Be sure to stroll Main, Park, Callender, 2nd, and B Streets to enjoy 
the full range of Livingston Art Walk venues. In addition to galleries, many shops, cafes and restaurants will be open during Art Walk. At right, musician Jimmy Conley provided impromptu street music in front of his Books & Music store during the June Art Walk.
[All images of art work © by the artists. All rights reserved.]
Get ready for another incredibly varied and exciting Art Walk in the town often referred to as the heart of Montana art. Highlights from participating galleries, in alphabetical order:
b civilized • 113 West Park Street • 222-5996:
Contemporary fine art and funky gifts. This Art Walk will feature “The Goat Show,” paintings by Brad Bunkers. “The Goat Show” is a selection of thirty paintings from Bunkers’ ongoing personal challenge to paint one goat painting every week for 10,000 weeks. b civilized is across from the Livingston Depot/Northern Pacific Beanery. (At right, “Spontaneous Improvisation,” © Brad Bunkers.)
Chatham Fine Art • 120 North Main Street • 222-1566:
Featuring originals and lithographs by celebrated Livingston artist Russell Chatham. The July Art Walk will feature works by nationally recognized furniture maker A. L. Swanson. (At left: Demilune table by A. L. Swanson. Image © A. L. Swanson.)
Crazy Mountain Digital Photography • 124 South 2nd • 222-2355:
An eclectic mix of fine art photography on display in the front gallery. Works by renowned former Broadway lighting designer Ronald Wallace and others. (At right, “Montana Mountain,” photograph © Ronald Wallace.)
Danforth Gallery • 106 North Main • 222-6510: “Explorations,” a group exhibit guest-curated by local artist Janie Camp. “Explorations” includes the fine art of Carol Garlow Bolton (pottery), Tom Murphy (photography), Keith Lawrie (jewelry), Karl M. Garlow (abstract paintings), Jonathan R. Brown (sculptural lamps), Jeffrey S. Brown (works in wood), Johannah Brown (jewelry), and Janie Camp (oil paintings).
The Drawing Room • 117 E. Callender Street • 222-0023: 
Mixed media works, paintings, and handmade books by Patricia Buckley, fine art prints, and artfully designed items for the home. Art books, great chocolates, teas, and cigars, too. Be sure to see the installation of works from Colleen Buzzard’s “Language Lab” series. Buzzard uses dictionaries, maps, bones, stones, found objects, art, science and history texts, and ordinary objects like embroidery hoops to create intriguing works that stand alone and work together as a larger installation. (At left, detail from embroidery hoop drawing. © Colleen Buzzard.)
The Frame Garden • 110 East Callender • 222-5122:
A two-woman show featuring Bozeman artists Mary Leslie and Kenda Mintar. The artists most recently collaborated on a chair for the Emerson Cultural Center’s Chairity event. In this new exhibit each artist will be showing pieces inspired by each other’s work, including Leslie’s finely crafted series of box like constructions, inspired by the boxes of her father’s machinist tools and by Mintar’s work. Mintar, well known in the area for her masks and other three dimensional works, will show a series of paintings inspired by Leslie’s constructions. theframegarden.com.
Garre Fine Art • 112 North Main • 222-7847:
The studio and gallery of artists John and Karen Garre features their bold, contemporary interpretations of the West.
Livingston Center for Art and Culture • 119 South Main • 222-5222:
“The Pig Show” show celebrates the “Year of the Boar” with fourteen artists from Park County and the nation using video, fiber, jewelry, pottery, and two-dimensional paintings and illustrations. (At right: “And His Hair Was Perfect,” one of Karen Garre’s works in “The Pig Show.” © Karen Garre.)
Mordam Art • 109 South Main • 222-0321:
Celebrating 10 years in Livingston, Mordam Art is the home of Parke Goodman’s Gallery of traditional oil Montana landscapes and Bonnifide Designs handmade glass beads and jewelry. For the July Art Walk, Bonnie celebrates the return of her Peace Beads, and Parke features new works of Yellowstone Park.
Parks Reece Gallery • 119 South Main, Suite A3 • 222-5724:
Surreal paintings, original lithographs and reproductions by Parks Reece, characterized by his humorous style and his “altogether peculiar perception of our natural world.”
Reed Lehman Pottery • 112 W. Callendar • 222-7618:
One-of-a-kind and artful hand-painted pottery, oil pastel paintings. (At left: Detail from a small bowl at Reed Lehman Pottery. © Reed Lehman.)
Tierra Montana • 116 North Main • 222-3000:
The Art Walk features “Honor Dreaming: New Works and Stories by Cheri Cappello” celebrating the traditional culture of the Plains Indian.
Visions West Gallery • 108 South Main • 222-0337:
For the July Art Walk Visions West will be featuring Carol Hagan (painting), Susan Read Cronin (sculpture), Les Thomas (painting), and Michael Cutlip (painting). Be sure to visit the newly remodeled upstairs gallery space.
Warmstone Fireplace and Designs • 116 North B Street • 333-4383:
Dinosaur watercolors by Robert Spannring, originally created for the new Great Hall at The Museum of the Rockies. (At right: Detail of a Bob Spannring mural for the Great Hall at The Museum of the Rockies. © 2007.)
Art Walks are held the 4th Friday of the month through September, with a Holiday Art Walk in December. This year we will miss the company of the late Mary Lou Bray whose presence and whose outstanding hors d’ouevres at daughter Laura’s Frame Garden Gallery were a highlight of Art Walks.
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on Thursday, August 2 from 6 to 9 PM. Playing on Livingston’s famous “art walks”, Fish Walk offers conclave visitors a special evening of Livingston arts, shopping, and food. Sections of Main and Callender Streets will be closed to automobile traffic and there will be live music, vendor booths, special events and activities, and galleries and shops will be open.
