News & Upcoming Artists / Events
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James G. Todd (1937-2025)
Jim was my colleague in printmaking when I first arrived at UM. He taught in the humanities from 1971-80, and then taught printmaking from 1980-2000. Jim was particularly interested in the social history of art. He was an amazing printmaker whose many varied print series gained him international acclaim, in addition to being a Montana staple. Among these are his famous printmakers series, jazz series and his looney tunes series based off his childhood drawings. Jim did two projects with Matrix press, one was a series based on The Seven Deadly Sins, the second project was a portrait of Chief Joseph. Jim was a proud member of the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers and also a member of the Wood Engravers in England. Since retiring in 2000, Jim worked continuously on his work right up until the day he passed. He was an extrodinary printmaker who will be greatly missed. We are all lucky to have his vast collection of prints to remember him by. Below is an article about Jim from the Missoulian. 
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Deep Blue Friend, Screenprint 14"x11" by Duane Slick was purchased by the Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
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Speedball featured our project with Duane Slick on their Speedball Linkedin pages.
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MATRIX Press makes front page of the Missoulian with article featuring Printmaking Residency with Duane Slick.
March 29, 2025 Duane created several new series of prints this week working with Matrix press. These included several new editions of CMY Coyotes and a new Blue Coyote series. Additionally, he created a new series of monotypes based on his Aria for a Coyote Opera Suite.
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March 23 - March 28, 2025
Duane Slick / Visiting Artist Printmaking Residency Fine Arts Building, Rm 403 10-3 m-f This is Duane's second residency at MATRIX press. Duane Slick is a Meskwaki painter and storyteller, whose visual work includes black-and-white photo-realist paintings on linen and glass. His work has been described as “dream paintings whose aim is the exploration of matters spiritual, not physical.” Born in Waterloo, IA, Slick earned his BFA in painting from the University of Northern Iowa and his MFA in painting from the University of California, Davis. He began teaching painting and printmaking at RISD in 1995 and has also lectured at colleges and universities across the US and taught at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, NM. His work has been exhibited widely – most recently at the Albert Merola Gallery in Provincetown, MA and at RK Projects in New York City – and is included in the collections of the National Museum of the American Indian in New York City, the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis, and the De Cordova Museum in Lincoln, MA, among many others. Slick is currently represented by the Albert Merola Gallery in Provincetown. |
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New Sponsorship with Speedball Art
We are delighted to work with Speedball as a sponsor. We've been using speedballs products for years in all our printmaking courses as well as for many of our visiting artists. Speedball’s® rich history of manufacturing fine art materials began in Camden, NJ in 1899. Since that time, Speedball’s offerings have grown and evolved but our dedication to providing our customers with superior products and service at an affordable price remains the same. Website: www.speedballart.com |
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Exhibition / Good Relations: Contemporary Native Artists in The MAM Collection
March 4 - July 3, 2025 Celebrating contemporary Native artists is a cornerstone of MAM’s mission. As the museum marks its 50th anniversary and the retirement of Executive Director Laura J. Millin, we honor her visionary work in establishing the Contemporary American Indian Art Collection (CAIAC) with Jaune Quick-to-See Smith in 1997 and the Lynda M. Frost Gallery of Contemporary Native Art in 2006. What began with Quick-to-See Smith’s generous donation has grown into a collection of over 300 works by leading Native artists—now the most requested and loaned part of MAM’s holdings. As artist John Hitchcock states, “Indigenous artworks now are about survival, existence, and our futures. To quote Jaune, ‘We are still here.’” This exhibition offers a glimpse into the depth and power of the CAIAC, featuring works both well-known and newly displayed. The exhibition includes several prints created by Artists working with MATRIX Press including Melanie Yazzie, Duane Slick, John Hitchcock, Kai'la Farrell-Smith, Joe Feddersen and Neal Ambrose-Smith. |
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February 24 - February 28, 2025
David Miles Lusk / Visiting Artist Printmaking Residency Fine Arts Building, Rm 403 10-3 m-f David Miles Lusk is an artist living and working out of Alberton, Montana. David received his Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphasis in printmaking from the University of Montana in 2014. He is inspired by the intersection of science and mythology, and nature & humanity. He started Anomal Press in the fall of 2016. David has shared his work with past printmaking classes and this will be his first residency with Matrix Press. |
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MATRIX Press makes front page with article featuring Residency with Stella Nall.
