A Collaborative Series Featuring 30 Local Artists

Well, here we are.On January 3, 2016 I sent out an invitation to 30 or so friends to create art on a theme, “Three Story Houses.” I didn’t know how many people would accept, or how many would follow through. I just provided them with a cheap 12x24” canvas and said, “Make of it what you will.” On February 21, 2016, 28 artists showed up at my house, each carrying a completed work (two showed up later, for a total of 30). The resulting art show is “Three Story Houses.”

—Marla Goodman, Bozeman MT 5/24/2016

About Three Story HousesThree Story Houses features works by 30 Bozeman artists, all interpreting the theme from their own viewpoints. The idea of storytelling as a thread that connects people was the inspiration for the theme. Houses and stories are part of everyone’s life, so hopefully everyone can engage with the art on some level.

Three Story Houses visited a variety of unusual art venues in Bozeman in April and May of 2016. After a sneak preview at Verge Theater, selections were dis-played at “pop-up outreach shows” in elder care facilities, a mental health crisis center, classrooms, low-income serving agencies and public spaces. Even a bowl-ing alley! The art completes its tour at Wild Joe’s Coffeehouse June 1-July1.

The artists in this series include Kelly Bellcour, Duncan Bullock, Tina DeWeese, Tara Gallagher, Anne Garner, Max Giles, Sharon Glick, Marla Goodman, Birdie Hall, Alvin Huntsman, Terry Karson, Kate Lyndsay, Cristina Marian, Kenda Minter, Stephanie Newman, Shawn Raecke, Robert Rath, Selisa Rausch, Tina Rodriguez, Raina Rowberry, Jack Schwem, Joe Schwem, Jocelyn Stoody, Cameron Taylor, Tom Thornton, Tyson Vick, Mike Weix, Carmel Wood and Angela Yonke.

Some of these works are for sale, and many of the artists plan to donate all or a portion of proceeds to local community causes. To inquire about a purchase, look for the artist’s email address on the display card. (Artists will negotiate directly with buyers, and works will be available for delivery after July 1.)

To get involved in creating opportunities for people of all ages and circumstanc-es to create and engage with art, contact organizer Marla Goodman through communityartbozeman.wordpress.com or at commuity artbozeman@gmail.com

*These questions are paraphrased from Visual Thinking Strategies materials developed by Abigail Housen during her 30 years of research on aesthetic development. For more information, visit www.vtshome.org/

Art presents questions that viewers answer on their own terms.

— What’s going on in this painting?

— What do you see in the work that makes you think that?

— What else can we see?*

Kelly Bellcour “Backstory” acrylic 12” x 24”

Kelly Bellcour

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Kelly Bellcour is a curious mash up of creativity and compassion, and wants to live in a world where blue-birds and dragons can be friends. Art and animals have always been a part of Kelly’s story. As an inde-pendent graphic designer, illustrator and writer, she has a particular in-terest in storytelling. Kelly is also a certified animal massage therapist, energy healer and advocate for in-tegrative therapies in animal health care. As owner of Treat Animal Wellness, Kelly works to promote healing, rehabilitation and quality of life care in animals. Her current work involves repurposing her cre-ativity for the benefit organizations that support and protect animal wel-fare. Kelly lives outside of Bozeman on the property where she grew up with her daughter and her dog, Jack.

Duncan Bullock “Abstract Conversations” acrylic 12” x 24”

Duncan Bullock

Originally from the Detroit area, Duncan Bullock has been making art in Bozeman since moving here in 1981. She learned watercolor painting from Geri Ward soon af-ter, having painted with oils as a young teenager. She was a member of the Montana Institute of Arts Bozeman Painters for several years. She completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts-Graphics at MSU Bozeman in 2003. She enjoyed the art classes and produced a body of work with renewed enthusiasm. She has a pas-sion for plein air painting, especially in YNP and on the local rivers. She has been an award-winning design-er for many years at the Chronicle as well as an equal amount of time as a freelance designer, illustrator and jewelry artist. Duncan looks forward to learning how to work in pastels and encaustics as summer approaches.

