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Presenting: An illustrated guide to the First Annu

Presenting: An illustrated guide to the First Annual Flathead Winter Arts and Culture Festival 🌬

You might think the Flathead’s art scene is chasing the naturally occurring gobsmacking beauty that surrounds us, or that our culture is deeply rooted in the character and junior high humor of truck nuts. But we’re here to take your low expectations to highbrow heights with the First Annual Flathead Winter Arts and Culture Festival, sure to sparkle like the trees above the inversion.

Our trusty satire column, as always, written by David Steele & illustrated by Collin Hamman
@davidpowdersteele @collin.hamman

#satire #artmatters #bigfork #whitefish #grassrootspublication #whitefishmountainresort #columbiafalls #flatheadvalley #illustrationartists #illustratorsofinstagram #sarcasm #underthebigsky

Total Madness
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“Leather doesn’t repeat itself. That’s the beauty of it,” Milen said, running a crocodile skin through his hands to demonstrate the unique scaling and pattern. “Sometimes someone will send me a picture and say ‘I want something exactly like that,’ and I’ll say, ‘But who wants to wear the exact same thing as someone else?’”

This concept, that clothing and boots should be as unique as the people who wear them, is the vision behind Milen and Jenny’s latest venture: Mad Leather (@mad_tailor_leather). The name is a spinoff of Mad Tailor, the moniker Milen has worked under since the early 2000s. The name also nods to their refreshingly unfiltered personalities, the results of decades spent immersed in the lavish, yet gritty and demanding, fashion industry. They’re somehow both approachable and tangibly feisty, or as Jenny said, “super chill, until we’re not.” And their passion is evident in their creations.

@jennyswankkrasteva @madleatherofficial
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Read the full story at the link in our bio!

✍🏽 by Kianna Gardner
📷 by Mandy Mohler @field.guide.designs (hey, she’s familiar… see previous post!)

〰️ A bottle of Jaeger. A small cast-iron skil

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A bottle of Jaeger.
A small cast-iron skillet.
A menagerie of cabin contents ranging from the traditional accoutrements – a handheld radio, mousetraps, a lantern – to the delightfully quirky – an animal’s jaw bone, rolls of film, and a pair of leather suspenders.

These are just a sampling of the items that comprise Kalispell artist Mandy Mohler’s (@field.guide.designs) first taxonomy photograph, a visual distillation of the Spruce Park cabin in the Great Bear Wilderness Area. Mohler and a pair of musicians spent a week there as participants in the Bob Marshall Wilderness Foundation’s Artist Wilderness Connection program, making art and forging connections with each other and the natural world around them.
@bobmarshallwilderness

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“The thing that’s hard about art is you make it for yourself initially,” Mohler said, “and then I think you get lucky if it speaks to other people.”
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Guided By The Details

✍🏽 Story by Mackenzie Reiss @photobymack
📷by @field.guide.designs
📸 portrait of Mohler by @kmintonartist

Where We Choose to Look “Before she would start

Where We Choose to Look

“Before she would start a painting, my mother used to take two corners of matte board, two white L-shapes, and hold them up to the landscape, making a sort of frame. She would search around with her frame until she settled on a scene that struck her eye. Then she would take the measure of the scene with her pencil, sketching the outline of a mountain, say, or a riverbend. As she explained it, the frame helped her constrain the wild expanse of the world into something more workable.”

This opening to the Field Notes essay in our winter issue was written by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm @jonathanfv and you can read the full version at the link in our bio. It will get you thinking 🧠 💭

Amazing illustration by @morgankrieg

#nostalgia #nostalgiaproblem #wherewechoosetolook #illustration #illustrationartists #illustrationforprint #fieldnotesessay #essayonart #artmatters #artmattereshere

Does Art Matter? We believe it does, so we conceiv

Does Art Matter? We believe it does, so we conceived an entire magazine theme around this topic. Read our Feature Story at the #linkinbio as we expand on these points.

✨Art is an Open-Ended Question
✨Art is a Concrete Answer
✨Art Makes a Place Unique
✨Art Is Going to Offend
✨Art Is Economic
✨Art is Extravagant
✨Art Identifies Problems

In this Photo: @tessaheck_studio
Photo by @field.guide.designs

#artmatters #whatisart #artofinstagram #artist #artlover #artwatchers #contemporaryart #grassrootspublication #indepdentmagazine #artforum #ACCKmontana

OH HI! Let's get the New Year warmed up with our

OH HI!
Let's get the New Year warmed up with our fabulous centerfold for the Go Local Winter 21/22 issue; KRUSTY 🔥

Find our lovely publication all through the Flathead Valley and read more about this treasured local artist and creator of "bad-ass art and salty characters". Our world is brighter with you in it, Krusty.

BTW, we will have articles online soon. Our team took a bit of a GL break after the launch but we're warming the engines, so stay tuned for more story highlights.

@krustystuff
Photo from the amazing @field.guide.designs
Art direction by @highlinedesign

THE ART MATTERS ISSUE IS HERE!!! 🥳🕺🏻❤️‍🔥

We’re starting distribution this afternoon and tomorrow. Keep an eye out for our fabulous little racks and downtown drop spots.

Photo by the amazing @field.guide.designs
Cover lady: the one and only @tessaheck_studio

It’s Small Business Saturday! 😍 Put your mone

It’s Small Business Saturday! 😍 Put your money where your heart is. Shop local ❤️

#kalispell #whitefish #columbiafallsmt #bigforkmontana #lakesidemontana #smallbusinesssaturday

The day has finally come – our Winter GL issue i

The day has finally come – our Winter GL issue is off to the presses!

Stay tuned.
Art Matters. 💛

Hitting shelves in early December.

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