Join us March 18-21, 2021 for Western Art Week, when Great Falls becomes the Western Art Capital of the World, twice! This year, Western Art Week and Special Edition: Western Art Week August 2021, will provide two opportunities to experience Western Art in Great Falls, Montana. A complete list of events by day will help you experience every live music performance, quick draw, auctions, and art, from oil, watercolor, and sculpture in the classic style to modern contemporary interpretations, bright, vivid and colorful.
Interact with the artists in their showrooms and marvel at their skill witnessing them create custom works at several quick draw events, engage in a variety of events including quick finishes, live auctions, and educational symposiums.
An all-art adventure awaits, with art for your personal style at every price point. You will find artwork that captures alluring landscapes, rugged independence, tenacious adventures, and majestic wildlife. You will find original oil paintings, giclees, bronzes, photography, furniture, sculptures, jewelry, watercolors, prints, pencil sketches, scratch boards, pastels, and more!
Check back for more information about Special Edition: Western Art Week August 2021!
Our 34th annual March in Montana sale is shaping up to be one of our best. After our 2020 sale had to go online only, we are looking forward to having our live event along with multiple online options. The sale is known to be a high energy, fast paced, fun event. We’re looking forward to the possibility of seeing our many friends from throughout the country.
March In Montana Art Show
Elks Lodge | 500 1st Avenue S
The C.M. Russell Museum
Educational Symposium
Montana Heritage Art Show has been scheduled to allow artists to showcase their work. This new event will feature over 50 booth spaces featuring most of your favorite Heritage Inn artists in a wide open booth format. Held in the spacious ballroom at the Heritage Inn, all precautions and adherance to covid restrictions will be in place but we feel will be minimal impact on the buyer experience. Stop by to see your favorite artists and discover new works for your collection.
Montana Heritage Art Show
Heritage Inn | 1700 Fox Farm Road
Montana Miniatures is back for the 5th year. This popular show features over 140 different artists with small works in one location. In the past, this show was traditionally a silent auction to take place through-out the duration of the Out West Art Show but this year it will be a "sale only" price format held on a Thursday thru Saturday night.
Montana Miniatures
Heritage Inn | 1700 Fox Farm Road
For the 3rd year, Bitterroot Frames has brought you the Montana Masters show featuring all the top names in western art. This year, due to museum circumstances we will be featuring skull society artists in this event. Names like Brent Cotton, Michael Dudash, Don Oelze and Troy Collins to name a few will have major pieces for sale at the Montana / Alberta Room inside the Heritage Inn.
Montana Masters
Heritage Inn | 1700 Fox Farm Road
In her 13th consecutive year at Western Art Week, Kira Fercho will display her oil paintings at the Darkhorse Wine Snug. Kira is a professional oil painter from Billings, Montana. She shows in 6 national galleries and 2 museums. Kira is nationally known and has paintings all over the world.
Kira is considered to be a Modern Impressionist. Mostly, she paints what she knows: the land, culture, and animals of the west.
Kira Fercho
Darkhorse Wine Snug | 116 1st Ave S
With over 90 vendors showing the best of the west, you will surely fall in love with something at the Western and Living Design Show during Western Art Week in Great Falls. Everything is custom made and unique to the western world. There are boot makers, furniture makers, clothing and jewelry artisans, nightly live music and of course the best in fine art. For questions, please contact Chuck Fulcher at 406-761-0288 or 406-799-6576.
Great Western Living & Design Show
Montana ExpoPark | 400 3rd Street NW
Visitors to the Jay Contway Art Show will experience a quiet, friendly atmosphere were exceptional artists share their stories and their art during Western Art Week in Great Falls. The show is an eclectic mix of talent. Guests will find contemporary western art, jewelry, wood-working, pottery and more. Jay Contway, Montana’s own storyteller in Bronze, is your host. For questions, please contact Lynn Contway at 406-868-8684.
Jay Contway and Friends Art Show
Hilton Garden Inn | 2520 14th Street SW
Studio 706 is a local non-profit artist association offering classes, mentoring new and developing artists, and providing exhibition opportunities to artists working in a variety of media. The show will include watercolor, oil, acrylic, pottery, stained glass, woodcarving, photography, cards, bookmarks and more from members of the guild. View art work of students in Cascade County vying for the Bill Chigbrow Memorial Scholarship as well as artists taking classes at the studio. Admission is free. Raffle tickets to support our scholarship will be available and winners will be chosen near the end of the show. Steve Tilleraas is sponsoring a contest to identify pictures of architectural features in Great Falls. Come, see and enjoy what we have been creating and have fun searching for the locations in Steve's contest.
Studio 706 Art Show
Mansfield Center Gibson Room | 2 Park Drive South
Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art invites you to kick off Western Art Week in Great Falls and an Artist Reception celebrating the work of exhibiting artists Angela Babby: We are all Wicahpi (Star) People and Betsey Hurd: WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE. The reception will include a public joint Artist Talk with Nicole Evans, Curator of Art at The Square, and will occur midway through the reception in the museum cafe.
Please Join! Recommended for art lovers and enthusiast of all kinds. Merriment and musical entertainment included.
Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art Artist Reception and Talk
Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art | 1400 1st Avenue North
This is the seventh Annual Missouri Falls Fine Arts Show & Sale held at The History Museum in Great Falls, Montana. This year's Arts Association of Montana featured artist is Steve Nelson. Steve is a recently retired pastor who now has time to paint full time. The community featured artist is Diane Hausmann, Hausmann Studio, Fairfield, Montana. Other artists included in the show are Monica Bauer, Janet Christina, Judy Ericksen, Jean Fleming-Mazur, Nikci King, Barbara Liss, Chary Majerus, Ashleigh McCann, Lynn McLeod, Margi Schindele, Joy Staelens, Becky Scott, and Sandy Walker.
Missouri Falls Fine Arts Show and Sale
History Museum | 422 2nd Street South
The Russell Sale and Auction
The Montana Watercolor Society Art Show is NOW part of the Out West Art Show. Stop by Room 200 to see art from Montana artists using the beauty of water-based paints.
Montana Watercolor Society at Out West Art Show
Out West Art Show | Heritage Inn | 1700 Fox Farm Road
Western Heritage Artists Show
Don Hanson and Jeff Walker Art Show
Legends West
Kira Fercho Show
Celebration of Native Plains Artists
