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Exhibiting the Valley’s Emerging Artists
New Artist 2016 show at
the Hockaday features curated art pieces from each area high school
BY MOLLY PRIDDY
MANY PEOPLE ARE BORN WITH the innate desire to create art, to build or paint or solder a project that says and means something, letting the materials give a visual and physical representation of an idea.
Being able to bring that creation into existence is another challenge, one often dictated by how motivated the artist is, along with the kind of training that shaped them.
In the Flathead Valley, a deep artis- tic community is on board with teach- ers and parents to help nurture the next generation of great painters, sculptors,
and artisans. This support is especially represented in the ever-popular annual show at the Hockaday Museum of Arts, “New Artists,” an exhibition of art from local high school students.
New Artists 2016 has been on exhibit since March 31 at the Kalispell museum, but the opening reception is scheduled for Thursday, April 7 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. The reception is free and open to the public.
“The range of work is anywhere from paintings to drawings to sculptures. This year we even have a computer mon- itor set up,” Kathy Martin, director of
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education at the Hockaday, said. “It’s awesome. There’s some really nice pro- fessional-quality stu , and then some just plain really talented students.”
The show is curated, but not by the Hockaday sta . Art teachers at partic- ipating high schools from White sh to Bigfork, including private institutions and Montana Academy, each selected four pieces for the show.
So schools like Flathead High School, with ve art teachers, will bring in 20 pieces, Martin said. Then it’s Martin’s job to hang the exhibit.
“We want to showcase the
Kathy Martin hangs a paper mache antelope created by Columbia Falls’ Kristen Lundstrom for the upcoming show “New Artists 2016 -
High School Students
Art Exhibition” at the Hockaday Museum of Art. GREG LINDSTROM
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up-and-coming artists,” she said. “Some of these folks, by the time they get out of high school, they may just be doodlers. Some of them have the idea that they want to be some kind of professional artist.”
Selected works for the 2016 show include paintings, printmaking, collages, drawings, and more. Some of the pieces might have sprung purely from imagina- tion, she said, and some might have been created as part of a speci c assignment.
“You have to take what the student does and realize that sometimes the art concept is very directed by the teachers,” Martin said.
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