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A Benefit to support theWhitefish Community Foundation and Iron Horse Foundation

C A T A L O G

SUNDAY | JUNE 25, 2017

SUMMER

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WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION:

• Offers donors a Donor Advised Fund Program, responsiblymanaged and maintained, and administration fees stay andbenefitourcommunity.

• Helps donors receive value and impact from their charitablegivingbyofferingflexiblecharitablegivingoptionstosupportthecausestheycareaboutlocallyandaroundthecountry.

•Offersstrongphilanthropicleadership.

• Workswithnonprofitstoimprovegovernanceandtransparency,buildendowmentfunds,andraiseimportantprogramfundingthroughtheGreatFishCommunityChallengegrantprogram.

2017 SUMMER ART SOCIALSPONSORS CarolandRichardAtkinson TanyaandJudahGersh FunBeverage MonicaPastor MistyandJonScurlock BootsandAlanWarrick Robin“Byrdie”andKenWessels SusanandJohnWitt

5:30 PM Meettheartistsdemonstratingonlocation EnjoyculinarycreationsbyIronHorseChefJacobRoberton FinewinedistributedlocallybyFunBeverage MusicbyBarrelStoveCombo7:00 PM LivesculptingdemonstrationbySuntiPichetchaiyakul

7:30 PM LiveAuctionfeaturing16lots

WALL SALE Auction willcloseattheendoftheLiveAuction. TheauctioneerwillcloseeachlotintheWallSaleinaquick auction-styleandaskforfurtherbidsbeforeclosingeachlot.

See Rules of Sale on page 32.

Rob Akey Whitefish, MT Michael Blessing Bozeman, MT Nancy Dunlop Cawdrey Bigfork, MT Nate Closson Whitefish, MTThomas English Great Falls, MT Donna Gans Whitefish, MTR. Tom Gilleon Cascade, MT Dean Grommet Whitefish, MT Carol Hagan Billings, MT Frank Hagel Kalispell, MT Kathleen Hudson Lexington, KYJennifer Johnson Lakewood, COJennifer Li Kalispell, MT David Mensing Albion, IDLaura Miller Dupuyer, MTBrian Moore Whitefish, MTPeter Moore Polebridge, MTShawna Moore Whitefish, MTMark Ogle Kalispell, MT

2017 PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:

Whitefish Community Foundation is dedicated to fostering philanthropy, building endowments, and helping donors and nonprofits benefit our community.

AGENDAThis Evening’s

Sunti Pichetchaiyakul Whitefish, MT/Thailand Chad Poppleton Cache Valley, UTMary Roberson Hailey, IDGary Lynn Roberts Hamilton, MT Thomas Saubert Kalispell, MT Greg Scheibel Bozeman, MTRobin Sorg Kalispell, MTLaurie A. Stevens Cascade, MTMichele Usibelli Woodway, WAJeff Walker Simms, MTBob Wood Montana, 1925-1999 Residents of the Archie Bray Foundation for Ceramic Arts:Josh DeWeese Former ResidentEn Iwamura Current ResidentMike Jenson Former ResidentMyungjin Kim Current ResidentSteven Young Lee Current Resident DirectorBill Wilkey Former Resident

Sunti PichetchaiyakulWatch Sunti create an amazing 20-minute quick sculpt of Bob Schmidt at 7:00 PM.

Internationallyacclaimedsculptor,SuntiPichetchaiyakul,isamongtheworld’sleadingartistsofportraitureandofhyper-realism.AnawardwinningmemberofthePortraitSociety of America, Sunti is recognized for redefining

realistic art, with lifelike detail never before seen in bronze and by way of oldmasterstechniques.Beginningeachmasterpiecebycarvingintowax,Sunti’sforteiscapturinglife,emotion,andspiritinhissubjects.Hisaccuracyinfacialanatomyandunderstandingofhumanskin,combinedwithSunti’sartisticcompositionandrealisticpatinas,producebronzeportraitureofunparalleledperfection.

ThemosthighlyregardedsculptorinThailand,Suntireceivedanhonorarydoctoraldegree in fine art from RajamangalaUniversity ofTechnology, Bangkok in 2017.Sunti’s sculptures are showcased in temples, museums, and private collectionsthroughouttheglobe.

