with support from the Montana Arts Council, the Montana Committee for the Humanities, the NEA, NEA-Forest Service Arts and Rural Community Assistance Program, and the National Performance Network.
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Monday, July 15
Holter Museum
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Morning Events at the Holter Museum Afternoon Events at the Myrna Loy Center
Monday morning and afternoon activities are free admission events |
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10:30 AM
Holter Museum
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Opening Address "Echoes of Discovery and Arts on the Lewis and Clark Journey" Nicholas Vrooman |
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11: 15 AM
Holter Museum
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Panel: Revisioning Lewis and Clark: Echoes of Discovery in Western Arts
Dr. Dan Flores, Professor History U of MT
Amelia Rudolph, Artistic Director, Project Bandaloop
Nicholas Vrooman, Folklorist
Mary Ellen Strom, Professor Tufts and Artistic Director of GeyserLand
David Dragonfly, Picuni (Blackfeet) Artist
Rick Newby, Moderator
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1:30 PM
Myrna Loy Center
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Contemporary Works in Progress for the Lewis and Clark Commemoration
Peter Held, Holter Museum of Art
Rob Quist, Montana singer/songwriter
Josh DeWeese, Archie Bray Foundation
M J Williams, Helena/Basin Artist/Musician
Ed Noonan, Moderator
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2:45 PM
Myrna Loy Center
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Discussion of Criteria for Echoes of Discovery (Criteria developed by regional artists and scholars will be presented for discussion) and Discussion of approach to the "200 years ago, 100 years ago, and Today" Arts Curriculum. |
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8 PM
Myrna Loy Center
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Jim D'Arc, "Guthrie in Hollywood" followed by showing of 1950 classic, The Big Sky |
Panelists
Rick Newby, writer and scholar. Among his 17 published works are such diverse volumes as Writing Montana: Literature under the Big Sky and Great Escapes: Montana State Parks;
Nicholas Vrooman, Northern Plains Folklife Resources, folklorist and leading scholar on plains tribal culture;
Dr. Dan Flores, Univ. of Montana, Cultural History of the West. His first book, Jefferson and Southwestern Exploration released in a new edition as Southern Counterpart to Lewis and Clark, spring 2002;
Amelia Rudolph, Artistic Director of Project Bandaloop. In 1997, she and her company climbed El Capitan for six days and five nights to perform Peregrine Dreams 2,400 feet up on the headwall of the Shield. In the summer of 2001 she and her team traversed the Sierra from East to West for twenty days creating dances on the granite cliffs, mountaintops and streambeds along the way. The footage from this piece, "Crossing" is being developed into a short documentary and will be used in a live performance piece that will premiere in 2002/2003. She will be working on her Creative Capital project in residency the week before the Symposium;
Mary Ellen Strom, Instructor, Boston Museum of Art/Tufts University. Mary Ellen Strom's work as an individual artist takes on the form of video installation, single channel video, performance and public art projects. Her work has been presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Museum of Modern Art, NYC, The Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, The Chicago Art Institute, and The Walker Art Center. Strom's upcoming project entitled Geyser Land involves video projections onto mountain rock faces and industrial structures from a train between Livingston and Bozeman, Montana;
Josh DeWeese, Director of the Archie Bray Foundation and nationally recognized ceramic artist;
Peter Held, Director of the Holter Museum of Art. Peter has over 20 years of experience in the visual arts, and has directed the Holter since 1994. He holds a BS degree in Studio Art from SUNY Brockport, NY, and a MA in Museum Studies from Oregon State University;
David Dragonfly, Picune (Blackfeet) Artist, staff member of the Museum of Plains Indians;
M J Williams, Jazz artist/vocalist, member of the Board of Director of the Myrna Loy Center and of the Basin Artist Refuge;
Rob Quist, longtime Montana singer/songwriter. Rob has been developing a new work on the Lewis and Clark experience with Jack Gladstone
Ed Noonan, Executive Director of the Myrna Loy Center, playwright, winner of Montana Arts Council Fellowship for Playwriting, and poet (Noisy Soil: Selected Poems from the Collected Works 1980-1998).
Performances
Rent Party Improv brings together Montana jazz artists, writers/poets, and visual artists including Rick Newby, M J Williams, Krys Holmes, Bill Borneman, Richard Swanson, and Melissa Kwasney. Their word and music performance will be followed by a performance at Devil's Elbow on the Missouri River northeast of Helena, one of the L & C sites near Gates of the Mountains in the Spring of 2003.
Zachary Carrettin, composer/violinist, graduated with a BA and MA from Shepherd School of Music (Rice University). He has been Concert Master with Houston Orchestra X and 1st Violin with the Bergen Philharmonic in Norway. He has written music for Project Bandaloop since 1998.
Rob Quist will represent Odyssey West, a Lewis and Clark project he and Jack Gladstone, Montana singer/songwriters, have developed. Jack is a Blackfoot Indian, whose great, great grandfather was Red Crow, chief of the Blood tribe. Rob was "Montana Musical Ambassador" by former Governor Marc Racicot.
Project Bandaloop, the nation's leading aerial dance company will investigate dance/movement in historical places with a concert at the Archie Bray Foundation. Project Bandaloop is working on a headline event that would be produced by Echoes of Discovery in 2004 in St. Louis on the Arch, at Gates of the Mountains, and at the Astoria Bridge.
Symposium Staff
Rick Newby, Nicholas Vrooman, and Ed Noonan
Consultants along with staff for Criteria Development for
Echoes of Discovery
Hugh Ambrose, Chief Researcher for Stephen Ambrose and member of the Board of Directors of the Myrna Loy Center;
Dr. Alexandra Swaney, folklorist for the Montana Arts Council and member of the working group for the Lewis and Clark Arts Plan, National Assembly of State Arts Agencies; and
Pete Ruzevich, actor and Myrna Loy Center coordinator for Echoes of Discovery.
