Entre Dos Mundos

Antonio is a photographer from Morelos, Mexico, who had has called Missoula home for more than 10 years. He previously worked as a staff photojournalist and statewide photographer for the Missoulian newspaper.

Giving Art to Missoula is sustainability driven community space located on the historic west side of Missoula, Montana. Our mission is simple: saving arts from going to waste by offering affordable donated materials to our creative economy.

Our arts reuse store diverts thousands of pounds of usable materials from landfills this is just a small glimpse of our donations. All proceeds will go to benefiting our mission.

Born in Venezuela, Bernardo has always been interested in different types of arts such as music, drawing, painting, cooking and sculpting.

Long before picking up a paintbrush, I spent my days as a horse trainer and backcountry guide deep in the wild stretches of the Bob Marshall and Scapegoat Wilderness. I spent a few years learning the language of the mountains, the quiet rhythm of the trail, and the fierce connections with my small herd of horses out in the backcountry.

Today, I translate that wild energy onto canvas through acrylics, painting in a style of magical realism where the tangible world blurs into fantasy. I love weaving regional wildlife and western traditions into otherworldly narratives, inviting viewers to step past the familiar treeline into something enchanting and untamed. My art is a bridge between the physical trails I once rode and the boundless landscapes of Imagination. It's all a tribute to the timeless magic of Wild Montana.

Description goes hereBrooke O’Shay Sheridan is a painter originally from Pennsylvania who currently works from her home studio in Missoula, Montana. She paints portraits and landscapes, primarily in oil or acrylic, and considers memory, intuition, and the connections that both embrace and transcend individual experience. Her Interest comes from her own experience of feeling like three different people moving through the built world, the natural world, and among her fellow humans.

Sheridan studied at the New England School of Art & Design and Tyler School of Art. She completed her bachelor’s degree at the University of Montana and an MFA in poetry at the University of Alaska.

Dina Perlasca is a Mexican American artist from the Paso del Norte Region. She lives in El Paso, Texas, with her three children and is an Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Texas at El Paso, where she teaches ceramics and design. She earned her BFA in Studio Art Ceramics from UTEP and her MFA in Mixed Media Arts from New Mexico State University.

Working across ceramics, photography, and mixed media, Perlasca explores the interplay of Borderland cultures and the complexities of living between places, histories, identities, and systems of belief. Her work draws from her Mexican upbringing, the folk art traditions of central Mexico, and the domestic aesthetics of fronterizo life in Mexico and the United States.

Perlasca is Co-founder of Bravo Ceramics Studios and Co-founder of Subspace Gallery at UTEP. She has served on the boards of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) and Artaxis. She is a Color Network Mentor and recipient of Clay-Houston’s Texas BIPOC Emerging Artist Award.

Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States and Mexico, including at the Roswell Museum of Art and the INBA Museum of Art in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. In 2026, she is presenting her solo exhibition Casa del Desierto at Western New Mexico University and exhibiting at Texas Vignette in Dallas.

Dang's paintings concentrate on figures, skulls, and portraits. His sculptural work has appeared in festivals, installations, museums, film and television; including two stop-motion feature films.

I am a Montanan with a degree in Biology and Chemistry and an accredited Specialist in Blood Banking. I completed my career in the Denver area as a Director of Laboratory services. I have been painting with watercolor for 8 years. My style is ever changing as I explore new methods to interpret my memories and surroundings through the magic of watercolor!

Ismara Partidas is a Venezuelan educator and artist living in Missoula. Through art, she explores identity, memory, culture, and emotions, connecting her Venezuelan roots with her life in Montana.

I am Jose Espinoza a Mexican American originally from North Carolina with roots that stem from Jalisco, Mexico. Throughout my upbringing I found myself around people of similar ethnic background to me. Many of these interactions informed me of the privileges I had, but others lacked. These interactions inspire my art; and when I commit to creating art, I often use it to display a critique of human right abuses and the political climate we find the United States in.

Borned and raised in the border town of Douglas, AZ, Krissy discovered her enthusiasm for clay at Cochise College. Furthering her education, she received a BFA with an emphasis in ceramics from Western New Mexico University in 2017. Then, after completing a 2 year artist in residence program at WNMU she moved to Montana without visiting the big sky. During her time in Missoula she has been part of; the post- baccalaureate program at the University of Montana, co-founder and resident artist at Wildfire Ceramic Studio, assistant to Julia Galloway and recently completed a 2 year residency program at the Clay Studio of Missoula.

