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Indigenous art market slated for Missoula this Sunday
A local women-owned event that aims to showcase Indigenous artisans has a new date and venue coming up this Sunday in Missoula.
The Indigenous Made Summer Market, featuring 40 artists and makers from all over Montana, will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Caras Park downtown on July 23.
There will be performances by powwow dancers at noon and perhaps a drum circle.
The event is put on by Indigenous Made Missoula, owned by local co-founders Latisha Buck Elk Thunder and Dacia Griego.
“The Indigenous Made Missoula Summer Market is a celebration of Indigenous art and culture, providing an opportunity for artists, makers, and talent to support themselves through entrepreneurship and art,” Buck Elk Thunder said. “We are thrilled to showcase the work of local Indigenous artisans and provide a platform for their talents.”
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She said the event will be a vibrant celebration of Indigenous creativity and heritage, and the purpose is to uplift and center Indigenous artisans and makers while celebrating their unique cultural heritage. It will be an open-air market showcasing a wide range of handcrafted Indigenous art, both contemporary and traditional.
It’s free to attend, and the organizers hope to host a diverse crowd and have a welcoming vibe that’s family-friendly, inclusive and open to everyone.
“It’s a made market, so everything is made by the artists themselves,” Buck Elk Thunder explained. “For example we have Monica Gilles-Brings Yellow who does mixed multimedia. We’ll also have beadwork, lots of jewelry and we have a couple traveling artists doing paintings. It’s a really cool, eclectic mix.”
Last year, the Missoula Women’s Giving Circle awarded Indigenous Made Missoula a $10,000 grant to help them empower Native artists.
Buck Elk Thunder said they used the grant to build up their talent network and expand the database of local and regional artists.
“I’m an artist myself, and doing markets I got to know a lot of people and I’ve been a part of the community here for over 10 years,” she explained. “We’re just really connected to the community and we also work really hard on marketing.”
She and Griego met during a creative class when they were both doing beadwork for their daughters.
“It’s definitely a passion for both of us,” Buck Elk Thunder said. “We were talking about the markets and what we needed in Missoula. We decided we needed a space to gather and decided to create an inclusive market. The feedback we’ve gotten is great.”
Their past events have been a hit.
“A lot of artists have said it’s amazing and encouraging to participate in a market that’s run by people who look like them,” she said.
All the artists can set up for free due to sponsorship of the event by the All Nations Health Center, Art Attic Framing and Design and Rockin’ Rudy’s.
“Indigenous Made Missoula is dedicated to uplifting and creating opportunities for Indigenous artists, makers, and talent to support themselves through entrepreneurship and art,” Buck Elk Thunder said. “We hope that our event will provide a platform for these artists to showcase their work, share their unique cultural heritage, and inspire others to support Indigenous art and artists.”
For more information visit indigenousmademissoula.org.
David Erickson is the business reporter for the Missoulian.
Hickory native Lee Harper to be artist-in-residence
BLOWING ROCK — Hickory native and longtime Blowing Rock summer resident Lee Harper will return as artist-in-residence at Edgewood Cottage for the week of Aug. 28-Sept. 3.
Harper will be at the cottage each day of her residency from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. to discuss and sell her work. She will also paint new works while onsite. This will be Harper’s eighth year as artist-in-residence at the cottage, located on Main Street in Blowing Rock, and she will again share the space with fellow artist and friend, Tunde Afolayan Famous, whose talent and work are well-known to the Blowing Rock community.
The Edgewood Cottage artist-in-residence program is sponsored by the Blowing Rock Historical Society.
“It’s an honor to once again be invited by the Blowing Rock Historical Society to share my art with Blowing Rock residents and visitors,” said Harper. “As I look forward to my eighth fine arts residency in this beautiful place, I am almost overwhelmed with gratitude for the ongoing inspiration and support this community provides to me. My family has been summering in Blowing Rock since the 1700s, so my roots run very deep here. I plan to exhibit 30 paintings featuring dancers, landscapes and still lifes, and all will be offered for sale. My husband and I are eagerly anticipating our summer time here, and I’m looking forward to greeting old friends and meeting new ones Aug. 28-Sept. 3.”
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Built in 1890, Edgewood Cottage was the first home of American artist Elliott Daingerfield. The structure was restored by the Blowing Rock Historical Society and is now used for special events and the popular artists-in-residence program. Harper’s exhibit includes a public reception Thursday, Aug. 31, from 6-8 p.m. RSVPs are requested at lee.vason@gmail.com.
Harper, founding director of Atlanta’s Lee Harper & Dancers, is one of the Southeast’s most influential and inspirational arts leaders. She attended the Juilliard School of Music and graduated from the North Carolina School of the Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in dance. She performed professionally with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, the Pearl Lang Dance Theater, the All Nations Dance Company and the Atlanta Contemporary Dance Company. For more than four decades, Harper has taught thousands of children, choreographed productions for some of the region’s premier arts organizations, directed her group of professional dancers and dazzled audiences with her one-woman shows. Harper is also a fine arts painter, presenting art shows and serving as artist-in-residence at art centers in Blowing Rock, Atlanta and Madison, Ga.
