola, and Principal Cello, as they perform amidst the artwork, presenting thoughtfully selected pieces inspired by the surrounding exhibitions. These intimate performances invite visitors to experience the galleries in a new way, discovering fresh connections between sound and art. Join us for an unforgettable celebration of creativity as music and visual art come together in conversation.
String Trio responds to Embedded in the Overlap
Friday, October 23, 2026 // 3 PM
Musicians: Rosie Weiss, Violin; Samantha Inez, Viola; Cody Byrum, Cello
Cello Soundscapes respond to James Florio: Thirtysix Views of Inverted Portal
Friday, November 13, 2026 // 1 PM & 3 PM Musician: Cody Byrum, Cello
Tickets for these events are $10 each and available for purchase at the YAM front desk or on our website at artmuseum.org/engage/special-events. Seating is limited. We encourage you to purchase your tickets in advance. artmuseum.org
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Artist in Residence John Armstrong
September 16 – 26, 2026 John Armstrong is a master printer, artist, exhibition designer, and fine art framer. He has spent nearly thirty years collaborating with various artists on monoprinting techniques and processes. Armstrong enjoys explores new and varying styles while passing forward his techniques to others. John Armstrong is also co-founder of Armstrong-Prior, Inc. a multi-faceted arts business encompassing fine arts printing, publishing and arts brokering. Armstrong along with his wife, Joan Prior, curate some of the most prominent private and corporate art collections in Arizona. A former museum director, curator and teacher, Armstrong now devotes his time to creating his own work in sculpture, painting, and collaboration with artists in his printmaking studio. Visit our website for updates on John’s Open Studio Hours and related programming.
Beth Korth
October 14 – November 20, 2026 People find themselves in a composite of stories, experiences, and trials. My work digs into my own experiences with others and our stories beyond just the exterior to a deeper layer of understanding. Using multi-media processes that physically negotiate through levels of composited imagery and iconography and with the aid of chimera conduit bodies, bright, playful colors and layering of textures and marks. These interactions allow open dialog with viewers, inviting in their own experiences with personal relationships. Beth Korth grew up in Cheyenne, Wyoming. She received her BFA from the University of Wyoming and her MFA from the University of Montana. Korth is the art education and visitor center manager at Tippet Rise Art Center in Fishtail, Montana. She currently lives in Roberts, MT with her family. You can follow her online at @bethdrawsbunnies. Open Studio Hours: Wednesdays, Fridays & Saturdays: 10 AM – 5 PM
Open-Call for Artist Housing: Looking to support the YAM’s Artist-in-Residence program? The YAM is always looking for short and long-term housing options for artists participating in our Residency Program. If you have a room to rent (or an apartment, house, guest house, etc.) in Billings that you would like to make available to YAM Resident Artists, please scan the QR code to fill out and submit the form. If you have questions, please email Kimberly at assoccurator@artmuseum.org.
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Calling All Artists — be the next Yellowstone Art Museum Artist-in-Residence! Now entering its 18th year, the Yellowstone Art Museum’s Artist-in-Residence program is once again opening its doors to artists of all disciplines, offering a unique opportunity to develop your work in a supportive and engaging environment. The residency offers a chance to work where several of Montana’s most celebrated artists have shaped their visions— inside the Gary and Melissa Oakland Artist in Residence Studio, a spacious 800-sq-foot creative hub located at the heart of the YAM’s Visible Vault. As a resident, you will have the time and space to experiment, reflect, and deepen your practice, while sharing your work in dialogue with the community.
Duration & Dates
Applications are due by Sunday, October 18, 2026, and will be reviewed beginning Monday, October 19. Our residency program begins in mid-January of 2027. The duration will depend upon the scope of the artist’s proposal and the applicant pool.
NEW! Etching Press
New to the Artist-in-Residence Studio, YAM is excited to offer resident artists access to an etching press, thanks to the tremendous support of John A. Armstrong and Joan Prior.
How to Apply
Residences are selected based on their work’s merit, interest in public interaction, and the scope of their artistic investigation. To apply, please complete the following application and return it to YAM’s Associate Curator, Kimberly Gaitonde, by email at assoccurator@artmuseum.org or by mail to Yellowstone Art Museum, ATTN: Associate Curator, 401 North 27th Street, Billings, MT 59101: Resume Artist Bio and Statement Concise proposal stating interest and scope of work to be produced while in residence.* Preference for residency duration and weekly availability. Images of relevant work with corresponding title, date, medium, and dimensions. Professional reference(s) * Housed in the Visible Vault alongside the Museum’s collection, there are some limitations in media use (no open flame, toxic fumes, dust, etc.).
