Gallery Nights features diverse artwork

The art community of Whitefish comes together during the summer to host an evening of featured artist exhibitions, entertainment, and light refreshments on the first Thursday of the month.

The next Whitefish Gallery Nights is Thursday, July 11. The event includes 15 participating art specialty shops and galleries with events taking place from 6 to 9 p.m.

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 Purple Pomegranate is featuring work by Bozeman resident, Callie Miller during the month of July. Miller is a Montana native, second generation metalsmith, and owner of Q. Miller Handmade Jewelry in Bozeman. Miller began metalsmithing alongside her mother at the age of 11. Over the past 27 years she has developed her own style and sense of design that draw inspiration from the natural world.

Each piece of Q. Miller jewelry is hand fabricated in a unique 26 step process that was developed by Miller and her mother. Materials include sterling silver, pewter, jeweler’s brass, copper, argentium silver, natural semi-precious stones, glass and metal beads and unusual natural elements. Miller strives to pair wearable design with light-hearted titles that will inspire positivity in the wearer. The incorporation of colloquial language through the naming of each piece offers a level of engagement between the artist and consumer that goes beyond the visual experience.

The Purple Pomegranate is located in downtown Whitefish. For more information, visit www.purplepomegranate.com.

- Whitefish Pottery and Stillwater Gallery are excited to present an exhibition of work from ceramic artist Courtney Murphy and painter Linda Katsuda.

Murphy is a ceramic artist who lives in Missoula. She received her undergraduate degree in sociology from Boston University 1999 and her post-baccalaureate degree in ceramics in 2004 from the Oregon College of Art & Craft.

“My designs are influenced by simplified abstractions of nature, children’s artwork, folk art, mid-century modern forms and shapes, as well as textiles, patterns and historical pots,” she said.

Katsuda is a landscape and wildlife painter who lives in Whitefish. Katsuda’s work ranges from realism to abstract surrealism.

“What draws me to any particular place or object is how the light plays upon the planes, making interesting patterns of light and dark or how the sunset or atmosphere casts its particular light on everything, making drab mountains turn purple, pink and orange at sunset, or how majestic mountains can be against a dark storm cloud with a sun beam highlighting a cliff section,” she said.

This show will run through the month of July.