In Motion

This collaborative installation is comprised of student work from UM’s Visual and Media Arts, Creative Writing and Book Arts programs. Showcasing the kind of innovative cross-disciplinary engagement that is rarely found outside a university setting, it serves to both celebrate and defend the life-affirming nexus of creativity and community.

Meet the Artists here

All pieces are available for purchase

Pure After All That - Elsie Spomer
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48” x 47” x 0.5”

Original Mural: Oil on MDO panel

Hanger-free and customizable for any hanging or framing system. Weatherized and suitable for indoor or outdoor display.

Artist Statement: Her work addresses how Christianity and conservatism have molded her identity by dictating how individuals should behave, how desire should be contained, and how identity should be performed. She points out flaws in believing in a Christian feminine ideal in physical appearance, expression, and responsibility in an age when subjectivity reigns over sensuality and human experience, and how to break beyond that.

Meet Elsie

We appreciate your support of the Allez program and Allez artists. Please understand your purchase is a weather-resistant outdoor art piece displayed in an urban environment for public enjoyment for the duration of the exhibit. Normal wear and tear of an outdoor art piece should be expected. There are special inherent risks, such as, mother nature, accidents, vandalism that could compromise the artwork. Allez will make every effort to protect the work during exhibition and will be available “as is” at the conclusion of the exhibit.

Avian Flash Mob - Jean Carter
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48” x 47” x 0.5”

Original Mural: Mixed medium collage on acrylic-painted MDO panel

Hanger-free and customizable for any hanging or framing system. Weatherized and suitable for indoor or outdoor display.

Artist Statement: The artwork represents an incident I witnessed of an impromptu team of crows and magpies working together to mob a red-tail hawk after it tried to raid one of their nests. It was a fascinating aerial dance of swoops, dips and dives.

Meet Jean

We appreciate your support of the Allez program and Allez artists. Please understand your purchase is a weather-resistant outdoor art piece displayed in an urban environment for public enjoyment for the duration of the exhibit. Normal wear and tear of an outdoor art piece should be expected. There are special inherent risks, such as, mother nature, accidents, vandalism that could compromise the artwork. Allez will make every effort to protect the work during exhibition and will be available “as is” at the conclusion of the exhibit.

Release of the Ephemeral - Natalie Rose Millar
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48” x 47” x 0.5”

Original Mural: Oil on MDO panel

Hanger-free and customizable for any hanging or framing system. Weatherized and suitable for indoor or outdoor display.

Artist Statement: Release of the Ephemeral is both veneration and condemnation. Exploring grief at arm’s length, this piece both enshrines and says goodbye to a version of self which could only exist in the eyes of others.

Meet Natalie

We appreciate your support of the Allez program and Allez artists. Please understand your purchase is a weather-resistant outdoor art piece displayed in an urban environment for public enjoyment for the duration of the exhibit. Normal wear and tear of an outdoor art piece should be expected. There are special inherent risks, such as, mother nature, accidents, vandalism that could compromise the artwork. Allez will make every effort to protect the work during exhibition and will be available “as is” at the conclusion of the exhibit.

Tempos - Lisa Kouroupis
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48” x 47” x 0.25”

Original poem mural: digitized broadside reproduced on EPO panel

Printed by Mac Miller & Signe Swanson at UM’s Bear Scratch Press

Hanger-free and customizable for any hanging or framing system. Weatherized and suitable for indoor or outdoor display.

Meet Lisa

We appreciate your support of the Allez program and Allez artists. Please understand your purchase is a weather-resistant outdoor art piece displayed in an urban environment for public enjoyment for the duration of the exhibit. Normal wear and tear of an outdoor art piece should be expected. There are special inherent risks, such as, mother nature, accidents, vandalism that could compromise the artwork. Allez will make every effort to protect the work during exhibition and will be available “as is” at the conclusion of the exhibit.

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Never For Money Always For Love - Gina Hronek
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48” x 47” x 0.5”

Original Mural: Oil on MDO panel

Hanger-free and customizable for any hanging or framing system. Weatherized and suitable for indoor or outdoor display.

Artist Statement: Never For Money, Always For Love is about how it feels to make a life with the ones you love. Marvels of the soul are found around a dinner table with your dog by your side.

Meet Gina

We appreciate your support of the Allez program and Allez artists. Please understand your purchase is a weather-resistant outdoor art piece displayed in an urban environment for public enjoyment for the duration of the exhibit. Normal wear and tear of an outdoor art piece should be expected. There are special inherent risks, such as, mother nature, accidents, vandalism that could compromise the artwork. Allez will make every effort to protect the work during exhibition and will be available “as is” at the conclusion of the exhibit.

Enigmatic Moments - Lillian Sciulli
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48” x 47” x 0.5”

Original Mural: Oil on MDO panel

Hanger-free and customizable for any hanging or framing system. Weatherized and suitable for indoor or outdoor display.

