July 2024
Roots in the Sky Presents: The End of Rain
Roots in the Sky, Montana's premier chamber choir, and Tinworks Art join forces to present The End of Rain, a multimedia work for chamber orchestra, choir, and landscape photography that considers the way that climate change and wildfires are affecting our relationship to the landscapes we call home.Saturday July 6th and Sunday July 7th at 7:30pm at Tinworks Art. For tickets and more info rootsintheskychoir@gmail.com.
Find out more »Six Viewpoints Workshop
Led by Isabel Shaida, the Six Viewpoints Workshops at Tinworks Art are free, public programs inspired by Montana-based artist Mary Overlie (1946-2020) and her creation of Six Viewpoints for understanding body and relationship to space. Six Viewpoints is a technique of improvisation and observation between the participant and the outside world that deconstructs performance into six studies: space, shape, time, emotion, movement and story. The participant becomes the artist. Dates are July 14th, 21st and 28th and August 4th, 18th…
Find out more »Six Viewpoints Workshop
Led by Isabel Shaida, the Six Viewpoints Workshops at Tinworks Art are free, public programs inspired by Montana-based artist Mary Overlie (1946-2020) and her creation of Six Viewpoints for understanding body and relationship to space. Six Viewpoints is a technique of improvisation and observation between the participant and the outside world that deconstructs performance into six studies: space, shape, time, emotion, movement and story. The participant becomes the artist. Dates are July 14th, 21st and 28th and August 4th, 18th…
Find out more »August 2024
Six Viewpoints Workshop
Led by Isabel Shaida, the Six Viewpoints Workshops at Tinworks Art are free, public programs inspired by Montana-based artist Mary Overlie (1946-2020) and her creation of Six Viewpoints for understanding body and relationship to space. Six Viewpoints is a technique of improvisation and observation between the participant and the outside world that deconstructs performance into six studies: space, shape, time, emotion, movement and story. The participant becomes the artist. Dates are July 14th, 21st and 28th and August 4th, 18th…
Find out more »Six Viewpoints Workshop
Led by Isabel Shaida, the Six Viewpoints Workshops at Tinworks Art are free, public programs inspired by Montana-based artist Mary Overlie (1946-2020) and her creation of Six Viewpoints for understanding body and relationship to space. Six Viewpoints is a technique of improvisation and observation between the participant and the outside world that deconstructs performance into six studies: space, shape, time, emotion, movement and story. The participant becomes the artist. Dates are July 14th, 21st and 28th and August 4th, 18th…
Find out more »Roots in the Sky ‘The End of Rain by Scott Ordway’
Roots in the Sky Performance of The End of Rain by Scott Ordway Wednesday, August 21, 2024 7:30–9:30pm Tinworks $15 (12 and above), $10 (under 12) TICKETS Philip Juras, Night Fire on the Grand Prairie of Illinois c. 1491 (2019) Overview Roots in the Sky, Montana’s premier chamber choir, and Tinworks Art join forces to present The End of Rain, a multimedia work by Scott Ordway for chamber orchestra, choir, and landscape photography that considers the way that climate change…
Find out more »Six Viewpoints Workshop
Led by Isabel Shaida, the Six Viewpoints Workshops at Tinworks Art are free, public programs inspired by Montana-based artist Mary Overlie (1946-2020) and her creation of Six Viewpoints for understanding body and relationship to space. Six Viewpoints is a technique of improvisation and observation between the participant and the outside world that deconstructs performance into six studies: space, shape, time, emotion, movement and story. The participant becomes the artist. Dates are July 14th, 21st and 28th and August 4th, 18th…
Find out more »Wheatfields, Railroads, and Brewers: Walking Tour
Wheatfields, Railroads, and Brewers: Exploring Bozeman’s Historic North Side by Extreme History Project Saturday, August 24, 2024 1–2pm Tinworks $20 (all proceeds to Extreme History Project) TICKETS Embark on a historic journey with The Extreme History Project and Tinworks Art. This historic exploration takes you through Bozeman’s northside landscape, highlighting the vital roles that agriculture, the railroad, and brewers took in shaping the town’s growth. Wander through the heart of Bozeman’s agricultural legacy, where towering grain elevators stand as monuments…
