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Home My WebLink About07-10-26 Correspondence - MT Arts Council - ARTeries_ News from the Montana Arts Council for Early July 2026From:Montana Arts CouncilTo:Bozeman Public CommentSubject:[EXTERNAL]ARTeries: News from the Montana Arts Council for Early July 2026Date:Thursday, July 9, 2026 3:08:08 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. The latest from Montana's state arts agency ARTeries - The Lifeblood of Arts In Montana White Divider Mary Ann Carter, smiling with shoulder-length blonde hair and wearing a black top National Endowment for the Arts Chair Mary Anne Carter. Your NEA Chair is coming to you! We’re excited to report that Mary Anne Carter, Chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, is coming to Montana Aug 4-5th! Her visit is your opportunity to meet the remarkable leader who has sustained and maintained a healthy, vibrant, and effective NEA since the start of this administration. The Arts Council will host public events, a fireside chat with Chair Carter, and an NEA grants workshop—all in the Bozeman area over those two days. Plan now to join us! Full details and schedule in the next issue of ARTeries, so check back here. Krys Holmes Executive Director krys.holmes@mt.gov Take Action! A concert audience raises its hands in joy amid multicolored stage lights Get more attention Of Montana’s 129 incorporated towns, only 33 of them are bigger than 300 people. Yet our last count shows more than 170 arts and culture organizations across Montana, including arts centers, history museums, rodeos and pow wows. We’re still building out this list, at the request of Governor Gianforte. Meanwhile all of you should be getting more attention and building audience by listing your events, classes, performances and exhibits on VisitMT.com, the state’s robust events website that attracts almost 800,000 visitors a month. Add your events here. News Graphic of human brain listing areas involved in perception of music Music activates multiple areas of the brain, perhaps explaining why so many engineers and scientists are musicians, too. What the healthcare world might need most right now is an influx of arts-trained minds. Sound as medicine Did you know low-intensity ultrasound counters inflammation and reduces joint pain? And researchers have elimited 50% of brain plaque in Alzheimer’s patients using 40 Hz soundwaves? Bilateral focused ultrasound can improve motor symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. And a technique called histotripsy has been destroying liver tumors with ultrasound since 2023. Medicine is being transformed by the use of sound waves, in applications too numerous to cover here. Could be a degree in music, or skill in sound engineering, will be a hot-ticket medical career in years to come. Example: Opthalmologist Charles Kelman, who invented phacoemulsification (treating cataracts with ultrasound) was a professional sax player. We at MAC posit that musicians just use their brains differently. Cultural and Aesthetic grants provide support for a wide range of artistic and cultural endeavors such as Helena's art and performance center, the Myrna Loy. Want to help select Cultural & Aesthetic projects? We’re recruiting new members to the Cultural and Aesthetic Project Advisory Committee, a statewide panel that reviews Cultural Trust grant applications and forwards its recommendations to the legislature. It’s a 4-year term, which includes reviewing up to 100 grant applications and attending a two-day panel meeting every other year. We’re seeking a broad range of professional arts and culture expertise, and also geographic and demographic balance. Interested? Please email a letter of interest and a resume or bio to Kristin Han Burgoyne at kburgoyne@mt.gov by July 24, 2026. Apply for Cultural and Aesthetic Grants Now! August 1st is the deadline to apply for Cultural and Aesthetic Trust grantsfor projects and programs that that further Montana’s rich cultural heritage. These grants are funded by income from the Montana Coal Trust, established to return a portion of the value of our natural resources to the people of Montana. Go here for more information. MAC Careers Come work with us! MAC is hiring an Office Manager and Executive Assistant to serve as the operational backbone of our small, dynamic team. This position will champion efficiency across our agency, managing vital workflows for grants, programming, accounting, and general office functions, while providing direct executive support to our Executive Director. Job description and application here. Kristin Han Burgoyne, with long dark hair, black top, and gold pendant MAC Deputy Director Kristin Han Burgoyne And the position of Deputy Director is now open, as the legendary Kristin Han Burgoyne plans to retire in August. This multi-faceted role includes management, policy development, governmental affairs, administering a robust grants program, and keeping the MAC ship sailing smoothly. Job description and application here. Spotlight The 2026 Art Works cohort of artists recently wrapped up an intensive series of in- person and virtual professional development workshops. Over the next several ARTeries issues, we’ll be highlighting Art Works participants. This is an exceptionally committed and talented group