Event Schedule
Sept 19, 10-2
Dover Park
8:30 - Event Setup
9:15 - Kite Setup
10:00 - Kite Flying, Lois’s Point Overlook
10:00 - 2:00 Artists and Activities throughout Park
10:30 - Author Reading with Cara Chamberlain
11:30 - Nature Mandala Meditation with Rachel Larson Long
1:00 - Tai Chi with Mark Cassel
2:00 - Event ends, clean up
List of Artists
Event Only
Laura Marie Anderson
William Crain
Rebecca Bern Davis
Rachel Larson Long
Nancy Peterson
John Roberts
Shirley Shirley
Jeanelle Wassmer
Event and Auction
Ev Bergeron
Linda Hewett
Teresa Kelly
John Kennedy
Susan Martinez
Mari Hanes
Marlene Dunis
Auction Only
Kathleen Thompson
Kathleen O’Leary
Gwen Rock
Karyne Dunbar
Elizabeth Waddington
Scott Waddington
Karyne Dunbar
Noel Hawke
Genoveva Mora
Artists whose work has been donated by other YRPA Supporters
Ron Ukraintez
Kadin Goldberg
Connie Herberg
Judy Fischer Walton
Anne Ophelia Dowden
Don Eckelberry
Guy Coheleach
Ray Harm
Art Kites!
This event will also feature kites from the “Go With the Flow” art kite exhibit organized and curated by YRPA friend Terry Zee Lee in 2025. See photos of the kites, read about all of the artists, and learn more here.
After many years of watercolors, I have found my calling with pastels. I loved art since I was a child. Art is my passion. I hope to keep having a deep passion for making art and I travel and attend workshops to keep learning.
Ev Bergeron
I continue to explore a variety of mediums and take as many workshops and classes as I can. I have always been interested in creative arts and retirement presented the opportunity to dive in! I hope my art keeps me active in lifelong learning.
Mari Haines
I work in various painting media, favoring a combination of acrylic and oil in the studio and either watercolor or gouache in plein air painting. A junior-year trip in high school to Paris sparked an interest in Impressionism, which led to college art classes and an eventual art minor. My future goals include securing a solo gallery exhibition and becoming a regular exhibiting artist at a local gallery or business.
Teresa S. Kelly
I have typically used acrylic paint but also love water-mixable oil paint. Every phase of my life has included artmaking in some way. From childhood I have aspired to develop skills in drawing and painting. Art Club at Bozeman High School was instrumental, and I went on to major in Fine Arts and Art Education in college. Later, after teaching in elementary schools for a bit, I was able to study Art Therapy and become a registered Art Therapist. My career consisted of a combination of these fields. I've always participated in exhibits and had several one-person shows. I am interested in community art that brings people together with shared creativity. I hope to develop my plein-air painting skills, and also to complete (and show) a series of symbolic abstractions
Rachel Larson Long
I most enjoy mixed media. I combine texture, markers, paper, and paint to create expressive, layered work. I have always been an artist, but after an accident in 2019, art became a therapeutic tool - a way to communicate nonverbally and express my inner self while healing. I hope my art leads me to help others discover the healing benefits of expressive arts in community settings.
Susan Martinez
25 years ago my soon to be wife was living an hour and a half North of me in Milwaukee, and I’d go up and see her on the weekend. One weekend she said, “I’m taking a watercolor class this weekend and if you want to come seem me you will need to take the class with me.” So in love I was (and am). So that is officially how I started, we painted together every Sunday night throughout our marriage. She passed away 6 years ago.
It is enough for me to be given the opportunity to hang around with wonderful arty people, and to sometimes be able to give something back to the community.
John Kennedy
@clayladynancy
As a mixed media artist I use glazed clay, metal, fibers, and found objects to create artifacts that evoke alters, totems, or shrines as cultural “Rituals of Belief.” These assemblage, wall relief sculptures explore my interest in the materials of clay, wire working, and found objects, while the visual subjects represent the abstract qualities of repeated pattern incorporating cultural symbolism or stylized nature imagery.
The pieces are meant to be durable outside. I am a passionate gardener and I want the flexibility of displaying my work in the garden.
Nancy Petersen
Jeanelle Wassmer
I work in acrylic paint combined with glass art, a different method of stained glass. I truly felt like an artist when I went beyond instruction given to me in a stained glass class and created my own method of using crushed glass without heavy soldering lines. I want to continue to challenge myself with using new mediums and techniques and share my art through exhibits.
OTHER ARTISTS
Laura Marie Anderson
William Crain
Rebecca Bern Davis
John Roberts
Shirley Shirley
My two favorite mediums are felted wool (mostly landscapes) and pastels. I grew up in a household with a deep appreciation of art. My promise to myself was to make art once I retired because I was involved with other interests before retirement. I hope my art continues to bring me enjoyment while I gain additional skills.
Kathleen O’Leary
Always a gardener and lover of plants, my Mother taught me the Latin name of every plant in her garden. When I studied botany in school, I understood plants from a deeper perspective. Later, I became a Master Gardener in California, where I maintained a large, varied and colorful garden all year long, that fed my family and nourished my soul. When I began to paint after retirement, plants and watercolor seemed to come naturally. This journey is the foundation of my art.
