Guest Presentation: John Armstrong and the Story of the Lee Steen Tree People: A Journey to Their Home at Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art

Friday, November 21st, 5:30 p.m.
Free and open to the public

Preview: “Sometimes art happens when it is least expected. When John Albert Armstrong was 13 years old in 1956, he traveled from Laurel to Roundup to play baseball. The unusual and whimsical sculptures he discovered there remained with him for years. 

In 1973, at age 29, Armstrong was the Director of the Yellowstone Art Center in Billings and led a group of volunteers to collect Lee Steen’s world of friends and animals from Steen's home in Roundup. Armstrong will share with the Great Falls Community how events unfolded to make Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art the permanent home of the Tree People."