Mingle with the auction artists and place first bids on Silent Auction items while enjoying music, dancing, quick finish art, and hors d’oeuvres.

Take a deeper dive into the artworks in Yellowstone Art Auction 57 during a guided tour with a YAM Docent.

Join us for ArtWalk at Yellowstone Art Museum’s Visible Vault. Celebrate the closing weekend of Art Auction 57 with YAM Museum Art Educator, Angel Shandy and make your own collage during FAM at the YAM. No advanced registration required. You can also meet YAM’s new Artist-in-Residence, Manette Rene Bradford. Manette constructs imagined allegorical narratives for the histories and ecologies of specific geographic locations through paintings, sculptures, and wall-sized mixed media works.

Manette Rene Bradford (b. 1978, St. Paul, MN) constructs imagined allegorical narratives through painting, sculpture, and wall-sized mixed media works for specific geographic locations, historical moments, or ecological conditions. Manette combines historical, ecological, and folkloric research with her own direct experience of place to develop her work. Through the act of building these narratives, she engages with and imitates humanity’s behavioral impulse to possess, anthropomorphize, and project itself onto the land and its biosphere, and the impression that is left as a result.

Beth Korth grew up in Cheyenne, Wyoming. She received her BFA from the University of Wyoming and her MFA from the University of Montana. Korth is the art education and visitor center manager at Tippet Rise Art Center in Fishtail, Montana. People find themselves in a composite of stories, experiences, and trials. My work digs into my own experiences with others and our stories beyond just the exterior to a whole understanding. Using multi-media processes that negotiate through levels of composited imagery and iconography and with the aid of chimera conduit bodies, bright playful colors, cultural iconography, and layering of textures and marks. These interactions allow an opened-up dialog with viewers inviting in their own experiences with personal relationships.

In this workshop led by Art Auction artist Maggy Rozycki Hiltner, participants will make small art quilts using fusible adhesive, cotton, and found materials. Students will create in response to the materials at hand rather than a set pattern. Construction and basic decorative stitches will be covered. All materials are provided and no sewing skills required. All participants are encouraged to bring a few pieces of their own fabrics, quilt fragments, or embroidery to use in their artworks. Register for Art Quilts here. 

Mya is a ceramic artist living in the small town of Belgrade, Montana. Originally an Oregonian, she uprooted her PNW roots in 2017 to move to Montana and immerse herself in the rich clay culture found in the Big Sky state. A mother of two children, Mya is intrigued with the psychological, political and interpersonal ramifications of the maternal experience, and uses her own experience as well as the experiences of her peers to inform her work. She also draws much inspiration from written accounts on Motherhood, feminist literature, and folklore. Mya has been included in many group exhibitions, and exhibited her first solo show in the summer of 2021 at the Emerson Center for the Arts and Culture in Bozeman, MT. She received her BFA from the Oregon College of Art and Craft in Portland, Oregon, during which she had her first child, and her work has focused on the maternal experience ever since her undergrad thesis body of work which highlighted the transition to motherhood.

Celebrate the closing weekend of Art Auction 57 with auction artist Michelle Dyk and her collage process. No advanced registration required.

The Live Auction Gala will conclude the YAM’s signature fundraiser with final in-person bids placed on Silent and Live Auction works for ticket holders. Tickets and table reservations can be purchased at various levels on the website or by calling the front desk. Seating is limited, so we recommend purchasing tickets early.