QUICK SCULPT DEMONSTRATION:

ORDER OF SALE Lot # Auction Artist 1 ThomasEnglish 2 JenniferLi 3 MarkOgle 4 RobAkey 5 GregScheibel 6 CarolHagan 7 MicheleUsibelli 8 TomSaubert 9 ChadPoppleton 10 R.TomGilleon 11 GaryLynnRoberts 12 FrankHagel 13 SuntiPichetchaiyakul 14 MichaelBlessing 15 NancyDunlopCawdrey 16 DeanGrommet

ARCHIE BRAY FOUNDATION FOR THE CERAMIC ARTS

Newthisyear,theSummerArt Social will include aselection ofworks by cur-rent and former residentsoftheArchieBrayFounda-tion(seepage1forartists).The Archie Bray Founda-

tionfortheCeramicArtsisapublic,nonprofit,educational institutionfoundedin1951bybrickmakerArchieBray,whointendedittobe“aplacetomakeavailableforallwhoareseriouslyinterestedinanyofthebranchesoftheceramicarts,afineplace towork.” Its primarymission is to provide an environment that stimulatescreativeworkinceramics.

ListedontheNationalRegisterofHistoricPlaces, theBray is locatedthreemilesfromdowntownHelena,MT,onthesiteoftheformerWesternClayManufacturingCompany.Setagainst thewooded foothillsof theRockyMountains, the26-acreformerbrickyard is internationally recognizedasagatheringplace foremergingand established ceramic artists. The nearby mountains and brick factory ruinsprovideabackdropforthecreativeenvironment;moreimportantisthedynamicartscommunitycreatedbytheresidentartiststhatcometotheBraytowork,shareexperiences,andexplorenewideas.

Artists will be painting on location from 5:30 to 7:30 PMwhilepatrons watch and have the chance to meet the artists anddiscusstheartwork.

At 7:30 PM each demonstration painting will be sold as a set with a finished painting in a Live Auction.TheLiveAuctionwillfeature16artists.Eachworkofarthasaminimumreservethatmustbemettosell.Refertotheauctionestimatesinthecatalogforguidance.

Ifyouwouldliketoplaceanabsenteebidonanyworkthatwillbe sold by Live Auction please contact Linda at 406-863-1781priortotheauction.

LIVE AUCTIONFormat for the 2017

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Lot4RobAkeyMany Glacier SummerOilonLinen38x18inchesEst.$4,000–$5,000

Lot3MarkOgleTwo Medicine MooseOilonCanvas20x30inchesEst.$3,000–$4,000

Lot2Jennifer

LiThe Hunter

OilonPanel|12x18inchesEst.$2,500–$3,500

Lot1Thomas

EnglishTop of the World

OilonCanvas|18x36inchesEst.$3,000–$4,000


Lot7Michele UsibelliAutumn DriftOilonCanvas|15x30inchesEst.$3,000–$4,000

Lot8TomSaubertTraditional Dance FineryOilonLinen24x20inchesEst.$4,000–$5,000

Lot6Carol

HaganShe was Fond

of Wandering, but was Always Home by SupperOilandColdWaxonGlass

22x24inchesEst.$3,500–$4,500

Lot5Greg

ScheibelTrail at Timberline

OilonCanvas30x24inches

Est.$5,000–$6,000


Lot9Chad

PoppletonThe Good Life


Lot10R. Tom

GilleonHeavy Shield


Lot12FrankHagelKeel Boat Approaching Mandan VillageOilonPanel18x24inchesEst.$6,000–$7,000

Lot11Gary Lynn Roberts

It Ain’t All FunOilonCanvas|20x24inches

Est.$10,000–$12,000

Lot13SuntiPichetchaiyakulCrazy Horse. He RIDES his Horse like the Eagle Rides the WindBronze;Ed.12/5018.5x23x9inchesEst.$8,000–$9000


Patronsinterestedinpurchasingaworkof

artintheWALL SALE AUCTIONwillwrite

abidandtheirbidnumberonthebidsheet

nexttotheselectedpainting.Thewritten

bidrepresentsan intenttopurchasethat

painting.AtthecloseoftheWallSaleAuc-

tion, the auctioneer will close each lot

individuallyandasktheaudienceifthere

areanyfurtherbidsbeforetheclose.This

is to eliminate anybiddingdisputes.The

highestbidderwillbethesuccessfulbid.

If youwould like to place an absentee bid

foranyoftheartworkintheauctionplease

contact Linda at 406-863-1781 or by email

[email protected]

TOBEUNVEILEDATSHOW

Lot15Nancy

Dunlop CawdreyTop of His Game

OilonLinen48x60inches

Est.$18,000–$19,000

Lot16Dean

Grommet

Lot14Michael

BlessingA Night on the Range


Est.$5,500–$6,500

WALL SALEFeatured Art 2017


JoshDeweeseLarge Covered JarWoodFiredStonewareH25inchesMinimumBid:$2,000(Value$3,500)

ThomasEnglishValley BelowOilonCanvas12x16inchesMinimumBid:$900(Value$1,500)

DonnaGansPurple NoonAcryliconCanvas24x36inchesMinimumBid:$1,000(Value$2,800)

NateClosson

East Glacier EveningOilonLinen

123/8x22inchesMinimumBid:$500

(Value$1,000)

MichaelBlessing

Sky RiderOilonCanvas24x24inches

MinimumBid:$2,500(Value$4,300)

RobAkey

Morning Light on Swifcurrent Falls


MinimumBid:$900(Value$2,000)

“FirstlightcatchesthefallsbelowSwiftcurrentLakeinGlacierNationalPark.”


