BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//www.zootownarts.org//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.30.10// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH UID:74600438-6c00-495d-871f-09c9003130f6 X-WR-CALDESC:‘When Women Were Birds’ / Women Artists celebrate their Winged Muses\nGuest Curator Uschi Carpenter\nWith works by Diane Olhoeft\, Cindy Swidler\, Jean Albus\, Karen Savory\, Sally Friou\, Stephanie Frostad\, U schi Carpenter\, Kate Davis\, Gail Trenfield\, Cathy Weber\, & Renee Taaff e\n\nGallery Opening on the Second Friday\, April 8\, 2022\, 5-8 PM\nExhib iting in the Main Gallery through April 30\nVisit in-person during open ho urs: \nMonday through Saturday 10 AM to 6 PM and Sunday noon to 4 PM\n\nTh e ZACC is delighted to host 12 fantastic women artists in celebration of t heir love for birds\, opening on the second Friday\, April 8\, from 5-8 PM in the ZACC’s Main Gallery. Each artist provides her own vision of the av ian world\, with multiple mediums represented.\n\nSTEPHANIE FROSTAD / PAIN TINGS\nStephanie J. Frostad studied at Studio Arts Center International in Florence\, Italy in 1985-86. She received a BFA from the Maryland Institu te\, College of Art in 1990\, and in 1994 completed an MFA in Painting at The University of Montana. Frostad has exhibited throughout the Northwest\ , in California\, Maryland\, Washington D.C. and abroad in Canada\, China\ , Italy and New Zealand. In 1994 she was awarded a Montana Arts Council In dividual Artist Fellowship. In 2018 she received MAC’s Artist Innovation A ward. Her work is held in numerous private and public collections includin g The University of Victoria in British Columbia\, The Montana Museum of A rts and Culture\, The Missoula Art Museum and The University of Washington Medical Center. Born and raised in Walla Walla\, Washington\, Frostad now makes her home in Missoula\, Montana.\n\nUSCHI CARPENTER / PHOTOGRAPHY\nU schi Carpenter is a nature\, wildlife\, and fine arts photographer living in Missoula\, Montana. After careers in teaching and international relatio ns\, she found her true calling as a photographer capturing the beauty of the wild. Her educational path spanned three countries (Germany\, Great Br itain\, and the United States)\, but it was the grandeur of the Rocky Moun tains that turned Uschi into a 'shadow catcher and light chaser.' After in itially practicing the Zen of landscape photography\, her passion for phot ographing birds has transformed her into a seeker of magic\, equilibrium\, and soul in those feathered relatives we call 'birds.'\n\nCYNTHIA SWIDLER / WATERCOLOR\nCynthia Swidler is an artist and retired occupational thera pist in Missoula\, Montana. Inspired by the spirit of the natural world\, she works in photography and painting as an expression of her observations \, whether in the garden or in the wild. She studied art education and occ upational therapy at Wayne State University and the University of Montana. \n\nJEAN ALBUS / PHOTO COLLAGE\nJean Albus was born and raised in Montana . She left to live and work in Seattle 15 years before returning to live i n Red Lodge\, MT in 1988. Later\, she and her husband lived off the grid i n the high desert above the Clarks Fork Valley near Bridger\, Montana wher e a large body of her photography was created. She currently resides in sm all-town Carbon County with her husband and faithful dog. She continues to work in photography and sight-specific installation. She is represented b y Walker Fine Art in Denver. Her work resides in the Yellowstone Art Museu m permanent collection.\n\nSALLY FRIOU / MIXED MEDIA\nSally Friou complete d her BFA\, Master of Arts and Education\, and teaching credentials at the University of Montana. She taught art in her own studio\, the Missoula Ar t Museum and Missoula County Public Schools for 27 years. Sally has pursue d painting\, photography and ceramics exhibiting at the Missoula Art Museu m\, Bernice's Bakery\, Zootown Art Collective\, Buttercup Cafe\, Downtown Dance Collective\, the Loft\, Art City\, and Montana Bliss Artworks.\n\nKA REN SAVORY / PAINTINGS & PRINTS\nAn appreciation of both nature and art ha s always been a part of Karen Savory’s life. Growing up along the Niagara River in Western NY\, she could never get enough of either. She would beg her dad to take her camping and fishing with the boys and then beg her mom to let her “help” with sewing and painting projects. These loves continue now that Karen is living in a small log cabin in the foothills of the Bit terroot mountains of Montana. In addition to selling her work in more trad itional ways she is proud to use her art to support the protection of wild places and open lands by partnering with her local land trust and several environmental organizations. As she continues to explore the surrounding mountains\, she knows just how lucky she is to combine her longtime passio ns as she creates art that shares her love of nature.\n\nDIANE OLHOEFT / W ATERCOLOR & SILK PAINTINGS\nAs a child in rural Pennsylvania\, Diane grew up watching her mother paint and sketch ideas for clothing she wanted to c reate\, as she made most of her family's nicer clothes. Diane's time was s pent outside\, building forts\, exploring old homesteads and pretending sh e was a wild horse. Watercolor and silk painting has some of the wildness of childhood. Watercolor is a perfect medium as it was light\, portable an d could come on any adventure. It has really helped her to appreciate her surroundings in a more detailed way. Diane loves the colors and free flowi ng way the paint goes on the paper. It seems to be in tune with the unpred ictability\, adaptability and movement of nature.