News & Upcoming Artists / Events
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Upcoming: October 7-11, 2024 (Fall Semester)
Stella Nall / Visiting Artist Printmaking Residency Fine Arts Building, Rm 403 10-3 m-f Stella Nall is a Montana based multimedia artist and poet from the Úuwuutasshe (Greasy Mouth) clan of the Apsáalooke (Crow) Tribe. Her Crow name is Bisháakinnesh (Rode Buffalo) and was given to her by Ronnie Yellowmule. Her work often engages with current issues pertaining to Indigenous identity, visibility and representation; while also inviting connection from people of all backgrounds by discussing ubiquitous human experiences such as love, loss, joy and grief. She graduated from the University of Montana in 2020 with a BFA in Printmaking, a BA in Psychology and a minor in Art History and Criticism. She now lives in Missoula, where she is represented by Radius Gallery. Her work may be viewed as murals across Montana, as well as in national public collections, including The Montana Museum of Art and Culture, The Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, and The IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts. Publications featuring her work include Scribendi, Cutbank, Denver Quarterly, McClain’s Printmaking Catalog, Montana Quarterly, The Thalweg, Stray, Word Dog, and Poetry Northwest. |
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Joe Feddersen: Earth, Water, Sky Retrospective exhibition
Currently on view at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture Spokane, WA Past Matrix Artist Joe Feddersen currently has a major retrospective up in Spokane. The exhibition features 3 of the large scale monotypes he created while working with Matrix Press along with numerous other prints across a broad range of media. The exhibition also features Joe's baskets and glass works, as well as his ceramics sculptures. The exhibition is accompanied by a full color catalog. "Votage Tower", Monotype, part of Earth, Water, Sky Exhibition shown here with Matrix Press director James Bailey |
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Celebrate Juneteenth at Missoula Art Museum
June 1-29, 2024 During the month of June, prints by Lisa Jarrett are on view at MAM. Jarrett completed the works during a 2023 printmaking residency at MATRIX press. Jarrett exists and makes work within the African Diaspora. She lives in Portland, Oregon where she co-authors social practice projects and continues her 14+ year investigation into Black hair and its care in various forms. She is Associate Professor of Community and Context Arts at Portland State University's School of Art + Design where she teaches classes in Art + Social Practice. Jarrett works in social and visual forms. Her intersectional practice considers the politics of difference within a variety of settings including: schools, landscapes, fictions, racial imaginaries, studios, communities, museums, galleries, walls, mountains, mirrors, floors, rivers, and prisms. She recently discovered that her primary medium is questions; the most urgent of which is: What will set you free? <Super Pick, by Lisa Jarrett, Screenprint & monotype, 19"x25", 2023, printed at Matrix press. |
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We Stand With You: Contemporary Artists Honor the Families of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relative Crisis at the Missoula Art Museum.
May 2-September 7, 2024 While this crisis first focused on Indigenous women and girls, numerous murders and disappearances of LGBTQ+/ Two Spirit people and men make this a broader issue inseparable from generational legacies of forced removal, land seizures, and violence. While women still are targeted the majority of the time, MAM uses Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives, or the acronym MMIR, though it is common to see MMIW, MMIWG, MMIP, and MMIX as well. When confronted with the individual stories, much less the statistics, the enormity of this crisis is overwhelming. Tribal people have disproportionately high rates of assault, rape, abduction, and murder. Indigenous women are 4 times as likely to go missing, murdered at a rate 10 times higher than the national average, and homicide is one of the leading causes of death for young Indigenous women, with sexual assault occurring at a much higher rate and with more serious consequences than any other racial or ethnic group in the United States. In 2021, the Montana Missing Persons Clearinghouse listed 179 active missing person cases, with 57, or 32%, of them identified as Indigenous. Indigenous people make up 6.9% of the state's