Missoula Art Museum

Missoula Art Museum Missoula Art Museum Missoula Art Museum 335 North Pattee Missoula, MT 59801 Phone: (406) 728-0447 Contact: Send Email Web Site Address: http://www.missoulaartmuseum.org The Art Museum is committed to educating the community through art and to developing and conserving the Art Museum Collection in order to preserve and make accessible our unique cultural heritage. Now in its 25th year, the Art Museum has grown from a summer arts festival to a thriving institution serving the Northwest. Accredited by the American Association of Museums since 1987, the Art Museum develops and hosts 12 to 16 exhibitions annually in three galleries located in a 1903 Carnegie Library building. The exhibition program encompasses diverse media from local and internationally recognized contemporary artists�the 2001 schedule features work from Rudy Autio, Corwin Clairmont, Carolyn Krieg, Helen McAuslan, Katy Stone, and Ernie Pepion, and Artists Books from Brighton Press. With education at the core of its mission, the Art Museum offers tours and classes for all ages, collaborates with local art, literary and music communities to develop lectures and workshops, and maintains an internship program that draws students from around the country. In 1998, the Art Museum established the Arts in the Schools and Neighborhoods Program, which, in partnership with the Flagship Project, takes visual, literary and performance art directly to Missoula�s most at-risk children. The Art Museum also offers classes at the Art Museum through the Summer Art School. The Art Museum manages the Missoula County Art Collection, as well as its own Collection, which is distinguished by the Contemporary American Indian Art Collection, and works from regional and local artists, including: Rudy Autio, Dale Chihuly, Nancy Erickson, Lew Foster, Jacob Lawrence, and E.S. Paxson. In 2000, the Art Museum acquired a record-breaking number of new works - 100 artworks were purchased, donated or bequeathed. The Resource Room at the Art Museum provides additional materials related to not only the current exhibitions, but also to contemporary issues and ideas affecting our region's art community. Gallery goers can access dozens of videotapes, explore CD-ROMs, peruse current issues of numerous art periodical, or make a purchase from a wide selection of books on artists of Montana and the West for sale.