Hello Friends,

Don’t miss these upcoming events and classes:

– FALL ART CLASSES –
REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN
We are thrilled to announce that fall classes are OPEN for registration! There are 19 classes to choose from, AND we have a new hand building ceramics classroom! Come learn from the best instructors, enjoy creating art, and meet wonderful new people along the way. See you soon at the Emerson! View the full list of classes online.

– TALENT CALL FOR HOLIDAY NOIR –
Looking for the brazen, the talented, the performers with moxie who want to participate in the most tastefully scandalous holiday show in Bozeman! Last year, we filled our theater two nights in a row and entertained exuberant crowds with performances that made even Rudolph’s nose blush. This year is guaranteed to surprise and delight, and we want to welcome you to join the fun as a participant in the Emerson’s 2024 Holiday Noir.

We will be holding auditions September 24, 25, and 26 (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday). Auditions will run every 10 minutes with performers having 3 minutes to show their act. The show dates are December 6 & 7. Please fill out the Google Form below to snag an audition slot.

Acts should be holiday-themed, lean into the saucy/adults-only nature of Holiday Noir, embrace humor, and most of all, be entertaining. Limit audition to 3 minutes, and please note that all acts are subject to edits by our production team. All types of performance artists are encouraged to audition! Bring the fire (not literally, please) and bring the fun. Looking forward to seeing what you’ve got!

Sign up to audition online.

– CURRENT EXHIBITS –
OUT WEST
By Chase DeForest
Chase DeForest creates collaged and stitched leather artworks broadly exploring themes surrounding cattle, horses, landscapes, and the American West. She uses hides as a conceptual jumping off point for her subject matter. The artwork celebrates the history and many compelling properties of leather: supple, durable, flexible and fun.

Chase was raised riding horses on a rural family farm. After two decades making commissioned custom furniture, she was introduced to the idiosyncratic world of custom cowboy boot makers. In becoming one herself, she discovered the many attributes and potential of leather. She has now also taken the medium from the foot to the wall.

Chase has an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and presently resides in Livingston, Montana.

GEO-ERRATIC BEHAVIOR
By Leah Cupino
Leah Cupino once lived on top of a volcano and a score of other locations in her life, but now resides in Helena, Montana.

Her 20-year career’s worth of paintings include loose landscapes and topographical glacier abstractions and now includes a focus on the boulders within them.

Her subjects are united by her fascination with grand scales of time, as she colorfully weaves concepts of place, ownership and what it means to simply be a part of this earth.

Cupino is currently the co-founder of Omerta Arts, a studio-residency mentorship program and gallery where she also organizes her city’s Art Walk events when she is not outdoors with her family.

She has enjoyed residencies at Art Gallery Studios in Mexico City, CDMX, the Wolf Pack of New York City, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and Virginia Commonwealth University, and her degree in Fine Arts and Commercial Design from Walla Walla University, and has enjoyed teaching at the Cittone Institute and CHI of Philadelphia, as well as Carroll College and Helena College, of the University of Montana’s Fine Arts Departments in past years

HIT THE ROAD
By Yuki Coyle
Yuki Coyle is a visual artist currently living in Bozeman, Montana. She enjoys many artistic mediums especially painting, illustration, and ceramics. In her free time, you can find Yuki hiking, traveling, or baking. Yuki is originally from Fargo, North Dakota and she finds much of her inspiration from her home community, and the places she encounters in her travels from there.

With gratitude,
Susan Denson-Guy
Executive Director