R. Tom Gilleon

Sweet 17Oil

16x20inchesMinimumBid:$10,000

(Value$14,000)

KathleenHudson

Riders at Boulder Pass



EnIwamura

Alien HeadCeramic

13x9x9inchesMinimumBid:$500

(Value$800)

MikeJensonRiver RockClay16x16inchesMinimumBid:$1,000(Value$1,500)

JenniferJohnsonAutumn CrossingOilonCanvas12x18inchesMinimumBid:$750(Value$1,500)

Myungjin KimSummer 3/Owlberry BoschPorcelainUnderglaze,Glaze15.5x10.5x9inchesMinimumBid:$2,200(Value$3,200)


Steven YoungLeeVase

Porcelain6x6x8inches

MinimumBid:$100(Value$250)

David Mensing

SaunterOilonCanvas24x18inches


JenniferLi

The Tiger ParadeOilonPanel


(Value$3,000)

Brian MooreMantaHotGlass16x15x6inchesMinimumBid:$400(Value$750)

Peter MooreSunspotOilonCanvas24x30inchesMinimumBid:$2,800(Value$3,500)

LauraMillerTeam WorkAcryliconCanvas20x24inchesMinimumBid:$600(Value$850)


ShawnaMoore

Blue Prayer FlagEncaustic


(Value$2,700)

MarkOgle

Catch and ReleaseOilonCanvas11x14inches

MinimumBid:$950(Value$1,200)

Tom SaubertMarch HareOilonLinen18x18inchesMinimumBid:$1,950(Value$3,850)

ChadPoppleton

Social HourOilonCanvas18x24inches


Mary RobersonGallantOilonLinen17.5x14inchesMinimumBid:$1,800(Value$3,000)

Gary Lynn RobertsC.S. Winter SuppliesOilonCanvas9.5x15.5inchesMinimumBid:$2,750(Value$3,250)


RobinSorg

Fancy DancerAcryliconCanvas

14x11inchesMinimumBid:$700

(Value$950)

MichelleUsibelliExploring Old TownOilonCanvas14x11inchesMinimumBid:$995(Value$1,950)

LaurieStevens

WellspringOilonBoard


(Value$5,100)

GregScheibel

Evening SparkleOilonCanvas16x20inches


JeffWalkerOrange TreeEtching&Watercolor6x9inchesMinimumBid:$350(Value$500)

BillWilkeySugar JarSodaFiredPorcelain,SlipandGlaze7.25x5.5x5.5inchesMinimumBid:$180(Value$225)


Rob Akey | Whitefish, MT: Rob Akey grew up on the Montana prairies and in the Mon-tana mountains. He spent youthful summers working steel gangs, trail crews, and harvesting wheat, and has hiked much of Glacier National Park. He paints his native Montana to elevate and preserve her magnificence. Rob paints full-time from his studio in Whitefish, Montana and participates regularly in invitational, juried, and plein air events throughout the country and is a member of the prestigious Montana Painters Alliance. His work is represented by galleries throughout Montana, and appears in private, public, and corporate collections throughout the United States. His work has been published in Western Art Collector, Big Sky Journal, Distinctly Montana, and Whitefish Review. More information about Rob’s art, career, education, and experiences can be found at www.RobAkey.com. Michael Blessing | Bozeman, MT: Michael Blessing spent his formative years in rural Montana, surrounded by the land, the people, and the experiences that small town America provided. Having discovered an inclination toward figurative painting, he favors a candid view of his modern subjects. In addition, he is drawn to portraits of historic western figures and Hollywood characters of the 1960s and 70’s. As a kid growing up in mid-last century America, brightly lit neon signs often captured Michael’s imagination and interest, prompting him to combine his love of painting the figure with his love of the nostalgic pull of neon in his ‘Neon West’ series. As a rule, Michael Blessing is drawn to strong compositions, vibrant color, and bold lines. His figurative work and paintings of vintage Western nostalgia are widely appealing, often reminiscent of classic Americana, and have an edgy quality that is both contemporary and timeless. Michael’s work has been featured in various publications, including Western Art & Architecture, Big Sky Journal, Montana Quarterly and Western Art Collector, and his paintings have won Awards of Excellence from both Western Art Collector and Southwest Art Magazines.