Duncan Bullock “Tree Story Houses” watercolor 12” x 24”

Duncan Bullock

Originally from the Detroit area, Duncan Bullock has been making art in Bozeman since moving here in 1981. She learned watercolor painting from Geri Ward soon af-ter, having painted with oils as a young teenager. She was a member of the Montana Institute of Arts Bozeman Painters for several years. She completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts-Graphics at MSU Bozeman in 2003. She enjoyed the art classes and produced a body of work with renewed enthusiasm. She has a pas-sion for plein air painting, especially in YNP and on the local rivers. She has been an award-winning design-er for many years at the Chronicle as well as an equal amount of time as a freelance designer, illustrator and jewelry artist. Duncan looks forward to learning how to work in pastels and encaustics as summer approaches.

Tina DeWeese “Horses/Garden/Studio” mixed media 24” x 12”

Tina DeWeese

http://www.deweeseart.com

I know myself by the activities and environments that make up my days. Over the years these pieces of my life have narrowed to a distilled few el-ements that have become essentials to my sense of well being. HORSES/GARDEN/STUDIO has become my mantra of living well. If I can keep these elements maintained, all is well with my personal microcosm of the world. I had a teacher once who talked about “personal as political”. I’ve come to know what she meant by this, as it becomes each our in-dividual task to take the pieces with which we live and make them work. (excerpted from a larger statement)

Tara Gallagher Three Cat Night mixed 12” x 24”

Tara Gallagher

Tara has had a thing for cats since she got her first cat and animal bestie, Fido, at age eight. There has rarely been a time when there wasn’t a cat or three in her life since. She also adores dogs, and feels a person needn’t have to choose between pet loyalties. Tara has enjoyed drawing from time to time in her youth, but for the last 25 years has not seen herself as an artist. This Community Art Show has been a lovely opportu-nity to peek into a more creative life. She’s hopeful that maybe the bug will bite her a bit more often now.

THE THREE-STORY HOUSEby Anne Garner

This is a story that begins with two stories. The first story is about Señor Rat who was a very large Spanish rat. As everyone knows, large Spanish rats are very long-lived. Señor Rat had a curious mind and was exceedingly rich. At least 50 years earlier he wandered the world looking for possible homes and so had bought many, many houses which mostly stood empty for decades. He had bought one plain little house on the edge of a cliff at the edge of the large forest that was visited by very few. He had an enormous amount of work done on the house, but since this was so long ago, all the workers had died and so no one knew of the changes in the house. So 50 years later it just looked like a shabby little house in an enormous forest where nobody visited.

This brings us to our second story. While the little house stood shabby and empty, far away in a busy part of town a large mouse family lived in a big house. There were perhaps 200 of them and other large mouse families as well. There was a small daughter, Mabel. To come to the point, a tragedy occurred and all the mice were wiped out. Tragedies like this happen often in the mouse world – it could be fire, or poison, or a cat. In this case it was a fire. The only mouse who survived was Mabel because she was out in the garden.

So, the lonely Mabel had lost everything – her home, her family, her friends, so now she must go out into the world to seek her fortune. It is hard to be a single small mouse in the world, where every creature turns away and will not offer a crumb of kindness or of pud-ding. As Mabel trudged through the lonely roads she began to meet other creatures that were traveling alone. These were the discarded creatures of creation. One was a long legged spi-der, with three of her legs cut short by a naughty boy, along with her 200 children. Mabel was happy to see that here was a large family, so she invited them to come with her. Then she met a centipede that had lost a third of his legs, so his limp looked very lopsided. She invited him to join the party. As she traveled, an earwig, a blind bat, and a garden slug that had been damaged by salt, all came along.

And now our two stories become one. Along the dusty road they met a very large and scruffy Spanish rat. Señor Rat had learned on his lonely travels that no one wants to be friends with large Spanish rats. He knew that if they were aware that he was a fabulously wealthy Spanish rat that they would be his friend and fawn all over him. He did not want those kinds of friends so he always dressed very shabbily and made his hair sticky.

This was the strangest group Señor Rat had ever encountered. But the little mouse who seemed to be its leader was very kind to him and asked him if he would like to travel with them. She said they were looking for a home, that they were all discarded creatures just like him. He said that he knew of a place that he thought they would like, but they would have to travel a long way through isolated forests to reach it.

