NE Montana Film Festival

4-21: ArtSpot Photo Club

Wednesday, April 21st from 6:30 – 7:30 pm

ArtSpot Photo Club



The ArtSpot Photo Club will be meeting on Wednesday, April 21st from 6:30 – 7:30 pm at ArtSpot, which is located inside Flicks in downtown Glasgow. Bring photos to share and the desire to learn, discuss, and have fun with other photographers in an informal setting. Please call Toni at 228-9072 or Laura at 526-7262 with any questions.

Jerry Jacobson Exhibition & Artist Reception

Artist Reception for Jerry Jacobson
Friday, April 2 from 4-7 pm
Exhibition Dates: March 29th – April 24th

Jerry Jacobson is a fourth-generation Valley County resident who has some of his photographs on exhibition through April 25th at ArtSpot. An artist reception for him will take place on Friday, April 2nd from 4-7 pm. The reception is free, open to the public, and light refreshments will be provided. ArtSpot is located inside Flicks in downtown Glasgow.

Jerry graduated from Glasgow High School, enlisted in the U.S. Navy for a four-year term, taught high school science for several years, and then worked as a criminal investigator with the federal government. Along the way a keen eye and love of photography developed as well as an interest in local history, which are evident in some of the photographs on display entitled “Lonesome Prairie”. These beautiful photos are of abandoned but not forgotten Valley County structures from times gone by. Come down and see if you can identify where Jerry took some of his “Lonesome Prairie” as well as additional photographs currently on display.

To show your work at ArtSpot or to learn more about any of Jerry’s photos please email artspotgallery at gmail dot com.

Photo caption: Lonesome Prairie Albert Craig Ranch by Jerry Jacobson

Be amused, be amazed, be in awe with ArtSpot’s March exhibition of artwork from high school students throughout Valley County. From Opheim, Hindsdale, and Frazer to Nashua and back to Glasgow, students’ art reminds us of the endless possibilities of art through the youthful eye. Colorful paintings, drawings, and scratchboard, hand thrown pottery, and paper hats are just a few of the works that are on display.

The Youth Show is a fabulous opportunity for students interested in art to participate in a public gallery show and for the community to see what talented young artists are in Valley County.

The Artists’ Reception for the Student Show will be on the second Friday of the month, March 12th from 4-7 pm. The Reception is free, open to the public, and snacks will be served.

Please join in celebrating the students and their work at this time or stop by to see the show anytime from March 1-28, Monday thru Friday from 6 am to 8 pm or Saturday from 11 am to 8 pm.

African Breeze by Glasgow High School student Kaitlin Hagfeldt

NE Montana Film Fest: March 6th

ArtSpot Presents: First Annual Northeast Montana Film & Video Festival

Date:

Saturday, March 6th

When:

10:30 am (featured films, NO discussion, NO short films)

2:30 pm (featured films, discussion w/featured films creators, short films, awards)

Where:

Evangelical Church, Glasgow

Cost:

$5 adults/$2.50 seniors and students/$10 family

Featured Films:

Butte, America, Pamela Roberts, 67 minutes

High Plains Winter, Cindy Stillwell, 10 minutes

Trailer:

Mother of Normandy, The Story of Madame Simone Renaud (trailer), Doug Stebleton, 6 minutes

Short Films:
Hi Lonesome (2 minutes) and See You Then (2 minutes), Audrey Hall

Trax (1 minute), Toni Marie LaGree

Dolan’s Doodles (3:30 minutes), Shawn Newton

Please call Toni (228-9072) or Laura (526-7262) with any questions.

Special thanks to the Theo & Alyce Beck Foundation and Cottonwood Inn in Glasgow and F11 in Bozeman. Thank you!

Pamela Roberts, Butte America (67 minutes)

Narrated by 2009 Golden Globe winner Gabriel Byrne, Butte, America recounts the sometimes glorious, often sorrowful, but always fascinating story of the most lucrative hard rock mining town in United States history, "the Richest Hill on Earth," "the town that plumbed and electrified America," the Pittsburgh of the West. In Butte, the Industrial Revolution collided with the romance of the frontier, corporate capitalism battled organized labor, and human appetite laid waste to land and water, yielding vast fortunes for a few and a tragic environmental legacy for the people left behind. Those people are the heart of the film--miners, their families, the working class neighborhoods they created amidst danger and hardship. In a copper crucible, they forged a community whose toughness and solidarity speak to what's missing in America today. Butte, America combines historic fact and first-person narrative to bring to life the highly compelling but largely untold story of this legendary city.

As more countries pursue an urban-industrial lifestyle, at great social and environmental cost, the story of Butte becomes a story for the world.

Major funding for Butte, America provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities: Great ideas brought to life € Independent Television & Video Service € M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust € Environmental Protection Agency, Butte € Montana Cultural Trust € The People of Butte.

Over the past 24 years Roberts has produced and directed award-winning documentary films and videos for public television and national and international theatrical and video distribution. These include Backbone of the World: the Blackfeet, broadcast nationally on public television and WorldLINK TV; Ishi, the Last Yahi, a one-hour documentary nominated for an Emmy Award by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and broadcast nationally on American Experience; and Contrary Warriors: A Story of the Crow Tribe, nationally broadcast on A&E and PBS and winner of the John Grierson Award for Best Film for First Time Director.

