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Home My WebLink About09-04-25 Correspondence - MT Arts Council - ARTeries_ News from the Montana Arts Council for Early September 2025From:Montana Arts CouncilTo:Bozeman Public CommentSubject:[EXTERNAL]ARTeries: News from the Montana Arts Council for Early September 2025Date:Thursday, August 28, 2025 2:40:04 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 Saddle bronc rider and horse mid jump with rider losing his hat Cowboy, or arts center director? You be the judge. Photo by Allen Russell (Livingston) found at Allenrussellphoto.com Hang on and fly: that seems to be the instruction manual these days. Even while we’re enjoying the deep breaths of summer in Montana, our world is bucking and spinning beneath us in many ways. My daughter and I love rodeos; we’re hitting Dillon this weekend. So the image of a bronc rider feels apt in many ways. No matter what’s changing for you—audience behavior, art sales, the funding landscape, the conversations in your community—we in the arts world have what this cowboy has: courage, skill, and a sense of inner balance. And the knowledge that no matter what you do, everything’s probably going to change in eight seconds, so don’t take it all too seriously. We also know we don’t do it for the money or the glory, we do it for love. Fly high, my friends. Krys Holmes Executive Director krys.holmes@mt.gov Heads Up Postcard reading "thank you for supporting the arts in Montana" Thank your lawmakers! It’s an easy way to let them know how important public funding is to your operations. Three easy ways to advocate for the arts: Congress is ramping back up, and interim legislative committees will assemble soon. Now’s the time to let your lawmakers know how much NEA funding—and state funding—mean to you. Here are three easy easy ways: Social media is one of your most effective advocacy tools. When you post: Tag our members of Congress & your legislators in your social media all month Share with our congressional delegation a personal story about how NEA funding has supported you or your community Thank lawmakers who support the arts or urge them to take action Remember: “No story without data, and no data without a story.” Go here for deeper data to strengthen your message: Arts & Economic Prosperity Data White Divider Spotlight Thirty minutes of live calming music can bring down blood pressure faster than any medication. Our prescription for end of summer: Montana Chamber Music presents Angella Ahn (violin) and Julie Gosswiller (piano) in a series of community chamber concerts coming (possibly) near you. Next week they’ll perform in Butte, St. Ignatius, Missoula, Whitefish, Bozeman, and in the Capitol rotunda in Helena. Go here for info and the program: Montana Chamber Music. Spread peace through music! Image: Worth it just to hear the Strauss: Angella Ahn and Julie Gosswiller in concert around western Montana this week. Resources For Artists MAC is partnering with Artists Thrive to bring more resources to Montana artists, and to organize an Artists Thrive Summit in Billings in March. More on that later, but meanwhile check out their website: Artists Thrive and see how they support your path to thriving as a creative enterprise. Join their online community; host a workshop; get support sparking conversations in your own community or online. They also have a monthly newsletter. When the arts thrive, we all thrive! Artists Thrive supports your artistic life in many ways. Learn more about them, and plan to attend the Artists Thrive Summit in Billings next March. Photographers and visual artists: Check out this grant program: Innovate Artist Grants, awarding two $1,800 grants each quarter, to one visual artist and one photographer. Entry fee: $35. Deadline: Sept. 10. For Arts Organizations TourWest Grants are open for arts presenters. New guidelines, a few new rules, and flat funding for all awardees. Go here for more info: 2025-2026 TourWest Grants. Deadline Sept 15, so get on it. Is your facility ADA smart? Don’t miss out on potential community members who could be more involved in your work, or attend more of your events. Check out the Rocky Mountain ADA Center, a great resources for information, training, and guidance on all things ADA. They can also help you identify those invisible barriers that discourage engagement. A friend of ours who had a stroke in her 40s said, “We are all temporarily able- bodied.” ASL interpreters at live concerts? Yes! Good Idea! 10,000 Montanans can’t be wrong… about how much they enjoy reading State of the Arts, our quarterly newspaper. Yes! News you can hold, on newsprint you can take fishing! It’s free. Sign up here: State of the Arts Subscription Form, or view the pdf version here: State of the Arts Are you doing a small awesome thing in your community? You could get an Awesome Grant, $1,000 mini-grants to fund crazy, brilliant ideas that make communities better. Learn more here: The Awesome Foundation. As we peruse their website we notice there’s not a Montana chapter. Starting one seems easy: Start a Chapter - The Awesome Foundation. Interested? We’ll help! Get in touch. Native American Studies for Everyone ramps up another 8-week self-paced course, starting Sept 29. The MAC staff took this course together last spring, and we can testify that it’s fun and meaningful, and we can’t get enough of some of the people featured. How can we stand with each other if we don’t understand each other? Go here to learn more and register: Native American Studies for Everyone registration. Highly recommended. Good To Know Photographer Barbara Van Cleve at 90: Two Rivers Gallery in Big Timber celebrated iconic photographer and Montana Governor’s Arts Awardee Barbara Van Cleve’s 90th birthday last weekend, with a party and two special screenings of “Hard Twist,” a short documentary on her life and work. Did you miss it? Send her a card at Two Rivers Gallery, 226 Mcleod St., Big Timber MT 59011. And you can watch the short doc here: Hard Twist: Western Ranch Women with Barbara Van Cleve “My mother gave me the idea of photographing ranch women,” Van Cleve says in her documentary. Good idea, Mom. She launched a 79-year career as a photographer of the West. Keep on barreling ahead. Photo by Tara Atkins ARTeries is produced by the Montana Arts Council. If this email was forwarded to you and you'd like to subscribe, visit us at art.mt.gov/enews MAC Logo Teal Manage Subscriptions | Unsubscribe All | Help | Montana Arts Council | 830 N. 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