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October 28-November 1, 2024
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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Special Edition MATRIX Press Bear designed by Jason Clark
We've created numerous versions of our Matrix press T-shirt designs over the years and our latest one drawn by Jason Clark is spectacular. |
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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. |
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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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May / 2022
MATRIX Press / Missoula Art Museum donation Printmaking Professor & Director of Matrix press James Bailey (left) with Brandon Reintjes, Senior Curator at the MAM stand in front artist Corwin Clairmont’s recently completed “Shadow Series”. Clairmont’s series explores 10 sites around Missoula, documenting through photographs and on-site drawings representative items found at each of these sites. The one square mile area chosen is an important cultural and traditional food gathering place of the Salish Tribal People for over 10, 000 years. MATRIX press just donated Corwin Clairmont’s Shadow Series of 10 prints to the Missoula Art Museum along with four prints by Marwin Begaye. This marks the completion of our thirteenth collaboration between MATRIX press and the Missoula Art Museum and project fourteen is already in the planning stages for next year. |
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April 18 & 21 / 2022
Corky Clairmont on the Front page of the Missoulian: "Collaborative art inspires learning" & Montana Kaimin: "UM visiting artist links art to the history of Indigenous Lands" Along with a great short video from the Missoulian of Corky Clairmont working in the studio with Matrix Press. Link to Video
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April 14 / 2022
Duane Slick / "The Coyote Makes the Sunset Better" Solo exhibition at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, Conn. Duane was a visiting artist in 2018 with Matrix Press in collaboration with the Missoula Museum of Art & the help of an Andy Warhol Foundation Grant. His current exhibition at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art features 18 prints he created at Matrix press, along with numerous paintings and sculpture. (Series: Birth of the Dollar pictured to the Left) Read the New York Times review of his exhibition below.
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April 11-15 / 2022
Corwin Clairmont / Visiting Artist Print Residency Corky will be working in the printmaking studio all week on a new series of works. (FA 403) Hailing from Ronan, Montana, Clairmont is a celebrated visual and conceptual artist whose decades of work have included printmaking, mixed media, sculpture and installation. He’s also a professor and former fine arts department director at Salish Kootenai College. After earning an undergraduate degree from the University of Montana, Clairmont continued his graduate studies with a fellowship at San Fernando State University and in 1971 completed his education with a Master of Arts degree from the California State University in Los Angeles. He spent the next 14 years within the Los Angeles art scene and worked as the printmaking department head at the Otis/Parsons Art Institute. Today, Clairmont is among an important group of Native American artists who use elements of their cultural background in combination with European artistic traditions to make political statements. Clairmont often uses elements of printmaking, photography and collage to create his artwork. These complex images give sharp attention to corporate and governmental injustices imposed on the Native American community and environment. Though messages in his work are strong, their delivery is subtle, relying on ironic observations rather than overt accusations. Viewers must approach the work and examine the relationships of many visual and textual references in order to understand its full social and political commentary. Funding for this project comes from the Jim & Jane Dew Visiting Artist Program, Missoula Art Museum & Matrix Press. |
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March 18 / 2022
Collaborative Presses / Pressing Forward Together: Southern Graphics Council International (SGCI) conference panel @ The University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin James Bailey, MATRIX press @ University of Montana, Missoula, Montana (Panel Chair) Susan Goldman, Lily Press, Rockville, Maryland Marwin Begaye, Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts, Pendleton, Oregon Together these three presses represent different approaches to developing collaborative presses representing the academic, the non-profit and the private atelier. 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. |
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March 8 / 2022
Visiting artist shares his indigenous printmaking with UM students. Great article in the MONTANA KAIMIN on Marwin's visit this past week.
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March 7 / 2022
Navajo printmaker visits UM to make bird and pattern-laden art. Great article in the Missoulian on Marwin's visit this past week.
