The Downtown Bozeman Association, Downtown Bozeman art galleries, retailers, and Emerson Center for the Arts and Culture are proud to present the 2026 Downtown Bozeman Art Walks Series!
Art Walks occur on the second Friday of the month June through September from 6 to 8 PM at art galleries and businesses downtown. Over 35 businesses and galleries feature artists’ openings and receptions during the event!
Participating businesses will feature local artists and often provide hors d’oeuvres and complimentary refreshments. Also, keep an eye out for local musicians performing as your stroll Main Street in Downtown Bozeman. Summer Art Walk dates are: June 12th, July 10th, August 14th, and September 11th. There will be a special Winter Art Walk on December 11th.
William “Lucky” Davis is a fifth generation Montanan with a history of homesteading families. His childhood was spent on the family ranch and that is the inspiration for his work along with the mountains, skies and rivers of Montana.
He describes his style as influenced by the Tonalism movement. His style is not representational but a reflection of Mother Natures’ moods and emotions.
Valley Peters is an acrylic and mixed media painter who embraces an intuitive and playful approach to her art-making process. For her, painting is an exploration of feeling, color, and movement as she builds up layers of paint and collage. She creates both abstract and representational paintings, with an ongoing series of expressive portraits, called Wild Women. Her portraits seek to embody women’s resilience and honor the way we all piece ourselves back together again and again throughout our lives. She also explores humanity's essential connection with nature and the wisdom of nature as she believes nature offers the antidote to our highly digitalized, overly curated, and perfection-driven society. Her artwork has been included in a variety of local art shows and most recently exhibited at Kenyon House Gallery and in the Sweet Pea Festival's juried art show. Valley has been a member of the Montana Contemporary Arts Collective since 2021 and is the current president of the collective. Her artwork can be found on Instagram, @valleyelrieart.
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Amáli creates intricate jewelry that blends 18K gold, vibrant gemstones, and diamonds with woven techniques and rich texture. Inspired by natural landscapes and the colorful textiles of her travels, each piece tells a story.
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Susan Bryan of Billings, MT, will be Altitude Gallery's featured artist in September. Susan will paint live during the Art Walk on September 11th, so stop by to watch her work come to life.
Susan paints in oils on canvas, using palette knives to build layer upon layer of color, texture, and light. Her depictions of local scenery put you right there — you can almost feel the nature around you.
In her own words, "I believe fine art should be the focus of a room, not an accessory. Whether it is bold in color or soft and reflective, it should be a conversation waiting to happen. If the color draws you in and the texture makes you want to touch, I have done what I have set out to do as an artist."
In Partnership with The Art Walk, join Birdhouse Collective for a monthly, curated, outdoor pop-up market featuring local art, jewelry, crafts, and more in the heart of Downtown Bozeman!
Dave Malone is a modern artist whose abstract paintings, sculptures, and hand-built constructions emerge through material exploration and found objects. Inspired by landmarks and shared experiences, his work explores the intersection of memory, place, and perception.
Join us the 2nd Friday of each month from May-September from 5-9pm! Emerson Art Walks will be held on the Emerson’s North Lawn beneath the shadow of our iconic raven sculpture. We will host local artists as a way to expand participation in downtown Art Walks, alongside food trucks, live music, crafts, games, and community partners.
Celebrate the start of Art Walk with one of Bozeman's favorite annual traditions. We're honored to host the Sweet Pea Festival Juried Art Show at our Downtown Visitors Center, featuring more than 40 exceptional local and regional artists. Join us to experience a diverse collection of paintings, photography, sculpture, ceramics, and more—and help celebrate the incredible creativity that makes our region so special.
Claire Kleese has been an illustration artist for over 15 years. Born and raised in Montana, her inspirations are drawn from the natural environment, her style of artwork involves intricate freehand pieces created with india ink on canvas or watercolor gallery paper. Time spent in the outdoors is reflected in influential elements displayed throughout her work. Reminiscent of Japanese wood block with Scandinavian influences, her unique intense detailed ink sketches are focused on the environment.
“To me , detail is everything. I hope to convey the message to slow down and enjoy
the small intricate elements in everyday life and the natural environment. Each line serves a purpose to the greater whole of the image. To me this is a reflection of the environment in which we live."
Ben Lloyd has been making photographs since picking up a camera in high school in 1979. By day, he is an architect at Hennebery Eddy Architects, where decades of looking closely at buildings and cities have shaped how he sees the world. He holds a Bachelor of Architecture and a Master of Architecture from Montana State University, where his training in structure, proportion, and place first sharpened the way he frames a scene. That discipline now carries into his photography, where he brings an architect’s patient eye for form and light to everyday moments.