\n\nKATE DAVIS / ETCHINGS & SCULPTURE\nKate Davis has been immersed in a world of wild animals begi nning as a teenager with the Cincinnati Zoo Junior Zoologists Club\, then a degree in Zoology from the University of Montana in 1982. She founded th e non-profit organization Raptors of the Rockies 34 years ago. The Florenc e facilities house a dozen non-releasable and falconry birds. These Teachi ng Team raptors have been stars in 1820 education programs for 137\,000 pa rticipants young and old alike. She has also presented her lively PowerPoi nt programs across the country from Boston to Seattle\, with Chicago\, Sal t Lake City and Detroit in between. These raptors are models for Kate’s ar t – printmaking\, drawing\, painting\, and big welded steel sculptures.\n \nGAIL TRENFIELD / PASTELS & PAINTINGS\nAs a child\, I spent many hours st udying paintings and learning to paint on my own. By the time I entered In diana University\, I was ready for intensive figure drawing and painting. The idea was that\, if you could manage a figure\, you could manage anythi ng – and that proved true until I began to think about painting birds. I have long included them in my paintings\, but that is not the same as cons idering how they live in their environments\, and somehow getting that int o paint. These paintings are early in this journey\, which I hope will be long and fascinating.\n\nCATHY WEBER / CERAMICS\nCathy Weber grew up in th e Midwestern U.S.\, studied at the Herron School of Art and Indiana Univer sity\, and completed a formal painting apprenticeship in Mexico City. In 1 981 she moved to Montana\, where she maintains a studio in historic downto wn Dillon. Though most of Weber’s work is done in oil\, she is skilled in a variety of media. Her work is motivated by an increasing sense of urgenc y to make things of beauty in response to war\, injustice\, greed and viol ence. Weber finds comfort and hope in the process of creating beautiful im ages of common objects.\n\nRENEE TAAFFE / OIL PASTEL & PAINT X-WR-RELCALID:b6ba711581b0b69ce98f68c129824cb4 X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Denver BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Denver BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20211107T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 RDATE:20221106T020000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20220313T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 RDATE:20230312T020000 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:182c283e-6629-4aae-8d5a-08536be187ab DTSTAMP:20260501T153538Z DESCRIPTION:‘When Women Were Birds’ / Women Artists celebrate their Winged Muses\nGuest Curator Uschi Carpenter\nWith works by Diane Olhoeft\, Cindy Swidler\, Jean Albus\, Karen Savory\, Sally Friou\, Stephanie Frostad\, Us chi Carpenter\, Kate Davis\, Gail Trenfield\, Cathy Weber\, & Renee Taaffe \n\nGallery Opening on the Second Friday\, April 8\, 2022\, 5-8 PM\nExhibi ting in the Main Gallery through April 30\nVisit in-person during open hou rs: \nMonday through Saturday 10 AM to 6 PM and Sunday noon to 4 PM\n\nThe ZACC is delighted to host 12 fantastic women artists in celebration of th eir love for birds\, opening on the second Friday\, April 8\, from 5-8 PM in the ZACC’s Main Gallery. Each artist provides her own vision of the avi an world\, with multiple mediums represented.\n\nSTEPHANIE FROSTAD / PAINT INGS\nStephanie J. Frostad studied at Studio Arts Center International in Florence\, Italy in 1985-86. She received a BFA from the Maryland Institut e\, College of Art in 1990\, and in 1994 completed an MFA in Painting at T he University of Montana. Frostad has exhibited throughout the Northwest\, in California\, Maryland\, Washington D.C. and abroad in Canada\, China\, Italy and New Zealand. In 1994 she was awarded a Montana Arts Council Ind ividual Artist Fellowship. In 2018 she received MAC’s Artist Innovation Aw ard. Her work is held in numerous private and public collections including The University of Victoria in British Columbia\, The Montana Museum of Ar ts and Culture\, The Missoula Art Museum and The University of Washington Medical Center. Born and raised in Walla Walla\, Washington\, Frostad now makes her home in Missoula\, Montana.\n\nUSCHI CARPENTER / PHOTOGRAPHY\nUs chi Carpenter is a nature\, wildlife\, and fine arts photographer living i n Missoula\, Montana. After careers in teaching and international relation s\, she found her true calling as a photographer capturing the beauty of t he wild. Her educational path spanned three countries (Germany\, Great Bri tain\, and the United States)\, but it was the grandeur of the Rocky Mount ains that turned Uschi into a 'shadow catcher and light chaser.' After ini tially practicing the Zen of landscape photography\, her passion for photo graphing birds has transformed her into a seeker of magic\, equilibrium\, and soul in those feathered relatives we call 'birds.'