Cindy Stillwell, High Plains Winter (10 minutes)

HIGH PLAINS WINTER, 2006, is a short experimental documentary film that looks at the winter season in relation to human experience. Particular to the open high plains of Montana, and other areas of the American West, is a landscape that in its sheer scope can shrink anything of human scale. When winter settles on this landscape the subtle colors and sounds that come to life in the growing season revert to an even simpler palette, often a near monotone: white hills and blue sky. The wind blows. HIGH PLAINS WINTER is an attempt to understand what becomes of the human spirit in such a landscape and season. Through color and black and white super 8 and 16mm images of snowscapes traversed by large-scale powerlines, small strings of feeding cattle, and the occasional grain bin dotting the whiteness, humans find a way to leave traces in what very often seems an environment hostile to their existence. As people gather to watch and participate in the winter sport Ski-Joring, this act becomes another way of coping with or even celebrating, the long winter season.

HIGH PLAINS WINTER, a ten minute short film by Cindy Stillwell, will be a part of the Sundance Film Festival 2006. From there the film will screen at the International Film Festival of Rotterdam. The short is the third film in Stillwell’s “Western Trilogy.”

Cindy Stillwell received her Master of Fine Arts degree from New York University’s film program and since then has worked as a filmmaker, cinematographer, editor, DVD designer/author and professor. She is currently teaching at Montana State University in Bozeman, MT, as an associate professor in the Department of Media and Theatre Arts. She works with undergraduate and graduate students, teaching film production.

NE Montana Film & Video Festival

2 Award Winning Filmmakers, Pam Roberts and Cindy Stillwell, Come to NE Montana.

See Emmy award winning filmmaker Pam Roberts’ latest film “Butte, America”, at the NE Montana Film & Video Festival in Glasgow on Saturday, March 6th. Pam will show and discuss her latest project along with Cindy Stillwell and her experimental documentary short “ High Plains Winter”. Both filmmakers have shown at Sundance as well as other national and international film festivals. Doug Stebleton will show the trailer for his soon to be released documentary "Mother of Normandy", and the 4 minute and under films entries will be shown. Doors open at 2:30pm at the Evangelical Church. Tickets are $5 for adults, for students and seniors it is $2.50 and a family pass is $10. The NE Montana Film Festival is presented by ArtSpot with support from the Theo and Alyce Beck Foundation, The Cottonwood Inn Suites, Glasgow and F•11 Photographic in Bozeman. For more information call 526-7262 or 228-9072.

ArtSpot's Northeast Montana Film & Video Festival

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: February 26, 2010.
ArtSpot seeks original films for its first annual film and video festival that will be held March 6th in Glasgow, Montana. Four-minute films are being accepted in two categories of youth (18 and under) and adult. Film format can be DVD, Quick Time, MPEG, video, etc.

There is no theme, all genres are welcome, must consist of PG family content, and will be screened prior to the event. There is a $10 submission fee and films must be received by February 26, 2010, sent to Artspot, P.O. Box 217, Fort Peck, MT 59223. Send a SASE if you would like your film returned to you after the event. For more information please call Laura at (406) 526-7262 or Toni at (406) 228-9072 or email artspotgallery@gmail.com for a prospectus. Prizes for first place in both youth and adult categories will be awarded.

Two professional filmmakers will show and discuss their films and the film making process during the festival - Pam Roberts with "Butte, America" and Cindy Stillwell with "High Plains Winter".

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: February 26, 2010.

Wednesday, Jan 20th ArtSpot Photo Club

Wednesday, January 20th from 6:30 – 7:30 pm
ArtSpot Photo Club

The ArtSpot Photo Club will have its first meeting on Wednesday, January 20th from 6:30 – 7:30 pm at ArtSpot, which is located inside Flicks in downtown Glasgow. Bring photos to share and the desire to learn, discuss, and have fun with other photographers in an informal setting. Please call Toni at 228-9072 or Laura at 526-7262 with any questions.

January Artist Reception for Ellen Lloyd

Join us this Friday, January 8th from 4-7 pm for an artist reception for photographer Ellen Lloyd. ArtSpot is located inside Flicks in downtown Glasgow. Light refreshments will be provided.

Ellen received her first camera for a graduation present, but remembers always taking pictures with her mom’s camera when she was young. “I would take tons of pictures at family events and rarely forgot to bring the camera to other events. Along with taking pictures, I loved looking at old photos and hearing the stories that came along with them”. Now Ellen has her own photography business taking portraits, some of which can be seen at ArtSpot.

Upcoming shows at ArtSpot include the work of Leith DeWeese (February), the Valley County Youth Show (March), Jerry Jacobson (April), and Yancy Stewart (May).

To show your work at ArtSpot or for any questions please contact Laura at 526-7262 or email artspotgallery@gmail.com. You can also visit our blog at http://www.artspotgallery.blogspot.com/.

Photo caption: Ava’s Eyes by Ellen Lloyd

ArtSpot Gallery in 2010

Be watching for upcoming programs and classes in the visual arts at ArtSpot and plan to join us on Friday, January 8th for the Artist Reception for Ellen Lloyd whose artwork will be on display January 3-30.

ArtSpot is a non-collecting contemporary arts organization with a two-fold purpose: to provide a venue for local and regional artists of northeastern Montana to connect with the public and as a home for the community's children, youth, adults, and seniors to create and learn about art through various public programs.