August 2022
A native of Northwestern North Dakota, Erin Redlin Benson, now a resident of Belgrade, Montana, has been a creative and adventurous person ever since she can remember. Her upbringing on a family farm ignited and enabled her love of the outdoors…
July 2022
“I want to move people; have a voice in the world. If you move people you are doing your job as an artist.”
Born and raised in Browning, Montana on the Blackfeet Reservation, art is in Louis Still Smoking’s…
June 2022
Craig Collar was born and raised in Montana and graduated from Montana State University with a degree in mechanical engineering. During his childhood years in Great Falls, he was told that his first full sentence was “the wind blows…
May 2022
Ryley Enich is a designer, outdoor enthusiast and artist. His work, a reflection of where he feels most happy, largely depicts scenes from mountain hikes, pristine streams or alpine lakes. He is a native Missoulian and Bozeman area transplant, and…
April 2022
When Picasso gave us a wonderful and remarkably new way of looking at the world, he also gave artists a very helpful quote: “Inspiration comes, but it must find us working.”Nature is the inspiration for all of Louisa Hull’s…
March 2022
For as long as she can remember, Elizabeth Geers Loftis has loved drawing and painting, so it wasn’t surprising when she chose to study art at Colorado State University. Her life took an amazing twist when she married a fellow Coloradan, Bob…
February 2022
Early in the morning of January 12, 2022, we lost Robert Royhl Smith, far too soon at the age of 72. He was a painter, art professor, enthusiastic reader, lifelong learner, a unique, brilliant, amusing man, a traveler - someone whose curiosity was…
January 2022
Dee Hainsworth is a maker, a doer, and a dabbler. She has spent the majority of her young life in Bozeman, interrupted by a gap year in Flagstaff, AZ, before returning home to complete a degree in Elementary Education. Dee creates as part of a…
December 2021
Averi Smith is a Montana Native, a self-taught teen artist living in Bozeman, and a Junior at Gallatin High School. As many kids do, Averi loved to paint as a young child. It wasn’t until 2015, at the age of 10 that her painting began to look…
November 2020
Ella Kuzyk has been making art since she could reach her tiny baby hands into a jar of paint.Raised on the mountains of California, Nevada, and Washington, Ella has a deep and fiery passion for the outdoors. Through high school, she nurtured that…