population. According to the FBI's National Crime Information Center, in 2020 alone there were 5,295 Indigenous women and 4,276 Indigenous men reported missing across the United States. Hanna Harris (Tsis tsis'tas [Northern Cheyenne]) was murdered in 2013. Hanna’s Act was established by the 66th Montana legislature in 2018, authorizing the Department of Justice to assist local law enforcement in missing persons cases. Harris’ birthday, May 5 is observed as Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day and President Joe Biden declared May 5th as National Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day, issuing an Executive Order to prioritize the crisis of MMIR. We Stand With You, guest curated by Rachel Allen (Nimiipuu [Nez Perce]), takes place in the Lynda M. Frost Contemporary American Indian Art Gallery. This gallery is dedicated to exclusively exhibiting and programming work by contemporary Native artists. MAM is situated on the traditional, ancestral territories of the Séliš and Ql̓ispé peoples. Exhibitions like this are one of the ways that the museum honors and recognizes this relationship. <Blue Lodge, by Molly Murphy-Adams, drypoint, beadwork; is one of two works printed at Matrix press that is included in this exhibition. |
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Matrix Press donates recent prints to the Missoula Art Museum
MATRIX press is proud to have donated prints created through recent Matrix press printmaking residencies. The Missoula Art Museum just accessioned nine new prints into their permanent collection. These include prints from recent collaborations with Lisa Jarrett, Max Mahn & Brian Kelly. <Goose, Screenprint, 20.5" x 17", 2024 |
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March 2024
Max Mahn Designs Poster for Matrix Press. During his printmaking residency Max designed a poster featuring Matrix Press, which was then printed during his residency with the help of student printerns. The poster was printed on several different papers including a bright white, silver foil, lemon drop and paper bag colored papers. They all look awesome. |
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January 22 - April 6 / 2024
For The Good Of All Things exhibition Missoula Art Museum MAM celebrates the wealth of artists from a variety of Tribal backgrounds and mixed Tribal affiliations who are living in communities across Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal (CSKT) lands. Elder participating artists Corwin Clairmont and Linda King (both CSKT), along with Marie Torosian, program director at the Three Chiefs Culture Center, helped MAM reach artists who have not previously exhibited at the museum. The title honors artists in the exhibition who continually work hard to make good artwork. A respected Ql̓ispé (Kalispel) Elder and Culture Bearer, Pete Beaverhead said:“Kʷmiʔn̓e tʔe pistem̓kʷx̣ssmill̓šesyaʔɫu a scnq̓eʔels —ɫu kʷnq̓aq̓ʔels ɫu x̣ʷl̓č̓x̣est.” (I really hope that someday things will turn out right for you in all the work you are given and taking on—you who are working hard at what you are good at for the good of all things.) The exhibition features the Shadow Series suite of prints shown here by artist Corky Clairmont, which he created at Matrix Press. The suite was donated to the MAM's permanent collection by Matrix press. |
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March 4-6 / 2024
Max Mahn / Visiting Artist Printmaking Residency 10:00 am - 4:00 pm M-W BORN AND RAISED IN MONTANA, MAX RECEIVED HIS BFA IN 2015 IN PRINTMAKING FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA. MAX MAHN HAS BEEN CREATING LIMITED EDITION SCREEN PRINTS OUT OF HIS HOME TOWN OF MISSOULA UNDER THE PSEUDONYM TWIN HOME FOR NEARLY 10 YEARS. OVER THOSE YEARS, MAX HAS WORKED WITH A WIDE ARRAY OF CLIENTS BOTH BIG AND SMALL. HIS WORK RANGES FROM ILLUSTRATING SHIRTS FOR HIS LOCAL COLLEGE RADIO STATION (KBGA!) TO DESIGNING BOTTLES AND PACKAGING FOR NATIONALLY DISTRIBUTED BREWERIES. HOWEVER, HIS TRUE PASSION WILL ALWAYS REMAIN IN THE ART OF GIG POSTERS. THE SURREAL OPPORTUNITY TO WORK DIRECTLY WITH THE BANDS THAT MAX IDOLIZED AS A KID, SIMPLY CANNOT BE EXPLAINED. AS A ONE MAN OPERATION, MAX NOT ONLY STRIVES AS AN ILLUSTRATOR TO CREATE THE BIZARRE AND UNIQUELY FITTING IMAGERY FOR ALL OF HIS CLIENTS, BUT TO ALSO SCREEN PRINT THE MAJORITY OF HIS WORK HIMSELF. COMBINING HIS YEARS OF EXPERTISE IN THESE TWO CRAFTS HAS GONE ON TO ALLOW MAX TO WORK WITH SOME OF THE NATIONS LARGEST TOURING ACTS INCLUDING WILCO, DAVE MATTHEWS BAND, PHISH, AND MANY MORE. www.twinhomeprints.com 
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January / 2024