Find out more »September 2024
Isabel Shaida Mary Overlie’s Six Viewpoints Public Performance
Isabel Shaida Mary Overlie’s Six Viewpoints Public Performance Saturday, September 7, 2024 Saturday, September 14, 2024 7–9pm Tinworks
Find out more »Wheatfields, Railroads, and Brewers: Walking Tour
Wheatfields, Railroads, and Brewers: Exploring Bozeman’s Historic North Side by Extreme History Project Saturday, August 24, 2024 1–2pm Tinworks $20 (all proceeds to Extreme History Project) TICKETS Embark on a historic journey with The Extreme History Project and Tinworks Art. This historic exploration takes you through Bozeman’s northside landscape, highlighting the vital roles that agriculture, the railroad, and brewers took in shaping the town’s growth. Wander through the heart of Bozeman’s agricultural legacy, where towering grain elevators stand as monuments…
Find out more »Wheatfields, Railroads, and Brewers: Walking Tour
Wheatfields, Railroads, and Brewers: Exploring Bozeman’s Historic North Side by Extreme History Project Saturday, August 24, 2024 1–2pm Tinworks $20 (all proceeds to Extreme History Project) TICKETS Embark on a historic journey with The Extreme History Project and Tinworks Art. This historic exploration takes you through Bozeman’s northside landscape, highlighting the vital roles that agriculture, the railroad, and brewers took in shaping the town’s growth. Wander through the heart of Bozeman’s agricultural legacy, where towering grain elevators stand as monuments…
Find out more »June 2026
Chisel & Razor, Act I: The Artistic Legacies of Edmonia & Samuel Lewis
This two-part exhibition unites, for the first time, the stories of Mary Edmonia Lewis, the first internationally acclaimed Black and Anishinaabe sculptor, and that of her brother, Samuel W. Lewis—a Bozeman-based performer, entrepreneur, and community leader who was central to Edmonia’s success. The first installation of this two-part show brings together a selection of work, some newly commissioned, that celebrates the life and legacy of Samuel W. Lewis, who served as his sister’s benefactor and support system. Samuel’s life in…
Find out more »Tinworks Summer Season Opening Celebration
Summer Season Opening Celebration Friday, June 19 3–8pm Tinworks Free and open to all https://www.tinworksart.org/events/2026exhibition-season-opening
Find out more »Community Clay Night (June 2026)
Join us once a month for an open, casual, hand building clay gathering! These sessions are free to all, no experience is needed! Come as you are. Whether this is your first time working with clay or you’re an old pro, we welcome you to come and experiment and make new friends in the process. You are welcome to make as much or as little as you’d like in the time allowed. Each month a new project will be introduced,…
Find out more »A Commonplace for Independence: Making Meaning at America’s 250th
To commemorate the 250th anniversary of our nation, join us for a Commonplace Book workshop on Saturday, June 27 featuring speakers Nina Sanders (Curator of Indigenous Collections at Montana Historical Society), Mary Murphy (Professor Emerita of History at Montana State University) Wendy Purnell (MSU Library), and Dale Martin (MSU History Department). Rooted in the rich tradition of commonplace books, used by figures like Virginia Woolf, Mark Twain, and Isaac Newton, this workshop invites participants to begin creating their own personalized…
Find out more »Gabriel Chaile Adobe Oven Fire
Once a month, Tinworks will activate Gabriel Chaile’s newly commissioned oven sculpture, "No puedo evitar la forma en que siento (I can’t help the way I feel)", 2025, with a community bread-baking event, led by Chef Alex Hrabovsky, using flour harvested from Agnes Denes’ 2024 ecological artwork "Wheatfield—An Inspiration. The seed is in the ground." Please join us for these special events of community engagement, actions that are central to both Chaile and Denes’ artistic practices.
