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THE MARQUEE
WHAT TO READ, SEE AND APPRECIATE
ANNUAL EXHIBITION OF ARTIST MEMBER WORKS AT HOCKADAY
The Hockaday Museum of Art announces Members’ Salon - An Annual Exhibition of Artist Member Works, the 15th event of its type at the museum, show- casing the diverse talents of its membership. Artists of all skill levels present one piece of their recent work, and the display hosts a broad variety of media. The exhibition begins Nov. 3 and will be on display through January.
Voting in the Peoples’ Choice
Awards begins Nov. 10, and everyone is invited to come in and vote for their favorite work. Many of the pieces are o ered for sale with a portion of the proceeds bene ting the museum. The 2016 Salon will feature the works of over 80 Hockaday artist members.
The Hockaday Museum of Art is located in the cultural district of downtown Kalispell at 302 Second Ave East. For more information, visit www.HockadayMuseum.org or call 406-755-5268.
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and Mesa Verde National Parks, and this year, she released “National Park Soundscapes,” a collection of music honoring the National Park Service’s centennial.
“For her to come full circle, come back to the place that created the orig- inal inspiration, we really like that,” said Jessica Kusky, volunteer program coordinator and a manager of the Art- ist-in-Residence program. “It’s a bit of a unique art form, not landscape painting.”
The original album “was great,” Haley said, “but a little removed. I don’t want to detract from it, but I truly feel this is more authentic ... I also have grown as a composer in the genre.”
She said that in particular, she had looked forward to the Artist-in-Res- idence opportunity because it would allow her to experience the park with the purpose of creating music, and because she could begin composing immediately after a drive or hike, while the feelings, sights, and sounds were still fresh.
“I go out, come back home, (sit at the keyboard), and go, ‘Oh, that sounds right. It’s right in front of us,’” Haley said. “(At Two Medicine Lake,) the rip- ples on the stones were pretty, (and I asked myself,) ‘What would that sound like?”
That moment of contemplation resulted in “Ripples on Two Medicine Lake,” one of many songs engaging with water.
“The rst week I spent hiking,” she said. “Within the rst week, I had eight ideas ... No surprise — a lot of pieces are about water: falling water, frozen water. Water is going to be a big part. But that’s okay.”
This was the rainiest October on record, according to the Hungry Horse Dam climate station, and the overcast weather inspired the songs “Rain on Huckleberry Mountain,” which Haley says depicts “the sound, the feel of the rain,” and “Apgar Range in Clouds,” which she described as “spacey.” “Up to Running Eagle Falls” has a faster pace, Haley said, with “vibrancy (to portray the) energy of the water.”
Haley also composed a piece featur- ing the historic Belton Bridge, which welcomed some of the region’s rst set- tlers from the east. The song starts slow and heavy, to evoke the slow-going labor of moving west, and picks up when “they see it’s really beautiful,” she said, when “they nd the joy and beauty.”
She has plans for four more songs, which will musically illustrate Lake McDonald’s Rocky Point, mountain riv- ers, glacial lakes, and the sun meeting the snow on the McDonald Creek Trail. She’ll compile the suite on a CD, which she hopes to sell at local shops inside Glacier and Flathead Valley.
“I just hope that it’s an authentic representationofmyexperienceinthe park, drawing on all my senses,” she said. “I love doing it.”
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