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February 28-March 3 / 2022
Marwin Begaye / Visiting Artist Print Residency Marwin will be working in the printmaking studio all week on a new series of works. (FA 403) Marwin Begaye is an internationally exhibited printmaker, painter. As Associate Professor of Painting and Printmaking at the University of Oklahoma’s School of Visual Arts, his research has been concentrated on issues of cultural identity, especially the intersection of traditional American Indian culture and pop culture. He also has conducted research in the technical aspects of relief printing and the use of mixed-media. His work has been exhibited nationally across the U.S. and internationally New Zealand, Argentina, Paraguay, Italy, Siberia and Estonia. He has received numerous awards, including the Oklahoma Visual Artists Coalition Fellowship, Best of Classification in Graphics at 2019 Santa Fe Indian Market among many others. He has been featured in many publications and is represented by Exhibit C in Oklahoma City. Funding for this project comes from the Jim & Jane Dew Visiting Artist Program, Missoula Art Museum, Warhol Foundation & Matrix Press. |
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February 5 / 2022
Missoula Art Museum Art Auction The 2022 Benefit Art Auction will be live-streamed from the Carnegie Gallery at the Missoula Art Museum! This event will be free to watch and will begin at 6 PM Mountain time. MAM will host an exhibition of the 2022 Art Auction in the Carnegie Gallery from January 7-February 4, 2022. A number of pieces were donated by the Matrix Press at the University of Montana’s School of Art and Media. The print lab and MAM have a partnership that brings visiting artists to Missoula to produce new work with the aid of UM instructors and students and then exhibit at the MAM. A monotype by Oregon artist Lillian Pitt (Wasco, Warm Springs, Yakama) boasts imagery that will be familiar to those who saw her popular exhibitionat the MAM in 2019-20, in which a mask submerged in waters looks on at passing fish. Neal Ambrose-Smith whose exhibition “Where Are You Going?” is still on view, collaborated on a print with Matrix’s James Bailey and Jason Clark, in which each artist contributed their own distinctive imagery.-Cory Walsh |
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January 15 / 2022
MAX MAHN Former 2015 BFA Student Max Mahn was featured in the Missoulian today to celebrate his artist design for Dogfish Head Beer label. Max has been a visiting artist to several of my print classes over the past several years and is an inspiring artist. Read Missoulian Article below:
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October 25-29 / 2021
Neal Ambrose-Smith / Visiting Artist Print Residency Wednesday, Oct 27 / Opening reception 5-7 pm for exhibition: č̓ č̓en̓ u kʷes xʷúyi (Where Are You Going?) Gallery Talk at 6 pm. Neal will be working in the printmaking studio all week on a new series of works. (FA 403) Neal Ambrose-Smith is Flathead Salish, Metis, and Cree, and a descendent of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation. He received a B.A. degree from the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley and an MFA degree from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. Working in the arts for twenty years, Ambrose-Smith has been a studio assistant; a goldsmith apprentice; a designer for an Albuquerque entertainment magazine; a freelance digital photographer for artists; a consultant for the Joan Mitchell Foundation as well as exhibiting his own artwork. He has traveled extensively in the U.S., Mexico, Europe and did an independent study in Spain for a year. His work is in collections such as, Beach Museum, KS; Missoula Museum, MT; Galerie D’Art Contemporain, Chamalieres, France; Boise Art Museum, ID; New York Public Library Print Collection, NMAI/Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC,Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, Contemporary Art Museum, Hong-ik University, Seoul, Korea, Cork Printmakers Special Collection, Cork, Ireland, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis, IN, Monash University, Gippsland, Australia and Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO. Funding for this project comes from the Jim & Jane Dew Visiting Artist Program, Missoula Art Museum, Matrix Press and the Warhol Foundation. |
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October 1-8 / 2021
Tim Musso / Visiting Artist Print Residency Friday, Oct 1, 2021 Opening reception 5-7 pm for "Below the Bark"; Gallery Talk at 6 pm. Tim will be working in the printmaking studio all week on a new series of works. (FA 403) Oct 4-8. As a visual artist Tim Musso responds to what he finds during his time in the wilderness by creating visual images that make visible some of the intricate relationships of insects/animals/plants/geology so often overlooked and underappreciated in the fast paced times in which we live.In this body of work the artist focuses on the forests and the impact of bark beetles. It is amazing that one small insect no larger than a grain of rice can bring down one of the largest living things on the planet—the. The David in this amazing battle is the humble bark beetle and the Goliath is the massive pine tree. As the beetle bores through wood to make their own wooden ‘writing’ Musso carves through wood with small gouges to create works of art that tell the incredible story of this small insect and its huge impact on the forests of North America. Funding for this project comes from the Jim & Jane Dew Visiting Artist Program, Missoula Art Museum and Matrix Press. |
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June 12-July 25 / 2021
RICHARD MOCK / THE CUTTING EDGE A Retrospective Print Exhibition Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY A beautiful retrospective exhibition on Richard Mock is currently being held at the Kentler International Drawing Space in Brooklyn, NY. It features some 300 prints covering Richard's extensive portfolio of work. Accompanying the exhibition is a wonderful Brochure and Essay written by Joyce C. Polistena, Ph.D. (Art Historian at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. The Brochure features Mocks "New Republican Agenda" created in 1998 at Matrix Press, along with one of his preliminary sketches for the work.
