MATRIX Press Sponsors & Supporters

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MATRIX Press is grateful for the wonderful support it receives from it's sponsors.  It is with their support that MATRIX is able to further its pursuit of educating students, artists and the community on printmaking and fine arts prints,  while also continuing to expand on printmakings own traditions.
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Jim and Jane Dew Visiting Artist Fund
The Jim and Jane Dew Visiting Artist Fund has been responsible for bringing in many of the MATRIX Press artists, by funding their travel costs and providing a stipend to the artist.
Without their generous support over the year's a program like MATRIX Press would not have been possible.
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Missoula Art Museum (MAM)
MAM serves the public by engaging audiences and artists in the exploration of contemporary art relevant to the community, state and region. Founded in 1975 and accredited by the American Association of Museums since 1987, MAM has always been a flagship institution in culturally savvy Missoula, Montana. After a $5.3 million capital campaign and grand opening in September 2006, MAM offers a spectacular attraction in the heart of the historic downtown: a fully accessible, free, public museum that boasts six exhibition spaces, a library, education center, and an inviting information lounge.

To date Matrix Press and the Missoula Art Museum have collaborated on 15 projects, which include: Miriam Schapiro (1999); John Armstrong (2009); Joe Feddersen (2014); Melanie Yazzie (2014 & 2015); Sara Siestreem (2016); Molly Murphy-Adams (2017); John Hitchcock (2018);
Duane Slick (2018); Lillian Pitt (2019); Tim Musso (2021); Neal Ambrose-Smith (2021); Marwin Begaye (2022); Corwin Clairmont (2022) and Ka'ila Farrell-Smith (2022).
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Radius Gallery
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.  Located in the heart of downtown Missoula, the Radius gallery is a premier venue for contemporary arts.

​Website: Radius Gallery
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The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
The Foundation's objective is to foster innovative artistic expression and the creative process by encouraging and supporting cultural organizations that in turn, directly or indirectly, support artists and their work. The Foundation values the contribution these organizations make to artists and audiences and to society as a whole by supporting, exhibiting and interpreting a broad spectrum of contemporary artistic practice.

The Foundation is focused primarily on supporting work of a challenging and often experimental nature, while noting that the interpretation of those terms may vary from place to place and culture to culture. In this regard the Foundation encourages curatorial research leading to new scholarship in the field of contemporary art.

The Foundation is committed to the precept that the arts are essential to an open, enlightened democracy. It therefore seeks to advance an inclusive cultural dialogue by providing resources to organizations that support artists reflecting a diverse society and by affirming that freedom of artistic expression is fundamental to such a society and must be vigorously protected. To advance these values, grants are awarded to not-for-profit organizations in the United States and occasionally abroad under specific guidelines.

The foundation impart helped fund the Shape of Things Project (Funding artists visits, exhibition and catalog) through a grant written by the Missoula Art Museum in collaboration with Matrix Press. (2016-2018), and we recently received a second Warhol grant, again written by the Missoula Art Museum that includes four more printmaking residencies at MATRIX Press. (2020-2022).