Studio Location & Conditions
The Studio is located within the Visible Vault collection storage building: 505 N 26th Street, Billings, MT 59101. Artists will have 24-hour secured access to the 800-square-foot Gary and Melissa Oakland Artist in Residence Studio.
Requirements
The Artist-in-residence must maintain at least 20 hours weekly in the studio. Coordinate occasional school studio visits with the Education department. Maintain an open studio and interact with the visiting public during special events such as First Fridays and Art Walk. Housing is NOT provided by the YAM; however, options for community housing accommodation may be available upon request. Availability is contingent on acceptance into the program and dependent on residency schedule, funding, etc.
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THE 59 th ANNUAL
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ARTIST SUBMISSIONS OPEN THROUGH OCTOBER 18, 2026
Honoring Kevin Red Star
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Friday, December 4, 2026 11 AM – 8 PM
Vendor space is limited—register early!
Friday, October 9, 2026 | 5 – 8 PM
Admission: $20 adults, $10 kids aged 6 – 17, Free for kids 5 and under Artist space is limited—register early! The Monster Drawing Rally is a lively event for the whole family! Over 50 artists will create artworks from start-to-finish in front of a live audience. Each piece is then auctioned for $50 in support of YAM’s community programming. 18 | EVENTS artmuseum.org
The YAM’S annual local Arts and Crafts Market, WinterFair, will coincide with the Holiday Stroll and December ArtWalk in downtown Billings. Artists and vendors will showcase a variety of handmade goods along with a full day of festive entertainment and holiday refreshments. Admission is free!
Membership News
Thank you to our YAM Members! Join or renew your membership today to support the YAM and gain access to our exclusive programs for members. Scan the QR code or visit our website at artmuseum.org/engage/individual-membership. Stop in and renew at the front desk or call us at 406.256.6804. Pay by check, sent to the museum’s address at 401 North 27th Street, Billings, MT 59101.
Member Exclusive: An Afternoon with James Florio
Tuesday, September 15, 2026 // 10:30 AM – 2 PM
One of the many benefits of YAM membership is access to experiences beyond the gallery walls. Join fellow members for an exclusive visit to photographer James Florio’s Roscoe studio, and a delicious boxed lunch on the banks of East Rosebud Creek at River Arts & Books, the literary arts non-profit, with co-founder and director, Caroline Joan Peixoto. This special outing takes place Tuesday, September 15, 10:30 AM – 2 PM. Don’t miss Florio’s exhibition, Thirtysix Views of Inverted Portal (September 4, 2026 – January 9, 2027), and the opening celebration and artist talk on Thursday, September 3, 5 – 7 PM. Tickets are $20 per member, including lunch. Space is limited, so reserve your spot by Wednesday, September 9th at the YAM front desk or by calling 406.256.6804.
Member Exclusive: Sip, Savor & Discover Thursday, October 29, 2025 // 5 – 7 PM
YAM members are invited to an unforgettable evening of art, wine, and discovery at Ohana Ceramics Studio on Thursday, October 29, 5 – 7 PM. Ceramicist Max Acoba and Jeff Ward, CWS (certified specialist of wine) with Briggs Distributing, will guide guests through the remarkable 8,000-year history of winemaking using clay fermentation while sampling wines crafted using this ancient technique. It’s a fun, educational experience available exclusively to YAM members. Tickets are $60 per couple or $35 per person. Capacity is limited so r eserve your place by Friday, October 16th at the YAM front desk or by calling 406.256.6804.
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Invest in the YAM — the Future of Art and Culture in Our Region The Yellowstone Art Museum has transformed from a small local art center into the region’s largest and most influential contemporary art museum—a vital hub where creativity, education, and cultural exchange shape the future of our community. The YAM represents more than a museum—it is an engine for economic vibrancy, cultural tourism, educational enrichment, and community identity. Each exhibition, program, and learning experience at the YAM drives innovation, sparks dialogue and inspires future generations. To secure this impact for decades to come, we are building a strong and permanent Endowment Fund. A robust endowment is not just financial security—it is the foundation that guarantees the museum’s excellence, accessibility, and relevance for generations. Your investment today ensures that the children, artists, and innovators who walk through our doors tomorrow will experience a world-class museum that uplifts our region’s spirit and economy. Join us in shaping the cultural legacy of the Northern Rockies by investing in the Yellowstone Art Museum’s future.
Options for Giving to the YAM Endowment Make a Lasting Impact with a Gift from Your IRA If you have an IRA and are at least 70½ or older, you can make a tax-wise investment in the Yellowstone Art Museum’s future by directing a gift from your IRA to the YAM Endowment Fund. Talk with your investment advisor to get started.
