Exhibition Catalogues

Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art has a long history of publishing excellent catalogues alongside its world-class exhibitions. See below for a selection of recent catalogues, and visit The Square’s Gift Shop to purchase copies! You can also call 406.727.8255 to have catalogues shipped to you for an additional fee.

OBJECT# : A Permanent Collection Exhibition about Art Museums and the Practice of Collecting, 2022

  • A place where objects are exhibited— A museum is a not-for-profit, permanent institution in the service of society that researches, collects, conserves, interprets, and exhibits tangible and intangible heritage. Open to the public, accessible and inclusive, museums foster diversity and sustainability. They operate and communicate ethically, professionally and with the participation of communities, offering varied experiences for education, enjoyment, reflection, and knowledge sharing. - International Council of Museums (ICOM), 2022

  • This catalogue features contributions by:

    Sarah Justice, Executive Director of Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art

    Nicole Maria Evans, Curator of Exhibitions & Collections, Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art

    Terry Thall, long-time member of the Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art Board of Directors

    Gordon McConnell, visual artist and writer

    Jennifer Reifsneider, artist and former registrar, Missoula Art Museum

    H. Rafael Chacón, PhD, Bruce & Suzanne Crocker Director of the Montana Museum of Art and Culture; Professor of Art History and Criticism at the University of Montana, Missoula

    Jennifer Woodcock-Medicine Horse, PhD, Program Director, IndigenEyes: Contemporary Native American Art of the Rocky Mountains and Plains

    Brandon Reintjes, Senior Curator, Missoula Art Museum

  • $35

    Full color images, 86 pages

    Exhibition Curator: Nicole Maria Evans, Curator of Exhibitions and Collections

    Catalogue designed by Megan Crawford. Catalogue Photographs by Eric Heidle and Sara K. Johnson

    Edited by Nicole Maria Evans, Curator of Exhibitions & Collections

    2023

    LCCN 2023933857 | https://lccn.loc.gov/2023933857

    ISBN: 979-8-218-15496-7

Peter Koch: The Book as a Work of Art, 2022

  • Exhibition Curator: Nicole Maria Evans

    Featured Artist: Peter Rutledge Koch

    Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art presents with great enthusiasm, Peter Koch: The Book as a Work of Art, June 10, 2022, through October 5, 2022. This special exhibition in Great Falls, Montana highlights a select collection of Peter Koch’s work that spans his career since 1974. Nicole Maria Evans, Curator of Exhibitions and Collections at the museum, explains that Koch’s “radical zeal for the history of books and fine art printing has awarded him the title of expert within the world of bookish arts. It was his unyielding pursuit of historical, artistic, and technical expertise that made way for him to enter a world of printing giants and specialized knowledge”.

  • This catalogue features contributions by:

    Sarah Justice, Executive Director of Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art

    Nicole Maria Evans, Curator of Exhibitions & Collections, Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art

    Peter Rutledge Koch, designer, printer, artist, author

    Susan K. Filter, professional works-on-paper conservator, co-Founder of the CODEX Foundation

    Dr. Aaron Parrett, professor of English at University of Providence

    Roberto G. Trujillo, Associate University Librarian & Director of Special Collections, Frances & Charles Field Curator of Special Collections at Stanford University

    Eliza Weber, Director of Education, Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art

    Megan Crawford, owner, editor, designer of Montana Woman Magazine

  • $11.99

    Full color images, 31 pages

    Exhibition Curator: Nicole Maria Evans, Curator of Exhibitions and Collections

    Catalogue designed by Megan Crawford. Artwork Photography and Permissions by Peter Rutledge Koch.

    Edited by Nicole Maria Evans, Curator of Exhibitions & Collections

    2022

Surface Dreams & Superstructures: Works by Robert Harrison, 2023

  • Exhibition Curator: Nicole Maria Evans

    Featured Artist: Robert Harrison

    Surface Dreams & Superstructures highlights selected and new works by artist Robert Harrison, celebrated for his ceramic sculptures and architecturally inspired site-specific installations. The work is presented by Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art and is showcased within the Wylder gallery, as well as the museum’s Sculpture Garden. The exhibition explores interactions between the built environment and interior domestic space—real, implied, and imagined. Reused, repurposed, and newly fashioned fragile ceramic works are situated in contrived groupings that ask us to question the meaning and purpose of images and material culture, as well as negotiate the personal experiences we create through these objects.

    Robert Harrison is a practicing artist who lives and works in Helena, Montana, USA. He has built his 40+ year career in the site-specific large-scale architectural sculpture realm along with smaller-scale studio activity. He holds BFA and MFA degrees in Ceramics and is a member of the IAC (International Academy of Ceramics, Geneva), WABA (World Association of Brick Artists), RCA (Royal Canadian Academy of Arts) and is a Fellow of NCECA (National Council on Education for the Ceramics Arts). His exhibition and installation record is extensive and global. His book Sustainable Ceramics: A Practical Guide was co-published by Bloomsbury (London) and the American Ceramic Society (Ohio) in the fall of 2013.