of artists. We’re excited to introduce them to you. Lara Taubner Laura Taubner, with long blonde hair and wearing a grey flannel shirt Laura Taubner Lara Taubner is a contemporary Western artist whose oil paintings celebrate the freedom and wildness of the American West. Drawing on a lifetime spent fishing, backpacking, and camping in her native Montana, she creates colorful and textured paintings infused with a sense of place and adventure. Working wet‑in‑wet, or alla prima, she paints with both knives and brushes, embracing the immediacy and energy of the plein‑air tradition whenever possible. Lara lives in southwest Montana, where she works from her studio alongside her loyal heeler Heidi—or from the open road whenever inspiration calls. Laura Taubner, with long blonde hair and wearing a flannel shirt Lara Taubner focuses her art on Montana and Southwest landscapes and wildlife, like this portrayal of a Steller's jay Where You Can Find Lara This Summer: Driggs Plein Air Art Competition, Driggs, ID, July 22nd-August 1st Plein Air Glacier Annual Paint Out and Sale, Kalispell, MT, August 24th -September 1st Lara's website | Instagram: @larataubnerfineart Leslie Jane Leslie Jane, with long red hair and wearing a dark button-down top Leslie Jane Leslie Jane of Livingston creates sustainable fashion design cultivated from her deep appreciation for the Paradise Valley environment. She is committed to running a fashion business that employs sustainable practices, supports the local economy, and makes minimal impact on our natural environment. Leslie’s clothing is designed and crafted to outlast trends, while remaining fresh, playful, and creative. Her designs are often inspired from vintage pieces found in thrift stores, taking the silhouette and reimagining a new version. Reminiscing on the intricacies and care put into older garments sparks her desire to make new pieces that are constructed to last and be worn time and time again. Throughout the process of making these garments, all of the textile waste created is saved, from the scrap fabric left after cutting out patterns to the threads snipped while sewing. Larger pieces of scrap fabric are made into smaller accessories, and the pieces too small to sew are shredded and used as stuffing for zero-waste teddy bears. Instagram: @bylesliejane Four knit teddy bears, in pink and black, sit on floral patterned easy chair From fashion design to teddy bears, Leslie Jane’s work is fresh, playful and creative. For Artists Yellowstone Art Auction: Apply before Oct. 18 Yellowstone Art Auction isn’t till February, but it’s time to prepare your submission —application deadline is October 18th. Yellowstone Art Museum’s annual auction supports exhibition and educational programs, and helps promote artists in live and silent auctions. More details here. Text: "100 Days of Joy, Joy as Resistance" over abstract multicolored brush strokes Sign up now: 100 Days of Joy Artists are invited to sign up for a spot in a nationwide virtual project called 100 Days of Joy: A Collective Act of Creative Resistance, an artist-led Artists Thrive project. They’re bringing together 100 artists (musicians, dancers, visual artists, poets, filmmakers, and more) to create original collaborative work inspired by the theme: Joy as Resistance. Starting in January they’ll release one video daily for 100 days. Want to learn more? Two upcoming info sessions: July 10th, 11:00 am or this one July 15th, 6:00 pm. Deadline to sign up: Sept. 1st. For Arts Organizations What your audiences want ArtsJournal looked at 139 different arts organizations across the country to find out what’s working and what’s not these days. Audiences, they found, seem to want three things: occasion, belonging, and permission. A sense of occasion: a special night with a special place to go. Belonging: building community around an event (watch parties, film clubs, knit nights). And permission: Preparatory videos, how-tos and fun games to make it easy for novices to feel they know what’s going on. Yes, the funding/financial model is broken. But, AJ editor Doug McLennon writes, all the on- screen content and AI hype just remind us that what humans long for is the authentically human. “This is a big opportunity for live arts to assert this is where being human lives.” White Divider A series of three recent State of the Arts front pages Do you receive the State of the Arts Newspaper? State of the Arts is free, statewide, and fun to read. You can subscribe here to get one in your mailbox. Subscribe Now! Cool Quotes Real popular culture is folk art—coalminers' songs and so forth. —Noam Chomsky Enjoy folk art, popular culture (and a little mining) at the Montana Folk Festival this weekend in Butte. And come see the Montana Arts Council at our Folklife Area (on Broadway between Wyoming and Main), where we’ll host performances, and activities. We’re proud to be collaborating with Humanities Montana on this great event. Check it out here! Elizabeth Tritthart uses a weaving loom at the Imagine Butte Resource Center. Rectangular horizontal shape in red-purple color Manage Subscriptions | Unsubscribe All | Help Montana Arts Council | 830 N. Warren Street | Helena, MT 59601 | art.mt.gov This email was sent to comments@bozeman.net using Granicus Communications Cloud on behalf of: MontanaArts Council