Current Exhibit:

a. elliott attended Moore College of Art in Philadelphia, Pa. Originally from New Jersey, she has settled in Missoula after living in Santa Fe, New Mexico for eight years. a. elliott has worked in the picture framing industry for over twenty years. Her work can be seen at Art Attic. She has shown her work around Missoula at First Fridays and Galleries such as T The Catalyst, The Downtown Dance Collective, Break Espresso, Black Owl Tattoo, Dana Gallery, Radius Winter Show.

Hailing from Massachusetts, Adam & Demarjian (former student of former teacher respectively) are two prolific comic artists, illustrators and collaborators. Drawing inspiration from film, vintage illustration and music, their brilliant creations focus on one main thing: the art of storytelling.

Amanda is a versatile jack-of-all-trades painter known in Missoula for painting and restoring murals and faux finishes. She enjoys therapy-based art and plein-air painting to soothe the soul. She shares her expertise with both adults and children.

When we go through pain and seclusion, it can broaden our perspective and enable us to see the beauty in things we may have overlooked. For me, art is much more than a mere pastime. It is a powerful tool that allows me to contribute to the world and release my emotions. Through art, I can express experiences that are difficult to put into words. My individual experiences make my art unique and force combined elements of complex weirdness with simplified beauty. To me, art is the essence of life.

Drew has been exhibiting his drawings and stuff in galleries and alternative art spaces for over 30 years . he has been an artist for longer than that .

Mostly known for his chicken scratch cross hatching , he's been included. in shows in many states on both coasts and in between , as well as Europe , Japan and Taiwan .

His art has been published in in such places as the HIVE Tarot 16 , and the HIVE gallery and studios 20 years book , as well as periodicals , including Carpazine and
H-Fructose .

He lives in Brooklyn with his Special Lady Friend and his 2 Kittie Kats . He likes toys and comic books and hot dogs .

Anwen is a multidisciplinary artist who graduated from the University of Montana with a degree in Media Arts. She lives in Missoula with her husband and cats.

April Wolff, also known as, Huckleberry Hen, is an artist and entrepreneur dedicated to capturing the raw spirit of the American West. Specializing in acrylics, her work often centers on the power and beauty of horses, the connection with wild animals, and the vastness of the Montana high country.

Multi media artist currently living in Colorado Springs. Originally from Kansas City.

B.F.A Painting-University of Kansas
A.A Fashion Illustration and Design-Johnson County Community College

Dan Gay (DANG) is a veteran of the Portland creative community whose recent work includes two stop- motion feature films. His sculptural work has appeared in festivals, installations, advertisements, and museums. His personal studio work concentrates on improvisational acrylic paintings of figures, portraits and skulls.

Danielle Nyland is a Greene County, Pennsylvania artist, photographer, and writer. She’s been an artist for as long as she can remember, with a deep passion for creativity that has shaped her life. She’s always felt a connection to art as a form of expression and, over the years, her interest has grown, fueling her desire to bring her visions to life. Danielle draws inspiration from horror, industrial landscapes, and the rich history of her southwestern Pennsylvania coal town. She currently works as a full-time artist at 1331 Studios and a part-time art instructor.

I am a Montanan with a degree in Biology and Chemistry from Carroll College and accredited through the College of American Pathologists as a Medical Technologist and a Specialist in Blood Banking. After Managing Transfusion Services and Donor Collections for several years, I completed my career as a Director of Laboratory Services in the Denver area.

Every art work, in one way or another, is my expression of negotiating my own history with the world. My art is a subjective dance between the fissures of expectation and experience. My articulations, while pointed toward something that is not collectively experienced, strives to seek out moments when & where we can find opportunities to communicate. I attempt to convey moments where and when personal experience endeavors to participate in forming our interpretations of the world.

My work explores the relationship between beauty, perception, and inner coherence.
Through color and composition, I aim for harmony, simplicity and joy: My paintings are bright yet delicate and they combine realism and abstraction; I seek to find balance, resulting in a poetic, almost ethereal atmosphere.

For many years my work has returned to the idea of the middle path: the sweet spot of harmony between polarities—light and shadow, chaos and stillness, freedom and belonging.

More recently I began to describe this perspective as The Elegant Rebellion: a conscious refusal to be pulled into cycles of reaction and noise, choosing instead to cultivate beauty, clarity, and coherence within ourselves and the environments we inhabit.

Nature, movement, and lived experience across cultures continue to shape my visual language. I’m drawn less to literal representation than to capturing the essence or “soul” of a subject—always exploring the space between abstraction and reality.

Across my work—through painting, spatial thinking, and consulting—I return to the same idea: that beauty is not just decorative. It is a form of alignment between our inner lives and the spaces we create around us. Our inner and outer worlds.

Jennifer Baylis is a Missoula-based figurative and portrait painter. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Art in 1997 from UCLA with an emphasis on drawing and painting. She then worked as an Education and Public Programs Manager at the Orange County Museum of Art and the Long Beach Museum of Art before moving to Montana. She developed educational programming for children and adults, trained docents, and led tours and art workshops.

Jennifer’s work reflects personal, meaningful human experiences—love, womanhood, grief, spiritual understanding, and the inner journeys she has traversed. The creative process is both grounding and transcendent, allowing her to connect deeply with life’s physicality while moving beyond suffering through acceptance and insight. Her pieces invite us to hold space for contemplation and connection.

