First Fridays
The Center in conjuction with the Missoula Cultural Council and Missoula Downtown Association hosts First Fridays art shows on the first Friday of each month. Artists featured are usually connected to the Center in some way or have GLBTIQ th
emes in their shows and pieces. The shows typically run from 5pm to 7pm, although many shows run longer depending on the availability of the artist. For a complete list of all locations and their artists visit First Friday's website.
If you are interested in booking your art into our space, please contact Mija who is the First Friday committee head. We still have many openings for 2012 and also book in advance for 2013. Artists usually keep their work in the Center for most of the month and are expected to make a small donation to the Center if they sell any pieces. We are also looking for pieces that can be donated to our annual silent auction portion of the Black and White Ball.
February's Artist
5pm - 8pm
127 N. Higgins, Suite 202, Missoula, MT
Lea Christiansen
Lea Christiansen is: 21 years old, a native Montanan, a student of art and life at the University of Montana, inspired by childhood, trees, love, music, sex, depression, Buddhist philosophy, history, questions without answers, decay, rain, and antlers.
Artists Statement
I am interested in human beings – in our divine, powerful, and creative nature as well as our raw, animalistic qualities. We are contradictions, constantly creating and destroying, blooming and decomposing, wise and blind, beautiful and grotesque, brainwashed by the media and rooted to the natural world, fighting for basic survival while grasping to connect to something beyond mundane existence. My characters are in a constant vulnerable state of revelation, confusion, ecstasy, and anguish, wandering the universe as both animals and divinities.
Pitied and revered.
Disease and shaman.
Human being.
First Friday at the Center
CALL FOR ARTISTS!!!
CALL FOR ARTISTS!!!
The Western Montana Community Center is currently seeking LGBTQQI & Allied artists to show their works of art in the Center during the months of August, September and October of 2012.
This is a great opportunity to be a part of First Friday and to get your art shown out in the community. If you are interested in showing your art at the Center during any of these months, or wish to book a slot further out, please contact Mija at mija@gaymontana.org or Bree at bree.sutherland@gaymontana.org for more information.