\n\nCYNTHIA SWIDLER / WATERCOLOR\nCynthia Swidler is an artist and retired occupational therap ist in Missoula\, Montana. Inspired by the spirit of the natural world\, s he works in photography and painting as an expression of her observations\ , whether in the garden or in the wild. She studied art education and occu pational therapy at Wayne State University and the University of Montana. \n\nJEAN ALBUS / PHOTO COLLAGE\nJean Albus was born and raised in Montana. She left to live and work in Seattle 15 years before returning to live in Red Lodge\, MT in 1988. Later\, she and her husband lived off the grid in the high desert above the Clarks Fork Valley near Bridger\, Montana where a large body of her photography was created. She currently resides in sma ll-town Carbon County with her husband and faithful dog. She continues to work in photography and sight-specific installation. She is represented by Walker Fine Art in Denver. Her work resides in the Yellowstone Art Museum permanent collection.\n\nSALLY FRIOU / MIXED MEDIA\nSally Friou completed her BFA\, Master of Arts and Education\, and teaching credentials at the University of Montana. She taught art in her own studio\, the Missoula Art Museum and Missoula County Public Schools for 27 years. Sally has pursued painting\, photography and ceramics exhibiting at the Missoula Art Museum \, Bernice's Bakery\, Zootown Art Collective\, Buttercup Cafe\, Downtown D ance Collective\, the Loft\, Art City\, and Montana Bliss Artworks.\n\nKAR EN SAVORY / PAINTINGS & PRINTS\nAn appreciation of both nature and art has always been a part of Karen Savory’s life. Growing up along the Niagara R iver in Western NY\, she could never get enough of either. She would beg h er dad to take her camping and fishing with the boys and then beg her mom to let her “help” with sewing and painting projects. These loves continue now that Karen is living in a small log cabin in the foothills of the Bitt erroot mountains of Montana. In addition to selling her work in more tradi tional ways she is proud to use her art to support the protection of wild places and open lands by partnering with her local land trust and several environmental organizations. As she continues to explore the surrounding m ountains\, she knows just how lucky she is to combine her longtime passion s as she creates art that shares her love of nature.\n\nDIANE OLHOEFT / WA TERCOLOR & SILK PAINTINGS\nAs a child in rural Pennsylvania\, Diane grew u p watching her mother paint and sketch ideas for clothing she wanted to cr eate\, as she made most of her family's nicer clothes. Diane's time was sp ent outside\, building forts\, exploring old homesteads and pretending she was a wild horse. Watercolor and silk painting has some of the wildness o f childhood. Watercolor is a perfect medium as it was light\, portable and could come on any adventure. It has really helped her to appreciate her s urroundings in a more detailed way. Diane loves the colors and free flowin g way the paint goes on the paper. It seems to be in tune with the unpredi ctability\, adaptability and movement of nature.\n\nKATE DAVIS / ETCHINGS & SCULPTURE\nKate Davis has been immersed in a world of wild animals begin ning as a teenager with the Cincinnati Zoo Junior Zoologists Club\, then a degree in Zoology from the University of Montana in 1982. She founded the non-profit organization Raptors of the Rockies 34 years ago. The Florence facilities house a dozen non-releasable and falconry birds. These Teachin g Team raptors have been stars in 1820 education programs for 137\,000 par ticipants young and old alike. She has also presented her lively PowerPoin t programs across the country from Boston to Seattle\, with Chicago\, Salt Lake City and Detroit in between. These raptors are models for Kate’s art – printmaking\, drawing\, painting\, and big welded steel sculptures.\n\n GAIL TRENFIELD / PASTELS & PAINTINGS\nAs a child\, I spent many hours stud ying paintings and learning to paint on my own. By the time I entered Indi ana University\, I was ready for intensive figure drawing and painting. Th e idea was that\, if you could manage a figure\, you could manage anything – and that proved true until I began to think about painting birds. I ha ve long included them in my paintings\, but that is not the same as consid ering how they live in their environments\, and somehow getting that into paint. These paintings are early in this journey\, which I hope will be lo ng and fascinating.\n\nCATHY WEBER / CERAMICS\nCathy Weber grew up in the Midwestern U.S.\, studied at the Herron School of Art and Indiana Universi ty\, and completed a formal painting apprenticeship in Mexico City. In 198 1 she moved to Montana\, where she maintains a studio in historic downtown Dillon. Though most of Weber’s work is done in oil\, she is skilled in a variety of media. Her work is motivated by an increasing sense of urgency to make things of beauty in response to war\, injustice\, greed and violen ce. Weber finds comfort and hope in the process of creating beautiful imag es of common objects.\n\nRENEE TAAFFE / OIL PASTEL & PAINT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20220408T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20220430T180000 LOCATION:in the Main Gallery SUMMARY:'Women Celebrate Birds' / Women Artists Celebrate their Winged Muse s END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR