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Art of Wood 2020

Announcing Our 2020 Art of Wood Exhibit
Featuring new works by three Montana artists: woodcarver Dan McArdle, woodturner Boyd Carson and woodworker Tim Carney. The exhibit runs from October 17 through November 21, 2020. Come down to the gallery at 434 North Last Chance Gulch anytime during business hours. Wed-Fri 11 to 5p and Sat 10 to 3p.
Please join us for a free all-day Open House on Saturday October 17th, from 10 am to 4pm. Social distancing will most def happen! Weather permitting, we’ll have tables and chairs set up outside to visit with the artists and enjoy some refreshments … Come on down and enjoy the art of Tim Carney, Boyd Carson and Dan McArdle.

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FOUR: an Exhibit Featuring Four Montana Artists

FOUR: We Chose Four of our Favorite Gallery Artists, Sep 12, 2020

Open House

We are thrilled to invite you to our 2020 Fall Exhibit, FOUR, with new works by four of our favorite gallery artists. Please join us for an all-day Open House on Sat. Sept. 12 from 10 to 4pm. Featured are four local artists: Bonnie Lambert, Betsey Hurd, Carol Montgomery and Susan Mattson.

Exhibit Dates

The exhibit will run from Sept 12 through Oct 14, so if you can’t come to the Open House, please stop by anytime during gallery hours. Our slowest time of day seems to be when we first open at 11am, and right after the lunch hour until 2 pm. We are excited to welcome gallery regulars and new visitors to our first in-person event of 2020. We’ll have a sidewalk cafe´with tables and chairs set up at safe social distances. We will also practice social distancing inside the gallery. Stop by to meet the artists, and sit outside (weather permitting) to visit with them.  Come inside just a few at a time, to enjoy their artworks and refreshments.
We have missed you since Covid changed our world! We are doing everything we can to provide a lovely safe experience for everyone. New this fall because of Covid restrictions: individual or small group private appointments for folks who are not comfortable dropping by the gallery during business hours. Please call 406.431.9931 to schedule a private time to see the exhibit and/or browse our lovely Gallery Shop.
Get out of your house and enjoy 1+1=1 Gallery again – you know you wanna!

 

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It's Something New

During the first year of the pandemic, we reduced the size of our gallery exhibit floor to about two thirds the size it was during the first 7 years as a fine art gallery. We added a new classroom in the back portion of the gallery (anytime you stop by, feel free to peek into the classroom) and we transitioned the front windows of the gallery into two smaller exhibitions for one or two artists at a time. These window exhibitions rotate about every 3 to 4 weeks, face the street and are available for viewing 24 hours a day, 7 days a week! This is something we decided to do for our community, to extend the gallery outside of our physical walls, and make artwork in a wide range of prices available for all to see, appreciate and buy.  We are also happy to take you downstairs into what we can "Grandma's Basement" where you can browse through our art storage area to discover "hidden" art treasures not exhibited up on the gallery floor. Just ask us!

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Adult 2022 Workshop Series

We Offer Unique, Creative Classes and Workshops for Adults

During the exceptionally weird years of 2020/2021 we put our adult workshops on the back burner because we wanted to keep our staff and customers safe from Covid-19. We hope 2022 is different and that we will be able to meet in person for half day or weeklong workshops in our lovely classroom behind the art gallery!

In the meantime, we are keeping a list of folks who are interested in specific workshops, and they will have the first opportunity (we'll call you) to register when we do figure out dates. If you would like to be on a workshop list, please stop by the gallery and ask Maureen or our gallery staff. And ... subscribe to our Love Notes to be notified by email when the workshop dates are set. Thank you! Workshops planned for the 2021/2022 season include The Art of Self Portraits; 5-day Printmaking Series; Working with Dreams through Art; Intuitive Painting; Crown Making, Junk Journals; Smash Books; Meditative Sketching.

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Black is a Color: an Exhibit about the Flow of a Show

This weekend we opened our best-of-the-collection exhibit.  In the past, we've called these shows "Best of 1+1=1" or "Hand Plucked" (an exhibit chosen by community members.)  Hand Plucked was so successful we planned to have another Hand Plucked this spring. However, Covid-19 got in the way. It was impossible to gather community members for an evening of "plucking" while non-essential businesses were shut down, so... we changed course. 

I plucked.

My inspiration for the theme of this exhibit comes from the many gallery visitors who tell us they particularly notice how our exhibits are hung with a flow that draws them in, helps them understand the artworks, and gives them new insight into a piece they may have seen before. They tell us we are good at "arranging" our exhibits. We are delighted to know that the hard work of organizing many diverse artworks into a cohesive whole is recognized and appreciated.

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2020 Kids Summer Studio Series

What will my kids learn during the 2020 Summer Studios?

Maureen likes to tailor the summer to what the kids want to learn. When we all meet each other on our first day, we will finalize the schedule of topics for the 8 studio sessions w.  We won’t get to everything on the list this summer, but if all goes well, we will have after-school studios for kids in the fall and winter, leading up to next year's 5th Annual Young Voices exhibit. 

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Meditative Sketching with Linda McCray

A PEACEFUL AFTERNOON OF MEDITATION AND CREATIVITY

Spend an afternoon in a very small group with local artist, Linda McCray. Linda paints extraordinary abstracts imbued with powerful spiritual and symbolic meanings. Relax in a quiet, peaceful atmosphere of creativity and meditation. No experience required. We know you'll be inspired!

MOVING FORWARD THROUGH ART+SPIRIT

Are you ready to move forward? We can’t move backwards. This class will start with an exercise of connecting to nature through slowing down to truly SEE+DRAW. Linda will teach you some of her favorite basic oil pastel techniques and expressive design principles. We will connect to feelings through MUSIC+ART. Learn how people through the ages have connected to the Divine through making art inspired by sacred readings and praying with art, experience both. By the end of the afternoon you will have a sketchbook with creative ways to move forward through ART+SPIRIT. No experience needed.

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Paper Crown Making with Bonnie Lambert

Come have fun with us

Spend a day making paper crowns with all kinds of scraps, doodads and thingamajigs—cardboard, paper, ribbons, fabrics, buttons, dried flowers and leaves, seed pods, wire, odds and ends, tape, photos, old books, drawing tools, and lots of other bits and pieces.  We will have plenty of inspiring, delightful and sometimes humorous materials for you to use. If you wish, bring your own materials you may have stashed for creative projects. 

We offer a place to gather in a small group with awareness of social distancing and safety

We know there are hundreds of online/video/zoom workshops available. There is just something about the synergy of an in-person group to get our creative juices flowing. We will make sure the classroom is set up for safe social distancing, and that we practice sanitary procedures to keep you and our community healthy. For that reason, the workshop is limited to just 6 participants. Register early to make sure you have a space.

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Dalton Hudoba, Young Artist

1+1=1 Gallery opens a fabulous new exhibit of young art students’ work from April 6 through May 15. Young Voices 2020 is also a fundraiser for Helena Food Share and L&C Humane Society, chosen by the students themselves. 15 year old visual artist and actor, Dalton Hudoba, has found his voice and a lot of self confidence through the process of planning this year's ...

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Ema Blue Terry, Young Artist

1+1=1 Gallery opens a fabulous new exhibit of young art students’ work from April 6 through May 15. Young Voices 2020 is also a fundraiser for Helena Food Share and L&C Humane Society, chosen by the students themselves. Ema Blue Terry age 17 and an emerging young visual artist has worked at 1+1=1 Gallery since she was 11 years old. Ema gives a virtual gallery talk and displays her artworks in our Young Voices 2020 exhibit ...

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