The Downtown Bozeman Association, Downtown Bozeman art galleries and participating downtown businesses are proud to present this summer’s Downtown Bozeman ArtWalks. The ArtWalks occur on the 2^nd Friday of the month June through September from 6 to 8PM in Downtown Bozeman. The galleries feature artists’ openings and receptions and often provide complimentary hors d’oeuvres and refreshments. 

This year’s sponsors include The Bozeman Daily Chronicle, KMMS AM 1450, 95.1 “The Moose”, Insty Prints, and First Security Bank.  The dates for this year’s ArtWalks are: June 13^th, July 11^th, August 8^th, September 12^th and a “special” Hatchfest Artwalk on Wednesday, October 1^st. 

Maps and ArtWalk 2008 information are available at all the participating galleries and businesses listed below and at the Downtown Visitor’s Center located at 224 East Main St. (next door to MacKenzie River Pizza Co.).  The participating galleries along with their featured artists for June’s Art Walk are as follows:

Alara is featuring jewelry artist Bagués from Bacelona.  Bagués is the last remaining jewelry artist in the world who creates Art Nouveau jewelry.  A fifth-generation designer, Bagués also uses the Art Nouveau enameling techniques on more contemporary forms and shapes, for a collection that is broad in appeal and unusual in its execution. 

Altitude Gallery featuring local artists Sarah Angst, Trudi Gilliam, Carol Lehman, Mimi Babe and jewelry by Marina Kessler, Katie Thompson, Rachel Walton, and Jacquie Spetz

Artist’s Gallery is featuring oil paintings by Kitty Whitehouse

Artshoppe is featuring fused glass artware by Peggy Karr

Artworks Gallery is featuring their talented gallery artists

Chaparral Fine Art is featuring Sculptor Rod Zullo who will be unveiling a special casting of his sold-out bronze, "A Good Life." Mr. Zullo has created this casting as a fund-raiser for his dear friend Sharon Conser McCartney, who was seriously injured in a car accident this winter.  A talented silversmith and long-time Chaparral employee, Sharon now finds herself facing many months of physical therapy.  Rod and is very generously donating the proceeds of the sale of "A Good Life" towards Sharon's ongoing medical costs.  Rod will also be sculpting live during the ArtWalk, and will be available to answer questions about process, technique and composition for fans of his work.

Emerson Grill and Ecce Gallery is featuring paintings by Fay Peck

ERA Landmark is featuring panoramic photographs by Craig Hergert who will also be doing a book signing for his book of Montana panoramic photography and there will also be live music during the walk by Michael Videon

Glasscrafters is featuring local artist Debb Rogers

Grey Fox Gallery is debuting their new “Giclee Gallery” featuring a room dedicated to high quality canvas giclees by Nancy Glazier, Chris Owen, Nancy Cawdrey and other top Western artists.

Homepage Café is featuring Shona Zimbabwe sculptures  

Indian Uprising Gallery™ is featuring “Imagery and Symbolism:  A Merging of Two Streams,” mixed media sculptures by Edie Reno

Infusion Gallery of Art is featuring basketry and embellished gourds by Terri McKenna

Jessie Wilber Gallery (including the Emerson Lobby and Weaver Room displays) featuring the Stephanie Frostad Painting Exhibit with her current body of oil paintings, "In and Out of the Woods" utilizing fables and allegories as catalysts for narrative content. Imaginary characters and open-ended stories are set in moody yet realistic landscapes.

Leaf and Bean is featuring photographs by John Layshock, watercolors by Marsha Karle and paintings by Pam Carlson

Miss Zula’s is featuring hand paintings by Kathleen and Andrew Karlsen

Montana Panoramic and Beaucoup Framing is featuring Montana panoramic photography by local artist Craig Hergert

Montana Trails Gallery is featuring colorful Western inspired oils by Debbie Sturgis

Old Main Gallery is featuring jewelry designer Sally Horner-O’Neill who specializes in Tahitian pearls.

Place Architecture is featuring architectural sketches of past and present projects.  Don McLaughlin has been practicing architecture in Bozeman, MT for 30 years and this is a collection of sketches by Don and his employees.

Rocky Mountain Rug Gallery is featuring the finest in Persian and Turkish handcrafted rugs.

Studio Boone is featuring Chinese brush work paintings by Stephen Boone

Tart is featuring “Tight Wires Between Us, Pegs Too Deep Too Uproot,” with pen and marker drawings by Courtney Blazon which were inspired by fragments of Sylvia Plath poems. 

Tierney Fine Art is featuring American, Western, and Sporting Art

The Yarn Shop is featuring the art of feltmaking with several regional felt artists.

Visions West Gallery is featuring fabulist painter Jerry Cornelia. Cornelia's paintings are filled with tales, stories and fables of an imaginary landscape somewhere between Sidney, Montana and New York City, where he resided for many years designing windows of department stores and painting manequins.