FINAL TWO WEEKS OF 2015 LIVINGSTON DEPOT MUSEUM SEASON
INCLUDING SPECIAL EXHIBIT “TRAIN IN ART”, THROUGH SEPT. 13
The Livingston Depot Museum will wrap down its 2015 season after Sunday, September 13 including both its regular exhibits and the 2015 special exhibit, “TRAIN IN ART: Train + Depot = Light, Energy, Motion.” The museum is operated by the Livingston Depot Foundation, which celebrates its 30th year in 2015. Visitors who have not yet made it in over the summer are encouraged to swing by, as this year’s special exhibit will likely then go on tour to other cities throughout the state.
The Depot, the historic 1902 Northern Pacific rail station on the main drive through Livingston, operates as a museum during the summer visitor season and as a community cultural center during the rest of the year, hosting wedding receptions, holiday parties, lectures, fundraisers, large dinners, and other activities in the heart of the historic downtown. Its adjacent baggage room building is also host to the Livingston Model Railroaders, who make their displays available to the public on Tuesday and Saturday evenings at 7:30.
“TRAIN IN ART,” a contemporary view of the Western rails making its debut in 2015, has been a collaboration by Livingston Artists Sheila Hrasky and Tandy Miles Riddle and represents the Depot’s first train art show by female artists. Giving a historically male subject a female perspective, the two plein-air artists have painted at the Depot for years. Tandy initially focused more on the ornate historic architecture, calling it one of her favorite buildings, where Sheila tends to favor the train activity itself. Both were inspired and influenced by the interplay of movement, light, color, and shadow with the Depot and adjacent rail activity.
The Depot Museum’s popular ongoing main exhibit “Rails Across the Rockies: A Century of People and Places” introduces visitors to the rich history of railroading in Montana with special attention to the Northern Pacific and its central role in the opening of Yellowstone, America’s first national park, through Livingston beginning in the 1880s. In addition to the main exhibit, the museum also presents “The Livingston Depot in History and Architecture,” “Film in Montana: Moviemaking under the Big Sky,” selections from “On Track: The Railroad Photography of Warren McGee,” and during the balance of 2015, TRAIN IN ART.
Depot Museum hours run Monday through Saturday from 10 to 5 and Sunday from 1 to 5 with a nominal admission, normally late May through mid-September. Additional information can be obtained by contacting the Depot office at (406) 222-2300 or visiting www.livingstondepot.org.