Gallery Nights season begins Thursday
On six dates throughout the year, the art community of Whitefish comes together to host an evening of featured artist exhibitions, entertainment, and light refreshments.
Whitefish Gallery Nights is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year beginning with Thursday, May 2. The event includes 15 participating art specialty shops and galleries.
The event is free and open to the public from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. and takes place the first Thursday of the month through October. The 2019 schedule includes, May 2, June 6, July 11 (note second Thursday), Aug. 1, Sept. 5, and Oct. 3.
Participating galleries are Dick Idol Signature Gallery, Frame of Reference Fine Art, Going To The Sun Gallery, Group B Galleries, McGough & Company, Nancy Cawdrey Studios and Gallery, Mudman Gallery, Samarah Fine Art, Stephen Isley Jewelry, Stumptown Art Studio, Sunti World Art Gallery, The Purple Pomegranate, The Walking Man Frame Shop & Gallery, Underscore Art, and Whitefish Pottery & Stillwater Gallery.
For more information, visit https://whitefishgallerynights.org/about/
Special events at galleries include:
- The Dick Idol Signature Gallery presents Abigail Gutting as its featured artist for the month of May. Gutting paints to portray the culture and wildlife of the American West. In 2013, she was named one of Southwest Art Magazine’s 21 Under 31 Young Artists to Watch. During Gallery Nights on May 2, Gutting will paint live. There will be music by Nick Spear and Ross Bridgeman as well as serving complementary drinks and hors d’oeuvres.
- The Purple Pomegranate, a fine craft specialty store, is featuring work by Kalispell resident, Kim Shirley during the month of May. Shirley started with a love of gifting and a passion for creating. She created her own company, Corvidae Drawings & Designs, with a few designs and one product. She is now creating many designs and numerous products.
Corvidae Drawings & Designs is a home goods and gift brand based in western Montana. Corvidae creates hand made usable art in the mountains of Montana, art that can be used or possibly reused time and time again. She produces hand crafted and printed home goods, gifts, and paper products with designs inspired by the outdoors and her appetite for adventure. All hand pulled screen printed products are hand crafted in her Kalispell artist studio.
- Whitefish Pottery and Stillwater Gallery will present “Three Styles from Japan” an exhibition of work by three established Japanese potters; Fuminori Deguchi, Kazutoshi Yamaguchi and Kazuyo Taguchi. This Deguchi’s third time visiting Whitefish. Deguchi and Tom Gilfillan, owner of Whitefish Pottery, originally met through Mako Sakaguchi with the State of Montana and Japan Trade Office in 2002. In 2003, Gilfillan was fortunate enough to visit and work in Deguchi’s studio in Kumamoto, Japan, his hometown. Then in 2004, Deguchi was able to visit and work in the Whitefish Pottery Studios to fire the Anagama kiln.
All three potter’s have been hard at work making pottery and firing the Anagama Wood Kiln, “Agnes” at the Whitefish Pottery Studios. Firing the anagama kiln brings a community of potters together from across the state of Montana and on this occasion from across the Pacific Ocean. The show will run through the month of May.