Britta received a Master of Fine Arts at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), and a BFA in Studio Art/Art Education at Minnesota State University Moorhead (MSUM). She is a visual artist working with materials such as oil, natural objects, and installation to explore themes of contemporary landscapes and aesthetics - through form, space, and structure. ​Her influences and motivations are expressed through a tactile input — continuously triggered by the natural environment of where I am from and where I’ve been.

 As a landscape painter, Britta’s compositions are playgrounds of places she has found a fondness for, places that she collects and keeps, and eventually bits and pieces of each place seeps out onto the canvas. This particular painting is something unlike the rest, a new style and a new playground - the Bitterroot. She wanted to grasp the essence of everything she sees while driving, walking and hiking into the trails of this place she calls home, with no specific location, only vague details that let you walk into a familiar terrain with her. 

Jhonattan Arango (born in Camagüey, Cuba) grew up fully immersed in the arts before immigrating to the United States at the age of 13. He holds a BFA in graphic design, likes to incorporate hand-lettering into his craft, and loves to paint murals and facilitate community experiences.

 Samantha Arango (born in Brunswick, New Jersey) holds a BFA in graphic design and has always been drawn towards the arts. She loves the research and learning that accompanies any new idea or project, and her message is one of peace and compassion. Samantha uses visual communication as a tool to build awareness, bridge gaps, and contribute to global healing.

 As Anón, Jhonattan and Samantha are a husband and wife team that creates highly organic murals and paper art using only the rigid shapes of triangles. Their work is an exploration into the subject of interconnection, and rudimentarily mimics the function of triangles as the most fundamental fabric of reality. Their inspiration takes root in a developing understanding of the desire to attain happiness as a human commonality, and triangles help them narrate intricately woven stories on the subject of peace, harmony, and unconditional love.

Brooke Armstrong is a ceramic artist currently based out of Missoula, MT. She is currently the Technician at the University of Montana for the Sculpture and Ceramic departments. She also teaches at the university as an adjunct instructor. Her primary interest is in bodily relationships with objects.

Lily Luna Bennett was born and raised in Massachusetts. Working in textile sculpture and ceramics, Lily explores the effects of the current political climate on feminine bodies and gender identity. Through forms such as wearable art and large-scale sculpture, she investigates the value systems embedded in America's visual language. 

Mickey Haldi is an artist meditating through paint.

Erica Hitzman grew up in Pendleton, Oregon and moved to Missoula in 2017, continuing to nurture her love for the outdoors, the creative process, and fine dining. Her figurative paintings explore themes of body, mind, and spirit with dream-like elements that highlight her fluid relationship with physical reality. 

Eric Jensen is a western landscape painter who was born in Utah and has since lived in many places across the country. Passionate about our relationship with nature, his work seeks to reduce the gap between perception and reality thus bringing us into a deeper conversation with the natural world. 

Lily Kip is a second year MFA candidate from Massachusetts. She makes figurative oil paintings based on amateur snapshot photography. 

Stephanie is an independent artist working in various 2D media to create original artwork in the form of murals, fine wall art, window displays, logos, and greeting cards. Her work strives to inspire a sense of joy and belonging in the viewer through themes of nature and the use of vibrant color. She holds a personal interest in symbolism and uses this knowledge to create pieces intended to imbue spaces with deeper meaning in addition to aesthetic beauty. Stephanie is passionate about creating collaborative pieces for accessible public spaces that can be enjoyed by people of all ages. Her work can be found in numerous locations from street art destinations to schools, local businesses, galleries, and private residences. To learn more about Stephanie and her work, visit www.supernovastudio.art or find her on Instagram @supernovastudio.art.

My art is for the adventurer, for the hearts who long for the vistas that took their breath away. I come each day to my studio to be humbled by the material and the subject – transforming materials that would otherwise be thrown away into something beautiful again. Through my work I get to travel to mountains I’ve never seen, becoming familiar with their curves and shapes like a lover. And often travel back to places where I left a piece of my heart behind. Amanda Krolczyk lives and works in Missoula, MT. She received her formal education at the University of Montana earning her BFA in Ceramics. Her work can be found in galleries and shows across the west. 

Yuke Li is a New York-based Chinese visual artist and a storyteller who was trained by the MFA Illustration Program at the School of Visual Arts.  Art practice is Yuke’s self-therapy, and people and animals are always her inspiration. Her goal is to inspire people with another possibility, to comfort sadness; to plant a hopeful seed in the mind.

Jules Lucero is a printmaker based in Missoula, and graduated from the University of Montana with a BFA in Painting and Drawing and a Minor in Art History and Criticism. Lucero currently teaches printmaking classes at the Zootown Arts Community Center. Lucero is drawn to carving animals because they hold the qualities of wonder and quaintness.

Crystal McCallie is a visual artist based in Missoula, Montana with a practice situated in printmaking, drawing, and collage. She is currently completing an MFA at UM with an emphasis in printmaking. Her work centers around themes of memory that utilize subjects of family, nature, and objects of curiosity. Her art is inspired by her life in Montana and her former home of the Texas Panhandle.

