News & Upcoming Artists / Events
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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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