SUPPORTING ARTISTS, ART EDUCATION, AND CREATIVITY
Mission Statement
To encourage, promote and preserve excellence in representational fine art and the artists of the North American West through exhibitions, marketing, and education.
Western Masters Inc. (WMI) encourages artistic advancement and public art education by presenting the finest artists and artwork in exhibitions and supporting educational programs through workshops, scholarships, and other public media.
Current Project
Forever Glacier: The Legacy Project
The Forever Glacier touring exhibit was developed over a decade and was completed and launched in 2020, employing one artist’s expression to portray the language of the wilderness.
The exhibit primarily consists of original paintings by award winning artist, Nancy Dunlop Cawdrey, celebrating wildlife and wild places using brilliant color in large format dye on silk paintings. Focusing on Glacier National Park as a microcosm in exploring today’s challenges of climate change and loss of habitat, Blackfoot Indian creation stories are also woven throughout the exhibit, widening the perspective of a different paradigm in living and interacting on earth with the four-legged and the winged as our teachers.
A guided video tour of the Forever Glacier exhibit at the C.M. Russell Museum in Great Falls, MT with artist Nancy Dunlop Cawdrey and museum director Tom Figarelli
Role
Western Masters, Inc (WMI) is is the owner of 22 of the 25 paintings that constitute the Forever Glacier traveling exhibition, as well as the accompanying educational and interactive elements, and administrates and coordinates the exhibitions.
The exhibit is about an artistic perspective, a native perspective and one of today’s biggest issues: climate change on a global level.
“The language of the wilderness is the best language we have, and it is our job to sing it.”
— Pam Houston, Deep Creek
SUPPORTING ARTISTS, ART EDUCATION, AND CREATIVITY
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