They traveled for many days and nights. To quicken their progress, Señor Rat carried the slug on his back. At last, through the trees, they saw a shabby little house perched on the edge of a cliff. Señor Rat said that this was in fact his own house that had been empty for 50 years. Now he had found some very nice people to love it and take care of it. I think you will like it, he said. They all ran and hobbled inside.

It was a lovely, lovely house that just needed someone to take care of it. There was such a breathtaking view off the edge of the cliff. Then they saw a stairway that went downstairs. When they were down to that lovely floor they saw another stairway go down to another floor. It was a three storied house, but two of the stories were underground. All of the stories looked out at the beautiful cliffside view. The lowest floor would be perfect for the centipede and the earwig. The spiders could live on the second floor and everyone else could live on the top floor except for the bat who would live on the roof. They all lived there so happily with family and friends and a home till this very day.

Anne Garner “Three-Story House ” voice recognition software 12” x 24”

Anne Garner

Anne Garner graduated from UCLA in 1968. She worked as a graphic de-signer in Los Angeles and Montana and was a graphic design professor at MSU until around 2008 when she quit because of problems with multi-ple sclerosis. Anne writes things from time to time.

Her autobiographical essay, “Kennedy, Coltrane, Ginsberg and Me” is available on Amazon Kindle:

Maxwell B. Giles “A Man, His Boat, and His Octopus” paper 12” x 24”

Maxwell Giles

Maxwell finds inspiration in the combination of art and technology. Most of his visual art is constructed out of layers of paper cut by a ma-chine using designs from his com-puter. He is very lazy, but manages to find enough motivation to occa-sionally see a project through. This is one of those rare projects.

Sharon Glick “Ever After” acrylic 12” x 24”

Sharon Glick

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Sharon Glick is an illustrator of stuff for kids, including the book, “¡Perros! ¡Perros! Dogs! Dogs!” Her work can be found currently at The Bozeman Public Library, the Down-town Co-op, Morningstar Elemen-tary School, and the Dinosaur Play-ground. Originally from the Boston area, she has lived in Bozeman since 2003 with her beloved family, now comprised of wife, son (8), daughter (5), dog, and cat. A life-long doo-dler and former Program Director at the Children’s Museum of Boz-eman, Sharon also had a stints as an Animator on Comedy Central’s “Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist” and as the Assistant Soccer Coach at Wellesley College. She serves on the board of the Library’s annual Chil-dren’s Festival of the Book. When not illustrating, teaching art, walk-ing the dog, or doing all things pa-rental, she can often be found play-ing soccer, ice hockey, or fiddle. She enjoys almost never dressing up.

Marla Goodman “Truths, Secrets and White Lies” acrylic 12” x 24”

Marla Goodman

http://goodwerks.wordpress.com

Marla Goodman is a 4th genera-tion Montanan. As a copywriter and graphic designer, she specializes in communications for education, non-profits and the arts. Marla’s recent artwork has involved doc-umenting the lives of existentially troubled dolls and adding occasion-al “unexpected guests” into motel art gleaned from thrift stores. One of her projects features “Polly Vinyl, Art Thereminist” a street performer who plays the Theremin along with records. Marla is also the organizer of the Bozeman Ukulele Cabaret, and of Community Art Bozeman, which promotes opportunities for people to make and view art.

Birdie Hall “Cat Ecclesiastical” mixed media 12 x 24”

Birdie Hall I am a student of English Literature and Philosophy and also a success-ful failed writer at 21 years of age. Outsider and Folk paintings, as well as the cartoons of Robert Crumb are the primary inspirations for my “art”. I hope to leave Bozeman in the near future.

Al Huntsman III “Three Story House and a Five Dollar Chair” mixed 12” x 24”

Alvin Huntsman III

Alvin is a Bozeman native. His fam-ily came to the valley in 1864 and has resided here since. He returned to Bozeman after a five year eterni-ty in Oregon and a stroke. He was a fixture on Main Street during the 80’s and 90’s working at the hippest of shops and drinking espresso and playing in experimental improvising bands. He went to BSHS and MSU and studied art, particularly ceram-ics and graphics. Alvin became in-terested in Dadaism, Surrealism and Absurdist-Deconstructionism at the age of 15 and this continues. He has never considered himself a painterly painter. Mostly these days he pho-tographs the affects of time and the effects of historic incompetence.

Terry Karson “The House of the Existential Cowgirl” mixed 12” x 24”

Terry Karson I was born and raised in Kansas City. I discovered art at the age of 17 stand-ing in front of a Rembrandt portrait in the Nelson Museum of Art and I was disassembled and re-formed at the Kansas City Art Institute during the psychedelic Vietnam War era. For many years I worked in a contempo-rary art gallery and when we tempo-rarily closed in 1986 I moved to Mon-tana. I like art that is enigmatic. I like art that makes me wonder, or lets my mind wander. From cave paintings to Marcel Duchamp, I like art that asks more questions than it answers.

Kate Lyndsay “House of Shame” acrylic 12” x 24”

Kate Lindsay

http://www.legeneralist.com

Hello my name is Kate Lindsay. I have farm life goals. I like: Fermen-tation experiments. Meditation. Ru-ral hot springs. Hangin with elderly companions. Collecting old and found treasures. Adventures on the road and in the mountains....and sometimes to foreign lands. I have a freelance design business, I’m a col-lector and proud booth keeper at a local antique market, I co-facilitate the Bozeman Flea, and sometimes you might find me working on a sheep ranch.

Cristina Simona Marian “Found Objects” acrylic on wood 12” x 24”

Cristina Simona Marian

http://www.cristinamarianart.com

Cristina Simona Marian was born March 12, 1979, in Romania. She began studying art in middle school and moved away from home at the age of 13 to attend the Art High School and later the National Uni-versity of Art, in Bucharest. In her early years, Marian took an interest in imagining stories and characters, painting in bright colors. During college, she focused on large ab-stract oils, exploring inner conflicts. As her technique developed, she re-turned to exploring the world with the eyes of a child. Marian’s works have been featured in numerous exhibitions in Romania, Austria, France, Israel, Senegal and the U.S. In 2013, Marian moved to the U.S., and she now lives in Bozeman. Her newest works are inspired by Mon-tana life, as interpreted through the storytelling traditions of her Roma-nian roots.

Kenda Minter “Surface Story” mixed media 18” x 27”

Kenda Minter

Kenda Minter has lived in Boze-man for 35 years. Kenda loves food, and finds herself working at the Community Food Co-op with oth-er creative food lovers. She studied art through graduate school here at MSU. Now Kenda happily dabbles with mixed media and painting. Some late nights—and early morn-ings, and mid-afternoons—she can be found dumpster diving in the al-leys of Bozeman.

Stephanie Newman “A Tree Grows in brooklyn” acrylic 12” x 24”

Stephanie Newman

Stephanie Newman teaches graph-ic design, illustration, letterpress, and screen printing in the School of Art at Montana State University. Her work uses quotes and letter-forms. She chooses quotes that res-onate with her or make her laugh. She hopes that people who view the her work will think about the ideas expressed, read the books, or in some cases, depending on the quote, laugh. Maybe they’ll do all three. Her reading is eclectic; she thinks of this ongoing series as “Literary Roulette.”

The piece for Three Story Hous-es is based on a quote from A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith, a favorite book years ago. The side of the house dappled with light coming through clouds of leaves shelters the little girl, cosily reading inside.

Shawn and Bella Raecke “Emoji Factory” acrylic 12” x 24”

Shawn Raecke

http://shawnraecke.wix.com/shawnraecke

Shawn Raecke is a graduate of MSU in graphic design and photography. He has worked as an art director/de-signer/photographer in the North-west for the past 30 years. He grew up in Bozeman in the 70s and 80s and has recently returned to the Big Sky State. He loves spending free time with his two children, skiing, hiking, and playing golf and tennis.

Shawn’s submission for this show was a collaborative effort with his daugh-ter, Bella. Bella is 12 and loves soccer, baking and the Disney channel.

Robert Rath “Retweets” mixed media 12” x 24”

Robert Rath

Robert Rath collects hyphens. Currently, he’s an illustrator-design-er-author-art director-dog walker living in Bozeman. He’s illustrated many children’s books, including the award-winning “First Dog: Un-leashed in the Montana Capitol,” and “Yellowstone’s Hot Legends and Cool Myths.” He’s the art director of Distinctly Montana Magazine, and his other clients include Lucasfilm, The History Channel, Scholastic Books, Farcountry Press and many others. He isn’t allergic to anything, can’t remember birthdays or subdi-visions, likes to cook, can wiggle his ears, and hates writing bios.