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston & The New York Public Library purchase Matrix Press prints for their permanent collections. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston purchased prints by Matrix press artists Joe Feddersen and Melanie Yazzie. Additionally, The New York Public Library purchased "Anonymous Was A Woman II", a suite of four prints by artist Miriam Schapiro. <(Shown here) Joe Feddersen's "Robot waves to canoe people", monotype, spraypaint & collage. 30" x 22", 2014 |
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October 19 / 2023
Radius Gallery / The Collaborative Print Gallery Talk by James Bailey, Director of Matrix Press 5:00-6:00 pm James Bailey will be in the gallery talking about Matrix Press and his collaborations with the many artists included in the current exhibition "Indigenous: Selections from MATRIX press". Radius Gallery is excited to share our new partnership with UM’s MATRIX Press as part of our mission to help cultivate a thriving arts economy, connecting art lovers, admirers, makers, teachers, students, and organizations that form the creative tapestry of Missoula. Since its launch in 1998 by program director and Professor Jim Bailey, MATRIX Press has provided printmaking residencies for over 30 artists. These artists hail from across the US, bringing with them a diversity of culture, methodology and experience. During intensive five-day printmaking sessions, students and community members create a set of limited edition prints. The immersion is terrific education and gives the visiting artists time and resources to experiment, play, and produce epic artworks. Missoula’s arts community has rallied around this program from its start. The Missoula Art Museum (MAM) wrote grants to help fund the artists and they have generously collected and exhibited the works. Both Radius Gallery and Zootown Arts Community Center (ZACC) have held past exhibits for Matrix Press artists. And now, Radius will provide a pipeline for these straight-off-the-press imaginative artworks to make their way into homes and collections. This is a wonderful project to support and we encourage you to look through the artworks and select the ones that speak to you. |
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October 13 / 2023
Rocky Mountain Print Alliance Conference, Spokane, WA Panel / The Art of Collaboration James Bailey will be chairing a panel which showcases collaborative presses from the West & Northwest Region of the country, each with an interest in promoting artists working in print media. Together these three presses highlight different approaches to developing collaborative presses representing the academic, the non-profit and the for-profit. The panel will share the prints of many of the collaborations and also discuss the practical sides of developing collaborative presses in these different settings. We are jointly dedicated to the creation of authentic images employing a range of print mediums and expert tradecraft in intimate communal settings to reaffirm a shared reality and to reinforce the enduring values of the print process—one which forges communities and transcends boundaries today and into the future, just as printmaking has throughout history. The other panelists are Judith Baumann, Master Printer representing Crow's Shadow Institute for the Arts in Pendleton, OR and Paul Mullowney, Owner and Master Printer at Mullowney Printing Company in Portland, OR. |
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October 2-6 / 2023
Lisa Jarrett / Visiting Artist Printmaking Residency Artist lecture @ MAM; Tuesday, Oct 3, 5:30 pm. Lisa Jarrett (she/her) is an artist working in social and visual forms. Her intersectional practice considers the politics of difference within a variety of settings including: schools, landscapes, fictions, racial imaginaries, studios, communities, museums, galleries, walls, mountains, mirrors, floors, rivers, and prisms. She recently discovered that her primary medium is questions; the most urgent of which is: What will set you free? She is co-founder/director of projects like KSMoCA (Dr MLK Jr School Museum of Contemporary Art); the Harriet Tubman Middle School Center for Expanded Curatorial Practice in NE Portland, OR; and Art 25: Art in the 25th Century. Lisa exists and makes work within the African Diaspora. She lives in Portland, Oregon where she co-authors social practice projects and continues her 14+ year investigation into Black hair and its care in various forms. She is Associate Professor of Community and Context Arts at Portland State University's School of Art + Design where she teaches classes in Art + Social Practice. www.lisajarrett.com