    Robert’s 35+ year association with the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts began in the summer of 1982 as a summer Resident Artist and from 1983-85 he was a full-time Resident Artist. In 1993 he was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Bray and served as President of the Board from 1998-2004, overseeing the first capital campaign at the Bray and construction of new year-round resident artists’ studios and resident center. He continues to serve on the facilities committee.

  • This catalogue features contributions by:

    Robert Harrison, Artist

    Sarah Justice, Executive Director of Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art

    Nicole Maria Evans, Curator of Exhibitions & Collections, Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art

    Ellie Weber, Director of Education, Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art

    Randi O’Brien, Associate Professor and Head of Sculpture & Ceramics, Irvine Valley College; Editor of Studio Potter Journal

    Nicolle Hamm, ceramic artist; Administrator & Community Program Manager, Missoula Art Museum

  • $15

    Full color images, 50 pages

    Artist: Robert Harrison

    Exhibition Curator: Nicole Maria Evans, Curator of Exhibitions and Collections

    Catalogue designed by Eric Heidle. Exhibition & Event Photographs by Sara K. Johnson. Additional archival images provided by Robert Harrison

    Edited by Nicole Maria Evans, Curator of Exhibitions & Collections

    2023

    LCCN 2023945969 | https://lccn.loc.gov/2023945969

    ISBN: 979-8-218-27683-6

Beyond Intention: Jennifer Reifsneider, Ashley V. Blalock, & Maggy Rozycki Hiltner, 2021

  • Exhibition Curator: Nicole Maria Evans

    Featured Artists: Maggy Rozycki Hiltner, Ashley V. Blalock, and Jennifer Reifsneider

    Beyond Intention is an exhibition that presents the work of three contemporary fiber and mixed-media artists: Maggy Rozycki Hiltner, Ashley V. Blalock, and Jennifer Reifsneider. The exhibition aims to address the topic of Intention and Intent as it relates to the profound relationship between the traditions of fiber arts in women’s lives, as well as its power in the making or breaking of identity, social roles, and societal constructs. The exhibition is comprised of three distinct presentations of work by each artist that inquire into the meaning of Intention as it pertains to them individually. Materials, process, and narrative form part of the visual conversation as they repurpose, reuse and redirect meaning in a multi-dimensional way. Works shown utilize established techniques like crochet, needlepoint, quilting, knot tying, and pattern making, but re-imagine their purpose and use by transforming them into art works that go beyond intention.

  • This catalogue features contributions by:

    Sarah Justice, Executive Director of Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art

    Nicole Maria Evans, Curator of Exhibitions & Collections, Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art

    Jennifer Reifsneider, MFA, artist

    Ashley V. Blalock, MFA, artist

    Maggy Rozycki Hiltner, artist, co-founder of Red Lodge Clay Center, Red Lodge, Montana

    Megan Crawford, owner, editor, designer of Montana Woman Magazine

  • $25

    Full color images, 74 pages

    Exhibition Curator: Nicole Maria Evans, Curator of Exhibitions and Collections

    Catalogue designed by Megan Crawford. Exhibition Photography by Darrin Schreder

    Edited by Nicole Maria Evans, Curator of Exhibitions & Collections

    Library of Congress Control Number: 2021950412

    LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021950412

    ISBN: 978-0-578-31357-3

    2021

IL MAESTRO! A Centennial Celebration: Works by Morton Levin, Revised Edition, 2024

  • Exhibition Curator: Nicole Maria Evans

    Featured Artist: Morton Levin

    Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art presents a celebratory exhibition Il Maestro! Works by Morton Levin: A Centennial Celebration, June 9, 2023 through December 13, 2023. This unique exhibition features the work of Morton Levin (1923-2020), a master artist whose passion and unbending desire for art making and mastery led him on an intriguing life journey touched by the effects of war, love, family, life and teaching. This retrospective of Levin’s work is meant to mark 100 years of Levin’s life and is the first of its kind in a museum setting. Levin fought in World War II and survived, experienced the fervor of modernism in Europe and the United States, and received an education in the arts post WWII through a G.I. Bill—also known as the Service Men’s Readjustment Act of 1944. With access to education, a passion for art, and a means to live, Morton Levin created art, lived art, and loved through art. Though his post WWII artistic contemporaries in the United States were delving into abstract expressionism, minimalism, and conceptualism, Levin was a contemporary artist devoted to the human figure. Early works, war drawings, paintings, prints, etchings, woodcuts, and engravings fill the exhibition space. The intent is to draw attention to his imaginative work and diversity of styles, as well as the profound understanding of artistic techniques in Levin’s career as an artist. The exhibition highlights a special selection of the artist’s body of work beginning in the 1930s through 2005, while focusing on master works within his vast artistic repertoire.