Multiply Your Impact with the Montana Endowment Tax Credit The Montana Endowment Tax Credit offers a unique and generous opportunity to make a transformational investment in the Yellowstone Art Museum—while receiving valuable tax benefits in return.
For Individuals: You may be eligible for a federal income tax deduction, a Montana state income tax credit, and capital gains tax savings when you contribute appreciated assets. Many individuals choose to establish a charitable deferred gift annuity with the YAM, unlocking a Montana income tax credit of up to 40% of the charitable value of their gift—up to $15,000 per individual or $30,000 for joint filers.
For Montana Businesses: As a Montana business owner—whether a sole proprietorship, LLC, or corporation—you can make a direct contribution to the YAM Endowment and receive a state income tax credit equal to 20% of your qualifying gift. This credit directly reduces your state tax liability, dollar-for-dollar—meaning a $15,000 tax credit saves you $15,000 in Montana taxes. Your investment today builds the museum’s financial future while delivering immediate and significant tax advantages.
Ways to Invest in the YAM’s Future
To learn more about how your gift can shape the long-term strength and impact of the Yellowstone Art Museum, visit: artmuseum.org/engage/planned-giving-gifts-to-endowment or scan the QR code. We encourage you to consult your financial advisor or estate planning professional to determine the giving strategy that best aligns with your financial goals. The Yellowstone Art Museum is pleased to provide information about the potential benefits of planned gifts; however, we do not offer legal, financial, or tax advice.
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The YAM Honors Life Time Legacy Society Members
Cathy & Peter Halstead We don’t think of our lives with one photo. It’s thousands of photos overlapping. And we tend to remember photos rather than the actual moments. We remember our lives, then, with metaphors. Art is the ultimate metaphor - the thousands of photos, melodies, lines of poetry, sections of paintings, which come together to create a life. Without art, we’re back to one photo. What YAM provides is a bridge to our memories in the past, and to our imaginations in the future.. —Cathy & Peter Halstead
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James Florio: Thirtysix Views of Inverted Portal Opens
Opening Reception, Documentary Film Viewing, and Conversation with James Florio, 5 PM Star WallowingBull: Futuristic Time Keepers Opens Yoga @ the YAM with Rain Soul Studio, 10:30–11:30 AM Hardin Middle School YAG Exhibition Opens
Member Exclusive: An Afternoon with James Florio, 10:30 AM–2 PM Deadline for applications for the Fall 2026 Museum Teen Council First day of John Armstrong’s Artist-in-Residency Exhibition Celebration with Star WallowingBull and Todd Bockley of Bockley Gallery, 5 PM Connections at the Art Museum, 10:30 AM – 12 PM Last day of John Armstrong’s Artist-in-Residency
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Yoga @ the YAM with Rain Soul Studio, 10:30–11:30 AM FAM at the YAM: Color & Texture, 4–6 PM
Museum Teen Council, 3:30–5 PM
Monster Drawing Rally, 5 – 8 PM
Studio 2nd Saturday: Rabbits, Scribbles, & Paints, OH MY!, 10 AM–12 PM Adult Art Class: Vessel Making with Rebecca Hutchinson, 12–4 PM
First day of Beth Korth’s Artist-in-Residency Connections at the Art Museum, 10:30 AM – 12 PM Deadline for Art Auction 59 Submissions & Artist-inResidence Applications Museum Teen Council, 3:30–5 PM
String Trio responds to Embedded in the Overlap, 3 PM Adult Art Class: Photography Intensive with James Florio, 10 AM–2 PM Member Exclusive: Sip, Savor & Discover at Ohana Ceramics Studio , 5–7 PM Last day for Hardin Middle School YAG Exhibition
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Shoot Out, an adaptation of Will James’ The Lone Cowboys at Art House Cinema, 6:30 PM Yoga @ the YAM with Rain Soul Studio, 10:30–11:30 AM FAM at the YAM: Create with Beth Korth, 4–6 PM
Cello Soundscapes responds to James Florio: Thirtysix Views of Inverted Portal, 1 & 3 PM Studio 2nd Saturday: Mechanical Mayhem, 10 AM–12 PM Head Start Preschool YAG Exhibition Opens Museum Teen Council, 3:30–5 PM
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WinterFair at the YAM, 11 AM–8 PM ArtWalk & Holiday Stroll, 5–8PM FAM at the YAM: Create with Beth Korth, 4–6 PM Yoga @ the YAM with Rain Soul Studio, 10:30–11:30 AM Studio 2nd Saturday: Portals of Presence, 10 AM–12 PM Museum Teen Council, 3:30–5 PM
Connections at the Art Museum, 10:30 AM – 12 PM
Connections at the Art Museum, 10:30 AM – 12 PM Last day of Beth Korth’s Artist-in-Residency
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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
FAM AT THE YAM
Ages: 5 – 12 | 10 AM – 12 PM Members: $10 | Not-yet Members: $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 connected to current exhibitions.