Find out more »July 2026
Summer Camp: Circus and Performance Grades 1–3
Wow your audience with this camp of circus and performance themed art! Through a variety of materials and techniques students (1st–3rd in fall) will construct your own toys, puppets, costumes, and magical circus acts inspired by the Tinworks Art 2026 exhibition, science, physics, and artistic illusion. All campers will tour and talk about the artworks on site, engage in art discussion, take short walking fieldtrips, and create multiple projects to take home. This session will culminate in an art show…
Find out more »Summer Camp: Sculpture (Grades 1–3)
Let’s explore forms and build things to play with! Campers (1st–3rd in fall) will create artworks-in-the-round using clay, paper, fiber, wood, recycled, and found materials in this 3–D focused camp. Inspired by artists within the Tinworks Art 2026 season, students will view artworks first-hand and learn different techniques to assemble, weave, cast, model, and construct sculpture pieces. Students will observe our seasonal exhibition, engage in art discussion, take short walking fieldtrips, and create multiple projects to take home. This session…
Find out more »The Sentimental Object: Hair Jewelry & Mourning Adornment with Kristen Hedge
Join silversmith Kristen Hedge for a two-hour workshop exploring Victorian hair jewelry and memento mori traditions. Participants will learn techniques for weaving hair, constructing delicate hair flowers, and preserving sentimental objects in resin to create keepsake necklaces or rings inspired by historical mourning jewelry and contemporary memory objects. Materials may include hair, dried botanicals, fabric fragments, photographs, letters, or other small personal objects that hold emotional significance. No experience is necessary. Participants are encouraged to bring small sentimental materials to…
Find out more »Improv and the Body: Using Viewpoints to Ground Play
In this workshop, dancer, choreographer, and author Mary Overlie’s Viewpoints becomes a tool for grounding ourselves in body and movement. Led by Jakob Schultz, we’ll use physicality and spontaneity to work through scenes, quieting the impulse to overthink and leaning into the playfulness of improv. No prior movement experience necessary. Please wear comfortable clothes and sneakers. Ages 12+ welcome.
Find out more »Art! with Dr. Ike, Ph.D., Episode 1–Contemporary Art at the Barbershop
How and why do contemporary Black artists represent the barbershop? In this episode, we’ll look at the artwork of Devan Shimoyama and how the barbershop can be a place of wonder, transformation, and community. Art! with Dr. Ike, Ph.D. is coming to Tinworks! The fourth season of this public lecture series will take place once a month over the summer and fall to accompany Chisel & Razor Acts I and II. The first episode will begin in the present, with…
Find out more »Art! with Dr. Ike, Ph.D
Art! with Dr. Ike, Ph.D., Episode 1–Contemporary Art at the Barbershop Thursday, July 16 7–8:30pm Tinworks
Find out more »Night at the Grand Opera: A Giant Puppet (Night 1)
Set in an old European opera house during the golden age of Grand Opera, Night at the Grand Opera is a frenzied romp through a candlelit night at the Opera. Rococo extravagance is fashioned with elaborate cardboard sets that collapse and unfold to reveal the many great dramas of the opera house (not all of which happen on stage.) Love triangles, converging revolutionary plots, art-loving flies and disaffected vermin are brought to life with cardboard and paper mache. These performances are free and open to the public. Attendees are encouraged to…
Find out more »Night at the Grand Opera: A Giant Puppet
Night at the Grand Opera: A Giant Puppet String & Shadow Puppet Theater with Random Acts of Silliness Friday, July 17 7–9pm
Find out more »Making Animal Masks!
Making Animal Masks! with Emily McHugh from String & Shadow Puppet Theater Saturday, July 18 10am Tinworks
Find out more »Night at the Grand Opera: A Giant Puppet (Night 2)
Set in an old European opera house during the golden age of Grand Opera, Night at the Grand Opera is a frenzied romp through a candlelit night at the Opera. Rococo extravagance is fashioned with elaborate cardboard sets that collapse and unfold to reveal the many great dramas of the opera house (not all of which happen on stage.) Love triangles, converging revolutionary plots, art-loving flies and disaffected vermin are brought to life with cardboard and paper mache. These performances are free and open to the public. Attendees are encouraged to…
Find out more »Night at the Grand Opera: A Giant Puppet
Night at the Grand Opera: A Giant Puppet String & Shadow Puppet Theater with Random Acts of Silliness Saturday, July 18 7–9pm Tinworks
Find out more »Meet the Puppeteers!
