Montana Arts Council
An Agency of State Government
American Rescue Plan Act Funding (Closed)
MAC is excited to announce the recipients of the ARPA Artist and Organization Grants. Made possible by $754,000 in federal funding allocated via the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), these one-time grants are intended to boost Montana’s creative economy as it continues to recover from the impacts of the COVID-19 epidemic. The ARPA Artist grant is a project-based grant with a maximum award of $10,000 and is designed to fund the creation of new artwork and expand audiences for the arts. The ARPA Organization provides up $5,000 in funds to cover day-to-day operating costs for Montana 501c3 arts organizations. Both processes are now closed.
| Artist Grant | ||||
| First Name | Last Name | Project Name | Community | Award Amount |
| Elise | Atchison | No Woman's Land | Livingston | $5,000.00 |
| Kate | Augusto | Creation of "Thoughts & Allies," an Ensemble Dance Work | Missoula | $10,000.00 |
| Jenny | Bevill | Virtual Open Studio: Visiting with Contemporary Montana Artists | Whitefish | $10,000.00 |
| Samantha | Bird* | Painting for Positive Futures | Cut Bank | $10,000.00 |
| Courtney | Blazon | Even the Sun goes West: A collection of drawings of the west by Courtney Blazon and Ladypajama | Missoula | $9,328.00 |
| Betty | Buckley | Flyover Country | Power | $10,000.00 |
| Heather | Cahoon | “Poems for Naɫisqélixʷ (People-Eating Monsters) Manuscript”. | Missoula | $10,000.00 |
| Russ | Chapman* | Russ Chapman - Recording High Country Blues - an 8-10 song recording project. | Bozeman | $10,000.00 |
| Chip | Clawson | Create Two Large Suspended Sculptures for Exhibition | Helena | $10,000.00 |
| Adam | Collins* | Le Violoncelle Francophone: Cello-Piano Concert Tour | Missoula | $10,000.00 |
| Jacob | Cowgill | Small Town, Long Streets: Coming Together in Rural Montana | Power | $10,000.00 |
| Nic | Davis* | The Montana Sessions | Bozeman | $9,783.00 |
| Cameron | Decker* | Astkw: Salish Cedar Bark Basket Integration in Education | Arlee | $10,000.00 |
| Jane | Waggoner Deschner | "Remember me." immersive installation at the Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT | Billings | $10,000.00 |
| Melissa | DiNino | Reaching a New Audience: Creating Work for MiXX Atelier in Telluride, Colorado | McLeod | $10,000.00 |
| Ulf | Eriksson* | "Montana Sounds": Montana Inspired Original Jazz - A Full Album Audio Recording and Performances | Florence | $8,965.00 |
| Jennifer | Fawcett* | Tour of Junior's Debut Album | Missoula | $6,416.00 |
| Richard | Fifield* | Bad Luck Book Club | Missoula | $9,990.00 |
| Jeni | Fleming | Holiday Symphony Project | Bozeman | $10,000.00 |
| John | Floridis | Songs Of A Certain Age | Missoula | $10,000.00 |
| Linda | Foy | Four Seasons of Montana: From the River Bottom to the Clouds Above | Twin Bridges | $10,000.00 |
| Emily | Freeman | Stay Here | Dillon | $10,000.00 |
| Marian | Geil* | Smelter Mouse Chronicles | Anaconda | $6,646.00 |
| Mark | Gibbons | Podunk No Horse: A Tale of Vice in Verse | Missoula | $10,000.00 |
| Monica | Gilles-Brings Yellow Horses | Creation of Public Art and Public School Art | Missoula | $2,600.00 |
| Louis | Habeck | Life-size Triceratops Head Herd Completion. | Billings | $9,650.00 |
| Audrey | Hall* | Harlow Willis; Bitter Taste - a fine art multimedia and multi-platform project | Livingston | $10,000.00 |
| Jessy | Hanson* | The Home We Carry: A Visual Anthology of the Unhoused and Their Belongings | Lakeside | $8,850.00 |
| DG | House | Yellowstone 150: Reflections From DG House | Bozeman | $9,906.00 |
| Stephen | Hunt* | Light and Life on The Land | Saint Ignatius | $10,000.00 |
| Marcy | James* | No Man's Land: The Library | Missoula | $8,153.00 |
| Aaron | Jennings* | Vinyl Record Manufacturing and Workshop | Missoula | $10,000.00 |
| Danell | Jones* | The Girl Prince: Virginia Woolf, Black British Lives, and the Dreadnought Hoax | Billings | $8,350.00 |
| Megan | Karls | Re-Envisioned: Montana Composers in Mission Churches | Great Falls | $9,193.00 |
| John | Knight | John Knight ARPA Request: Creating a Site Specific Installation at the Montana Artist Refuge Gallery | Missoula | $8,546.00 |
| Beth | Korth* | Beth Korth Printmaking Workshop & Demonstrations in Red Lodge, MT | Roberts | $5,850.00 |
| Bryan | Kostors* | The River Is Everywhere | Missoula | $10,000.00 |
| Brian | Langeliers | Aerial Landscape Paintings : "A Tale of Two Cities" | Red Lodge | $8,856.00 |
| Valentina | Lapier* | Traditional Parfleche Native American Art | East Glacier Park | $10,000.00 |