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March 29 / 2021- MATRIX Press Print Residency
Reinaldo Gil Zambrano / Visiting Artist Print Residency ZOOM / 10:15-Noon & 2:15-4 Reinaldo Gil Zambrano is an artist, printmaker and educator born in Caracas, Venezuela. His narrative raises questions of daily issues equally experience by people across culture and borders using relief printing as an storytelling tool for its illustration and reflection. He studies the universal idea of home and how it affects individual personalities by exploring iconography derived from the Majority World and fascinating storytelling inspired by Hispanic literature’s magical realism and illustrations from the Venezuelan Rosana Farias. Reinaldo will also be discussing his work with the Spokane Print and Publishing Center and his numerous public art works. |
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March 31th / 2021
Dagny Walton / Visiting Artist In Person / 10:15-11:00 Dagny Walton is a first year graduate student in the MFA program at the University of Montana, concentrating in illustration and printmaking. She has lived in the mountainous west nearly her entire life, and the American West's history, culture, and mythos is the primary guiding force behind her current work. She is particularly interested in exploring the often disastrous convergence of nature and colonial ambition, and the ghosts that endure as remnants of this conflict. |
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March 24th / 2021-MATRIX Press Print Residency
John Hitchcock / Visiting Artist Print Residency ZOOM / 10:15-Noon John Hitchcock is an Indigenous artist (Commanche), Professor of Art, Department Chair of Theatre and Drama and Associate Dean of Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is an award-winning artist who uses the print medium to explore relationships of community, land, and culture. He has taught printmaking at UW-Madison since 2001. He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Texas Tech University. The Comanche word “Kaku” can be translated to mean grandmother. My Kaku, Peggy Joy “Pohoxicut” Reid, was a beadwork artist, tribal singer, and attended intertribal gatherings nation wide. When I was a child, my Kaku ask me to design floral patterns and geometric shapes for her beadwork designs. This is how I learned how to draw and understand my and my peoples relationship to the land.
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February 24th /2021 & April 7th, 2021
Christa Carleton / Visiting Artist Feb 24: from 2:00-4 via Zoom April 7: from 10:15-Noon via Zoom 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. |
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October 28th, 2020
David Miles Lusk / Visiting Artist FA 403 / 10-Noon David Miles Lusk started Anomal Press in 2016. He is an independent artist/printer whose work is inspired by the intersection of science and mytholog, and nature and humanity. David will be in the studio sharing his work and process and what's involved in running an independent press. |
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October 27th, 2020
Max Mahn / Visiting Artist FA 403 / 9-11 am. Owner & printer of Twin Home Prints. Max runs an independent print studio in Missoula, dedicated to creating Gig posters and fine art prints. His clients include bands like WILCO, The Melvins and Pigeons Playing Pingpong amongst many others. Max will be in the studio sharing his work and process and talking about running an independent press. |
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Opens August 28th, 2020 - January 7th, 2021
MATRIX Press: 20 Years of Collaboration Jundt Art Museum, Spokane, WA The Jundt Art Museum at Gonzaga University will be presenting a retrospective exhibition of prints created at MATRIX Press over the course of the past 20 years. The exhibition will feature an array of 80+ prints created by 26 nationally recognized artists along with some of the working proofs, tools, printing plates and 100's of photos of the artists at work. Full 60 page color catalog accompanies the exhibition. |
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August, 2020 / Now Available
Catalog / MATRIX Press: 20 Years of Collaboration Jundt Art Museum, Spokane, WA This beautiful full color, 60 page catalog features a 100 images of works from the exhibition, studio shots, and portraits of the artists at work. The catalog also features essays by James Bailey, Director of Matrix Press and biographies and artists statements of the artists. |
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July, 2020
KNOWING NATIVE ARTS by Nancy Marie Mithlo This newly published book, features Sara Siestreem's beautiful suite of prints she created at Matrix Press titled Thanksgiving/Giving Thanks (Prayer, Un-armed and Non-Violent) on the cover. Knowing Native Arts brings Nancy Marie Mithlo’s Native insider perspective to understanding the significance of Indigenous arts in national and global milieus. These musings, written from the perspective of a senior academic and curator traversing a dynamic and at turns fraught era of Native self-determination, are a critical appraisal of a system that is often broken for Native peoples seeking equity in the arts. Mithlo addresses crucial issues, such as the professionalization of Native arts scholarship, disparities in philanthropy and training, ethnic fraud, and the receptive scope of Native arts in new global and digital realms. This contribution to the field of fine arts broadens the scope of discussions and offers insights that are often excluded from contemporary appraisals. |
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Visiting Artist / Corwin Clairmont
Open studio night with the artist / April 8, 5-7 pm FA 403. (postponed till Spring 2022 due to Covid) Corwin Clairmont is a member of the Salish & Kootenai tribal nation and is among an important group of Native American artists who use elements of their cultural background in combination with European artistic traditions to make political statements. Clairmont often uses elements of printmaking, photography and collage to create his artwork. These complex images give sharp attention to corporate and governmental injustices imposed on the Native American community and environment.Though messages in his work are strong, their delivery is subtle, relying on ironic observations rather than overt accusations. Viewers must approach the work and examine the relationships of many visual and textual references in order to understand its full social and political commentary. This project is made possible with the support of the Jim and Jane Dew Visiting Artist Fund, MATRIX press and the Missoula Art Museum. |
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Missoula Art Museum and Matrix Press team up again on Warhol Grant.
