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Home My WebLink About04-11-25 Correspondence - MT Arts Council - ARTeries_ News from the Montana Arts Council for early April 2025From:Montana Arts CouncilTo:Bozeman Public CommentSubject:[EXTERNAL]ARTeries: News from the Montana Arts Council for early April 2025Date:Thursday, April 10, 2025 3:40:10 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 Carley Haskell’s exhibit is about the tapestry we live in: of shared stories, familiar places, and quiet rituals. I’m in Billings this week, meeting with Tami Haaland, poetry professor at MSUB and former Montana Poet Laureate—along with other friends with Yellowstone Art Museum, the Triia artist co-op, and the Billings Cultural Partners. On the MSUB campus I visited this exhibit by MSUB student artist, called What We Do With Space and Time. This seems one of the biggest questions of life. Here we are, in this explosively changing moment, which can also—let’s not forget—be a time of renewal and creativity. What is it that our lives, our world, are asking of us? Political upheaval tempts us to think it’s about winning and losing. What should we protect? What should we fight for? But much of this is bluster. Art reminds us that the real question is, how do you want to be, and what do you want to be part of, in this time and place? It is ultimately the only question. And we spend our wild, precious lives answering it. Krys Holmes Executive Director krys.holmes@mt.gov Grantee Spotlight Did you know the Western Heritage Center has the largest array of traveling exhibits of any museum in Montana? Your organization can borrow and share exhibits on mining, ranching, early suffragists, ghost towns, Crow and Northern Cheyenne history, and artists like Evelyn Cameron and even “Ethel Hays, Cleverest Girl Artist in America.” Each exhibit comes with teaching resources. The Western Heritage Center is just one recipient of Montana’s Cultural & Aesthetic Grants, providing the rarest of the rare—operating support—to museums, theaters, arts centers and culture hotspots statewide. In the 1920s Ethel Hays of Billings was called “the greatest of all women newspaper artists.” Who would know about her today, if not for the Western Heritage Center? Heads Up Potential federal funding cuts: Federal grants account for 43% of the state government’s total annual revenue ($4.32 billion) – a larger share than the national average. Montana Nonprofit Association has commissioned a study gauging the economic impact of upcoming and potential cuts to federal funding. Learn more about the potential effects on the state’s nonprofit sector, on Tribes, and on the economy at large: Federal Funding in Montana and Impacts on Montana's Economy Breaking arts & culture news: Americans for the Arts regularly updates a website with news affecting arts and culture in the U.S. Since things are changing quickly in D.C., it pays to stay informed. Check it out here: Breaking News Updates Impacting the Arts & Culture | Arts ActionFund Resources For Artists Yellowstone Art Museum’s Summerfair: Apply now for this annual art fair at Metra Park in Billings June 27-29. Three new award categories this year! Application deadline: 5/25/2025; fee $30. More info here: https://artist.callforentry.org/festivals_unique_info.php?ID=14996 ANSWER AS QUESTION: Juried Exhibit opportunity at the Columbia City Gallery (Seattle). This Juried Exhibit is inspired by and in response to Ai, Rebel: The Art and Activism of Ai Weiwei, the Seattle Art Museum’s expansive retrospective on the renowned contemporary artist. Entry deadline 6/16/2025; entry fee $30.Info is available here. Montana performers: If you’re looking for regional touring opportunities, get your act together and apply to showcase at Montana Performing Arts Consortium’s conference. The $50 application fee is reduced to $30 for Montana-based artists. Deadline: April 25th. Apply here: Showcase | MPAC White Divider Nonprofit News What can arts presenters learn from sports marketing? Find out on “No Business Like…”, a new podcast that explores topics and talks with leaders of the professional arts touring industry. The producers discuss a range of arts-related topics and share an interview with a different industry leader each week. Listen here: https://nobusinesslike.com/ Live performance isn’t a competition, but there may beways the arts can learn from sports marketing. How ADA friendly is your facility? Here’s a useful tool: the New England ADA Center has created this ADA Checklist (https://www.adachecklist.org/) for existing facilities, to help arts organizations be as welcoming as possible to people of all abilities. It’s geared for facilities of all kinds, so there’s much to learn here. Most importantly, they remind us that the ADA is a civil rights law, not a building code. And being ADA-compliant removes barriers between your audience and your good work. Good To Know Grilled Cheese Arts Grant: Well, there’s always a bake sale. Or, if you live in Wisconsin, a zany idea called the Grilled Cheese Grant, where folks line up to buy grilled cheese sandwiches and proceeds are donated to student artists in tiny but helpful grants. What is GCG — The Grilled Cheese Grant We’re not saying it’s a perfect model for the art field, but it’s a good reminder that sometimes the best pathway through a challenge is to use what you have. Grilled cheese grants: Use what you have. Monetizing impact of the arts: A British study has measured the cost effectiveness of incorporating the arts into health treatments. They determined that—in the U.K.— engagement with general arts activities and with diagnosis-specific arts therapies bring a nearly $10 billion per year benefit in healthcare cost savings and public benefit. Research supports that “the broader the activity, the more people it engaged, generally the better off economically things were.” The NEA did a podcast about it in late January, available here: Quick Study: January 23, 2025 | National Endowment for the Arts A copy of the November 2024 final report is downloadable here: Jobs In the Arts Plain Writing Coaches of Montana (Missoula) seeks a new Executive Director. Full-time, hybrid, $50,000. Recent Jobs - Montana Nonprofit Association (MNA) Western Heritage Center (Billings) is seeking a new Executive Director, after the passing of Montana’s beloved Kevin Kooistra. Full-time, on- Writing Coaches of Montana Logo site, $60,000. Recent Jobs - Montana Nonprofit Association (MNA) Tinworks Art (Bozeman) seeks a Finance & Administration Coordinator. Full-time, on-site, $45,000. Recent Jobs - Montana Nonprofit Association (MNA) A moment of quiet beauty: “Into the Calm,” by Brad Rude (1996) captures the eye and the heart at the Yellowstone Art Museum. Red Ants Pants founder Sarah Calhoun in her White Sulphur Springs storefront It’s National Library Week – April 6-12, 2025. Hear from Red Ants Pants founder and Montana Arts Council member Sarah Calhoun why libraries are vital to us all. ARTeries is produced by the Montana Arts Council. 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