Gallery Nights set for Thursday

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, June 6. 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:

- Nancy Cawdrey Studios and Gallery for the month of June is featuring two artists. American Vistas by artist Erin Hanson will be on display. Her colorful and unique landscape paintings bring new life to the contemporary art scene. The work of local photographer Ken Wensel will be featured during gallery nights. A member of the Big Mountain Fire Department and avid skier, his work includes many iconic Whitefish and Flathead Valley scenes.

For more information, visit https://nancycawdrey.com/

- The Purple Pomegranate is featuring work by Bigfork resident, Will Smith during the month of June. Smith is a professional artist and graphic designer, based in Bigfork. He loves creating, whether it’s designing for a Fortune 500 company or painting the Flathead Lake shoreline. Oil painting has always been his passion and Smith works in two completely different ends of the spectrum; representational and fantasy. His subjects are varied, ranging from country and lake shore landscapes to dog portraiture, from illustrative whimsical animals to bison in the wild.

For more information, visit www.purplepomegranate.com.

- Whitefish Pottery and Stillwater Gallery presents Beyond the Surface, an exhibition of work from a ceramic artist Megan Sprenger and Wildlife Photographer Shane Conner.

Sprenger graduated with her masters in fine art from Montana State University in Bozeman, with a concentration in ceramics, and received her bachelors from Duluth University in Minnesota in 2016. Her work can be described as her love for travel combined with the history of ceramics and the progression of sciences.

Conner is an up and coming Montana wildlife photographer from Whitefish. In 2005 Conner graduated with his bachelor of science in Fish and Wildlife Management from Montana State University in Bozeman. Conner is a carpenter by trade where he enjoys being able to work with his hands. When he is not working, Conner can be found hiking and exploring the valley, where he discovered his love for photographing Montana’s Wildlife.

For more information, visit www.whitefishpottery.com.