$90,000 RAISED | ART AUCTION
THANKS TO OUR COMMUNITY’S OVERWHELMING SUPPORT, THE 2026 ART AUCTION REACHED ITS $90,000 FUNDRAISING GOAL.
The Gallery extends its deepest gratitude to the artists, donors, and supporters who made this milestone event a resounding success. These funds are vital to our mission of fostering the work of contemporary artists who challenge boundaries. Your investment ensures that we can continue to encourage broad public engagement and promote the awareness and exploration of artistic expression across our local, national, and international communities. Stay tuned for event photos!
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Hat & Boot Dance features Hali’s large-scale drawings of her traditional Blackfoot beaded bag and dancers engaged in the Hat and Boot Dance—a powwow form that emerged through cultural exchange between powwow and rodeo circles.
Heavy Shield’s works portray a man, a woman, and two children in rhythmic steps and gestural arcs evoking the vitality of Blackfoot cowboy life. The drawings invite viewers into the cadence and emotional resonance of the dance, foregrounding movement as both cultural memory and contemporary expression.
HALI HEAVY SHIELD | HAT & BOOT DANCE
MAR. 28, 2026 - JUN. 26, 2026
CURRENT EXHIBITION
Asterisms are easy to spot. They are familiar star patterns like Orion’s Belt or the Big Dipper that are created, shared, and recognized by people all over the world. As opposed to officially recognized constellations, anyone can chart their own asterism. As they shift over the seasons and years, one way of relating to the unending field of stars is to create patterns and stories from them.
Asterisms is a four-part exhibition series presented across the Gallery’s 50th year that sees past exhibiting artists working in a peer-mentorship model with early-career artists of Treaty 7 Territory. The exhibition series is a non-hierarchical learning opportunity for artists at different stages in their careers to develop an exhibition together.
MAY KINEYETUMS AND MICAH LEXIER | ASTERISMS: SAY THE WORD
MAY 9, 2026 - AUG. 1, 2026
CURRENT EXHIBITION
Exhibition opening reception for Lan “Florence” Yee’s Do Weeds Grow in Heaven?, Jan. 25, 2025. Photo by Kort Woycheshin.
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