Ladypajama is a self made, self taught artist. She explores all mediums and loves mark making, scribbling, and collaging. Her art is more about process than product, feelings over precision. Her work is found sprinkled all over Missoula. She also publishes a monthly zine that is distributed all over the world.

Marissa is a Mexican-American folk artist whose work explores the intersections of her rural Idaho upbringing, Mexican ancestry, and life in Montana. Across these landscapes and cultural traditions, she finds common ground in hard work, a deep connection to place, and the rural spirit of independence. Her work is inspired by her present life in Huson, Montana, where she lives with her dog, cat, mules, and horses. She draws from traditional folk motifs, corridos, vaqueros, western story-telling, and the traditional skill sets that have built and shaped rural communities. Her work is equally interested in the stories of self- reliance and resistance woven through these traditions.

The mule is a recurring figure in her work, representing resilience, independence, and the enduring traditions of the Mexican and American West. Through this familiar animal, Marissa explores the shared histories and complicated intersections of these cultures and the threads that connect rural communities across borders and generations.

A graduate of Washington State University, with a BFA focused on sculpture, printmaking and art history, I switched gears and spent the first part of my creative life in the Seattle area as a painter. Working part- time to gain a toehold in the artistic community there, I was able to have a few exhibits, including the good fortune to show with the West Seattle Artist Warehouse in the mid-90s.

About 20 years ago I moved to Spokane, married, got a new job and a couple of kids, and largely quit working as an artist. About 12 years ago I shifted gears to
be a stay-at-home dad and and full-time mixed-media artist, reembracing my sculptural roots to compliment my painted imagery. The last few years have been by far the most fruitful of my career, showing my work regionally in

Washington, Oregon, New Orleans, California, Idaho and Montana, including solo exhibits in Seattle, Spokane, Walla Walla, Yakima, Missoula, Hood River and Lynden.
I am also the co-owner of D2 Gallery and Studio in Spokane along with my wife Stephanie. I currently reside in Spokane with my wife, two kids,

two dogs, four cats and one rabbit.

Around 7,000 plants and animals live around the U.S./Mexico border. Of those, about 700 regularly migrate across the border. Of those, only one is considered illegal: humans.  My mother is one of those Indigenous people who migrated. She left her home in Mexico and moved to the US to marry my dad. She and I contain DNA that has always been here, that’s ONLY found in the Americas, and it ties us to this continent for countless millennia. To hear the descendants of settlers, those who have been here only a few generations, refer to my mom and humans like her as “foreigners” and “illegals,” is very disorienting. These pieces portray the idea of a person being considered both Native and foreign simultaneously. Monarch butterflies migrate to and from Mexico and the United States. The paintings are mirror images of each other, symbolizing the border and separation of sameness it creates. The woman in the portrait is a mixture of historical photographs of Mexican women and my cousin, also a descendent of an Indigenous Mexican woman.  My hope is that viewers join me in a meditation on migration, identity, and how we decide who has the “right” to be here. 

I am Nelly Gomez originally from Colima, Manzanillo Mexico. I lived the majority of my life in Mexico making a living alongside my two sons through the beauty industry and later through Message therapy. Since coming to the United States, I have found an opportunity to expand on my cultural creative practice through the creation of Catrinas/Catrines. I have created these characters for 4 years through the communal celebration of Dia de los Muertos at Headwaters. Creating these pieces has brought me loads of happiness and has given me experience to practice my creative process.

I’ve been painting about 3 yrs. Self taught. I love and always have had a need to be creative. I have 4 grown children and 4 old dogs.im recently a widow unfortunately and painting has really helped. Thanks for Looking! Stacey.

I'm Thomas Juarez, a 17-year-old senior at Big Sky High School. I'm really into making stuff with my hands, especially woodworking. I love taking an idea from my head and actually building it into something real, whether it's a small project or something bigger. I also like to sketch and take photos, especially of my friends and family. All of this creative stuff helps me express who I am.

I'm a second generation Mexican American, and my family comes from Oaxaca and Zacatecas in Mexico. My culture and family background are a huge part of me. Living in Missoula has taught me how important it is to have diversity, representation, and inclusion. I try to be involved in my community and help make sure that people from all different backgrounds feel welcome, respected, and like they belong.

Right now, I'm getting close to graduation, and honestly, I don't have everything figured out yet and I think that's totally fine. I know I want to check out careers in the skilled trades because I love working with my hands, learning new things, fixing problems, and building stuff that actually matters. I'm pumped to keep learning, creating, and figuring out my future while staying close to my family, my culture, and my community.