All ages welcome | 4 – 6 PM at the YAM FREE! No advanced registration required. FAM at the YAM is for everyone! Bring children, friends, and grandparents; all types of families are welcome. Create art together with a professional artist and learn about their process. It’s a great way to kick off your First Friday evening.
October 10 | Rabbits, Scribbles, & Paints, OH MY! Students will spend time with Artist-in-Residence Beth Korth and will create their own whimsical artwork in the YAM’s Visible Vault.
October 2 | Color & Texture Explore how color and texture can change the feeling of a scene like in the photographs of exhibiting artist, James Florio.
November 14 | Mechanical Mayhem Using a combination of bright colors, popular culture, and imagination, students will construct a composition inspired by artworks in Star WallowingBull’s exhibition, Futuristic Time Keepers.
November 6 | Create with Beth Korth Join us in the Vault with as we create with Artist-inResidence Beth Korth.
December 12 | Portals of Presence Create a series of paintings to explore the concepts of time, space, and presence as interpreted in the exhibition James Florio: Thirtysix Views of Inverted Portal.
YOUNG ARTISTS’ GALLERY Hardin Middle School Wednesday, September 9 – Saturday, October 31 Head Start Preschool Saturday November 14 – Saturday January 2
December 4 | Futuristic Time Keepers Be inspired by artist Star Wallowingbull and create a bright work of art like those in his exhibition Futuristic Time Keepers.
MUSEUM TEEN COUNCIL Ages 13 – 18 | 3:30 – 5 PM | FREE! The YAM’s Museum Teen Council brings a cohort of creative teens together to not only make art, but to build creative community. Teens develop new skills, discuss art critically, work collaboratively, learn from art industry professionals, participate in volunteer opportunities, and experience community engagement. Members of Museum Teen Council meet on the 1st & 3rd Wednesday of every month beginning October 7, 2026. Applications for the Fall 2026 cohort are due by September 16, 2026. Applications for the Spring 2027 cohort open December 1 and are due by January 20. For application information email Angel Shandy, Museum Art Educator at arteducator@artmuseum.org.
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1st & 3rd Wednesdays each month starting October 7th
Spring 2027 cohort pplications open on December 1st and are due by January 20th, 2027.
Preserving the Past, Protecting our Future This summer, the Yellowstone Art Museum celebrated the completion of a critical roof replacement project—an investment in the long-term care and preservation of our historic building. The museum’s historic structure, including the former Yellowstone County Jail, is an essential part of our identity and our story. Maintaining it requires ongoing care, thoughtful planning, and significant resources. A new roof may not be as visible or exciting as a new exhibition, but it is fundamental to everything we do. This important project was made possible through a Montana Historic Preservation Grant from the Montana Department of Commerce, along with generous support from individual donors. We are deeply grateful to everyone who contributed to this effort. Your generosity ensures that this historic building will continue to serve as a home for art, education, creativity, and community for generations to come. Thank you! We also extend our sincere thanks to Bradford Roof Management for their commitment to this project. Their expertise, professionalism, and careful attention to the unique needs of our historic building made a meaningful difference throughout the process. We are fortunate to have them as a community partner. Preserving our historic building is an investment in the YAM’s future. Thanks to our grant partners, donors, and dedicated staff members who led this work, the museum can look ahead with confidence—knowing that our roof is ready to protect the people, art, and experiences that make the Yellowstone Art Museum a special place.
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ADULT ART CLASSES
For more information scan the QR code or visit artmuseum.org/educate/adult-education. Please email our Adult Education Coordinator at AdultEd@artmuseum.org with questions. Register online or call the front desk at 406.256.6804. Space is limited and pre-registration is required. YAM Museum Members receive 20% off most adult education courses. If your YAM Membership has lapsed or is invalid, you will be automatically charged the remainder of the class fee.
Art CLASSES YAM adult art classes are designed for everyone from beginners to artists who want to hone their skills. Every class is taught by a professional artist who is eager to share their creative process and techniques. These museum-based classes are perfect for lifelong learners and creative members of our community. All adult art classes are available for OPI credits.
