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Whitefish, Montana’s Nonprofit Community Art Center

Stumptown Art Studio & Ceramics Annex

Stumptown Art Studio

is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization, established 1995 in Whitefish Montana. Open everyday! Walk in anytime and Paint your own Pottery, try Glass Fusing or Make and Take Mosaics.

All proceeds from sales go directly towards art programs and workshops for children and adults.

Stumptown Art Studio is made possible by the support of our

community through memberships, donations, volunteers, grant attainments and fundraisers. Adults and children may take classes in fine arts, pottery, painting, sculpture, and more.

Workshops for adults and teens are instructed by visiting artists sharing their expertise in various mediums of work. All of our teachers in residency are certified instructors grades K through 12.

Under one roof, this all encompassing art studio also offers art gallery space, an artist co-op, exhibits, lectures, and provides hands on art activities for local and regional community events.

Stumptown Art Studio is providing a place in Montana for people of all ages to experience art. Overwhelming community wide support for art classes as well as requests for classroom instruction in our area schools has steadily grown for the past 12 years. There is a strong and urgent need for opportunities that offer alternative choices for adolescent activity and expression.

Stumptown Art Studio believes creativity is an essential part of being human. We see art as an adventure. Art experiences contribute to the expressive development of each and every soul. Awareness of art in different cultures fosters insight into value systems and beliefs, helping us to better understand and appreciate one another.

By nurturing creativity in children, a child learns self awareness, builds confidence and gains independence. As an adult these qualities translate into creative problem solving, introspection and

tolerance. Our youth classes and adult workshops continually offer new and exciting techniques to remain imaginative. Stumptown Art Studio provides the resources to expand the knowledge of art and it’s influence in our everyday lives for people of all ages.

Recent Grants and Sponsorships awarded by the following organizations:

145 Central Avenue

Whitefish, Montana 59937

Tel: 406-862-5929

Fax:406-862-5029

E-mail:info@stumptownartstudio.org

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· The most recent grant award of $2000 was received for the intergenerational

art programs thanks to the generosity of the Whitefish Community Foundation.

Thank you to the Rose and Walter Montgomery Foundation, Target Corporation, Plum

Creek Foundation, The Montana Arts Council and Round Up for Safety for your

Grant Awards and Sponsorships to the Stumptown Art Studio.

Your financial contributions have helped this organization survive another year and

we wouldn’t be here without your support!

· Currently being served in Montana’s Flathead Valley through the Outreach Program are:

· Camas Day School, Hope Ranch, Colonial Manor Retirement Home, Muldown Elementary School in Whitefish and Whitefish Middle School, Ruder Elementary School in Columbia Falls, and Canyon Elementary School in Hungry Horse.

· Drop-in mosaic-making is now available in addition to pottery painting and glass fusing.

· Thanks to artist Deb Stika for setting everything up and instructing Saturday workshops.

· OKTOBERFISH was a great success! Thank you to the artists, local businesses, restaurants and individuals who so generously donated their time and talents, food, raffle and auction items, supplies and the entertainment. We hope all of you who came had a rousing good time and we can all look forward to the event being even bigger and better this year…Saturday, October 3rd, 2009 - PROST!

FLATHEAD VALLEY FOOD BANK Soup Bowl Project was another success this year!

Clay Instructor Barbary Lydon worked with over 25 students from Whitefish Middle School to create

Individual handmade clay bowls for the Food Bank Annual Fundraising event. A $500 grant from the

Browning Kimball Foundation of Great Falls helped to make this program possible.

ROCKSUND BIKE PATH & PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE TILE PROJECT has been ongoing for the past

6 weeks and continues on involving over 200 tiles created by students and local members of our

community. This project has been offered free to the public and gives everyone the opportunity to

leave their legacy forever embedded on the bridge. Individual hand made tiles have been made and

the talent and enthusiasm from our community is to be commended! This project is funded in part by

the Montana Arts Council and Stumptown Art Studio.

Donations are still needed to help cover the costs of this incredible endeavor.

· Wish list :

Desktop Computer for Upstairs office $700

Color copier (to be able to print larger color brochures, posters & student art reproductions) $2000

Microwave

Cordless Phone Set

Space Heaters for downstairs studio and classrooms

Folding chairs

Vacuum Cleaner

Air Purifying Units

Satisfaction of contributing to the arts in your community …………….PRICELESS

Stumptown Art Studio and Ceramics Annex

S.A.S.C.A.

“Stumptown Art Studio is a place where children and adults

may come to express their inherent creative nature; to learn about the world of art and its capacity to make whole the individual, enriching the community and beyond…” August 23, 1995