In December 2000, the Harper family donated their historic family home, Harper House, to the Historical Association of Catawba County in Hickory. She is married to attorney Wayne Vason, and they have two adult children, Katie and Fin.
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X Marks the Spot sculpture erected in Magnetawan
The idiom can be traced back to 1813 when the British military put an X to mark where the heart was on people who faced execution
Mystery Abounds in Lee Madgwick’s Uncanny Paintings of Derelict Buildings
“The Veil.” All images © Lee Madgwick, shared with permission
A sense of unease surrounds the buildings in Lee Madgwick’s paintings, their sides crumbling or coated in thick vegetation as they stand alone in fields or swamps. The neglected structures appear lifted from cities and towns and dropped directly into rural landscapes, where nature slowly envelops their brick facades or sprouts trees from their eaves. “I’m forever drawn to places of abandonment and isolation,” Madgwick tells Colossal. “I’m compelled to explore these enigmatic wonders. There’s a poignancy and an unwavering silence and fragility that hangs in the air.”
Containing only remnants of human life, the scenes prompt questions about the buildings’ origins and caretakers. Some pieces, like “The Veil,” depict a home long-deserted by inhabitants as thick vines cover the lower windows, while others like “Fen View” suggest that people remain, as a small window is neatly trimmed out of an overgrown hedge.
Working in what he terms “imagined realism,” the artist uses a mix of water-mixable oil and acrylic paints layered during the course of several weeks. “The skies are painted with the palms of my hands and fingertips. It’s the most expressive part of the process,” he shares. “Together with a brooding sky and concentrated light a sense of drama is formed and a narrative is set in motion.”
Madgwick has a solo show slated for October at Brian Sinfield Gallery in Burford, Oxfordshire. Until then, find his work on Instagram and shop limited-edition prints on his site. (via This Isn’t Happiness)
“Fen View”
“The Flood”
“Summer House”
“Gatehouse”
“Kingdom”
“Fragments”
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Beyond the Lens Photography studio opens
LA GRANDE — For years, photographer Joshua Annas took pictures as a hobby, and now he’s making a go of it as a business.
Annas, an Eastern Oregon University graduate originally from Newberg, recently opened Beyond the Lens Photography, 301 Fourth St., La Grande, offering multiple photography services at his newly remodeled studio.
Detroit-area photography dealer pleads guilty to $1.5m art fraud scheme
A former Detroit-area gallery owner pleaded guilty to conning collectors out of more than $1.5m worth of art last week, charges that could land her up to 20 years in prison.
Wendy Halstead Beard pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud, the Department of Justice said on Thursday (13 July). Beard is the former owner of the Wendy Halsted Gallery located in Birmingham, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. Beard acknowledged defrauding more than 10 victims over nearly three years, including one victim who was vulnerable because of their advanced age, officials said. Beard’s sentencing has been scheduled for December.
From approximately March 2019 until October 2022, Beard defrauded her clients by selling photographic prints she had received on consignment without notifying the owners and pocketed the profits, according to the DoJ. Beard used a variety of excuses to explain to clients why their work could not be returned, including telling them she had recently woken from a coma or had received a double-lung transplant. Other times, Beard said clients’ photographs were not attracting buyer interest, even in cases in which the work had already been sold. Beard also created fake email addresses for employees who did not exist to support her fraud.
Beard’s alleged victims include Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist J. Ross Baughman, who told The New York Times earlier this year that the former gallerist conned him out of 20 prints she valued at $40,0000.
“She was willing to take advantage of me,” Baughman told the Times, saying Beard “had taken my life’s work—all of these very fun, sentimental personal artefacts”.
Beard is the daughter of well-known Detroit photography dealer Tom Halsted, who was a founding member of Association of International Photography Art Dealers (Aipad) and was elected the group’s second president. Halsted died in 2018, and Baughman told the Times he began working with Beard after he initially tried to reach out to her father after his death.
Another alleged victim was an 89-year-old man with Alzheimer’s disease who consigned five photographs for Beard to sell, including a signed print by famed landscape photographer Ansel Adams, according to a Federal Bureau of Investigation complaint. When the man’s relatives requested return of the works, Beard instead gave them a reproduction print that appeared to have been purchased from the gift shop of the Ansel Adams Gallery in Yosemite, California, the complaint stated.
More and more alleged cases of art dealers defrauding collectors and artists have come to light in recent years. High-profile Manhattan art advisor Lisa Schiff indicated in recent legal documents that she will liquidate her firm to pay creditors after facing lawsuits claiming she defrauded collectors out of millions of dollars. Palm Beach art dealer Daniel Elie Bouaziz was sentenced to more than two years in prison last month after pleading guilty to selling counterfeit works he attributed to blue-chip artists like Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Roy Lichtenstein. Last year, art dealer Inigo Philbrick was sentenced to seven years in prison after he pleaded guilty to federal wire charges linked to defrauding collectors, investors and lenders out of $86m.