The MAM was awarded a $100,000 grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts to fund two years' worth of programming in its Lynda Frost Gallery, which is dedicated exclusively to Native artists. Included in the new grant proposal were four artist printmaking residencies with Matrix Press, beginning Fall semester 2020. This is the second time MAM & MATRIX PRESS have been awarded a Andy Warhol Foundation Grant. Two of the artists being invited to Matrix Press include: Edgar Heap of Birds, a Cheyenne-Arapaho artist based in Oklahoma, who has shown his work in the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. He works in many different types of media, often with messages of advocacy. & Neal Ambrose-Smith is department chair of studio arts at the Institute of American Indian Arts, and the son of Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, the artist who donated work that originally seeded the MAM's collection of contemporary Indigenous art
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Fall Semester / November 12-15, 2019
Christa Carleton / Visiting Artist Print Residency Fine Arts Building/Printmaking Studio FA 403 Christa will be working in the print studio all week. 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. |
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Fall Semester / November 6-8, 2019
Lillian Pitt / Visiting Artist Print Residency Fine Arts Building/Printmaking Studio FA 403 Lillian will be working in the print studio W-F. Lecture at Missoula Art Museum, Saturday, November 9th at 1:00 pm. Lillian Pitt is Wasco, Yakima tribal heritage, says of her work "My prints and tapestries reflect Native American culture by incorporating the same symbols used by these rock artists. These artists etched out thousands upon thousands of pictographs and petroglyphs up and down the Big River." This project was made possible through the collaboration between Matrix Press and the Missoula Art Museum and the Jim and Jane Dew Visiting Artist Fund. |
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Fall Semester / October 16, 2019
18th Annual Steamroller Print Project Outside in front of the George & Jane Dennsion Theatre 10:00 am - 4:00 pm Students and community members will be printing large scale woodcuts using an asphalt roller. BLOCK-PARTY LIVE T-Shirt printing will also be going on. 10-4 pm. |
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Fall Semester / October, 2019
Contemporary Indigenous Voices University Center Gallery, Missoula, MT Opening reception: Thursday, October 3rd, 4-6 pm. Gallery Talk by Jason Clark, Monday, October 14th, noon-1pm The exhibition will highlight the work of seven contemporary native artists in honor of Indigenous People's Day. These include; Melanie Yazzie (Navajo); Joe Feddersen (Colville); Sara Siestreem (Coos/Lower Umpqua); John Hitchcock (Comanche); Duane Slick (Meskwaki); Jason Clark (Creek/Algonquin) and Molly Murphy-Adams (Oglala/Lakota). The works included highlight a range of visual expressions, from large scale woodcuts talking about climate change, to lithographs expressing protest, resistance and resilience. Additional works in the exhibition explore myths and legends or investigate cultural patterns found in beadwork or basketry. Together these seven artists embody a bold and vibrant approach to the medium. This exhibition showcases the collaborations between the artists, MATRIX Press and the Missoula Art Museum, with all works being printed in tandem with UM printmaking students.
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Fall Semester / September 16-20th, 2019
Visiting Artist / Reinaldo Gil Zambrano Fine Arts Building/Printmaking Studio FA 403 Reinaldo will be working in the print studio all week. His narrative raises questions of daily issues equally experience by people across culture and borders using relief printing as an storytelling tool for its illustration and reflection. He studies the universal idea of home and how it affects individual personalities by exploring iconography derived from the Majority World and fascinating storytelling inspired by Hispanic literature’s magical realism and illustrations from the Venezuelan Rosana Farias. |
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Fall Semester / September 9th, 2019
Visiting Artist / Max Man Fine Arts Building/Printmaking Studio FA 403 from 2-4 pm. Max will be discussing and presenting some of his recent prints. |
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Fall Semester / September 5th, 2019
BLOCK-Party Live Custom T-Shirt Printing 10:00 am-4:00 pm in front of the Fine Arts Building We will be printing custom T-shirts to raise money to attend the annual RMPA conference in Salt Lake City, UT. |
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Fall Semester / August 23-Sept 21, 2019
IMPRESSIONS Radius Gallery, Missoula, MT Featuring new work from Montana Printmakers along with selected works from MATRIX Press. Gallery Talk by James Bailey August 29th, 5:00 pm. |
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May 3-September 14, 2019