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September 29 - October 26 / 2023
Indigenous: Selections from MATRIX Press Radius Gallery, Missoula, MT First Friday Opening on October 6, 5-7 pm We're excited to announce MATRIX presses new partnership with Radius Gallery. Radius is now an official seller of MATRIX PRESS's vast catalog of extraordinary artworks! To celebrate, Radius has curated INDIGENOUS: Selections from MATRIX PRESS. Radius Gallery will initially be presenting recent works by Marwin Begaye, Ka'ila Farrell-Smith, Jason Clark, Lillian Pitt, Neal Ambrose-Smith and Molly Murphy-Adams amongst others. Director of Matrix Press James Bailey will be on hand for the First Friday, Oct 6 opening to answer can questions you may have and will also be presenting a gallery talk on Thursday, October 19th from 5-6 pm. |
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August 3rd / 2023
Tyler Krasowski / MAM exhibition Tyler Krasowski, BFA/2009 has a beautiful solo exhibition up at the MAM. He was also interviewed by the Missoulian about his work, see article below.
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April 25-28 / 2023
Christa Carleton / Visiting Artist Printmaking Residency Christa Carleton resides in Missoula, Montana. She has her BFA and MFA in Printmaking and has been creating prints for over a decade. Christa works regularly in screenprint and woodcut, but letterpress is where her loyalties lie. The artwork I make communicates messages of unrest, anxiety, and frustration as a woman. I relay these themes by using my unshakeable urge to be vulnerable. Through this urge I source my private memories, experiences, mantras, unspoken thoughts, and weak moments to bring fellowship and rapport with my viewer. I am driven to create work that focuses thematically on the agency of women because we live in a society where a woman’s voice is still marginalized and mocked. This is Christa's second visit to MATRIX press and she will be working with students all week developing two new prints. https://www.maakemagazine.com/christa-carleton-and-tonja-torgerson
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April 14 / 2023
Focus on the MATRIX Matrix Press was featured on the cover of the Missoulian Entertainer, along with an interview inside on our exhibition currently on view at the ZACC featuring 40 prints from the past five years. <Artist Corky Clairmont featured in photo during his residency at MATRIX press.
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April 7-30 / 2023
MATRIX Press: Recent Collaborations @ ZACC Opening Reception / First Friday, April 7th, 2023 from 5-8 pm MATRIX press will be exhibiting recent prints created at MATRIX press at the University of Montana covering the past five years. The exhibition features approximately 40 new works showcasing the diversity and experimentation in contemporary printmaking. Artists in the exhibition include: Brian Kelly, Ka’ila Farrell-Smith, Corky Clairmont, Reinaldo Gil Zambrano, Christa Carleton, Lillian Pitt, Tim Musso, Neal Ambrose-Smith and Marwin Begaye. |
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March 24 / 2023
Jundt Art Museum receives 60+ prints from Matrix Press for permanent collection. I have been visiting the Jundt Art Museum at Gonzaga University for 20 years. Bringing groups of students to see original prints in their fabulous print collection. Likewise, the Jundt has been supporting Matrix Press all that time as well. They have bought numerous prints over the years to add to their permanent collection to support what we do and in 2021 they presented a 20 year retrospective of works created at Matrix press. This past week MATRIX Press donated some 60+ prints by 18 artists to add to their permanent collection. <image is of students visiting the Jundt Art Museum Print Archives back in 2010, shown here with Karen Kaiser, Curator of Education. |
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February 21-24 / 2023
Brian Kelly / Visiting Artist Printmaking Residency Brian Kelly received an M.F.A. in Printmaking at Louisiana State University, a B.F.A. in Printmaking from Northern Illinois University, and a Certificate in Waterless Lithography from the Tamarind Institute of Lithography. Professor Kelly serves as Head of the Printmaking program and is Coordinator of Marais Press at UL Lafayette. Kelly’s prints have been included in over 500 exhibitions throughout the United States, Canada, Japan, South Korea, China, Ireland, Australia, Brazil, Poland, England, Scotland, and Slovenia. His prints have been included in museum and university collections that include the United States Library of Congress, The New York Public Library, Southern Graphics International Printmaking Archives and many others. |
