The School of Art Blog
Rick Griffith Thursday February 12, 2015 6:00 to 7:00 pm Reynolds Recital, Howard Hall, Montana State University You are invited to join Rick Griffith as he gets philosophic on design, design education and whatever else he deems fit. Rick’s studio called Matter in downtown Denver is a uniquely strange place, compelled by craft, steeped in... READ MORE
January 19-23, 2015 Opening Reception January 20, 6 pm. Helen E. Copeland Gallery, Haynes Hall Montana State University A benefit fo Art Without Boundaries – Music and Art Programs with Montana State University Internet sales at Artistic Horizons... READ MORE
Please join us at the Helen E. Copeland Gallery for the BFA Thesis Exhibition with Kaleigh Jones and Josh Bock, December 1-12, 2014. Closing Reception: December 12th, 6:30 -8:30 pm... READ MORE
Amy Goldsmith MFA Thesis Exhibition Exhibition: Monday, November 3rd – Friday, November 14th Defense: 11:00 am Monday November 10th Public Reception: Thursday November 13th 6:30-8:30 Artist Statement Urban Drift is about the flaneur, the derive… the psychogeography of the Midwest. We, as curious beings, drift to places that spark memories of... READ MORE
October 2nd – 30th Lecture: October 2nd, 2014. 5:15 in Cheever 2:15 Reception: October 2nd, 2014. 6:30 -8:30 Wild Rose Abstract, is an exhibition which will celebrate five current abstract painters residing in Alberta. The artists are Scott Cumberland, Douglas Haynes, Poul Nielsen, Robert Scott and Yulin Wang. All are committed to the painting ... READ MORE
THE MSU SCHOOL OF ART PRESENTS VISITING ARTIST LECTURE The School of Art at Montana State University presents a lecture by Rossella Vasta. Ms. Vasta is an internationally known artist from Perugia, Italy. She will be lecturing on her ongoing project Table of Silence. This project began in 2007 as a collaboration with dancer... READ MORE
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Christopher Olszewski is a Native American visual artist and is currently a professor at the Savannah College of Art and Design. His project is a visual investigation into the Native American experience by tracing the footsteps of General George Armstrong Custer from Monroe, Michigan to Little Big Horn, Montana. He is driving a 2005 Pontiac Montana,...
The illustration by Claire Bischoff is featured on the cover of special 35th Anniversary Edition of “A Confederacy of Dunces” by John Kennedy Toole . Claire is a graduate of the Graphic Design program at Montana State University and created the original artwork during her senior capstone experience. The iconic book celebrates the Pulitzer Prize... READ MORE
This summer Dr. Regina Gee hosted an MSU study group at her research site of the Villa Oplontis, a luxurious Roman seaside villa buried in the same eruption of Mt. Vesuvius that also famously destroyed the nearby town of Pompeii in the year 79. The MSU contingent consisted of President Waded Cruzado, Dean Nancy Cornwell... READ MORE
The Montana State University Foundation and the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery are pleased to invite scholars, students, connoisseurs, and friends of American-French cultural exchange to attend an international conference, Political Portraiture in the United States and France during the Revolutionary and Federal Eras ca. 1776-1814, to be held in Nan Tucker McEvoy Auditorium of the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art & Portraiture on 25 and 26 September 2014. READ MORE
Standing as tall as a fruit tree, Lift Tower’s steel branches, painted Bridger Bowl green support two apple-red chairs. Whether muffled in snow, dripping with rain, or drenched in sun the Lift Tower is a compelling addition to Montana State University’s campus and the last student sculpture to be added since 1978, when Jeff Boshart’s Arctic Flight was installed. READ MORE