Bury the Hatchet Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT Bury the Hatchet is Comanche/Kiowa artist John Hitchcock’s mixed-media, cross-disciplinary, multisensory installation. The exhibition is based on the American Frontier and plays off the theme of the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show. The variety of elements that form the exhibition were inspired by Hitchcock’s research while he was artist-in-residence at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming. He says, “The new artworks will challenge historical perspectives by reframing history and asking new questions about the idea of the Wild West show and the importance of the American Indian objects collected by Buffalo Bill.” Hitchcock’s reinterpretation of Buffalo Bill Cody’s traveling show explores assimilation, acculturation, and the colonial indoctrination of indigenous people through sound, video performance, and screen prints.The installation features a sound stage, neon sculptures, and the work from the print series, Flatlander, comprised of 40 screen prints that Hitchcock created with MATRIX Press, University of Montana in 2017 |
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April, 2019
Indigeneity from the Collection: A Feminine Sampling Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA Exhibition was curated by Ms. Olivia Nagozruk & Dr. Paul Manoguerra. Ms. Nagzruk purposefully curated this display to honor the missing and murdered indigenous women. Prints created at Matrix Press by artists Melanie Yazzie and Sara Siestreem were shown as part of this exhibition. |
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January, 2019
JOHN HITCHCOCK FLATLANDERS: BELONGING TO THE LAND CATALOG Wonderful full color 70 page catalog, featuring 45 prints created at Matrix Press, along with essays by Laura Youngbird, Connie Gibbons, Rebecca West, Hunter Old Elk, James Bailey and John Hitchcock. |
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Now Available / August, 2018
The Shape of Things Exhibition Catalog. This beautiful full color, 60 page catalog features images of works from the exhibition, studio shots, and portraits of the artists. The catalog also features essays by Brandon Reintjes, Senior curator at the Missoula Art Museum; James Bailey, Director of Matrix Press and Gail Tremblay, Artist, poet and faculty at Evergreen State College. You can purchase a of copy at the Missoula Art Museum front desk or order one online by clicking here. MAM Bookstore. |
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Saturday, May 5th, 2018
Roundtable Discussion with Artists: Sara Siestreem, Molly Murphy-Adams, John Hitchcock & Duane Slick. Missoula Art Museum @ 11:00 a.m. (photo credit: Slikati Photo+Video) |
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May 4th, 2018
First Friday Opening for The Shape oF Things with the Artists/Sara Siestreem, Molly Murphy-Adams, John Hitchcock & Duane Slick. Missoula Art Museum Gallery Talk @ 7:00 pm. (photo credit: Slikati Photo+Video) |
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March 14, 2018
Contemporary Voices Lecture Series/ James Bailey Lecture: The Nature of Collaborative Printing & Matrix Press. Missoula Art Museum 7:00 PM James will be talking about the 20 year retrospective coming up along with discussing the recent two year project resulting in the Shape of Things exhibition currently on view. |
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March 2-July 28, 2018
The Shape of Things/New Approaches to Indigenous Abstraction Missoula Art Museum Over the past two years, MAM, MATRIX Press, and the University of Montana School of Art have been working with four artists—Molly Murphy Adams (Oglala Lakota), John Hitchcock (Comanche), Sara Siestreem (Hanis Coos/Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Tribes), and Duane Slick (Meskwaki/Nebraska Ho-Chunk)—who were each invited to participate in printmaking residencies generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Each artist visited Missoula for one week to create new work at MATRIX Press. interact with the community, and offer a public lecture about their artistic practice. This exhibition presents an expansive interpretation of what abstraction can be. Rather than focus on non-objectivity, the included artworks define abstraction as emphasizing relevant features and omitting unnecessary details of an object, emotion, or experience. The works incorporate beaded, quill, and woven patterns, parfleche designs, animal motifs, and elements of the landscape.Abstraction, as an artistic style, inherited some of modernism’s utopian or ideological associations, such as progress, originality, and pursuit of the “new.” As a result, abstraction has been a vehicle for resulting colonial histories of displacement, subjugation, and genocide of Indigenous people. This exhibition honors contemporary artists who reclaim Indigenous representations and knowledges. The artists of The Shape of Things use abstraction or abstract qualities to express Indigenous and personal realities against a backdrop of complex and varied practices that include appropriation of source materials, hybridity, installation, and critical theory. |
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May, 2018
