Western Art Week Returns to Great Falls, Montana

1. Western Heritage Artists’ Footprints on the Trail

March 16-19, 2022
Holiday Inn Great Falls,
1100 Fifth Street South, Great Falls, MT 59405
www.westernheritageartists.com
Western Heritage Artists marks its 41st annual show by bringing back Footprints on the Trail, an event to celebrate the West and the artists who use it to inspire their artwork. The event will take place the Holiday Inn Great Falls, which is a major art destination during Western Art Week in Great Falls, Montana, in March. Nearly 50 exhibitors are expected to be showing work, including 40 from Montana alone. This year’s show will feature both Western and contemporary art, both offered in a variety of media.

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2. Great Western Living & Design

March 17-20, 2022
4 Season Arena at Montana Expo Park,
400 Third Street NW, Great Falls, MT 5940, (406) 761-0288,
www.thegreatwesternshow.com
Opening March 17 and running through March 20, the Great Western Living & Design Show returns to Great Falls, Montana, for Western Art Week. The show, expected to have around 175 vendor booths, will be held at the Great Falls fairgrounds at the 4 Season Arena at Montana Expo Park. Organizer and local artist Chuck Fulcher say the show will feature the best in Western living, including custom-made furniture, home décor, apparel and, of course, lots of fine art. “Western living shows go hand-in-hand with art auctions, as evidenced by successful events in Cody and Jackson, Wyoming,” Fulcher says. “I’m excited to have the show celebrate 10 years and to grow larger and larger every year.”

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3. Legends West Art Show

March 17-20, 2022
4 Season Arena at Montana Expo Park,
400 Third Street NW, Great Falls, MT 5940
www.legendswestartshow.com
Returning once again to the 4 Seasons Main Arena at Montana ExpoPark in Great Falls, Montana, is the Legends West Art Show, which will run from March 17 through 20 during Western Art Week in the popular Western city that was once home to Charles M. Russell. Artwork in a wide range of prices and mediums—from painting and sculpture to scratchboard, photography and charcoal—will be available at the four-day show. More than 30 artists will be on hand to offer artwork. Artists include Jack Babcock, Chris Dickenson, Kelly Donovan, Marilynn Dwyer-Mason, Sandra Haynes, Sandra Hiller, Barry Johnson, Judy McElroy, Charles Palmer, Diana Roen, Jennie Truitt and many others.

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4. Wild Bunch Art Show

March 17-19, 2022
Hampton Inn Great Falls,
2301 14th Street SW, Great Falls, MT 59404
www.facebook.com/wildbunchartshow
On Mach 17 through 19, the Wild Bunch Art Show returns to Great Falls, Montana, with artwork from nearly a dozen artists: Ken Acton, Janet Moczar-Buti, Jim Buti, Pamela Harr, Jeffrey Renner, Larry & LeAnn Oschsner, Connie Tveten, Matt Doyle, Janet Sullivan, Jeffrey Hoff and A. Nadine Pickthorn. The show will take place at the Hampton Inn Great Falls, and it will take place with a number of important shows happening around the same time during Western Art Week. “Since there are over a dozen events in Great Falls during Western Art Week, it is quite an accomplishment for Wild Bunch Art Show to stand out among them,” Pickthorn says. “We make certain our attendees feel welcome, appreciated, have an enjoyable experience and are not bored with the same old tired images. I have heard it said that the reason for our event’s success is that we serve the ‘world’s greatest cookies.’ Now, there may be some truth to that, but I give our participating artists’ cutting edge, no-fear approach to creativity most of the credit. We simply have a winning combination of awesome artists with unique work.”

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5. First Peoples Buffalo Jump State Park Annual Art Show & Reception

March 19, 2022, noon-3:30 p.m.
First Peoples Buffalo Jump State Park, Visitor Center (Ulm, MT)
stateparks.mt.gov/first-peoples-buffalo-jump
In 2003, Montana lost Blackfeet artist and poet Kingsley “King” Kuka. The popular and well-liked artist may have passed, but his creative spirit lives on in his family and his art legacy at the First Peoples Buffalo Jump State Park in Ulm, Montana, which is just outside Great Falls. On March 19, Kuka and his family—his wife, Marietta, and five children: Kqyn, Kodi, Kokko, Khi and Khol—will be celebrated in the First Peoples Buffalo Jump State Park’s annual Art Show & Reception. The show will feature new and original work by the Kuka Family, as well as artist Little Shell Chippewa, and Blackfeet artist Tanya Werner and Ira Henderson, who is also an enrolled member of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Montana. —