John is a "localish" artist who has worked out of and in Philipsburg and Missoula over the past 10 years. Working mostly in fish and flyfishing themes, he has branched out (and back) into other themes (religion, mental health, drugs, toys), using the craft of ink and homemade brushes in a pseudo Sumi-e style.

John was born in The Bronx and over a lifetime has slowly been drawn west by fly fishing, integrating his evolution of lifestyle into his art making andart themes. When not making art, he moonlights as a substance abuse counselor, ketamine assisted psychotherapist, and fly fishing guide.

Jonathan Qualben has been an active artist in the Missoula community since 1995. He has found a niche with this series of concrete figures, light of form in spite of an imposing material. He has captured the expressiveness, grace, and tenuous strength of the animate human form. Contradictions between theme and media abound, but Qualben remarks, "I love that the mark of a sweeping transitory hand, executed in a moment, like a watercolorist's brushstroke, could be fixed in so permanent a record."

Julee Hall is a mixed media artist from Missoula, MT. Her work is a playful exploration of color, form and line quality. She seeks balance between responding intuitively to the materials and what emerges throughout the artistic process, while also incorporating symbolic elements related to nature and emotions.

Kim Brown Campbell enjoys many art forms including printmaking, painting, mixed media work, and building assemblages. Kim has worked as an art therapist in various settings since 1996, and in the field of mental health since 1991. Kim’s art therapy studio is housed at the Zootown Arts Community Center.

Throughout her life, Kim has maintained a deep interest in many different art forms. She has loved ink and watercolor, acrylics, lithography, pastel figure drawing, jewelry making, basketry, large format acrylic painting, marker portraiture, ceramics, linocut and woodcut relief prints, detailed mandala drawings, mini collages and hand quilting. Along with many other artists in town, she was chosen to paint one of the local signal boxes here in Missoula. Kim has lived in the mountain states since receiving a degree in wildlife biology from CSU in Fort Collins and has raised her family here in Montana.

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.

Nelson is a Montana native, earning her BFA from the University of Montana in 2007. From 2013 to present Nelson has contributed to and created numerous art programs and galleries. She currently is collaborating with Headwaters Foundation, assisting in creating and curating their arts programming Torrents. She has shown in multiple local, national and international galleries and museums, is represented by Radius Gallery in Missoula, MT, and is a proficient muralist in the Missoula and Bitterroot areas. She lives with her husband and three children in Missoula.

Madelaine Millar was born and raised in Missoula, Montana, and spent five years in Boston, Massachusetts studying journalism. She rediscovered her love of visual art during the pandemic, and began to identify her unique voice when an overlapping bad breakup, unexpected move, major job change, and serious surgical procedure made for a deeply strange 2022. She is now a freelance artist, writer, and writing tutor.

UmamiMami Creations is a Missoula based, queer owned and Operated, small art business. In more recent years, Maia has been focusing on art that's been compared to Lisa Frank, as well as heavy elements of feminine whimsy.

Since 2020, Maia Gabrielle (UmamiMami Creations) has been working as a professional artist, and has been building sustainability and a community oriented presence over the years.
With UmamiMami Creations, Maia has been able to be a driving force in her own life, and has been involved with many First Friday events, has designed images for organizations such as Tell Us Something, and often participates in multi artist shows markets, and vending events!

On and off, Mark has been sculpting, painting, calling contra and English country dances, hosting radio programs, telling stories, writing books, covering news events, playing music and enjoying the scenery in Montana since 1989.

Nancy is a Plein Air artist, a textile artist and a social entrepreneur.
Nancy has worked on new products, as with some manipulation in the process of painting and experimenting with palette knives has been an unexpected joy to use in her tool belt of materials.
Nancy has been very active in the art community in Missoula, volunteering at Missoula Art Museum, and the Artists association.
For Nancy, art making work is deeply invested in the, process of Plein air painting. Her passion for painting outside has grown with the ability to see the vast colors of nature.
Nancy has been very interested in textile arts work specially the making of one of a kind hats and fascinators.

Natalie Millar is a multimedia artist born and raised in Missoula Montana, who explores the intersectionality of art, philosophy, religiosity, psychology, society, and self in each piece she creates. Her work prioritizes an intentional relationship between the audience and the art as much as the art itself. Millar enjoys highlighting glory in the mundane and disquiet in the exceptional. Her work often walks the line between uncanny and surreal. She currently studies Global History and Heritage and Equitable Governance at the University of Montana.

My work comes from the most painful parts of my existence and reflects the nostalgia within the feign sense of joy I was pressured to feel from a very young age. I tend to focus on hyper-saturated emotion that sometimes I find funny in a screwed up way.

Zoe Beggin is an emerging artist based in Temecula and San Diego, California. Working across painting, sculpture, and special effects makeup. Her work most recently explores various themes revolving around undead media. By romanticizing a blend of gore and surrealism, Beggin loves mixing various media to create new techniques for her art. Beggin is currently finishing their BA in Visual Arts (Studio) at the University of California San Diego with a minor in Digital Video and Film Production. After graduation she wishes to attend Douglas Education Center in Monessen, Pennsylvania to get her Associates Degree in special makeup effects and prop making.