Hi, I’m Averi! Thank you so much for being here and supporting me and my art. I’m a 21-year-old oil painter based in Bozeman, Montana. As cheesy as it sounds, I love creating art that makes you feel something.
For me, painting has always been a way to hold onto memories and experience them fully. I’m constantly inspired by color & finding ways to add bright, joyful touches to already beautiful things.
Recently, my world changed when I lost my little brother, Layton (14), to carbon monoxide poisoning behind a boat. It’s safe to say I’m still healing, but art has become my way forward—my way to honor him and keep living with love and purpose.
Thank you for being part of that journey.
Artist Tyler Valley was born in central Montana, seeing the work of C.M. Russell and his fathers painting from a young age. Spending his youth making art, he landed on expressionist painting and drawing with some of that Western influence as a base. Inspired by nature, labor, and community he continues to refine that craft while living in Bozeman.
Miranda Raposa Murray is an artist and illustrator whose work focuses on the wildlife of the Rocky Mountains and National Parks. She considers herself to be a traveler and prides herself on really trying to experience and connect with various cultures in the United States. She has lived in many different places, such as Jackson Hole, Daytona Beach, Western Minnesota, and Montana, but will always call Bozeman, Montana her home. Raposa uses a variety of mediums, primarily focusing on both acrylic paintings, and illustrations with watercolor. She paints a variety of subjects as well, primarily including the fish, wildlife, and landscapes of the Rocky Mountain West.
Join us 5-8pm to meet the artists, tour the studios, watch demos and enjoy refreshments. Meet Anne Becker, our featured artist from SLC, UT. Anne will unveil several new abstract landscape paintings plus teach a full-day “Abstracting the Landscape” workshop on Saturday 8/9, 10-4pm. 27 N Tracy Ave...25 artists, six studios, and one puppy!
Tara Radosevich was born in St. Petersburg, Florida on March 6, 1990. At a young age she held a strong compassion for animals and the American West. When asked what I wanted to be when I grew up, I told them, “An Artist and a Cowgirl.” Drawing came naturally and she drew the wild animals she craved to be near in the North American wilderness, a far cry from her suburban upbringing. In 2013, she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts, focusing in Painting, at the University of South Florida (Tampa,FL). After graduation, Tara Radosevich returned to her hometown determined to further learn more hands on experience. Where upon she met sculptor, Mark Aeling, and painter, Carrie Jadus. She applied for a one-year term position working at their fine art gallery, Soft Water Studios, and worked as an artist assistant to Carrie Jadus. The skills, business knowledge, and experience she has gained working for both professional artists have only strengthened her confidence in her abilities to continue advancing within the art world. Tara Radosevich has been featured in a few magazines including Southwest Art Magazine's: "21 Under 31 Young Artists to Watch in 2018" and Cowboys and Indians, article, "Best of the West." From 2016 to 2020 she was a part of the Pinellas Park Arts Village and had a studio where she worked at 5663 Studios among other artists. Following her dream to live out West, she is now home in Bozeman, Montana.
EVERGOODS is an independent carry brand that designs and develops durable equipment in Bozeman, Montana. For nearly a decade, the team has designed backpacks, organizers, slings, and travel gear for people who rely on their equipment every day. Customer-funded since day one, EVERGOODS remains independently owned and contributes 1% of annual proceeds to Bozeman trail conservation.
The final Downtown Bozeman Art Walk of the season is Friday, September 11, from 6–8 PM, and we’re getting into the fall spirit!
Stop by 237 E. Main St. and check out some of our favorite Made in Montana fall candles from Gallatin Candle Co., 1889 Wax Lighting, Sunshine Can-dles, and Montana Farmhouse Candles. Give them a sniff, vote for your favorite, and you could WIN the candle you pick!
Shelby Strickler is a born and raised Montanan who developed a deep appreciation for the outdoors from an early age. Growing up fishing, hiking, camping, and exploring the mountains and rivers of Montana instilled a lifelong respect for wildlife and the beauty of the outdoors.
Those experiences continue to shape Shelby's work as a wildlife artist. Drawing inspiration from the landscapes and animals of Montana and the American West, she strives to create paintings that capture not only the beauty and detail of her subjects, but also the emotion and atmosphere of the wild places they inhabit.