Nancy Dunlop Cawdrey | Bigfork, MT: Cawdrey grew up traveling the world with her father, who was an officer in the Army. The experience permanently affected her life and her art. After starting out as a watercolor artist, Cawdrey realized the vibrancy and depth of color she could achieve by painting on silk, a technique done for centuries by the Chinese. Her subject matter is typically Montanan, but it can also be as worldly as her travels. Cawdrey paints fish, people, bears, horses, buildings, and more, all with incredibly strong, warm colors that are reminiscent of the desert. Her unique style has won her the apprecia-tion of numerous galleries throughout the West and brought her invitations to show work in large art shows. Her art itself now sees as much of the world as Cawdrey once did, being displayed in the U.S. and Europe.

BobWood

(1925-1999)The Silent Sentinel 1975

Bronze;Ed.12/35Createdin1975

25x11.5x11inchesMinimumBid:$500

(Value$1,000)

BIOGRAPHIES2017 Summer Art Social Artist


Nate Closson | Whitefish, MT: Nate Closson began painting at an early age under the instruction of his mother, a watercolor painter. Early exposure to art gave Nate a firm founda-tion in drawing and design, and a love for all things creative. As a senior in high school, he won first place in the Federal Junior Duck Stamp Contest. it was during his freshman year of college, while taking a beginning painting class, that Nate painted his first plein air oil painting. It was only a little sketch of the San Diego coast, but it sparked a new interest in painting plein air and working in oil paint. Since that time Nate has developed his skills to creating vibrant paintings that capture light and atmosphere, working both in the studio and en plein air. Nate lives with his wife, Bryna, and their sons, Landon and Dashiell in Whitefish, Montana.

Thomas English | Great Falls, MT: Thomas English has been a Montana resident for the past 26 years. He is an avid outdoor painter as well as a studio painter, and has been widely influenced by the California and American Impressionists, and the Hew Hope School near Philadelphia. English works primarily in oils and enjoys painting in a loose impressionistic, yet realistic style. Awarded the prestigious “Artist in Residency” in Glacier National Park, his work has been shown many times in the C.M. Russell Auction, Quick Draw, and Masters in Miniature, and he has exhibited one-man shows at the Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art in Great Falls and the Hockaday Museum of Art in Kalispell.

Donna Gans | Whitefish, MT: Born and raised in New York, Donna Gans presently lives and works in Montana. She received her MFA from Pratt Institute and has exhibited in galleries and collections throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. Her work has been featured in numerous solo exhibitions including the Hockaday Museum of Art, the Jest Gallery, and Missoula Art Museum, and her work has been juried into many group exhibitions around the country including Artstrand, Provincetown, MA, Guild Hall, and Benton Gallery of New York.

R. Tom Gilleon | Cascade, MT: Tom Gilleon grew up in Florida, played baseball for the University of Florida and joined the Navy in 1960. After the Navy, he created technical draw-ings for NASA and went on to work as an illustrator for Disney. It was a painting workshop in Montana that made him fall in love with the landscape and he knew he was hooked. Gilleon’s grandmother was a full-blooded Cherokee, and his paintings further explore this heritage. His now-synonymous representations of native teepees are archetypal and primitive in their basic elemental forms, yet they are remarkably contemporary in their aesthetic sensibilities. Each of his teepee paintings, he says, has a focal point from which the lantern in his mind’s eye emanates. “To me, other details of the scene are important and you can tell they are there, but I want to bring people into the welcoming light.”

Dean Grommet | Whitefish, MT: Artist Dean Grommet grew up tramping the creeks and forests of Kentucky collecting artifacts of primitive man, and pursuing wild game. These childhood endeavors fueled a lifelong passion for adventure and exploration with travels to six continents over the last four decades. Grommet’s love of natural history and native cultures is reflected in his craft. While predominantly sculpting in iron, he also uses a mixture of nature’s media including antlers, stone, wood, and leather. Grommet creates functional works of art that echo the wild places of the world.

Casually elegant, his pieces are often a study in contrasts-rough and smooth textures, simple and intricate designs, and organic and inorganic materials combine to create thought-ful transformations of nature as art.

Carol Hagan | Billings, MT: Born in Central City, Nebraska, Carol Hagan has called Billings, Montana her home since she was seven years old. She draws her inspiration from the views, skies, and landscapes that she feels so fortunate to be able to enjoy just outside of her own door, as well as from the wildlife that makes Montana and the West her home. She states, “The colors that I choose are dictated by emotion and feeling, and the connec-tion that I experience with my subject matter, as each painting unfolds. I strive to reinvent myself with each painting, and choose pure color to convey emotion and provoke thought. I choose to paint the animals that I do, as my way of honoring them. ” Hagan’s paintings are represented in fine galleries in the West and Southwest, and her work has been included in several major museum shows.