Photographer Barbara Michelman started in Hollywood and was one of the first women in film lighting. Widely exhibited in public and private collections here and abroad, her recent series on the aftermath of fires in the west, Fire on Every Mountain, was awarded Best of Photography  at the Wild and Scenic Film Festival in California. Her work is also in the  current global exhibition Extraction: Art on the Edge of the Abyss. On a Benediction of Wind, her black and white photography book with writer Charles Finn, recently won the Montana Book Award and lives in Missoula, Montana.

Stella Nall is a multimedia artist and poet from Bozeman, Montana, and a First Descendant of the Apsáalooke (Crow) Tribe. She graduated from the University of Montana in 2020 with a BFA in Printmaking, a BA in Psychology and a minor in Art History and Criticism. She now lives in Missoula, where she is represented by Radius Gallery. Her work may be found in murals across the western states, and has been acquired to permanent collections at Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian (Washington, DC), The Institute of American Indian Arts Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (Santa Fe, NM), The Montana Museum of Art and Culture (Missoula, MT), and Montana State University (Bozeman, MT).

Ladypajama is an otherworldly force of nature. Mixing paint, pencils, pens, and collage materials, she creates scenes that present ordinary objects and characters in a new dimension. Rather than working toward an end product, she tries to capture emotion and authenticity by just jumping in without a plan. Ladypajama is part of the Voncommon artist collective, and also publishes a monthly zine which includes poetry and personal essays.  In addition, she is a great mom to her kid, Jorge. 

Sean Parson is a multimedia artist from Arlee, MT. The main body of his work is formed form natural stone and tile. He uses his vast skill set and knowledge of source material gained from being an award winning residential tile installer since 2004. Much of that material comes from tile scraps salvaged from job sites and the inspiration in the tones and textures found within them. These elements come together in fusion with his love for music, nature, and art. He is a 5th Generation Montanan, and currently resides in the Heart of the Jocko Valley, on the Flathead Indian Reservation, with his wife and daughter. 

Colton Rothwell is a photographer and artist working and living in Missoula, Montana. Born and raised in small towns in the Western United States, his work explores ideas about queer identity in relationship with rural, cultural, and physical landscapes, as well as notions around the tactility and function of photographic imagery.

I graduated from college with my BFA in drawing and ceramics, my minor in Zoology and Anthropology. I have pursued my passion for art by teaching in my studio and since then and showing both nationally and locally continue to do so. For the last 20 years I have come full circle back to art and have been actively proceeding ahead where I left off.  I joined two cooperative galleries, Core New Art Space and Pirate gallery in the 40 west art district. Since then, I have dropped Pirate and joined Valkarie gallery. For three years I was director at Core Gallery, until 2021. Belonging to two galleries gives me the opportunity of having two big shows a year along with numerous additional shows. I have been in many juried shows and invitational shows in Colorado and the west. Currently I belong to the Lovetts Gallery in Tulsa, OK and have membership in Valkarie Gallery Lakewood, Colo. I am also an active member of the Society of Animal Artists.

I’m a painter, musician, and forester. I’m lucky enough to work outside, and I make it a priority to travel often. That is where I find my inspiration. Nature reminds me of its vast learning and our insignificance and travelling reminds me that the boundaries we like to index our world by are often imaginary. I like to paint pretty and powerful subjects. We need to highlight more of that goodness in this world. I paint murals, wood panels, and design various art projects out of Northeast Washington, at the moment. Artbymonika.com

I am Sarathi Thamodaran, explorer and independent photographer, born and brought up in Thisayanvilai, a small town in the State of Tamilnadu, India surrounded by sea and temples. I was a keen observer from my childhood days and all the local culture and tradition has left a lasting impact in my memory. I was always fascinated by the mundane day to day life of the common people. Later when I took to photography I was fascinated by folklore, Ancient beliefs, rituals & Arts, I am travelling the length and breadth of Tamilnadu to photograph indigenous people reflecting their culture and traditions. Through fields like anthropology, archeology and literature, I learning about the culture and Lifestyle of the people of the past and documenting the cultural diversity of the various ethnic community groups living in the landscape of Tamil Nadu.

Dagny Walton is originally from Colorado. She received her BA in Classical Studies from the University of British Columbia, and MFA from UM. Dagny applies her background in Classical Studies to a re-interpretation of the myth of the American West and her work incorporates themes and visuals from Greco-Roman mythology.

Sam received his BFA in painting from Boston University College of Fine Arts where he honed his traditional art making skills and murals. He has a huge passion for public artwork and the positive power color alone can hold for passersby. Sam has been inspired by painting styles such as surrealism, cubism, pop art, and realism along with being inspired by the world in which the artwork lives.

April Werle is a mixed Filipino American artist and muralist. Werle is the first born child to an immigrant mother. She reflects on the Filipino diaspora, and the effects of immigration on family, culture, and identity. Werle uses her own hands as central subjects in her works. Skin color and other body parts are intentionally absent. By omitting her ethnically ambiguous characteristics, she is able to tell stories of her own cultural experiences without her appearance invalidating her identity. Werle’s murals can be found internationally. Her works have been exhibited frequently in the American Northwest and sold to private collectors nationwide. She has been featured by Filipino American brands and organizations like Kuyate and Filipino American News