MISSOULA, Mont. — Missoula Art Museum invites the public to meet exhibiting artist Molly Murphy Adams on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

Thursday there will be a gallery talk at the museum, Friday will be a First Friday celebration with live music and a bar from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. and Saturday will be a Free Family Workshop on moccasin design.

Murphy Adams was born in Great Falls and now resides in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She specializes in contemporary sculptural beadwork and her scholarly research reflects personhood for Native artists and women.

The Missoula Art Museum released the following information:

Missoula Art Museum invites the public to meet exhibiting artist Molly Murphy Adams at a Nov. 2 gallery talk and at the museum’s Nov. 3 First Friday celebration, which features live music and a no-host bar from 5 to 8 PM. On Saturday, Nov. 4, Murphy Adams (descendant, Oglala/Lakota) leads a Saturday Free Family Workshop on moccasin design; after a brief tour participants will view the artist’s family moccasins before she leads the class in creative moccasin design.

In the current exhibition, The Space Between, Murphy Adams explores Indigenous beadwork historically, philosophically, and visually. Recently, the artist worked as a consultant and contributed beadwork design to the Martin Scorsese film Flowers of the Killer Moon. She also makes work with a sense of humor and was one of the artists commissioned to make irreverent beaded medallions for the hit Indigenous television series, Reservation Dogs, created by Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi for FX Productions.

Murphy Adams learned beadwork at a very early age. The artist was born in Great Falls, raised in western Montana, and now resides in Tulsa, Oklahoma. As an exhibiting artist, scholar, and community-maker and advocate, Murphy Adams specializes in contemporary sculptural beadwork. Her scholarly research reclaims personhood for Native artists, especially women.

MAM presented Murphy Adam’s first solo exhibition in 2008 and collaborated on her MATRIX Press residency in 2017, including the resulting prints in the 2018 group exhibition, The Shape of Things: John Hitchcock, Molly Murphy Adams, Sara Siestreem, Duane Slick. Murphy Adams has exhibited and has work collected in museums and galleries in many states across the U.S. and has received multiple awards and commissions.