Selisa Rausch “Three Lessons Revisioned” mixed/ound objects 16” x 30”

Selisa Rausch

Selisa Rausch is a Bozeman native who fondly remembers her introduction to fingerpainting at Pilgrim Preschool. She graduated high school in Billings and continued her education in the arts during college in Wyoming and Washington. She returned “home” to Bozeman to work on an MFA at MSU which she completed in 1989. Her early works— large scale drawings of chairs— explored a variety of drawing media on different surfaces/patterns like vinyl and wallpaper. After 18+ years working as an illustrator/graph-ic designer, casting fossils and teach-ing drawing alongside a never-ending home remodel, she’s finally returned to the studio. Dusting off skills, re-learn-ing old lessons and adjusting to new eyes (along with several pairs of glass-es) at age 50 has been a challenge, but she couldn’t be happier.

Tina Rodriguez “Home, Stitched Together” fabric. mixed 12” x 24”

Tina Rodriguez

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Originally from New Jersey, Tina Rodriguez has called Bozeman home for nearly 25 years. She lives in a little three story condo with her creative carpenter wife, their seven-year-old artist ninja clown dancer daughter, and Pablo the cat. You’ll likely rec-ognize Tina as a friendly, veteran staffer at the Community Food Co-op West Main.

Tina makes colorful, hand-stitched and appliquéd journals, hair clips, accessories and wall art using wool felt and reclaimed fabrics, under the name Pennycandy Handmade. She particularly enjoys spending time with a word as she puts it into a piece, stitch by stitch. Her items are currently featured at the Vir-ginia City Artisans and Growers Guild, and are also available by con-tacting her directly. You can view more of her work on her Penny-candy Handmade Facebook page. Special orders welcomed!

Raina Rowberry “A Sailor’s Tale” charcoal/watercolor 12” x 24”

Raina Rowberry

Raina is a Montana local born and raised in the small city of Libby in northwestern Montana. She moved to Bozeman in 2013 to pursue a career in cosmetology and is now making Bozeman beautiful one head of hair at a time. Although working in the beauty industry, Raina isn’t afraid to get outdoors while fishing, hiking, and practicing some sharp shooting skills.

Jack T.G. Schwem “Ego” watercolor and acrylic 12” x 24”

Jack Schwem

Jack is a student at MSU and an avid dabbler in a variety of arts. Most of his thought and inspiration dwells in the realms of metaphysics, philoso-phy, theology and science. Despite a firm belief that art is more about the process than the product he hopes you will enjoy his product anyway.

Joe Schwem “Generations” Mixed 12” x 24”

Joe Schwem

www.LyricArchitecture.com

Joe Schwem has been living in Bozeman since his early twenties when he came here for school to study architecture and met and fell in love with his fabulous wife Tara. He is a full time architect part time musician, songwriter, maker, skier, mountain biker, cook & bottle wash-er and proud father of two young men. Born & raised in Michigan & Wisconsin doing mid-western boy things, kinda like Tom Sawyer, fishin’ catchin’ tadpoles, shovelin’ manure, whitewashing picket fenc-es, makin’ rockets out of cardboard tubes. He spends less time, here is Bozeman, knee deep in the big mud-dy, but you might find him up to his neck in hot springs or singing songs at Norris, or rock & rolling with “the Fog” a fun local band.

Jocelyn Stoody “As the World Turns, The Cats Chat mixed media 12” x 24”

Jocelyn L. Stoody

After a life in the desert, Jocelyn became a Montanan just two years ago. She is still trying to understand the many faces of snow. Jocelyn has been a “maker” since she was wee; from photography to cake decorat-ing to crocheted Barbie dresses, she has always had the drive to create neat looking stuff. After college she attended graphic design school for two years, then apprenticed with a fabric designer, delved into bead-work, and then fifteen years ago she began working with precious metal clay. Finally, a medium that took hold and stuck! She most recent-ly started a business making silver keepsake jewelry for those who have lost loved ones. When she is not making jewelry, Jocelyn enjoys cre-ating yummy meals, painting, danc-ing, and spending time with friends and family. She is thrilled that she gets to spend so much of her time in the creative arts.