James Todd Fine Arts Building (2nd floor) @ The University of Montana James Todd is the featured artist for this years Last Best Print Fest Bingo organized by the ZACC. As part of it, they will be featuring Jim Todd Bingo with various prints by James Todd being shown at the below listed venues, during the Month of May. Matrix Press will be exhibiting his suite of The Seven Deadly Sins. Le Petit Outre, Noteworthy Paper & Press, Clyde Coffee, Radius Gallery, Betty's Devine, Montana Museum of Art & Culture, Matrix Press, ZACC and Fact and Fiction. |
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February 15-May 19, 2018
Miriam Schapiro: Anonymous Was a Woman Missoula Art Museum Two suites of prints created through Matrix Press with Miriam Schapiro will be on display at the MAM. Miriam's original print residency was in collaboration with the generous support of the Missoula Art Museum. |
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March 19-May 31, 2018
Continuum Salish Kootenai College Pablo, Mont. — The Missoula Art Museum (MAM) and Salish Kootenai College (SKC) are collaborating to exhibit works from MAM’s Contemporary American Indian Art Collection at the Three Woodcocks building on the SKC campus. The exhibition is guest curated by University of Montana art history graduate student Nikolyn Garner. Garner is an SKC alumna and worked closely with SKC Fine Arts Department Head Cameron Decker. Through this exhibition, Garner hopes to increase access to contemporary American Indian artwork for students at the College as well as for the community. “It is my hope that seeing the artwork that the students are studying will provide inspiration and motivation for these future artists,” says Garner. “The beautiful exhibition space at Salish Kootenai College provides a wonderful opportunity to share artwork from the Missoula Art Museum’s permanent collection. Continuum reflects the continually developing, adapting, and exploratory voices of contemporary American Indian artists.” The exhibition also includes loans of artwork from SKC’s permanent collection and from MATRIX Press at the University of Montana. |
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February 12-16, 2018
Visiting Artist / Duane Slick Fine Arts Building/Printmaking Studio FA 403 Duane will be working in the print studio all week. Public Lecture: Tuesday, Feb. 13th Missoula Art Museum at 7:00 pm. Duane Slick is a Meskwaki painter and storyteller, whose visual work includes black-and-white photo-realist paintings on linen and glass. His work has been described as “dream paintings whose aim is the exploration of matters spiritual, not physical.” Born in Waterloo, IA, Slick earned his BFA in painting from the University of Northern Iowa and his MFA in painting from the University of California, Davis. He began teaching painting and printmaking at RISD in 1995 and has also lectured at colleges and universities across the US and taught at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, NM. His work has been exhibited widely – most recently at the Albert Merola Gallery in Provincetown, MA and at RK Projects in New York City – and is included in the collections of the National Museum of the American Indian in New York City, the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis, and the De Cordova Museum in Lincoln, MA, among many others. Slick is currently represented by the Albert Merola Gallery in Provincetown. This project was made possible through the collaboration between Matrix Press and the Missoula Art Museum with additional funding from the Andy Warhol foundation and Jim & Jane Dew Visiting Artist Program. |
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October 22-29, 2017
Visiting Artist / John Hitchcock Fine Arts Building/Printmaking Studio FA 403 John will be working in the print studio all week. John Hitchcock is an Artist, Professor of Art, Department Chair of Theatre and Drama and Associate Dean of Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Professor Hitchcock has served as Faculty Director of The Studio Learning Community and Art Department Graduate Chair. He is an award-winning artist who uses the print medium to explore relationships of community, land, and culture. He has taught printmaking at UW-Madison since 2001. Prior to that he was at the University of Minnesota, Morris. He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Texas Tech University. This project was made possible through the collaboration between Matrix Press and the Missoula Art Museum with additional funding from the Andy Warhol foundation and Jim & Jane Dew Visiting Artist Program. |
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March 6-10, 2017
Visiting Artist / Molly Murphy-Adams Fine Arts Building/Printmaking Studio FA 403 Molly will be working in the print studio all week. Molly Murphy Adams is an exhibiting artist specializing in contemporary sculptural beadwork and printmaking. Murphy Adams was raised in western Montana and earned a Bachelors in Fine Arts from The University of Montana in 2004. Murphy Adams’ work illustrates the blending of culture, identity, and histories. Murphy freely borrows from multiple disciplines to create fiber and mixed media arts pieces reflecting diverse backgrounds and traditions. This project was made possible through the collaboration between Matrix Press and the Missoula Art Museum with additional funding from the Andy Warhol foundation and Jim & Jane Dew Visiting Artist Program.
