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 The
phantoms will return again for the next Uptown Butte Art Walk
of the 2005 season. The Uptown Art Walk will fill Uptown streets
again from 5 pm to 9 pm on Thursday, September 15.
Many Uptown stores and restaurants will join in for the event and
stay open on that evening for the shopping convenience of their
customers and to add to the festivities.
Uptown Butte's regular art galleries will remain open for the
evening with special shows and receptions for their patrons.
These galleries included the Arts
Chateau (321 W. Broadway),
the BSB Arts Center (124 S. Main St.), Frame Galerie (102 W.
Granite St.) Main Stope Gallery (45 W. Park St.) and the Buffalo
Gallery (53 W. Broadway). New art will also be on display at
the studio suites at Studio 41, the refurbished art studios above
the Main Stope Gallery, Wein's
Men's Store
and the Garden
of Beadin'
at 41 W. Park Street.
Special events are planned to coincide with the September Art
Walk.
A special art auction is planned by Butte Central for September
24 to benefit their scholarship fund. It will be held at the
Thornton Building Ballroom at 65 East Broadway. A preview will
be held at 6:30 pm with the live auction beginning at 8 pm. Admission
is $20 a couple.
A special free preview however, will be available during
the September Art Walk from 5 pm to 9 pm at the Phoenix Building
at 66 W. Park Street. Art from local collections is being offered
to raise funds and includes works by Elizabeth Lochrie, Marilyn
Mason, Tom Patchett, Judy Nansel and several others with 27 pieces
in all being offered at the September 24th live auction.
Among other special events slated during the event is a book
signing by Jason Saari, a courageous and successful young man
who recently dedicated himself to helping other people with Apraxia,
a motor disorder in which voluntary movement is impaired without
muscle weakness. The ability to select and sequence movements
is impaired. Oral apraxia affects a person's ability to move
the muscles of the mouth for non-speech purposes. Victims of
oral apraxia have trouble coughing, swallowing, or moving their
tongue. Verbal apraxia, or apraxia of speech is an impairment
in the sequencing of speech sounds. Saari is the author of Child
Without A Voice and he will be signing his book during
the Art Walk.
The local band Mere Mortals sounds like they're
meant to play together-tight rhythms, taunt vocals, and a surreal
back beat. See them perform live at the After Art Walk Party
at the Dead Cat Cafe at 215 W. Broadway, the home of the Buttenik Ensemble.
The September 15th Uptown Art Walk will feature the work of Montana
artist Jim Poor at US Bank at the corner of Park and Main Streets
in Uptown Butte.
Jim Poor
 Nationally renowned artist Jim Poor, the Featured
Artist for September's Walk, presents his fluid, rigorous explorations
of abstract structures, Montana landscapes and visual compositions.
Following a successful career in art education including all
levels of public instruction, administration, as well as Director
of the Holter Museum of Art in Helena, and President of the Montana
Institute of the Arts Foundation he now devotes his energies
to drawing and painting.
His paintings reflect his interests in the Action Painters of
Abstract Impressionism, as well as the Impressionist and Post
Modernists, and are executed with fluidity and vigor with elements
of experimentation and surprise that connect the images to the
experiences of the viewer.
Mr. Poor has received numerous awards and honors for his artistic
and educational commitment and in 1985 was presented the Montana
Governor's Award for Service to the Arts.
Lauretta Bonfiglio
 At the Main Stope Gallery at 45 W.
Park Street the featured work will be paintings by Lauretta Bonfiglio
with the theme "Being a Woman."
This show illustrates her wish to interpret some of the core
issues that drive women.. a longing to nurture, ways to find
self-expression, and deep concern for humanity and the world
we inhabit.
The show will be held at the Main Stope Gallery through September
with the opening reception set for the evening of the Art Walk
on the 15th from 6-9 PM.
 Mary P. Creech
With a lyrical primitivism,
Mary P.Creech paints the landscape and buildings of Butte. Her
colors are direct, pure and applied with a simplicity of vision.
Her compositions reflect the immediacy of how she works, captivated
by the flowing mountains, left over artifacts, and sheer splendor
of the city's buildings.
 Marissa Maffei Newman, Marine Prigge,
Margaret Harrington and Maureen Osborne
Using cut tile as their paintbrush, the women of "The M's,"
Marissa Maffei Newman, Marine Prigge, Margaret Harrington and
Maureen Osborne create canvasses of color on tabletops.
Flowers burst forth with vibrant hues in energetic compositions
that push the notion of craft work to create their expression
of art.
Marcy James
 During the September Art Walk,
Butte photographer Marcy James will hold an opening reception
for a new exhibit of her latest work at The Butte Silver Bow
Arts Center/Venus Rising at 124 South Main Street.
James was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1967 and first encountered
Butte in 1996 while searching for Evel Knievel. She moved to
Butte in 1997 to make a book about the city.
She recently received an M.F.A. from the University of Montana
in Photography and now works as an instructor at the Rocky Mountain
School of Photography in Missoula and divides her time between
Missoula and her favorite subject, Butte.
Parks Reece
 This Livingston based artist will be signing
his book of collected works of paintings, lithographs, and prints
at the Mai
Wah Museum
at 17 W. Mercury Street during the September 15 Art Walk.
Parks
Reece has
been dubbed a "modern mythological surrealist," although
Reece fairly bristles at the label, yet acknowledges that "you
have to have a classification and I seem to have been lumped
in with the surrealists."
Reece's parodies inject
humor into subjects traditionally considered oh-so-serious and
that has made him a hero of environmentalists and others who
appreciate the complexities of the human role in our natural
world.
"I would never categorize
myself as an environmental artist, but when the paint dries I
often find that the work is relevant to environmental issues....I
sort of dabble in modern mythology by juxtaposing the old myths
of the West with the new things that are going on. It's part
of an ancient tradition--that of adding levity to gravity."
Montana Artists Refuge artists
 Nan Parsons, a Helena native, has been making
art in Basin since 1973. She is a founder of the Montana Artists
Refuge. She will present a show of her paintings at the Holter
Museum of Art in fall, 2006.
MJ Williams, well known jazz musician, is also a visual artist,
and has been working in watercolor landscapes in both her native
Montana and in Paris, France.
Jennifer Pryor is a weaver and felt artist who is on the Montana
Artists Refuge Board. She lives and works in Boulder,Montana.
Her work can be seen at fine galleries around Montana. Karen
Davidson is a photographer. She is a founding member of the Montana
Artists Refuge.
Lauretta Domaszewski
As a visual artist I see the world through light,layers, and
pathways. In Loretta Domaszewski's art, movement in nature is
rendered with multiple layers of rich transparent colors and
textures. Handmade colors of natural earth and mineral  pigments evoke the atmosphere and subtle
transitions of color and light.
The power and beauty of nature is apparent, and Nature becomes
a metaphor for the pathways, journeys, and walkways within a
person's life. Her intimate knowledge of water, and the ways
of water, allows her to follow it in her art and with her heart.
"I play with abstraction and reality," she says. "And
I love to experiment with colors."
Domaszewski spent her childhood in Connecticut then moved onto
Nantucket Island before settling in Montana. She has lived in
Bozeman since 1990, where she continues to study the waterways
and natural landscapes. Her work is shown in galleries in Boston,
New York, San Francisco, and in Montana and New Mexico.
For more details about attending or participating in upcoming
Uptown art walks, contact Mainstreet Uptown Butte at 497-6464
or send e-mail. |
