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Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild received a new grant this year to help fund some facilities improvements and greater access to the park for visitors with special needs. The Treacy Foundation based in Helena provided a grant to help fund construction of a utility room next to the park's bathrooms, as well as a cement pad to smooth out the lip to get onto the current bathroom pads. "The Treacy Foundation has helped us in the past with the funding of these toilets....
The image of an unidentified young girl getting a hand with her shoes during the Boot Race at last summer's Lincoln Rodeo by BVD Editor Roger Dey earned first place in the Montana Newspaper Association's 2021 Better Newspaper Contest Division 1 Feature Photo category. It was also selected as the Mel Ruder Photograph of the Year. The award marks the second time judges selected a BVD photo as Photograph of the Year. In the 2019 Better Newspaper Contest, judges selected an image...
Local artist Annie Allen Clark's book, "Undulating La Roux," is due out this December from Sweetgrass Books, a division of Montana's Farcountry Press. "Undulating La Roux" will feature a variety of characters and quotes and is an all ages book, said Clark, who noted there are no swear words, and that kids will love the illustrations. "The characters from the book came from morning meditation journals that I have many, many of. Trace and I often talked about the fact that they...
The Lincoln Arts & Music Festival is set to return Aug. 14 and 15 after a hiatus last year due to COVID-19. The event is scheduled to include music and other performances on Saturday and Sunday, alongside artists' booths, kids' activities and more. "We'll have three bands on Saturday," said Karyn Good, one of the event organizers, adding, "Music will go from 2-8 this year. Then on Sunday, we have two musical acts starting at 11 o'clock, and then our last act is a storyteller....
Using colored pencils, Garrett Schwalm used a bench in the Hooper park pavilion as a desk as he enthusiastically colored in the landscape around an illustration of a whitetail buck. Schwalm was hurrying to beat the deadline for the Lincoln Prosperity Proposal coloring contest at the Lincoln arts and Music Festival Sunday afternoon. The coloring contest, which had $500 in prizes, made its debut at the festival this year, thanks to support from The Wilderness Society, which not...
The Lincoln Council for the Arts sponsored the annual Barn Dance this year on Aug. 13. As in years past, the dance took place at Eddie Grantier's barn, and this year, it featured the band Edge 406 from the Great Falls area. The first Barn Dance was held in 2009, said Sue Murphy, who organizes the event. "Terry Mooney had a vision, and she called me up. We went and asked Eddie, and Eddie also had a dream that he wanted a barn dance," said Murphy, adding, "The whole town of...
Each September, Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild invites artists, composers, musicians, and other creators to Lincoln as part of the Artist in Residency program. This year, Montana's 2019-2021 Poets Laureate, Melissa Kwasny and M.L. Smoker, are scheduled to speak and engage with students and the community Sept. 16. Kwasny and Smoker earned a shared $50,000 fellowship from the Academy of American Poets to "partner with seven Montana art and historical museums,...
Michael Brolly is one of two featured artists-in-residence at Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild this year, and he will be in Lincoln for a three week residency throughout September. Brolly teaches woodworking at Moravian Academy in Pennsylvania and is also the current artist- and maker-in-residence at the Northampton Community College Fab Lab. The Fab Lab, short for fabrication laboratory, offers tools and instruction in woodturning, metalworking, recording equipment,...
Work this month at Sculpture in the Wild has focused on maintenance throughout the park. Kevin O'Dwyer and Marshal Bullis have been spending time this month on maintenance, repairing damage to sculptures and developing a final pathway around the southwest section of the sculpture park....
Every fall, Lincoln students get the opportunity to work with visiting artists and creators during the artist residencies held by Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild. This September, students have the opportunity to engage with poets, musicians and visual artists, and to contribute to pieces being developed by these artists. "The sculpture park educational program is more than just visual arts," said Annette Gardner, who has been education chairperson for BPSW since 2014...
Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild introduced Beth Korth, this year’s emerging artist-in-residence, Sunday, Sept. 6 during the Artist-in-Residence Reception at the Teepee Burner. The three-week residency program, which kicked off Monday Sept. 7, allows artists to create site-specific pieces drawing on Lincoln’s economic, environmental and cultural traditions, according to BPSW’s website. “My work contains a lot of animal imagery. I really like to think about how we use...
Artist-in-residence Michael Brolly and Emerging artist Beth Korth introduced the latest addition to Sculpture in the Wild during the launch Saturday, Sept. 25....
Alpine Artisans' annual Tour of the Arts, highlighting artists in the Blackfoot and Seeley-Swan Valleys, is scheduled for Oct. 9 and 10 this year to take advantage of the autumn foliage changes, particularly among the larch. This year marks the 18th anniversary of the tour, said Jenny Rohrer, program manager for Alpine Artisans, Inc. The event was started by AAI artist Christine Jewett in 2004 and allows local artists to open up their studios to the public and give people a...
Kevin O'Dwyer came to Lincoln to make knives, but after ten years and multiple trips to and from his home in Ireland, he's leaving behind an award-winning sculpture park. 2021 marks O'Dwyer's ninth year as the artistic director for Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild, a position he originally expected to hold for only about two years. "It's been a really great experience; the ups and downs and all the rest of it," he said. "At the end of the day we have a beautiful...
The Lewis & Clark Library plans to host their 15th annual National Endowment for the Arts Big Read in November featuring the poetry book An American Sunrise by Joy Harjo. "Big Read is a chance for the community to get together and read the same book and share their thoughts on that book and the ideas that they found, and have that shared community feeling of experiencing the same thing...and then getting together to talk about it," said Library Director John Finn, adding, "It...
With so many new faces in Lincoln, the Lincoln Council for the Arts wanted to give a small update on things they are doing in the community and remind people of ways they can get involved. If you are a local artist and would like to be featured on our website and social media, the Arts Council would like to meet you. Lincoln Council for the Arts meets the third Monday of each month at 5:30 p.m. in the back room at Lambkins. They invite anyone interested in the arts, or those...
Montana-based Farcountry Press released Lincoln artist Annie Daniel Clark's book "Undulating La Roux" in October. Full of "whimsical, magical illustrations" that are pared with "wry humor and quirky observations," Farcounty Press says of Clark's 64-page book that the "richness of color and hue...matches the richness of the human experience that she explores through her art." Clark is noted for using her connection to the land and the abundant wildlife in the Lincoln area as...
