Gallery Opening on Friday, February 4, 2022, 5-8 PM
Exhibiting in the Main Gallery through the month of February

‘Highs and Lows’ is a group art show from six well-known, Missoula based professional illustrators in a super secret non-exclusive club who draw over one another’s art. The work is a departure from the artists’ crafted commercial work into stream of consciousness, free-flowing complete pieces. You can see more than 30 collaborative drawings 16x20” on white paper at the ZACC February 4th. Join us for beverages, music, treats, games, prints for sale and prizes.

This informal group of artists has been making collaborative drawings together for almost four years. They share a love of comic books and drawing and getting weird, and when you lock them in a room together they shape bizarre worlds. Some drawings have a logic to them. Maybe a thematic element, a spatial cohesion, or a stylistic approach that ties the composition together. Other times it's all nonsense piled upon nonsense that also somehow works together. The drawings aren't really an objective so much as a byproduct of friends hanging out. Sometimes things get rowdy. Sometimes they sit in silence. Sometimes they bring in fresh faces to mix it up.

Josh Quick is a local illustrator, author of Montana Quick Facts, and Yellowstone Quick Facts.

Theo Ellsworth is a Missoula-based graphic novelist, and the creator of Capacity. Theo also recently adapted Jeff VanderMeer's story Secret Life into a graphic novel.

Tony Gregori is a local comic book artist, illustrating many monthly comics including The Worst Dudes from publisher Dark Horse.

Daniel Mrgan is a Missoulian and bike-enthusiast, who ‘makes art sometimes’. He regularly illustrates for Adventure Cycling.

Cooper Malin is a Missoula-area artist and Instagram influencer whose drawings mix funny people with flora and fauna.

Lauren Norby is a Missoula-based artist and zine-maker.