November 2006
Western Student Receives National Award
Thursday, November 30 2006
University of Montana Western junior Paul Hamilton was named “College Music Director of the Year” by New Music Weekly during the publications annual award ceremonies held Nov. 18 in Hollywood, Calif.
Recognized worldwide as "New Music's Night," the New Music Awards represent the pinnacle of achievement for ALL Music artists, musicians, radio programmers, music directors, radio stations, and industry executives who work in America's most popular music genre.
Hamilton, a business major at Western, has been actively involved with Montana Western’s campus radio station, KDWG, for the past three years. He was the station’s PSA Director for one year and Music Director for the past two years.
Hamilton is the father of two sons, Jordan and Jalen of Deer Lodge, Mont. His parents, Patrick and Susan Hamilton of Townsend, Mont., are both Montana Western graduates.
Pictured from left to right, New Music Weekly editor Glenn Rossney, Paul Hamilton and Marisa Petroro, Co-Host of NBC's "Deal or No Deal"
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Russell Chatham Featured At Montana Western Gallery
Saturday, November 11 2006
The University of Montana Western art gallery is featuring the work of Russell Chatham, one of Montana's best known and popular contemporary artists, through Dec. 15, 2006 in the Corr Galleries.
A public reception for Chatham will be held Wed., Nov. 15 from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the Montana Western Art Gallery. This is a wonderful chance for admirers of Chatham's work to get a chance to meet the artist.
The reception is in connection with the Southwest Montana Arts Council performance of "Faustwork: the Mask Messenger" at 7:30 p.m. in the Beier Auditorium. Russell Chatham's exhibit is sponsored by the Montana Art Gallery Directors Association with funding by the National Endowment of the Arts, the Montana Coal Tax Fund, and the Montana Arts Council.
The exhibit features 15 lithographs spanning 15 years of the artist's prints. Working from his studio in Livingston since 1972, Chatham has become a Montana fixture as a painter, printmaker, and author. He has had over 400 one-man shows all over the world. He is the founder and publisher of Clark City Press, which, since 1989, has published thirty-two books of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, art, photography, and children's classics.
In 1981 Chatham began making lithographic prints. Lithograph prints look like colored pencil drawings. The artist draws on separate plates for each color in the print. Some prints contain as many as 50 different colors. A lithograph with forty-one colors could easily require 200 hours of work. When all the colors are printed on top of each other the final print appears as a full color landscape exhibiting Chatham's signature soft edged style.
Currently all of Chatham's lithographs are printed at Sunlight Graphics in Livingston and are overseen by master printer Geoffrey Harvey, a graduate of the Tamarind Institute in New Mexico who has years of professional experience.
"This is a very impressive show," says Gallery Director Randy Horst, "Some of the prints are 34 x 45 inches. It's like having a window-sized view of a peaceful Montana sunrise. Chatham's prints are so full of atmosphere. They make you stop and notice the serene qualities of the land."
The Art Gallery/Museum can be found at the south end of the first floor of Main Hall on the Montana Western campus. Gallery times are Mondays through Fridays from 9 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. To arrange for special times or visits call the director at 683-7232. The Gallery/Museum also houses a permanent collection of art, including works by C.M. Russell, Edgar Paxson, and Monte Dolack, and the Seidensticker Wildlife Collection of taxidermy from around the world. The annual Art Faculty Exhibit will be the next art show and will open Dec. 21.
"Fall on the Arkansas river," from 2005 is one of 15 hand drawn lithographic prints by Montana artist Russell Chatham on exhibit at the Montana Western Art Gallery/Museum. A public reception for Chatham will be held this Wed., Nov. 15 from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.
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Community Choir To Perform At Veteran's Day Program
Monday, November 6 2006
The University of Montana Western Dillon Community Choir will be featured at the 5th Annual White Hat Coalition Veteran’s Day celebration on Saturday, Nov. 11 at 7 p.m. at the Old Depot Theater.
The evening’s program includes a special poetry reading, speakers, flag ceremonies, and a special presentation. The Montana Western Community Choir will lead the audience in a patriotic sing-a-long.
Admittance to the presentations and sing-along is free. Donations for the White Hat Coalition’s ongoing work will be accepted.
Following the program there will be a pie social and bake sale. Tickets to the pie social are $5 each and are on sale now and limited to the number of seats in the Depot.
For tickets and information, call 683-7046 or 660-4429.
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