  • This catalogue features contributions by:

    Sarah Justice, Executive Director of Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art

    Nicole Maria Evans, Curator of Exhibitions & Collections, Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art

    Morton Levin (1923-2020), artist

    Alanna Zrimsek, former co-owner, Winston Gallery; artist, model, wife, muse

    Apo W. Bazidi, Film Director of A Keen Observer; Founder & CEO, Burn A Light Productions

    Matthew Berglund, Director of Design for Presidion Bay Ventures

    Ellie Weber, Director of Education, Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art

  • $20

    Full color images, 48 pages

    Exhibition Curator: Nicole Maria Evans, Curator of Exhibitions and Collections

    Catalogue designed by Eric Heidle. Artwork Photography and Permissions by Alanna Zrimsek. Exhibition Photography by Sara K. Johnson

    Edited by Nicole Maria Evans, Curator of Exhibitions & Collections

    Library of Congress Control Number: 2024932372

    LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2024932372

    ISBN: 979-8-218-36911-8

    2023

Theodore Waddell: The Weight of Memory, 2010

  • Exhibition Curator: Bob Durden

    Featured Artist: Theodore Waddell

    Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art is pleased to present Theodore Waddell: The Weight of Memory, Selections from the Permanent Collection. The exhibition features works that depict the Missouri River near Great Falls, Montana, prints inspired by Waddell’s ranching experience and the magnificent Cloud Landscape #5, a bold and dynamic painting that epitomizes the artist’s personal vision of the West. All of these works have been generously gifted to the museum’s permanent collection over the years, some from the artist and others from visionary collectors and philanthropists. We are truly grateful for their generosity.

    This exhibition was on view November 3, 2010 – May 25, 2011.

  • This catalogue features contributions by:

    Kathy Lear, Former Executive Director of Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art

    Bob Durden, Curator of Art

    Theodore Waddell, artist

    Pam Lemelin, Renaissance Creative

  • $25

    Full color images, 32 pages

    Exhibition Curator: Bob Durden, Curator of Art, Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art

    Catalogue designed by Pam Lemelin, Renaissance Creative. Artwork images courtesy of Theodore Waddell

    Edited by Bob Durden, Curator of Art

    2010

Additional Exhibition-Related Publications

Exhibitions at The Square often tie-in with publications by other museums, galleries, and curators. See below for a selection of these and visit The Square’s Gift Shop to purchase copies! You can also call 406.727.8255 to have catalogues shipped to you for an additional fee.

Morton Levin: Drawings- World War II, 2023

  • All proceeds from the sale of this catalogue will be donated to Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art “for its support of Morton Levin’s work and legacy, and for its commitment to Art, Education, Community, and Veterans.” - Alanna Zrimsek

    Exhibition Curator of IL MAESTRO: Nicole Maria Evans

    Featured Artist: Morton Levin

    Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art presents a celebratory exhibition Il Maestro! Works by Morton Levin: A Centennial Celebration, June 9, 2023 through December 13, 2023. This unique exhibition features the work of Morton Levin (1923-2020), a master artist whose passion and unbending desire for art making and mastery led him on an intriguing life journey touched by the effects of war, love, family, life and teaching. This retrospective of Levin’s work is meant to mark 100 years of Levin’s life and is the first of its kind in a museum setting. Levin fought in World War II and survived, experienced the fervor of modernism in Europe and the United States, and received an education in the arts post WWII through a G.I. Bill—also known as the Service Men’s Readjustment Act of 1944. With access to education, a passion for art, and a means to live, Morton Levin created art, lived art, and loved through art. Though his post WWII artistic contemporaries in the United States were delving into abstract expressionism, minimalism, and conceptualism, Levin was a contemporary artist devoted to the human figure. Early works, war drawings, paintings, prints, etchings, woodcuts, and engravings fill the exhibition space. The intent is to draw attention to his imaginative work and diversity of styles, as well as the profound understanding of artistic techniques in Levin’s career as an artist. The exhibition highlights a special selection of the artist’s body of work beginning in the 1930s through 2005, while focusing on master works within his vast artistic repertoire.

  • This catalogue features contributions by:

    Nicole Maria Evans, Curator of Exhibitions & Collections, Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art

    Morton Levin (1923-2020), artist

    Alanna Zrimsek, former co-owner, Winston Gallery; artist, model, wife, muse

    Matthew Berglund, Director of Design for Presidion Bay Ventures

  • $20

    All proceeds from the sale of this catalogue will be donated to Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art “for its support of Morton Levin’s work and legacy, and for its commitment to Art, Education, Community, and Veterans.” - Alanna Zrimsek

    Full color images, 63 pages

    Exhibition Curator for IL MAESTRO: Nicole Maria Evans, Curator of Exhibitions and Collections

    Catalogue designed by Matthew Berglund. Artwork Photography and Permissions by Alanna Zrimsek.

    Published by Egret Books, San Francisco

    Library of Congress Control Number: 2023952729

    LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023952729

    ISBN: 978-1-7320572-1-0

    2023