Meet the Puppeteers! with Random Acts of Silliness and String & Shadow Theater Sunday, July 19 10am Tinworks
Find out more »Summer Camp: Sculpture Grades 4–5
Let’s explore forms and build things to play with! Campers (4th–5th in fall) will create artworks-in-the-round using clay, paper, fiber, wood, recycled, and found materials in this 3–D focused camp. Inspired by artists within the Tinworks Art 2026 season, students will view artworks first-hand and learn different techniques to assemble, weave, cast, model, and construct sculpture pieces. Students will observe our seasonal exhibition, engage in art discussion, take short walking fieldtrips, and create multiple projects to take home. This session…
Find out more »A Western Audition
A Western Audition is a live theatrical experiment set in 2026. At its center are two real historical figures: Samuel Lewis, a barber, magician, circus performer, and entrepreneur, and Edmonia Lewis, a groundbreaking sculptor. These siblings who built extraordinary lives in the late 19th century, then drifted apart and into the margins of history. Over two days, Montana performers of all backgrounds step in front of a live audience to help discover who Samuel and Edmonia actually were. They fill…
Find out more »Shapeshift – A Tinworks Storytelling Show
Shapeshift – A Tinworks Storytelling Show with Story Wrangler Bex Frucht Wednesday, July 22 7–9pm Tinworks
Find out more »Community Clay Night
Join us once a month for an open, casual, hand building clay gathering! These sessions are free to all, no experience is needed! Come as you are. Whether this is your first time working with clay or you’re an old pro, we welcome you to come and experiment and make new friends in the process. You are welcome to make as much or as little as you’d like in the time allowed. Each month a new project will be introduced,…
Find out more »Kids Mindfulness & Improv
This fun, interactive workshop combines mindfulness and improv to help kids and teens build confidence, creativity, and connection. Through engaging games and activities, participants will practice staying present, communicating with others, and embracing mistakes as part of learning and growth. No experience is needed—just come ready to play and have fun! This class is recommended for students 8–12 years old. Registration required, tickets $20.
Find out more »Let Go! An Improv Workshop for Overthinkers
Improv can be a powerful way to practice getting out of your head and into the moment. In this supportive, beginner friendly workshop, we will practice loosening control, embracing spontaneity, tolerating imperfection, and connecting more authentically with ourselves and others. Maddie Brown is a core performing crew member and frequent host at Last Best Comedy prominently featured in several improv shows. Most recently Brown performed as part of LBC’s Sister Act: Unscripted, Bad Habits. Brown is also a licensed Clinical…
Find out more »Paper Puppets at Tinworks
Build your own paper puppets with artist and Tinworks’ Angela Yonke. Let your imagination go wild creating paper artworks you can perform with! Using paper, scissors, and marker create this playful craft during Bozeman Public Library’s afternoon activity time. All ages welcome. This event is free and open to the public, no registration required.
Find out more »August 2026
Summer Camp: Magic & Illusion Grades 4–5
Expand the possibilities of reality and creativity with art projects which defy reason and entertain the whole family! Inspired by Samuel Lewis, one of the central figures inspiring the Tinworks 2026 exhibition season, and his magical abilities campers (4th–5th in fall) will create fantastical kinetic toys, learn magic tricks, explore science and physics, and make projects utilizing illusions and mysterious art materials. Students will observe our seasonal exhibition, engage in art discussion, take short walking fieldtrips, and create multiple projects…
Find out more »Summer Camp: Sculpture Grade 6+
Let’s explore forms and build things to play with! Campers (6th + in fall) will create artworks-in-the-round using clay, paper, fiber, wood, recycled, and found materials in this 3–D focused camp. Inspired by artists within the Tinworks Art 2026 season, students will view artworks first-hand and learn different techniques to assemble, weave, cast, model, and construct sculpture pieces. Students will observe our seasonal exhibition, engage in art discussion, take short walking fieldtrips, and create multiple projects to take home. This…
Find out more »Summer Camp: Art & Improv (in partnership with Last Best Comedy) Grade 6+
Expand your child’s creativity with Tinworks Art and Last Best Comedy as they team up to embrace the possibilities of play, experimentation, and spontaneity in the arts and performance! Campers will learn to observe and be present, channel intuition and brainstorming, give up control and utilize opportunity, and explore possibility through improvisational exercises and artistic practices. Over this week students will observe the Tinworks 2026 exhibition, engage in discussion, and create multiple projects to take home. This session will culminate…
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