She hopes her artwork encourages others to slow down, appreciate the outdoors, and foster a deeper connection with the wildlife and landscapes that make Montana so extraordinary.
“As an artist, I look deeply into myths. Why does Custer’s Last Stand matter? Why are they still making movies about the Alamo and Billy the Kid and Wyatt Earp? We project our emotions through these figures, and there’s something really wonderful about that.” –Thom Ross
Thom Ross was born in San Francisco, California, in 1952, and raised in Sausalito. He earned a degree in fine arts from California State University, Chico, in 1974.
Ross’s goal as an artist is to portray iconic American people and events in new ways in order to bring out a more complex story than the traditional historical myths. His work challenges the viewer to re-examine history. Indians playing croquet; General Custer riding off while balancing a table on his head; Sheriff Pat Garrett standing with shotgun in hands bracing against the cold of a wintry New Mexico morning – these are a few of the unique images depicted in Ross’s paintings.
Ross works in various media including paintings, book illustrations, and “installation artwork” with life-sized recreations of historical scenes. He updates history with bright colors, abstract forms and a contemporary style. Ross believes that as we re-examine and question the historical forces that shaped the lives of the subjects he paints, their meaning as icons shifts and deepens.
In 2008, Ross installed a life-size replica of the 1902 photograph depicting Buffalo Bill Cody and his Wild West Show, on Ocean Beach in San Francisco. Ross was named “Best Original Period Western Painter” by True West magazine in 2012.
Ross has illustrated at least 20 books, including a history of baseball. He is the author and illustrator of the book, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Words and Pictures. In 2002, Ross illustrated the 100th anniversary edition of The Virginian by Owen Wister. Ross’s paintings are in private and public collections throughout the United States. He currently lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Get your funk on! Amy is a rad, creative, hardworking, and multi-talented woman who loves making jewelry. When she isn't doing that, you can probably find her on the slopes ripping downhill on her snowboard or mountain bike.
Bozeman artist, Kimbie, uses a palette knife and acrylic paint to create 3 dimensional landscapes of our beloved Big Sky Country. Her colorful florals feel like you are in a wildflower field.
For the first time ever, visit BOTH floors of Studio Noble - we’ll be open on the ground floor of 129 E Main!
The Rialto will be CLOSED for a private event on September 11th. Catch the Chisel & Razor Exhibition Film Series until October 25th!
Chisel & Razor Exhibition Film Series
June 19–October 25, 2026
Tinworks at Rialto
In conjunction with Chisel & Razor, Act I, Tinworks at Rialto presents a film screening series featuring the work of Gisela Torres, Georges Méliès, and Oscar Micheaux. On view in the Rialto Lobby, Torres’s Reverie and Slumber is a 3D mapping film drawn from Torres’s project Looking for Edmonia (Self-Portrait) that chronicles the artist’s interest in connecting with Lewis and investigating her success and eventual fate.
In the Rialto theater a program of scheduled screenings celebrates the films of Oscar Micheaux whose work as a pioneering Black filmmaker brought Black life, agency, and complexity to the screen during the same era that Chisel & Razor illuminates; and the short films of Georges Méliès, the visionary French illusionist, theater director, and filmmaker whose films documented magic tricks and fantastical scenes that were popular during the time of Samuel and Edmonia.
These film screenings are free and open to the public running Thursday through Sundays 12-8pm. Visitors are encouraged to continue the experience at Tinworks, 719 N Ida Ave, where Chisel & Razor, Act I is on view through October 25, 2026.
Artist: Georges Méliès
Films:
Digital video projection, originally 35 mm film, silent, select titles hand-colored
Bio: A visionary French illusionist, theater director, and filmmaker, Georges Méliès’s first films documented popular magic tricks. Rather than trap doors and mirrors, Méliès invented foundational special effects - substitution splices, multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, and hand-painted film tinting - to build his fantastical worlds. This program spans a formative decade of his career including what is considered the world’s first horror film, his obsession with magic, the macabre and the animated figure. https://www.thegeorgesmeliesproject.org/
Artist: Oscar Micheaux
Films:
Digital video projection, originally 35 mm film, black and white, silent
Description:
Bio: The country's first major Black filmmaker, Oscar Micheaux (sometimes written as "Michaux"), directed and produced 44 films over the course of his career. Throughout the first half of the 20th century Micheaux depicted contemporary Black life and complex characters in his films, countering the negative on-screen portrayal of Blacks at the time. https://www.micheaux.org/
Artist: Giesela Torres
Film:
Description: In Reverie and Slumber Torres's voice is an integral storytelling element. She fuses emotion and blurs the movement of time and space by appropriating Peggy Lee’s song Is This All There Is? with her own words to convey oscillating states between the conscious and subconscious. Torres makes a connection with the song’s title and the role of the artist after the pomp and circumstance is no more, querying the transience of artistic achievement via Edmonia's own trajectory of struggle, success and eventual fate.