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2017
Visiting Artist / Sukha Worob Worob grew up in a small community in the high desert landscape of Prescott, Arizona. Worob obtained his BFA in Printmaking from Northern Arizona University in 2006, MFA in Printmaking from Montana State University in 2011, and M.Ed in Curriculum and Instruction from Montana State University in 2015. Worob's work explores contemporary approaches to the printmaking multiple through works on paper as well as installation and interactive works. Worob’s work is primarily driven by his history in communal living and observation of the potential of humanity when set upon a common goal. Worob has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions both nationally and internationally. In addition to a teaching and studio practice, Worob spends as much time as possible gardening, cooking and enjoying time with his wife and two small children. |
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October 17-21, 2016
Visiting Artist / Sara Siestreem Sara Siestreem is from the Pacific Northwest and is an enrolled member of the Coos Tribe of the Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Suislaw Indians. Siestreem received a BS from Portland State University and an MFA from Pratt Art Institute in Brooklyn, NY and is represented by the Augen Gallery in Portland, OR and her work has been shown in museums and figures in prestigious private and public collections nationally. She is a Master Artist, Educator, and Theorist. She serves as a consultant and freelance educator for museums and cultural groups regionally. Siestreem also serves various youth organizations and individuals in the role of mentor, workshop leader, promoter, public speaker and volunteer. She now lives and works exclusively in the arts in Portland, Oregon. This project was made possible through the collaboration between Matrix Press and the Missoula Art Museum with additional funding from the Andy Warhol foundation and Jim & Jane Dew Visiting Artist Program. |
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2016
Visiting Artist / Monika Meler Originally from Brodnica, Poland, she earned her B.F.A. from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. She continued studies at Purdue University, where she earned an M.A., followed with an M.F.A from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University. While at Tyler, she spent a year studying in Rome, Italy. She has completed residencies at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Connecticut, the Frans Masereel Center in Belgium, the Cork Printmakers in Ireland and the Women's Studio Workshop in New York. Solo exhibits include Liminal Passages at Longwood College in Virginia, The Distance Between at the Limerick Printmakers Gallery in Ireland and Contain/Retain at the Cocoon Gallery in Kansas City. |
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2015
Visiting Artist / Melanie Yazzie Melanie Yazzie was born in Ganado, Arizona in 1966.She is Navajo of the Áshįįhí, born for Tó Dichʼíinii. She grew up on the Navajo Nation. She first studied art at the Westtown School in Pennsylvania. Yazzie earned a BA at Arizona State University in 1990 and an MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1993. She is currently a Professor and Head of Printmaking at The University of Colorado at Boulder. She has also taught at the Institute of American Indian Arts, the College of Santa Fe (now Santa Fe University of Art and Design), Boise State University, and the University of Arizona, Yazzie taught at the Pont Aven School of Contemporary Art in France. She is included in books by Zena Pearlstone (About Face), Lucy Lippard (The Lure of the Local) and Jackson Rushing (Native American Art in the Twentieth Century), and collected nationally and internationally in private and public collections. This project was made possible through the collaboration between Matrix Press and the Missoula Art Museum with additional funding Jim & Jane Dew Visiting Artist Program. |
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2014
Visiting Artist / Joe Feddersen Joe Feddersen was born in 1953, in Omak, Washington, just off the Colville Indian Reservation. His mother was Okanogan and Lakes from Penticton, Canada; his father was the son of German immigrants and is a member of The Confederated Tribes Of The Colville Reservation. In 2009, Joe had a mid-career solo exhibition, Vital Signs, which traveled from the Tacoma Art Museum, WA to the Missoula Art Museum, MT, and then the Hallie Ford Museum, OR. Joe Feddersen has had solo exhibits at the George Gustav Heye Center in New York, NY and his group shows range from the Sixth Triennial Small Print Exhibition, Chamalieres, France to New Art of the West, Eiteljorg Museum, IN. Education: University of Washington & University of Wisconsin-Madison. This project was made possible through the collaboration between Matrix Press and the Missoula Art Museum with additional funding Jim & Jane Dew Visiting Artist Program.
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2014
Visiting Artist / Jason Clark Jason Clark grew up in a rural town at the base of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and has lived and worked many places throughout the United States. He resides in Missoula, Montana as a printmaker, Adjunct Professor and the 2-D Technician in the School of Art at the University of Montana. From 2006 -2012 he taught and ran the printmaking studio first at the University of Louisiana in Monroe and then at Bemidji State University in Minnesota. His prints have been exhibited nationally and internationally, including exhibitions at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, The Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, Montana, The Turner Art Center, Centenary College, Shreveport, Louisiana, the William Wipple Gallery, Southwest Minnesota State University, Marshall, Minnesota, the Hillstrom Museum of Art, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota, Applestick Contemporary Art, Victoria, Australia, the Warepuke gallery, Bay of Islands, New Zealand, and The 15th International Print Biennial, Varna, Bulgaria. |
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2013
Visiting Artist / Sean Starwars Artist Statement You know what? I love making woodcuts! The explosive energy I put into carving a woodcut suits my energy charged, caffeine induced, aggressive approach to image making. Charles Bukowski, Ms Pacman, Phillip Guston, and Neil Blender are my main influences. Last night I finished a new woodcut. In the morning I’ll get started on a new one. On Christmas Eve, after the kids are in bed I’ll be cutting a block, I really do love it. I don’t spend a lot of time deliberating over what to draw next. I drink a lot of Mountain Dew, so I include Mountain Dew bottles in my artwork. I like ice cream cones, hot dogs, snakes, guns, alligators, goats, and girls, so that’s what I draw. My primary concern is to create a strong visual infused with a sense of satirical humor. In other words, I like to tell funny stories using funny pictures. -Sean Star Wars |