Frank Hagel | Kalispell, MT: Frank Hagel is well known for his paintings of the Western scene, including early explorers, Indians, mountain men, cowboys and wildlife. A native of the Flathead Valley, Hagel spent four years in the Navy, attended Art Center College of Design, and was a top staff illustrator at three Detroit art studios. In 1971, Hagel returned to Montana and was commissioned to design and sculpt thirty six different bronze and silver National Parks Centennial medallions for the Department of the Interior. To commemorate the 2004 Lewis & Clark Bicentennial, Hagel was commissioned by a corporate sponsor to complete a series of fifteen large paintings of the Lewis & Clark Expe-dition. This exhibition was shown in museums around the country during the bicentennial celebration. Three of the paintings from the series were featured as illustrations in issues of the Smithsonian Magazine. He has participated in every CM Russell Auction since 1971. His paintings can be found in corporate and private collections around the country.

Kathleen B. Hudson | Lexington, KY: Kathleen B. Hudson enjoyed an unconventional childhood, travelling broadly, exploring new terrain and dozens of art museums. Land-scape has always been her chief source of inspiration, and to this day, her paintings repre-sent specific places and moments in time, treading a fine line between the “real” and the otherworldly. After receiving her undergraduate degree from Harvard University, Hudson was selected to join Boston’s Copley Society of Art, the oldest nonprofit art association in America. In 2013, she returned to her hometown of Lexington, Kentucky, where she takes part in regional plein air painting festivals. In 2017, Hudson received the Grand Prize in the 6th Annual PleinAir Salon for her plein air painting Bright Morning, Timberline Falls.

Jennifer Johnson | Lakewood, CO: Artist Jennifer Johnson paints subjects from her life’s experiences outdoors as a photographer/plein air artist. Her medium is oil on linen using both heavy and light stroke work. Johnson has a long resume of shows and awards from around the country. Jennifer was Southwest Art Magazine’s “Artist to Watch” and has been featured in both American Art Collector and Western Art Collector. Her work is represented by Mountain Trails in Jackson Hole, WY and A. Banks Gallery in Bozeman, MT.


Jennifer Li | Kalispell, MT: Jennifer Li grew up in Mill Valley, California, but her family spent summers on a Montana ranch near Augusta, and she has been a resident of Montana since 1998. After majoring in literature and philosophy at Bennington and Sarah Lawrence Colleges, she lived, studied, and painted in New York City for nearly twenty years, including twelve years at the Art Students League of New York under distinguished painters Harvey Dinnerstein and Frank Mason. Li’s unusually meticulous oil painting technique is ground-ed in the varnish mediums of the Dutch Golden Age. The New York Times has described her work as “straightforwardly beautiful” with “an element of the weird”. Her work has been noted for its color and luminosity, its imaginative and evocative content, and for the high quality of her technique.

David Mensing | Albion, ID: David Mensing grew up in Iowa, surrounded by wide prairies and carefully groomed cornfields. When he moved to the West as a young man, he was cap-tivated by its raw beauty. Mensing’s ambition is to know and share that beauty through his work. Today, he lives in South Central Idaho with his wife and their three children. His archi-tectural background contributes to his compelling designs. Mensing graduated from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, and has studied extensively with Robert Moore. His award winning paint-ings have been featured in exhibitions around the nation and collections across the globe. Numerous periodicals have featured his work, including American Art Collector, Southwest Art and Western Art Collector. Recent national awards include Southwest Art’s-Award of Excel-lence in Icons of the West 2014 and The Redfish Award in Art and Soul 2014.

Laura Miller | Dupuyer, MT: Laura Miller attended the Academy of Art College in San Fran-cisco and holds a design degree from the University of Georgia. Her work has been juried into the Charlie Russell Art Auction, the Montana Land Reliance Art Auction, the Shadows of the Past Art Auction, various Hockaday Museum art shows, Southworks Art Exhibition in Georgia, and the Missoula Museum Triennial for Contemporary Artists.

Brian Moore | Whitefish, MT: Moore studied ceramics in college where the three dimen-sional medium captured his creativity. He later enrolled at Pratt Fine Arts Center of Seattle and spent two years studying the unlimited forms and possibilities of glass. He states, “The glassblowing process has always set me free by having no bounds in its nature.” Today, Moore lives in Whitefish and collaborates with artist Lee Proctor from Bigfork on many works, including public sculpture and architectural lighting commissions. Moore shows his work in Persimmon Gallery of Bigfork.

Peter Moore | Polbridge, MT: Peter Moore attended the University of Minneapolis for three years of liberal arts. After traveling the western U.S. for a few years, he returned to the University of Minneapolis to study studio arts under notable artists including: Peter Busa, Raymond Hendler, George Morrison, and Herman Somberg. In 1979 Peter moved to the re-mote mountains in NW Montana where he built a log cabin far from the amenities of electric-ity, telephone, and running water. Today, the cabin is home to his art studio. After over 37 years, he is still creating crisp, clear, colorful paintings of nature. His vision and style continues to be unique. Today, he divides his time between Montana, Minnesota, Arizona, and Mexico.

