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Trails, traffic, tourism and teamwork were all topics of discussion as Lt. Gov. Mike Cooney sat down with Lincoln stakeholders and Main Street Montana Rural Partners Monday, Oct. 22. Administered by the Community Development Division of the Montana Office of Tourism, Main Street Montana helps communities revitalize and preserve their historic downtowns by uniting community ideas and efforts with program organization and resources. Focusing on economic development, urban...
A Kawai grand piano purchased by Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild and intended for the use of the community and the park has taken up residence at the Methodist church. BPSW President Becky Garland said the park decided to put rental costs to good use by purchasing a fine instrument that could be used by Lincoln School students as well as by the sculpture park and the community at large. Garland said pianist Phil Aaberg, who was a featured artist in several of this...
The Montana Office of Tourism and the University of Montana are collaborating with Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild to gather data about who visits the sculpture park, and BPSW board members and volunteers were on hand during September's residency to distribute questionnaires to park visitors. Funded by the Montana Office of Tourism to gather information on park visitors, the length of their stay, what services they use and where they spend their money, the surveys...
New Installations at Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild...
The Lincoln Community Hall was filled wall-to-wall last Thursday night for the Lincoln Youth Concert, a collaboration between the Lincoln School choir and band programs and the Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild concert series. An estimated 180 parents and community members packed the hall as 90 Lincoln students ranging from kindergarten to high school seniors joined BPSW Composer-in-residence Adele O'Dwyer, Violist Aoise O'Dwyer, violinist Marvin Suson, and pianist...
Composer Adele O'Dwyer wrapped up her 2018 stint as Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild Composer in Residence with a final concert Friday, Sept 28. The concert at the Lincoln Community Hall featured original musical compositions by O'Dwyer performed by internationally renowned musicians in front of a backdrop of artwork by local students and was attended by more than 100 community members and BPSW supporters. O'Dwyer said she spent several months in preparation for the...
The ephemeral nature of art and beauty is an important theme of Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild's 2018 education program, according to BPSW Education Officer Hannah Demma. Demma, who guides children from small Montana communities on interactive tours of Sculpture in the Wild, meets school groups at the Lincoln Ranger Station, where rangers begin the program with a presentation. "This year we're doing bear safety. They've been playing a game with them, and it kind of...
Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild welcomed fall with Festival in the Wild 2018, a weekend program of events and music celebrating the sculpture park's fifth anniversary. The festival kicked off with a sold-out café music night and fundraiser art auction at the Lincoln Community Hall. The event featured refreshments in a candlelit café style ambiance accompanied by live music from performing artists Phil Aaberg, Pan Morigan, Marvin Suson, Aoise O'Dwyer and BPSW C...
Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild entered its busiest time of the year last week as this year's two artist-in-residence went to work on the newest installations for the park. Unlike some past artists, neither Cornelia Konrads nor Kate Hunt have released conceptual renditions of the work, which may make this year's launch Sept. 29 feel a bit more revelatory. Konrads in particular prefers to keep her concept, a span incorporating lodgepole logs and barn wood, close to...
Adele O'Dwyer admitted she was delighted and a bit surprised at the crowd that filled the Lincoln Community Hall for the first in a series of three Lunchtime Concerts celebrating both the 5th Anniversary of Blackfoot Pathways and the 100th Anniversary of the Lincoln Community Hall. "I don't think a lunchtime concert is a common place event, so I didn't know if the first one, would they respond?" she said. "There seem to be school children and all sorts of different people,...
LINCOLN - The fifth anniversary of Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild this September promises to elevate further the surprising art park in this small mountain community. In addition to playing host to renowned sculptors Cornelia Konrads and Kate Hunt who will be working on new installations in the 26-acre sculpture park on the eastern edge of town, visitors and residents will be treated to an eclectic range of musical concerts curated by Composer-in-Residence Adele...
LINCOLN - Five years ago some 60 Lincoln-area residents got together in the school gym to hear of a new vision for this small mountain community. Logging and mining were continuing to fade as foundational components of the area's economy - not gone nor forgotten, but surely diminished. The speaker that evening was Irish sculptor Kevin O'Dwyer, who arrived in Lincoln as the guest of renowned Damascus steel knife maker Rick Dunkerley, whom he met at Pratt Fine Arts in Seattle,...
Recently, a group of media took flight with University of Montana professor Rick Graetz to take in the stunning landscape of the southern Crown of the Continent area, centered on Lincoln. This flight highlighted Graetz’s effort to map, explore, and include this landscape of the Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest into the coveted Crown of the Continent, which could bring an economic boost for Lincoln. With increased visitors to the area, that tourism influx could assist in cushioning and leveling out the historic b...
Kids taking part in this year's Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild Summer Education Program had the chance to get "Wild About Art" with artists John and Souheir Rawlings last week. Every year, Sculpture in the Wild partners with Lincoln School's POUNCE after school program to host the four-day program that in one way or another looks to history and the natural world as sources of inspiration for artwork designed by the kids who take part. "This was all based on nature...
Last month, Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild took advantage of a new way to raise funds by working with AmazonSmile. AmazonSmile, or smile.amazon.com, is a shopping website run by Amazon that allows shoppers to designate a nonprofit charitable organization to receive .5 percent of the purchase price of the items they buy. “It is Amazon, but with tying in with the greater community who order off them, Amazon has decided to contribute to charities,” said Sculpture in the Wild Artistic Director Kevin O’Dwyer. “They...