| Ari | Laskin* | Memorial’s Undoing: Horror without Monsters | Helena | $10,000.00 |
| Steven | Lee | Tableware on the Jigger/Jolley | Helena | $9,985.00 |
| Liz | Lewis* | Loyalty Life-Size German Shepherd Bronze Production | Bozeman | $10,000.00 |
| Gary | Little* | Montana Uplift | Billings | $10,000.00 |
| BT | Livermore | Well Ain't That a Thing (An Interactive Art Show) | Butte | $6,450.00 |
| Melissa | Madsen* | Is It Art or Is It Vandalism, Stencils, Street Art and Photoshop | Missoula | $5,451.00 |
| Bruna | Massadas | Latest Paintings | Bozeman | $9,998.00 |
| Wyatt | Maw* | Ashland | Livingston | $10,000.00 |
| Allison | McGree | The Interconnections, Impact, and Beauty of Montana's Rivers | Bozeman | $10,000.00 |
| Norman | Menzales | Filipino Flute Recording Project | Great Falls | $10,000.00 |
| Andrew | Meyers | Theatre for Young Audiences: Script Development and Touring Production | Missoula | $2,500.00 |
| Leslie | Millar | Heavenly Visions - Burnt Offerings Series | Arlee | $10,000.00 |
| Shawna | Moore | Exhibition Support | Whitefish | $10,000.00 |
| Buck | Morigeau | Old Montana Ways | Arlee | $10,000.00 |
| Sheree | Nelson* | Mural Installation - Downtown Great Falls | Great Falls | $10,000.00 |
| Rick | Newby | The Helena Notebooks | Helena | $3,500.00 |
| Natalie | Padilla* | Montana Wildflower | Bozeman | $9,950.00 |
| Natalie | Peeterse | Thunderous Book Tour Project | Helena | $10,000.00 |
| Whitney | Polich* | Egg Tempera Landscapes | Vaughn | $9,945.00 |
| Meghan | Purcell* | Developing Online and In-Person Wool Felt Workshops & Tutorial | Livingston | $10,000.00 |
| Tara | Radosevich* | Tara's Solo Show- The Wildlife of Montana | Bozeman | $2,846.00 |
| Amy | Ragsdale | Montana Suite film completion | Missoula | $5,700.00 |
| Micah | Rauch* | Building an Art Studio to Better bring the Weird Wilds to Montana | Great Falls | $10,000.00 |
| Jennifer | Reifsneider | Jennifer Reifsneider: Spool Exhibition | Missoula | $10,000.00 |
| Alison | Reintjes | Clay in Context | Missoula | $10,000.00 |
| Brandon | Reintjes | New Materials for New Paintings | Missoula | $5,000.00 |
| Ashley | Reloba-Meyora* | Working With What You Have | Missoula | $8,562.00 |
| Stephanie | Revennaugh* | Cast Glass Collaboration Revennaugh/Henry | Livingston | $10,000.00 |
| James | Rickley | Flowing Waters | Music New to Great Falls | Great Falls | $10,000.00 |
| Jennifer | Rohrer* | Sacred Ground Crown Butte: The Creation of a Kevin Red Star Painting | Seeley Lake | $9,350.00 |
| Anne | Ross | Dimensional Textures: Durable Art Board Books of Curiosity and Wonder | Billings | $10,000.00 |
| Russell | Rowland | Breakfast in Montana | Billings | $5,000.00 |
| Pamela | Schiffer* | Paradise Valley Paintings | Livingston | $10,000.00 |
| Naomi | Siegel | The Nature Of Change: Composition & Conduction with the Hellgate High School Jazz Ensemble | Missoula | $7,472.00 |
| Andy | Smetanka | I Am the Wilma Theater | Missoula | $5,000.00 |
| Kimberly | Spence* | A Bird Set Free | Stevensville | $10,000.00 |
| Loren | Stillman* | Divide: The Montana Jazz Project - tour and live broadcast | Missoula | $9,910.00 |
| Ann | Tappan* | Williams/Tappan/Kohler | Manhattan | $2,774.00 |
| Geoffrey | Taylor* | 12 Fantasias for 5-string Fiddle: New Music for 5-string Fiddle Recordings and Performances | Missoula | $6,200.00 |
| Peter | Tolton | Return - Vietnam Veteran Documentary Film | Billings | $10,000.00 |
| Shalene | Valenzuela | Let's Play Telephone | Missoula | $4,452.00 |
| Willem | Volkersz | Looking Back, Looking Forward | Bozeman | $5,005.00 |
| Ella | Watson | Ancestor Inspired Disability/ Chronic Care Apperatuses and Medical Paintings | Bozeman | $9,958.00 |
| April | Werle* | Mga Hunghong sa Diwata (Whispers of Spirits) - Solo Exhibition by April Werle | Missoula | $9,910.00 |
| Christopher | Woodman* | Slow Dusty Road album for Good Old Fashioned | Missoula | $6,855.00 |
| Dana | Zier | Honoring Earth and Heritage from the Boonies | Bridger | $9,747.00 |
| Total Artist Grant Awards | $737,602.00 | |||
| ARPA Organization Grant | ||||
| Organization | Community | Award | ||
| Bigfork Art and Cultural Center* | Bigfork | $5,000.00 | ||
| Montana State Old Time Fiddlers' Association, Inc. | Denton | $5,000.00 | ||
| Sweet Grass Arts Alliance* | Big Timber | $5,000.00 | ||
| The Paradise Center | Paradise | $5,000.00 | ||
| Total Organization Grant Awards | $20,000 | |||
| * First time applicants are noted with an asterisk. | ||||
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