First Friday, November 1, 2024

MMIR Walk from Jeannette Rankin Peace Center at 4:30 PM, Lead by Carissa Heavy Runner & Mika Matters

Gallery Opening, Art Vendors, & Music, 5-8 PM at the ZACC

OVER A DOZEN INDIGENOUS ARTISTS AND ART VENDORS, ALL SALES ARE 100% TO THE ARTISTS, AND INCLUDING WORK BY STUDENTS FROM TWO EAGLE RIVER SCHOOL

WITH MUSIC FROM THE TWO EAGLE RIVER SCHOOL DRUM GROUP, JOSH HORN, THE PETE SISTERS, & DYLAN RUNNING CRANE

& THE WAY OF THE SACRED MOUNTAIN’S ‘WALKING IN BEAUTY’ EXHIBIT HONORING WOMEN, WATER, & CHILDREN

Indigenizing the ZACC, ‘Walk With Purpose’, is a 100% Indigenous-led event encompassing all public artistic spaces of the ZACC, and is a partnership between our Indigenous community, the ZACC, and the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. The event begins at 4:30 PM with an MMIR Walk from the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center to the ZACC, lead by Carissa Heavy Runner, the mother of Mika Westwolf.

After the walk, from 5-8 PM, the ZACC hosts Indigenous Art Vendors, gallery openings featuring over a dozen Indigenous artists, works by students at Two Eagle River School, and The Way of the Sacred Mountain’s ‘Walking in Beauty’ – an exhibit honoring women, water, and children – and music by the Two Eagle River School Drum Group, Josh Horn, The Pete Sisters, and Dylan Running Crane.

Gallery works will be on display throughout the month of November.

Artists participating in the Indigenous Art Market and selling work in the Main Gallery receive 100% of the funds collected from the purchase of their work.

This event also is supported by Blackfoot Communications, the Montana Arts Council, and the Social Justice Fund NW.