Shawna Moore | Whitefish, MT: Shawna Moore lives and works in Whitefish. Her work is featured in Painted Sky-Artists of the Rocky Mountain West, and Encaustic Art in the Twenty-First Century, both published in 2016. She is a recent recipient of the Montana Arts Council Strategic Development Grant, the Catto Scholarship at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Colo-rado, and a scholarship invitation to the International Encaustic Conference in Provincetown, Massachusetts. She has exhibited in solo exhibitions at Circa Gallery in Minneapolis, Darnell Fine Art in Santa Fe, and most recently, Park City’s Gallery MAR in July of 2015. Moore has exhibited in group, and themed shows at The Northwest Museum of Art and Culture, where her paintings have been represented in their Art/Work programs.

Mark Ogle | Kalispell, MT: Mark Ogle began his art career at the Ace Powell Bonze foundry in Kalispell in 1968, and has worked out of his Kalispell Studio and Gallery since 1980. He has studied and enjoyed field painting in Alaska, Ireland, Mexico, and Japan, and has earned a reputation as a talented landscape painter, particularly for his works of Glacier National Park. He won Best of Show at the Kalispell Art Show & Auction in 1979 and 1982, and Best of Show at the Stockmans Federation show in Calgary, Alberta in 1981. His work has been exhibited at the Smithsonian Institute, and featured in Southwest Art and Art of the West magazines, and International Fine Art Collector Press, The New American Impressionism.

Sunti Pichetchaiyakul | Whitefish, MT/Thailand: Sunti Pichetchaiyakul’s sculptures are showcased in temples, museums, and private collections throughout the globe. An award winning member of the Portrait Society of America, Sunti is recognized for redefining realistic bronzes with lifelike detail capturing the emotion and spirit of his subjects. His accuracy in facial anatomy and understanding of human skin, combined with artistic composition and realistic patinas, bring to life his unique perspective on portraiture and hyper-realism. He has been awarded Best of Show at the Calgary Stampede Western Showcase in 2012, and in the world’s largest art competition, ArtPrize, he placed fourth overall, and first in sculpture, competing against 1,582 artists from 39 countries.

Chad Poppleton | Cache Valley, UT: Poppleton currently resides in Utah, but his art still captures the farm and ranch lifestyle common in Montana and throughout the West. Poppleton’s father taught him how to look at things as an artist might see them, and at the Univ. of Utah he learned some of the finer points of art. While fishing, hunting, and exploring the mountains, he learned to appreciate the natural world he would later portray in paintings that capture mountain people and wildlife. Poppleton was featured in the 21 under 31 feature of Southwest Art Magazine. Art of the West and Western Art magazines have also highlighted his work. He was in the top 100 in Arts for the Parks and received an honorable mention for the Wyoming Conservation Stamp.

Mary Roberson | Hailey, ID: Mary Roberson is an Idaho-based artist well known for her impressionistic, often earth-toned scenes inspired by her sheer love of nature and its creatures. At sixteen, she won a scholarship to study at the prestigious California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles. Roberson has paintings in a number of museum collections, and she is a regular participant in the annual Western Visions Show & Sale at the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson, WY, where she was the featured artist in 2010.


Gary Lynn Roberts | Hamilton, MT: Carrying on the family tradition in oils, Roberts is a third generation artist, his major influence being his father, noted western artist, Joe Rader Roberts. Roberts started winning awards at the age of 14 at the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo, his most recent being “Best of Show” at the 2011 Panhandle-Plains Historical Mu-seum. Other awards include the Honorary Chairman’s Award and the People’s Choice Award on the same painting at the 2009 C.M. Russell Show in Great Falls, Montana. The C.M. Russell Show also presented him with the People’s Choice Award in 2006 and 2007. Roberts’ work has been sold at the Coeur d’Alene Art Auction and the Scottsdale Art Auction.

Tom Saubert | Kalispell, MT: In a career spanning over 40 years, the paintings of Tom Saubert focus on the representation of the Western Genre, its people and history, specializing in histori-cal accuracy. His work possesses all the attributes of truth in subject, dress, and location, yet it is still artistically introspective of the human condition. Tom has participated in several prestigious invitational shows including the Masters of the American West at the Autry National Center, receiving several awards for merit over the course of his career. He has been a member of the Rendezvous Group of Artists since 2000. A Montana native, he lives and works outside Kalispell, MT.