Vessel Making with Rebecca Hutchinson: Responding to a Sense of The Vernacular
Photography Intensive with James Florio
During this unique two-day workshop, Rebecca Hutchinson will work with participants to create a mixed-media structure or vessel. Inspired by her exhibition Embedded in the Overlap, participants will learn about using personally harvested materials for formal or narrative outcomes, and binders for mixed-media such as clay, adhesives, paper pulp, plaster, and/or cement products. Each participant is encouraged to bring in personal and symbolic mixed-media materials to construct memorable forms, old photographs or drawings, sewing scraps, baby clothes, sewing patterns, patches or uniforms, anything of symbolic reference to make personal icons and sculptural form.
Join renowned photographer James Florio, in conjunction with his exhibition Thirty-six Views of Inverted Portal, for an immersive four-hour photography intensive designed to deepen your ability to express your relationship with the world through the lens of a camera. The workshop begins at Norm’s Island, where guided instruction, hands-on exploration, and thoughtful conversation will sharpen your eye for form, light, shadow, color, and composition within the natural landscape. Through careful observation and practice, participants will develop a more intentional and expressive approach to making photographs. Lunch will be served back at the museum where participants will review their photography and print their photos. Please bring your own camera (cell phone cameras are acceptable).
Saturday & Sunday, October 10 & 11, 2026 | 12 – 4 PM
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Saturday, October 24 | 10 AM – 2 PM Cost: $45
Connections at the Art Museum with the Montana Chapter of the Every 3rd Friday September 18, October 16, November 20, December 18, from 10:30 AM – 12 PM No cost to participate. Registration in advance is required. To register, contact our Adult Education Coordinator at 406.256.6804 x250 or AdultEd@artmuseum.org. This monthly program promotes connection and companionship for individuals living with early-stage cognitive impairment and their care partners through art. Join us to view, discuss, and create art. No cost to participate.
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THANK YOU CONTRIBUTORS
We would like to give our sincerest thanks to all members, donors, and sponsors who have contributed and pledged $125 and above. This cumulative list reflects gifts to the YAM given from August 9, 2025, through August 9, 2026, including Art Auction donations and purchases. $200,000+ Mary Alice Fortin Foundation/ Fortin Family Foundation Patricia Burg Montana Department of Commerce $100,000 – 199,999 Bess Lovec Jeanne & Charlie Widdicombe $50,000 – 99,999 Anonymous Lornel Baker Linda Shelhamer & Stephen Haraden Jennifer & Steve Corning Suzie & David Restad Montana Community Foundation Christine & James Scott Valeria Jeffries & Allen Powers Ruth & Larry Martin $25,000 – 49,999 Charles M. Bair Family Trust Susan Scott Heyneman Foundation Kathryn Caine Wanlass Charitable Foundation Jane & Terry Indreland Dr. Kris Spanjian & Ray Gilbertson Yellowstone County $10,000 – 24,999 School of Art — Montana State University Maggy & David Hiltner Dr. Ralph & Sheryl Costanzo Ann & Jerry Jones Debi McDonald Tippet Rise Fund of the Sidney E. Frank Foundation Montana Arts Council Deborah Anspach & Dr. John Hanson Art Bridges Foundation Jeremiah Young David and Judy Johnson Charitable Trust Red Lodge Clay Center Jon Lodge & Jane Waggoner Deschner Leslie Taylor Dona & Paul Hagen Stephanie & Matthew Stroud Susan Sullivan & Stephen Zabawa Gareld Krieg Gordon McConnell & Betty Loos Joan Prior & John Armstrong Sibanye Stillwater Lara Grosjean Norma & Gary Buchanan Linda Snider Jill Clark & Bob Murtaugh Elliott J. Schaffer Family Advised Fund Drew Kramer & Holly Kramer Sara Hanson Walsh $5,000 – 9,999 Anonymous Maureen & Derek Kampfe Carole W. Baumann Jennifer Pulchinski Lilly Corning Thompson & Will Thompson Marilyn Kramer Mary Lee & David Darby Dawn & Shannon Widdicombe Bess Snyder Fredlund Beverly T. Ross Andrea & Alex Heyneman Cristina Marian Billings Public Schools Rachel & Paul Cox
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The Yellowstone Art Museum exhibits, interprets, collects, and preserves art, for the enrichment, education, inspiration, and enjoyment of all. Generous support provided by Art Bridges Foundation’s Access for All program allows the Yellowstone Art Museum to offer free admission. We are funded in part by coal severance taxes paid based upon coal mined in Montana and deposited in Montana’s cultural and aesthetic projects trust fund.