Winter Art Walk 2025

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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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."

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. 

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.

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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.

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! 

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

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