MMAC will close Tue 11/8 & Fri 11/11 for University Holidays. We will resume regular gallery hours Saturday Nov 12.

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Please join us this Saturday for the Patty Canyon Ladies Salon Symposium! 

Saturday, Nov 12 from 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM in the Montana Theater at the University of Montana. For more info, call us at (406)243-2019. Saturday is a home Griz game day, so plan ahead for parking and public transit.

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VOLUNTEER!

The big move is on at MMAC and we need your help. The museum is looking for volunteers. To learn more, email ashley.rickman@mso.umt.edu.

 Anonymous, Panama, Mola, 20th century, textile, Hoyt Family Collection.

Phil Korell, “Character Sketch of Sego Ridge,” 1974, pen and ink on paper.

For information about educational programming or about scheduling tours for groups over 10 people, please contact Marissa Badzioch at 406-243-2019 or marissa.badzioch@mso.umt.edu.

Current Exhibitions

Focus on the Figure: The Pattee Canyon Ladies Salon, 1989-2022

The exhibition presents the works of Montana’s oldest active group of contemporary women artists. For over three decades, the group has met regularly in the home and studio of recently deceased artist Nancy Erickson to draw the female model. The show records the history of the PCLS and focuses on the varied works of its current and past members.

Oct. 14, 2022 - Jan. 9, 2023 at MMAC’s PARTV Center galleries

Free opening reception, 5:30 - 7:00 PM on Oct. 14 in PARTV Center lobby, and public symposium from 10:00 AM - 4 PM on Nov. 12 in the Montana Theater. Individual artists’ talks and Docent-led tours are also available.

Recent Exhibitions

Fiesta De Santos: Latin American Festival and Devotional Arts

July 15 to October 1, 2022 at the Meloy Gallery  in the PARTV Center

This stunning exhibition features inspired folk and fine art from Mexico to Peru. The works include festival masks, sculpted saints, and brightly colored textiles and graphic arts that reveal the popular piety and aesthetic sensibilities of diverse communities across Latin America. In this show, we welcome the Hoyt family back to MMAC as they continue to share their remarkable collections with our community.

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An Authentic Voice: The Architecture and Art of Phil Korell

For over 60 years, Montana architect Phil Korell has created buildings of exceptional beauty and integrity of design. Raised on a ranch outside Utica and educated at the University of Washington in traditional methods of design, Korell learned how to shape buildings in harmony with Montana’s distinctive Western landscapes and traditional culture. Korell created some of the state’s most distinctive buildings in the second half of the 20th and early 21st centuries.

The exhibition featured photographs, drawings and plans for Korell’s signature buildings, as well as examples of his fine art drawings and paintings.

April 15 through June 25, 2022 in the Paxson Gallery.

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Imagining the West: Selections from the Stan and Donna Goodbar Collection of Western Art

The Montana Museum of Art and Culture was recently humbled by the gift of a significant art collection of 125 works from Stan and Donna Goodbar in 2021. This collection helps reveal how artists interpreted the west during the 20th century. MMAC is proud to present a selection of these works featuring artists who made a living primarily as illustrators, both shaping and reinforcing quintessential myths about the West’s important archetypes, its settlers, cowboys and Indigenous inhabitants.

The exhibition will highlight artists who demonstrate the illustrative traditions of Western art and includes celebrated Montana artists like Ace Powell, Elizabeth Lochrie, John Clarke, Jo De Yong and O.C. Seltzer. The collection also contains works from artists of other western states such as California's Edward Borein, Will James and Olaf Wieghorst and modernists Frances Senska and Peter Voulkos.

February 14 through May 28, 2022 at Meloy Gallery.