Artist Statement: My work grapples with social anxiety and the feeling of isolation and loneliness within groups, desperately wanting to fit but unable to jump in with ease. By painting self-assured individuals in moments that I feel are off-kilter, I can examine their behaviors to try to perhaps unlock the secret to their ease. In choosing ambiguous scenes, the viewer is confronted with a multitude of questions and how to react to what is happening.

Meet Lillian

We appreciate your support of the Allez program and Allez artists. Please understand your purchase is a weather-resistant outdoor art piece displayed in an urban environment for public enjoyment for the duration of the exhibit. Normal wear and tear of an outdoor art piece should be expected. There are special inherent risks, such as, mother nature, accidents, vandalism that could compromise the artwork. Allez will make every effort to protect the work during exhibition and will be available “as is” at the conclusion of the exhibit.

Deep Waters - Scott Carroll
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48” x 47” x 0.5”

Original Mural: Acrylic & mixed media on MDO panel

Hanger-free and customizable for any hanging or framing system. Weatherized and suitable for indoor or outdoor display.

Artist Statement: This piece imagines Missoula in the distant future if climate change were to result in the return of Lake Missoula. And if it were to, I imagine Missoulians would make the best of it and likely go fishing.

Meet Scott

We appreciate your support of the Allez program and Allez artists. Please understand your purchase is a weather-resistant outdoor art piece displayed in an urban environment for public enjoyment for the duration of the exhibit. Normal wear and tear of an outdoor art piece should be expected. There are special inherent risks, such as, mother nature, accidents, vandalism that could compromise the artwork. Allez will make every effort to protect the work during exhibition and will be available “as is” at the conclusion of the exhibit.

After A Bad Mood - Rachel Ouellette
$0.00

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48” x 47” x 0.25”

Original poem mural: digitized broadside reproduced on EPO panel

Printed by Tracy Hall & Olivia Vesovich at UM’s Bear Scratch Press

Hanger-free and customizable for any hanging or framing system. Weatherized and suitable for indoor or outdoor display.

Meet Rachel

We appreciate your support of the Allez program and Allez artists. Please understand your purchase is a weather-resistant outdoor art piece displayed in an urban environment for public enjoyment for the duration of the exhibit. Normal wear and tear of an outdoor art piece should be expected. There are special inherent risks, such as, mother nature, accidents, vandalism that could compromise the artwork. Allez will make every effort to protect the work during exhibition and will be available “as is” at the conclusion of the exhibit.

Moving Through the Big Sky - Irie O'Dea
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48” x 96” x 0.5”

Original Mural: Acrylic on MDO panel

Hanger-free and customizable for any hanging or framing system. Weatherized and suitable for indoor or outdoor display.

Artist Statement: This artwork is a memorial to all those who have lost their life on the road. The scene serves as a reminder that life is both short and beautiful, encouraging us to pause and appreciate the world around us.

Meet Irie

We appreciate your support of the Allez program and Allez artists. Please understand your purchase is a weather-resistant outdoor art piece displayed in an urban environment for public enjoyment for the duration of the exhibit. Normal wear and tear of an outdoor art piece should be expected. There are special inherent risks, such as, mother nature, accidents, vandalism that could compromise the artwork. Allez will make every effort to protect the work during exhibition and will be available “as is” at the conclusion of the exhibit.

Incandescent - Lilly Brown
$0.00

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48” x 47” x 0.5”

Original Mural: Acrylic & oil paint, chalk pastel, willow charcoal on MDO panel

Hanger-free and customizable for any hanging or framing system. Weatherized and suitable for indoor or outdoor display.

Artist Statement: Incandescent explores the balance between light and abstraction. Using a photo from a local Missoula hike, Lilly captures light unexpectedly. Warping the ways in which light falls on snow, she uses a variety of materials to capture the essence of what it feels like to absorb the sun on a warm winter’s day.

Meet Lilly

We appreciate your support of the Allez program and Allez artists. Please understand your purchase is a weather-resistant outdoor art piece displayed in an urban environment for public enjoyment for the duration of the exhibit. Normal wear and tear of an outdoor art piece should be expected. There are special inherent risks, such as, mother nature, accidents, vandalism that could compromise the artwork. Allez will make every effort to protect the work during exhibition and will be available “as is” at the conclusion of the exhibit.

Heart Surgery - Joa Bren Smith
$0.00

To inquire about purchasing this mural, please email svma@umontana.edu

48” x 47” x 0.25”

Original poem mural: digitized broadside reproduced on EPO panel

Printed by Nathan St. Onge & Julian Zires at UM’s Bear Scratch Press

Hanger-free and customizable for any hanging or framing system. Weatherized and suitable for indoor or outdoor display.

Meet Joa

We appreciate your support of the Allez program and Allez artists. Please understand your purchase is a weather-resistant outdoor art piece displayed in an urban environment for public enjoyment for the duration of the exhibit. Normal wear and tear of an outdoor art piece should be expected. There are special inherent risks, such as, mother nature, accidents, vandalism that could compromise the artwork. Allez will make every effort to protect the work during exhibition and will be available “as is” at the conclusion of the exhibit.

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