Bio: Gisela Torres is a London based multi-disciplinary artist and arts educator. Trained as a photographer and filmmaker her practice focuses on presenting the dynamic interplay between traditional and emerging art forms to depict narratives of a personal nature where the familiar, mysterious, and otherworldly co-exist. Through still and moving images, self-portraiture, performance, printmaking, sculpture, and new technologies she hopes to engage the viewer into a contemplative and reflective landscape with atmospheric and playful intention. Her work is anchored in the very process of making, to manifest the transference of the psyche and juxtapose the material with the immaterial. As a freelance arts educator she delivers talks and workshops on exhibitions, visual literacy and photography to young people, adults and outreach communities.
https://www.giselatorres.com/
Ella Watson is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Bozeman, Montana. While she pursues Relational Aesthetics when funds and time permit, her practice more frequently focuses on abstract autobiographical painting. Watson has been experimenting with cold-wax painting for over twenty years, pushing the medium in new and innovative ways. Through her paintings, she reflects on her status as a liver transplant recipient, mother, artist, and woman in rural America. Watson's signature technique draws parallels between the violent geomorphic processes that shape the beautiful Montana terrain and the equally profound tragedies and experiences that contribute to a person's unique character.
Watson earned two BFAs with Honors from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA, in 2006. She has exhibited nationally and throughout Montana, including at the Emerson Center for the Arts & Culture and Medium Gallery in Bozeman, the Holter Museum in Helena, the Yellowstone Art Museum in Billings, and the Clark Chateau in Butte. Watson can be found on Instagram at ella_fb_watson, or at www.ellawatsonart.com
"My work draws from histories of adaptation and migration, and I find myself interested in the confluences of improvisation and careful experimentation. My painting practice is meditative in that it strives to dissect and understand the components of my experience and of my cultural and aesthetic legacy in a way that might give a greater understanding of the whole. These works address the surreal nature of being stuck between two worlds. In am often occupied with the ways that culture and art can mitigate cultural and philosophical barriers. I am guided by my interests in architecture, memory, and storytelling to create layered and detailed works that explore illusion and depth on flat surfaces. Some works reference Mexican mythology, and some are based on malaphors, which are essentially mixed-up idioms. The device of the malaphor (eg, “the greener the apples, the farther they fall from grace”) is a nod to the confusion and inherent syncretism of the immigrant experience, but also a way to speak about the ways that abstraction and realism can be recombined to talk about a paradoxical universe. We live in a world where separation and unity coexist and define almost every aspect of reality. The most essential nature of our matter is said to be both a wave and a particle.
My paintings usually begin as loose and improvisational series of brushstrokes, then progress into a building of illusory architecture, and finally incorporate realism and narrative. The process takes me from an almost complete removal from subject matter and composition, through to a very tight examination of form and story. Looking to the writings of contemporary philosophers like Karen Barad and Donna Haraway, I examine the notion that each person, animal, and object is not only an essential component of the present moment, but an entangled element in a greater apparatus of constant change and adaptation. I seek to depict our reality in ways that reimagine anthropocentrism and established hierarchies, and am fascinated by the potential of hybridity, remix, and reinterpretation. My work emphasizes the idea that magic and surprise always happen as a result of shared experience, cross-cultural inspiration, and the subversion of established tropes and identities. I like to question the human animal’s centrality in the cosmos, and engage a fascination with the diversity and inherent tension of life’s web. Animals often take center stage in my work, acting as mischief makers, seers, and stewards of human culture. The paintings exist outside of our timeline and history, and the recombination of objects and environments allows for historical artifacts, often stored in the bowels of museum storage, to take on new life. There is a nod here to ethno-futurism and decolonization. I come from a nation that is often bogged down by trauma, corruption, and dysfunction. By freeing them from their usual setting in time and place, the objects of my cultural heritage are freed from some baggage, and are able to tell new stories and relate to a broader range of interpretations. If there is a need for new symbols, new words, new ways of seeing things, how can I add to the conversation as a painter?"
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Instagram Handle: @cruizberman
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