Greg Scheibel | Bozeman, MT: Greg Scheibel is a landscape painter from Bozeman, MT who finds much of his inspiration in the remote locations, and unspoiled beauty of the West. Greg’s work has garnered awards from the Oil Painters of America, and several plein air paint-ing events across the country, most recently the Best of Show Award at the 2015 Plein Air Fest at the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson Hole. His work has been featured in Art of the West, Southwest Art, Western Art Collector, and Distinctly Montana magazines.

Robin Sorg | Kalispell, MT: Robin Sorg was born and raised in Montana where her love of art began at an early age. She attended college in Seattle for commercial art and has worked as a freelance graphic designer/illustrator since 1991. Sorg’s pieces focus on her deep connection with wildlife. She is a self-taught painter working primarily in acrylics with an impressionis-tic flair. She lives and paints in the beautiful Flathead Valley, which serves as her inspiration.

Laurie A. Stevens | Cascade, MT: Laurie Stevens’ work is diverse–landscape and figu-rative–but her pieces are all connected by a strong sense of narrative. They tend to reflect and explore the wild, resilient, windblown beauty of the American West. Her work is often a meditation on the “taming of the West” and explores the dynamic between settled life and a reverence for the wild and untamed. Stevens began her career as an artist many years ago in Los Angeles where she spent 12 years working for the motion picture, theme park, theater, and entertainment industries as a scenic artist and muralist. She spent time as a member of the Walt Disney Imagineering Team, lending her talents to many Disney theme park projects worldwide. Stevens also did some set design, illustration, and matte paintings for several animated children’s movies. Stevens’ paintings can be found in museums, institutions, and galleries, including the collections of the Booth Western Art Museum, the C.M. Russell Art Museum, and the USAF in Washington D.C.

Michele Usibelli | Woodway, WA: Michele Usibelli’s work is consistent, brilliantly composed and thoughtful in execution. Her architectural training is apparent in her unique style. Loose brush work, generous application of color, clever composition and the ability to leave many details out allow each viewer to fill-in the implied details, thus personal-izing their viewing experience. Usibelli has won numerous awards, most recently the Silver Medal Award at the prestigious Salmagundi Club, in New York in 2015. She is honored to have her work in the permanent collection at the University of Alaska Fairbanks/Museum of the North, along with long admired historic and contemporary Alaskan artists. Inspired by the vignettes of everyday life, she says, “It is my primary goal to have each artwork I create resonate with energy and the poetry of light.”

Jeff Walker | Fort Shaw, MT: Born and raised in Great Falls, MT, Walker’s youth was spent observing, inspecting, and recording Montana’s stretch of bird life, ridges, and prairies. He received a degree from MSU in Bozeman, and did graduate work at Eastern Montana College after a stint in the Army. Inspired by the watercolored prints of Audubon, the mediums of etching and watercolor soon became united under Walker’s touch in small edition etching prints, pulled by hand, then watercolored individually. These pieces gradu-ally gave way to an interest in oil painting. Walker lives, observes, and paints Montana’s seasons from his home and studio near Fort Shaw, overlooking the Sun River Valley, which inspires an endless supply of vistas from which to choose. Walker has been a long time participant in the C.M. Russell Auction, both as an artist juried into the competition and as an exhibitor. He has shown his work at the C.M. Russell Museum in Great Falls, MT, as well as other museums and shows statewide.

Bob Wood | Montana, 1925-1999: Bob Wood was a prolifically talented artist, historian, and speaker, known for western genre, Native American painting and sculpture. He was primarily self-taught, and moved to Kalispell from Minnesota in 1969. His love for The West was evident in each stroke of his brush, etch of his pen and molding of clay from his fingers. His work was displayed at The Outlaw Inn located in Kalispell during 1970’s and 1980’s until the Inn was sold. He went on to produce profoundly detailed sculptured works in bronze until the late 1980’s. Wood passed away in 1999 in Washington State and he is buried in Kalispell.

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Josh DeWeese | Former Resident: Josh DeWeese is a ceramic artist and educator who received his BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute, and his MFA from the New York School of Ceramics at Alfred University. He is currently an Associate Professor of Art teaching ceramics at Montana State University in Bozeman, where he has co-founded the Wild Clay Research Project to study the use of indigenous ceramic materials and processes around the world. DeWeese served as Resident Director of the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts in Helena, Montana from 1992-2006. He has exhibited and taught workshops internationally and his work is included in numerous public and private collections.


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En Iwamura | Current Resident: En Iwamura was born in Kyoto, Japan in 1988. As both of his parents are artists, he was exposed to and influenced by art at a young age, and attended the Kanazawa College of Art and Craft. Upon graduation, he became interested in the international art world, and is currently a long-term resident artist at the Archie Bray Foundation for Ceramic Art in Helena. Iwamura considers the ceramic medium to be an international language, bridging the divide between cultures, people, and their nations.

Michael Jenson | Former Resident: Mike Jenson received a BA in psychology at the University of Montana where he was introduced to clay by Rudy Autio. In the 1970s he met David Shaner who became his mentor and guide. The two constructed a wood-burning kiln and fired it together for 14 years. Mike served as artist in residence at Arizona State University in Tempe. He opened the Whitefish Gallery and Jenson Studio in 1992 where he represented 35 artists with emphasis on clay. In 1996 Mike was quoted in a feature article in Ceramics Monthly, “Those who work with clay understand its captivating spell and personal growth associated with it. There is probably no greater preparation and guide for life than making pots for it is a process of continuous challenge and constant change.” Mike is the former mayor of Whitefish and one of the founders of the White-fish Community Foundation. Today Mike is retired from the gallery business and is no longer selling his artwork.

Myungjin Kim | Current Resident: Myungjin Kim was born in South Korea. She received her MFA in ceramic art at Seoul National University in 2002, and moved to the United States. Kim has taught ceramics at Santa Ana College, University of Georgia, Athens and at California State University, Long Beach. Her work is featured in private and public collections in the United States and Asia. Currently she is a long-term resident artist at the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts in Helena, MT.

Steven Young Lee | Current Resident Director: Steven Young Lee received his BFA and MFA in Ceramics from Alfred University in New York, and has been the resident art-ist director of the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts since 2006. Raised in America by immigrant Korean parents, Lee has lived and worked in large metropolitan cities and small rural communities. These experiences found him situated between cultures looking from one side into the other, and raised questions of identity and assimilation. Lee’s work allows him to re-interpret and confront these questions of place and belonging. He has lectured and taught at numerous universities throughout China, the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver, Canada, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. In 2013, he was one of sever-al international artists invited to participate in “New Blue and White”, an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston featuring contemporary artists working in the blue-and-white tradition of ceramic production, and in fall 2016, his work was featured as part of the Renwick Invitational at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C.

Bill Wilkey | Former Resident: Bill Wilkey is a former artist in residence at the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts. He received his MFA from the University of Missouri-Columbia, and BFA from East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, Tennessee. Wilkey’s craft school experience includes Penland School of Crafts in Western North Carolina and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, on the coast of Maine. He has exhibited nationally, including three consecutive Nationally Juried Student Exhibitions in conjunction with the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts conference (NCECA) in Seattle, Houston, and Milwaukee. Wilkey has recently been featured in Ceramics Monthly as a 2014 Emerging Artist, as well as the cover article for November/December issue of Pottery Making Illustrated.


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FORMAT FOR ART SALES:

RULES OF SALE:1. All artwork is offered “as is.” All sales are final. No refunds or returns for

purchasedartwork.

2. Intheeventofanydisputebetweenbidders,or intheeventofdoubtastothevalidityofanybid,theauctioneershallhavethefinaldiscretiontodeter-minethesuccessfulbidder,cancelthesale,orreopenandreselltheartpieceindispute.

3.Thesaleiscompletewhentheauctioneerannouncestheworkofferedassold.At thecloseofeachworkofartsold,asales invoicewillbecompletedandwillbeavailableatthecheckoutdeskwhereartworkwillbepurchasedandpickedup.

4. Terms of purchase will be cash, check, and credit cards (Visa, MasterCard,AmericanExpress).Paymentisduebeforeartworkmayberemovedfromtheshow,unlessotherarrangementshavebeenmadewiththeshoworganizer.

5.Artworkmustberemovedfromtheshowbythepurchaser,orarrangementsmustbemadetheeveningoftheshowandsale.Ifshippingartwork,purchaserisresponsibleforshippingandhandlingfees.

6.Wetpaintingswillnotbewrappedpriortoremovalandshouldbehandledwithcare.

Invitedartistswillbepaintingon locationduringtheeveningwhilepatronswatch. At 7:30 PM, the demonstration works will be sold through a LiveAuction.FollowingtheLiveAuction,theSilentAuctionwillimmediatelystarttoclose.

Patrons interested in purchasing awork of art in theWall Sale/Auctionwillwriteabidandtheirbidnumberonthebidsheetnexttotheselectedpainting.Thewrittenbidrepresentsanintenttopurchasethatpainting.Atthecloseofthewallsale,eachlotwillbeclosedindividuallybytheauctioneerwhowillasktheaudienceifthereareanyfurtherbidsbeforetheclosingthelot.Thisistoeliminateanybiddingdisputes.Thehighestbidderwillbethesuccessfulbid.

THANK YOU FOR ATTENDING THE 2017 SUMMER ART SOCIAL.

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artsocialSUNDAY | JUNE 25, 2017

At Iron Horse Golf Club2150 Iron Horse Drive

Whitefish, Montana

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