exhibition sponsors

Deborah Anspach & John Hanson
Kay Foster & Mike Matthew
Diane Boyer Jerhoff
Bess Lovec
Riversage Billings Inn
Bev Ross, in memory of Sig Ross
Sharon Shannon

Montana Gallery

September 5, 2025 – January 11, 2026

Jon Lodge: Carbon Strata is a culmination of a lifetime of artmaking by Billings- based artist, musician, and visionary Jon Lodge (b. 1945), and represents a natural inclination of the artist towards this precipice in his career. Growing up in Red Lodge, Carbon County in the 1950s and 60s, exploring the region’s coal mine shafts as a child, and experimenting with materials like graphite have saturated Lodge’s deep connection with the element Carbon, a building block of life. In return, Carbon Strata seeks to ignite the senses of visitors, seeping beyond the walls of the YAM’s Montana Gallery and throughout the museum campus.