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January 6-February 2 / 2023
Missoula Art Museum Auction Exhibition & events Live Auction: February 4th The 2023 Benefit Art Auction will include a silent auction and the live auction event will be held on February 4, 2023. This year more than 70 artists have contributed their work. MAM will exhibit all artwork Jan. 6 to Feb. 2 and silent auction bidding will be open through the month. MAM's commitment to free admission, free expression, and free education is center stage at the annual benefit art auction. For almost 50 years, the benefit art auction has made it possible to share these values and great works of art with our entire community. MAM’s live auction is a spectator sport that has to be experienced to be appreciated. The purchase of live and silent auction artworks at MAM’s benefit art auction supports all of MAM’s core programs and exhibitions. MAM is proud to support more than 200 local, regional, and national artists through exhibitions each year and offer free educational programs to all schools in our region. MATRIX Press donated Marwin Begaye's wonderful print "Cheeky Relative", 29"x22" Screenprint with 100% of the proceeds going to benefit the MAM's valued programming. |
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November 9 / 2022
MAX MAHN Former student Max Mahn (2015 BFA/Printmaking) will be visiting with all the printmaking classes today showing us his awesome prints. Max is a full-time printmaker creating GIG posters under the press name TWIN HOME PRINTS for bands such as Wilco, The Melvins, WEEN, PHISH, Primus and The LIL SMOKIES to name but a few. He has also been selected to create four labels for Dogfish Head Seasonal Beers. Max has been a visiting artist to several of my print classes over the last several years and continues to be an inspiring artist. Link to TWIN HOME PRINTS |
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October / 2022
MATRIX Press / Missoula Art Museum donation MATRIX Press just donated four new prints created by our latest visiting artist Ka'ila Farrell-Smith. Ka'ila produced four unique print editions, comprising 80 prints during her printmaking residency. Her residency was funded with help from the Missoula Art Museum, MATRIX Press and the Jim & Jane Dew Visiting Artist program. "RE-UNITED", 5 color Screenprint on dyed paper. 15"x 20", 2022 shown here is just one of the prints MATRIX Press donated to the Missoula Art Museum's permanent collection. This marks the completion of our fourteenth collaboration between MATRIX press and the Missoula Art Museum. |
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October 17-21 / 2022
Ka'ila Farrell-Smith / Visiting Artist Print Residency Ka'ila Farrell-Smith is a contemporary Klamath Modoc visual artist, writer and activist based in Modoc Point, Oregon. The conceptual framework of her practice focuses on channeling research through a creative flow of experimentation and artistic playfulness rooted in Indigenous aesthetics and abstract formalism. Utilizing painting and traditional Indigenous art practices, her work explores space in-between the Indigenous and western paradigms. Ka’ila displays work in the form of paintings, objects, and self-curated installations. Ka'ila Farrell-Smith received a BFA in Painting from Pacific Northwest College of Art and an MFA in Contemporary Art Practices Studio from Portland State University. She is a a certified Wilderness First Responder and is a Land Defender on the front lines, fighting resource extraction projects across the Pacific Northwest. Funding for this project comes from the Jim & Jane Dew Visiting Artist Program, Missoula Art Museum & Matrix Press. |
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June / 2022
MATRIX @ MAM The Missoula Art Museum will be displaying prints created at MATRIX Press by a variety of artists in their front lobby gallery. All prints are available for purchase with proceeds benefiting the ongoing efforts of MATRIX Press & the Missoula Art Museum. The inaugural prints include works by Sara Siestreem, Marwin Begaye, Corky Clairmont, John Hitchcock, Duane Slick, Christa Carleton, Molly Murphy-Adams & Peter Von Tiesenhausen. Prints will be rotating over the next several months, so check back frequently. |
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