Sandstone Gallery Art Walk

For April ArtWalk, Sandstone Gallery will be featuring Teresa Brown and Donna Moore. We are also welcoming back a beloved past member, photographer Peter Herzog as our newest member and featured artist. Our Billings Arts Association’s artists for April and May are Jean Posusta and Lacie Tucker.

Artists reception from 5-9 PM.

Click on the links above to see more about each of our featured artists, and samples of their work.

Many or all of our 14 artists will also be on hand to show their work and talk to you about their art. Please join us for a fun evening downtown!

ArtWalk at the Billings Symphony office

Please join us at the Billings Symphony office on April 5th from 5-9 pm for the Downtown Billings ArtWalk and First Friday event. We are thrilled to have the talented students from Lame Deer showcasing their art forms. Special guests, including Grammy winner and Silkroad Artist Kojiro Umezaki, violin prodigy Luke Minton, and the Morning Star Singers, will also be making appearances. Enjoy live musical performances, exquisite artwork, dancing, and drumming by these amazing students.

ArtWalk: Ceilon Aspensen Fine Art

Ceilon Aspensen will be showing new paintings, new framed archival prints, and new art notecards. She will also be featuring a full array of painting and drawing classes in the coming months–be one of the first 10 to sign up and receive a bonus! We will also have a spring art activity for you to participate in for only $1.00. Join us for refreshments, festive beverages, and artful fun!

MSUB Art Students League Pop Up Exhibition: Reverie Opening Reception

Opening Reception of the MSUB Art Students League Pop Up Exhibition at Kirks’ Grocery
March 28 – 30, 2024

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Art Students League: Reverie

What does it mean to find your voice? In this exhibition, the MSUB art students explore the development of artistic style while building a conceptual message. These emerging artists each bring their own experience and perspective to the exhibition through a variety of media and materials. Expressing their individual viewpoints, the collective builds a conversation between the artworks, creating space for introspection and creative reverie.

Featuring the artists:
Emmit Bartsch
Isabelle Carrol
Jaedon Hopson
Karmen Joki
Nathan Levine
Blake Tyler McCrary
Kaylin Millsap
Nathaniel Parry
Magnolia West

Art Students’ League is a collective of art students from Montana State University Billings.
The collective is a safe space for students of any major to create, explore, and enjoy art in a community of art makers. The MSUB Art Students’ League sponsors activities such as artist demonstrations, workshops, and lectures. They have frequently exhibited during Billings Art Walk.

They are excited and grateful to Kirks’ Grocery for letting them hold their first pop-up exhibition.

Sheila Miles: Nowhere & Everywhere Exhibition Opening Reception

Sheila Miles: Nowhere & Everywhere

April 5 – May 25, 2024

Opening Reception Friday, April 5, 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM during ArtWalk with small culinary bites by Chef Ashley Woodward.

Kirks’ Grocery proudly presents Sheila Miles: Nowhere & Everywhere, showcasing her recent work. This exhibition is about making art as a sustained creative journey. The places she paints are transitory and “nowhere.” Through painting, she gives those places meaning; they become permanent and “everything”.

“Wherever you end up is the “everywhere,” and in making art, everything.” Sheila Miles

Sheila Miles currently resides in Arizona. Her life and artistic practice are continually influenced by her 26 years living in Montana.

Sheila Miles will be at the opening reception.

Jason Jam Horizon Exhibition Opening & Reception

This exhibition will feature the work of Jason Jam from April 5 – May 25, 2024
Opening Reception Friday, April 5, 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM, during Billings ArtWalk.
Kirks’ Grocery is proud to present Horizon, an exhibition of new work in pencil, gouache, and watercolor by Jason Jam. Jam’s recent work in pencil uses subtle value shifts to create images of wonder and mystery. Millions of carefully arranged soft pencil marks have gone into these unusual images which take dozens of hours to create. Horizon also reveals Jam’s newest colorful landscapes. The artist has used unconventional tools and quick brush strokes to apply vibrant gouache over layered washes of rich watercolor. The effect is to draw the viewer into his world. Truly a sight to behold.

Barefoot in the Park

Barefoot in the Park is one of the most beloved comedies of Neil Simon. Newlyweds Corie and Paul Bratter are over the moon to begin their life together in their new apartment in Manhattan. Paul is a straight-laced lawyer and Corie a romantic free-spirit; nevertheless, opposites attract and the two are wild about each other. Corie decides to introduce her conservative widowed mother to their eccentric, bohemian neighbor. A wild night ensues, one that highlights just how different Corie and Paul are. The young couple must learn how to accept and embrace their differences as they learn that marriage is no easy walk in the park.

Directed by Jorden Gilfeather

Studio 2nd Saturday at the YAM

Every Studio 2nd Saturday class includes touring the galleries and creating art that is connected to current exhibitions.

Explore shape and form using air dry clay and create a sculpture inspired by Art Auction 56.

March 9: This Is Me
April 13: Stack-a-Sculpture
May 11: Scenic Splendor

Ages 5 – 12 | 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

YAM Members: $10 | Not-Yet-Members: $20

Sibling Price for YAM Members Only: $8 Register online

YAM 60th Anniversary Auction Live Auction & Gala

There is much to celebrate as the YAM pays tribute to 60 years of exceptional artists, exhibitry and growth. The Live Auction Gala, led by esteemed auctioneer Maron Hindman of Hindman Auctions, will conclude the YAM’s Art Auction with final in-person bids placed on Silent and Live Auction works for ticket holders. Tickets and table reservations for the Live Auction Gala can be purchased on the website or by calling the front desk.

Cocktails + Silent Auction ONLY $50.00

Live Auction + Dinner + Silent Auction & Cocktail hour $250.00

For absentee bidding registration or sponsorship information, please contact Precious McKenzie at development@artrmuseum.org or 406-256-6804 x 225.

The juried Art Auction exhibition showcases a diverse range of approximately 135 Silent Auction artworks, including a Small Works subset, and 25 Live Auction pieces. Participating artists are generously donating a percentage of the sale of each piece in support of the YAM. The annual art auction is one of the YAM’s most treasured opportunities to spotlight celebrated regional artwork, introduce emerging artists, and to inspire patrons at every stage of collecting.

YAM Teens

Make art, meet artists, build community, and explore endless possibilities. The 1st Wednesday we dive into the YAM’s exhibitions, learn new techniques, and discover your artistic voice. The 3rd Wednesday is your chance to create in our fully stocked education studio. You can finish a work in progress or start a new project.

When: Every 1st & 3rd Wednesday of the month | 3:30 – 5 PM
Ages: 12 – 18
Cost: Free
Reservations: Not Required

March 6, 2024: Nested Creation
March 20, 2024: Open Studio

April 3, 2024: This is Me
April 17, 2024: Open Studio

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