Cam Taylor

Cameron Taylor currently lives in Bozeman, Montana — born and raised there, too! He likes to sketch all sorts of things and is always up for a challenge. Cam likes to sketch his own fantasy worlds and charac-ters, Steampunk, robots and military stuff. He and his friends are current-ly working on a cartoon strip, Mini Ninjas, in which four short little he-roes go on awesome adventures. He loves to play with his cat, play with his friends, and build Legos (He has his own YouTube Channel featuring his Lego creations — search for B-17 Nightmare). He is 10 years old and a fourth grader at Irving Elementary.

Cameron Taylor “Tesla’s Clubhouse” mixed media 12” x 24”

Tom Thornton “Home” oil on canvas 24” x 12”

Tom Thornton

“I’ve always lived close to the heart of nature and my eye connects me to that world. I like to know what the undomesticated world knows.” Rancher for 30 years, bronze sculp-tor for 35 years and painter since 2006, Tom’s eye remains vigil to the western landscape and the critters that live here. Sometimes reminis-cent, sometimes in direct response to his present environment and sometimes venturing into purely imaginal realms, his paintings con-tinue to emerge from his studio nes-tled in the basement of our “three story house,” the house that my parents built in 1965. This painting is homage to that space that has al-lowed him to continue to follow his passion and to “chase his pencil,” as he likes to say.

— submitted by Tina DeWeese 2016

Tyson Vick “Allegory” children’s poster paint, india ink 12” x 24”

Tyson Vick

http://onedelightfulday.wordpress.com

Tyson Vick is a photographer and costumer living in Bozeman, MT. He runs a popular blog that chronicles the making-of his costumes, props and photographs for his books called One Delightful Day. His most recent book, “Mozart Reimagined,” illustrating the operas of Mozart through photogra-phy, is available on Lulu, Amazon and Barnes and Noble.

Mike Weix “3 Story House” mixed media 16” x 32”

Mike Weix

http://mikeweix.com

Mike Weix was born in Green Bay Wisconsin in 1958, he is an Aquar-ius. Mike is an artist and perform-er interested in perception and in-tention, expectation, chance, and beauty. Mike studied first at MSU and then as a graduate student, at University of California San Diego where he had the good pleasure of working with Allan Kaprow, and both David and Elenore Antin and Harrold Coehn.

Mike has performed and curated performance art as part of Wild Child Productions a downtown San Diego performance art gallery be-tween 1990 and 1993. He has also been part of performance projects in New York City where he lived between 1993 and 1996. His work is hard to pin down in any particular genre exactly.

Mike is perhaps best known for his paintings and wacky art projects. He was also the bassist for the Band Universal Triumphant (B.U.T.) 1989 to 2009. Mike is the Manager and Technical Director of The Emerson’s Crawford Theater. He is currently working on ceramic sculpture, paint-ings and musical projects in Boze-man, where he lives with his cat.

Carmel Wood “We See You!” acrylic and paper 12” x 24”

Carmel Wood

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Carmel Wood is a professional homebody with accidental garden-ing skills. Her accomplishments are: I’ve been to the most remote part of Yellowstone Park, I stumbled upon a job on Capitol Hill in Washing-ton D.C. and I once had a poem published. I practice my art using things I find, but I also employ the traditional mediums: like watercol-or, acrylic, glue, etc. I think I’m best known for my jewelry, which I sell at the Farmers Market. I attended a two room (if you count the base-ment) country school in my youth. I was born in Bozeman, Montana.

Angela Yonke Outside House, Inside House” mixed 12” x 24”

Angela Yonke

Angela Yonke is a multimedia artist, photographer and art teacher from Michigan/Chicago/Bozeman. She stays busy inspiring creativity in minds of all ages at The Emerson Center for Arts and Culture, The Cot-tonwood Club and F-11 Photographic Supplies. Her work deals with gesture, humor and the human spirit.

(Shown at left is the inner layer of Angela’s two-layer piece. Feel free to peek under the top layer)