Inside the Emerson

Interested in Winter Art Market?

theemerson — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:31:00 +0000

2009 2010 Art Market

Have a talent creating things? Want to make a little cash? Retrieve an application by emailing cherlyn@theemerson.org.

Proceed to read all information before submitting. Return by Oct. 24.

Call Emerson at 587-9797 with any questions you may have. Good luck!

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theemerson — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:25:45 +0000

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Post Celebration…your thoughts?

theemerson — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:13:16 +0000

We had another successful Celebration of the art’s event this year. What a ton of fun! Thank you to all who donated their wonderful donations, art and time. We plan to post pictures of the night soon. Looking forward to next year and your attendance as well.

As we move in to our fall season, the building will be bustling with numerous upcoming events, including ski films, concerts, and hatchfest, etc. Please check our website as we will be updating it often.

With that, we would also love to host an exciting Emerson sponsored event during those cold winter months…such as another Bingo night, possibly some sort of dance party or other. We would love to hear some of your wonderful ideas as to what you would love to attend at the Emerson. Please feed them to us! Look forward to your thoughts.

Join us for the 2009 Celebration of the Arts!

theemerson — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:55:11 +0000

The Celebration of the Arts will be on September 12 at 6pm. This is the Emerson’s largest fundraiser of the year and will feature live entertainment, a decadent dinner and both a live and silent auction. Here is your chance to bid on anything from hiking shoes to a vacation at a beach house in Costa Rica to locally made jewelry to fantastic art.

The Emerson will also proudly feature the following quick draw artists that will be included in the live auction:
Susan Blackwood, Aaron Shuerr, Tom English, Tina DeWeese and Howard Friedland

Here is a sample of the auction items at this year’s event:

All the proceeds from this event will go toward Emerson education, both adult and children’s art classes, exhibits and building restoration. By supporting the Emerson, we are also able to keep Lunch on the Lawn and Halloween Open House events free to all attendees. We appreciate all your suport!

Join us! To rsvp or get your questions answered, call the Emerson at 587-9797 before seats run out.

Fall Art Classes are out!

theemerson — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:50:00 +0000

Check out the assortment of art classes for children, adults and teens on our website and give me a call to sign up.
(Cherlyn @ the Emerson 587-9797)

Sweet Pea…Sweet Exhibit!

theemerson — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 21:24:37 +0000

After you get your fill of the Sweet Pea Festival, be sure to check out the new exhibit at the Jessie Wilber Gallery. Works by Robert DeWeese will be on display until October 1.

Robert DeWeese: A Look Ahead is a survey of the life work of one of Montana’s pioneering modernist artists. Beginning August 5th the DeWeese retrospective will be on display in Bozeman’s Jessie Wilber Gallery at the Emerson and the Copeland Gallery at Montana State University. The community is invited to an opening reception at the Wilber Gallery on Friday, August 14th, with a gallery talk by Josh DeWeese at 5:30 pm. Refreshments will be served from 5–8 pm in conjunction with Bozeman’s Art Walk.

Robert DeWeese (1920-1990) studied art at Ohio State University and moved to Montana in 1949 with his wife, Gennie Adams DeWeese. As professor of art at Montana State University in Bozeman from 1949 to 1977, DeWeese taught and influenced many of the artists now working in Montana and beyond. DeWeese’s immense creativity, protean productivity, and personal warmth and generosity made him a Montana art legend. His radical experiments influenced two generations of Montana artists and collectors, and his artistic explorations still reverberate today.

A Look Ahead is on loan from the Holter Museum of Art and is traveling throughout the state of Montana under the auspices of the Museum and Art Gallery Directors Association–Montana (MAGDA). It is based on the Robert DeWeese retrospective presented at the Holter Museum in 2006 and curated by Bozeman artist Terry Karson.

“We hope this exhibition provides a fresh, in-depth look into Bob DeWeese’s legacy, offers a significant addition to the historical record of this important artist, and stimulates renewed dialogue on the history of modern art in Montana and what it may offer to future generations,” Karson said.

For further information contact Ellen Ornitz, ellen@theemerson.org or consult our website: www.theemerson.org.

Summer Art Camp Finale

theemerson — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:34:45 +0000

As the new grants, membership and outreach coordinator, I was able to witness the final summer art camp class for the first time. What a blast! The camp was called “Sea of Grass”, which included a buffalo building workship, clay prairie dog creation, a mural of grasslands, study of Georgia O’keeffe and a prairie installation.

The buffaloes were exhbited outside the Emerson for a brief period until it rained. Check out the pics below.

I look forward to my time here at the Emerson and all the wonderful people I will encounter.

Cheers,

Cherlyn Wilcox

More photos from Summer ArtCamp

theemerson — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:08:01 +0000

Summer Art Camp 2: Tell Your Story!

theemerson — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:19:24 +0000

The Emerson’s second week of artcamp served up more stories than a library. Young artists created papier mache busts, clay-headed puppets, ceramic vessels, prints and drawings. By week’s end,they had all created a host of characters – some villains, some heroes, and even an Elvis impersonator. They created a fantastical puppetshow to weave together the tales of these creations, and presented their work to parents, siblings and their teachers.

The halls are alive with the sound of summer camps

theemerson — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:22:38 +0000

Summer is always a lively time at the Emerson. The halls are alive with young artists of all persuasions: ballerinas in pink leotards at the Dance Center, Picassos with colors up to their elbows at ArtSplot and the Emerson’s summer ArtCamps, and the entrancing beats of drummers practicing with Rhythm Drums. There are the graceful movements of the young ladies dancing on the lawn with Jinny Watts’ West African Dance classes, the fingerfalls of earnest pianists studying with Lucille TeSelle, the guitarists rehearsing chords with Mark Logan, and violinists, cellists, and viola players who climb the stairs to take lessons at Bridger String Conservatory.

There are classes at the Emerson’s Frances Senska Pottery Studio, yoga classes at Down To Earth Yoga and Yoga Motion, and an embroidery class at tart. All this creative energy, all together under one roof.

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