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Home My WebLink About03-13-25 Correspondence - MT Arts Council - ARTeries_ news from the Montana Arts Council Mid-March 2025From:Montana Arts CouncilTo:Bozeman Public CommentSubject:[EXTERNAL]ARTeries: news from the Montana Arts Council Mid-March 2025Date:Thursday, March 13, 2025 2:42:36 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. ARTeries - The Lifeblood of Arts In Montana White Divider Thunderstorm over the Big Belt Mountains, with type reading "Spring Storms" Photo: Eric Heidle Every spring, a tumultuous process out on the high seas disrupts all our lives. It’s called upwelling, when the cool, nutrient-rich waters of the deep rise up to displace the air-warmed surface waters. It’s a particularly boisterous process along the Pacific, where these upwelling waters, already churning in the Pacific gyre, slam against the continental plate and rise up to create stormy waters and general weather mayhem across the West. Spring upwelling can be a dangerous time, but it also delivers abundant nutrients that feed half the continent. I cling to this metaphor as a useful guide in chaotic times. Be safe. Find your solid ground. Keep the lifejackets handy. Make art. Krys Holmes Executive Director krys.holmes@mt.gov Artist Spotlight Meet Jake Dunker Montana Poetry Out Loud 2025 Champion It’s the 20th year of Poetry Out Loud, the national high-school recitation contest that encourages students to learn and perform poetry. Last Saturday Jake Dunker of Whitefish was named Montana state champion, among 16 students from schools across the state. Jake now competes in the national Poetry Out Loud finals in Washington, D.C, in early May, vying for a top prize of $20,000. Meanwhile our state champ won $200 plus another $500 for his school to purchase poetry books. Congrats to Jake and all our 2025 Poetry Out Loud competitors! Photo of Jake Dunker performing: Montana Arts Council Deadlines and Opportunities Fort Peck Theatre White Divider Operating support for arts: March 27 is the deadline for applying for MAC’s Public Value Partnership grants, awarding operating support for the artistic and educational mission of Montana arts organizations. Click here to find guidelines and the application: Public Value Partnerships. Deadline is March 27, 2025. Fort Peck Theatre, a Public Value Partnerships grantee, attracts people from all over the country to their programs. Apply for PVP Grants Why operating support? Why should government fund arts organizations? Because they yield a 5-fold return on investment: boosting local economic activity; improving education outcomes; fostering community livability; facilitating improved health; and preserving Montana’s cherished heritage and traditions. That’s a huge return to all Montanans. Be proud. Stand up for art. White Divider Resources For Artists HandMADE Fairs: HandMADE Montana presents a series of fairs and workshops for artists and artisans who build their work by hand. The MADE fair’s mission is to increase awareness of handmade goods as an alternative to mass-produced items and support local and regional small craft business by providing a place to sell their goods. They also sell works online. Coming up: Missoula MADE fair – deadline April 1. Flathead Cherry Festival – deadline April 15. More information and links to apply are here. Indigenous artists: Creative West (formerly WESTAF) is forming a Native American Advisory Council to guide how they support and collaborate with Native artists and culture bearers across the West. This is a paid opportunity for Native and Indigenous leaders to share their knowledge and lived experiences in shaping the work of Creative West, the regional arts support organization that covers the 13 states of the American West, plus three Pacific jurisdictions. Interested? Complete this survey: Native Advisory Council Development at Creative West Teaching opportunity: Want to teach at the Emerson Center in Bozeman? They’re seeking artists/instructors for acrylic, watercolor, metalsmithing, and other forms for 4- 6 week classes. They also seek high-school artists to intern with their kids’ summer art camps. Interested? Employment - Emerson Center for the Arts & Culture Writers in need: Are you a writer with a short- term financial emergency? The PEN Writers Fund offers relief. Eligible applicants must be professional writers based in the United States, and be able to demonstrate that this one-time grant will be meaningful in helping address a short-term emergency situation. Deadline May 2. Info here: PEN America U.S. Writers Aid Initiative - PEN America How do you price your art? This question comes up regularly among artists we know. Thankfully Springboard for the Arts is presenting a free zoom workshop on art pricing next week, March 18th. It’s a slice of their 12-part series called “Work of Art: Business Skills for Artists.” Register here: Work of Art: Pricing - Springboard for the Arts Lifetime Arts Logo Nonprofit News Training opportunity: Are you looking to boost the health of your community through the arts? Beginning April 1st, Lifetime Arts will be offering a Creative Aging Foundations Training series for artists, educators, and administrators who currently serve older adults — or aspire to. Trainings will help you integrate creative aging into your skill set as an artist, or your programming as an arts organization. Over three interactive, 2-hour sessions, you’ll explore creative aging best practices, engage in expert-led discussions, and participate in a live demonstration class. Check it out: Creative Aging Foundations Training for Individuals + Small Groups Political Climate Response Planning Guide: It’s a topsy-turvy political climate for many agencies, organizations, nonprofits, and communities. Montana Nonprofit Association offers good information, many resources, and a strong partnership. The MNA Advocacy Center is a great way to join in efforts to support the arts and other nonprofits through tumultuous times. And check out their Political Climate Response Planning Guide here: Political Climate Response Planning Guide - Montana Nonprofit Association Creating new work: Montana Repertory Theatre (Missoula) and Warren Miller Performing Arts Center (Big Sky) collaborated in 2019 to envision a new play highlighting missing and murdered Indigenous women. Last month the Rep leveraged that partnership into a major grant from the Roy Cockrum Foundation to create a full production of the plan, titled Can’t Drink Salt Water, by Kendra Mylnechuk Potter. The play, weaving together Native tradition, maternal grief, contemporary religious faith, humor, and call to action, will debut at the Rep in 2026. We share this news to accent the power of collaboration, creativity, and time. Photo courtesy of Montana Repertory Theatre Good To Know Poetry matters: Montana Quarterly magazine just reviewed This Place the Gods Touched Earth, the 2024 anthology of works by all of Montana’s poets laureate. It reads, in part: “Our poets laureate remind us that culture is not something that we observe through a proscenium arch; it is the beauty and the heartache that exist within our place and within ourselves.” The book, a collaboration between the Arts Council and the Montana Historical Society Press, is available at bookstores and airport bookstalls everywhere, and can be ordered here. ARTeries is produced by the Montana Arts Council. If this email was forwarded to you and you'd like to subscribe, visit us at https://art.mt.gov/enews This email was sent to comments@bozeman.net using GovDelivery Communications Cloud on behalf of: MontanaArts Council Create, Create, Create Quote - Ivy Buck MAC Logo Teal Manage Subscriptions | Unsubscribe All | Help | Montana Arts Council | 830 N. Warren Street | Helena, MT 59601 | art.mt.gov