As an artist, not long in Montana, Billings has been especially kind to me. The art scene here is stimulating and exciting, and I am inspired by Montana’s native plants, hay bales, the Rims, and the mountains. Accomplished artists have drawn me into urban sketching, portrait drawing, and landscape painting.
Linda Hewett
Karyne Dunbar spent a lifetime as an artist, art educator, and art advocate. She was the owner of the commission-free Art Shelter Gallery in Shell, WY. For nearly 30 years, she sponsored art events in her isolated community.
”A dream and an encounter with an Arapaho elder led me to accept crow and raven as my artistic spirit guides.: Dunbar said in an artist statement. “Their mythic presence allows me to create visual parables.” Dunbar’s work is in collections across the United States, Canada and Europe. The president of Ireland presented her work to the permanent collection of the Granuaille Center in County Mayo. Dunbar exhibited in Athens, Greece, and New Grange Ireland. She was a recipient of the Wyoming Governor’s Arts Award in 2018.
Karyne Dunbar
Along twenty-nine trails near Yellowstone National Park, Cara Chamberlain leads readers on a journey of perseverance, drawing lessons from human and natural history. She reflects on being diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and explores how walking helps manage anxiety, opening rich pathways of perception. In From Peaks to Prairie, Chamberlain examines her personal life, family history, and struggles as she encounters animals and plants of Montana and Wyoming. Each essay is an episode mingling the past with the present, combining sightings of bears, birds, and wildflowers with memories of her Utah childhood and family. She observes, “I walk. It’s the way I’ve found not to eliminate GAD and OVD, as I used to long to do but to live with them.” Mountains and prairies offer strength and nurture those who need them. It is on their paths that Chamberlain finds clarity.
Cara Chamberlain
Polymer clay has me hypnotized. Making art felt like the only choice in retirement.
I hope everything I make stops someone in their tracks.
Noel Hawke
I like to try all different mediums when creating art.
I have loved doodling and art classes since childhood, but got a Bachelor in fine art in mostly printmaking (intaglio, lithography and mono printing)- mostly abstract. Through the years of raising my son and working full time I just did a gift for someone here and there until I got back into it through portrait drawing/painting with Kevin Harris- ah ha moment there!,, and then joining the BAA!
I hope to keep growing and playing with subjects and mediums and create a style that’s all my own.
Marlene Dunis
My favorite medium is watercolors, but I also like to add collage elements, or cut the pieces into found art.
I grew up with an engineer (food processing) Dad who tinkered at home, a Mother who painted oils, and Grandmother who left a legacy of china painting and tiny watercolor vignettes. Later, while raising a family of four, we always had “projects” going with materials brought, home from my husband’s art classroom. As an empty nester, I joined a weekly mostly watercolor, “plein air in weather fair” group and still attend. I especially enjoy painting florals and seasonal botanicals.
I continue to enjoy painting with others, in a group or when another art friend stops by my apartment to paint a bouquet or the clouds out my window.
Gwen Rock
I enjoy working with fabric when I am at home, but watercolors are infinitely more portable in a busy life, so I tend to create with both and then combine them into “mixed media textiles”.
I am a 4th generation artist who was always encouraged to observe what was around me and create images with the materials available. My Dad was an art teacher and photographer so the “stuff” of creating was abundant and my mother was patient with experimental art constructions. I admit I cross-stitched and kitted my way through grad school and early parenting years but have reconnected with my own art through the generosity of local artists’ communities and teaching opportunities.
I plan to stay curious about my world and encourage my granddaughters to do the same and express themselves creatively as we all keep learning.
Elizabeth Waddington
I most enjoy working in traditional graphite/pencil and Digital with Procreate
I always enjoyed art/music growing up but after developing a hearing condition a few years ago I put the guitar down and picked up the pencil. I depict my everyday challenges with noise pollution but mix in a variety of nature and animal scenes. I admire comic artists with their precise line rendering and grew up with a family of artists so it’s to no surprise I started getting into it more.
I hope my art takes me to new designs and ideas I’ve yet to convey. Art is anything that takes your mind off things and lets you enjoy yourself in the moment. To have some sort of legacy, just a notch in the history of mankind, and hopefully improve it even if it’s just slightly.
Scott Waddington
I'm a lifelong artist and writer, and more recently I've found work as a chemist. In my realistic works I like to highlight small elements of beauty and the specific experiences and sights that come with any path traveled, and which might otherwise be ignored. In my writing I explore the theme of building connections and making your way through the world when the paths that most people take for granted just don’t quite work for you. And in my more whimsical creations I strive to combine both of those motifs into imaginative scenes, contrasting the mundane and the personal with the fantastical or the abstract.
Kathleen Thompson
I paint because it brings joy to me and, hopefully, to others. A few years ago I began teaching myself how to paint. I found that it was a wonderful way for me to express my love of nature. What matters most to me is that people can look at my paintings and feel something positive, a bit of happiness, calm, wonder, or hope. My paintings are not meant to be analyzed; they are meant to be enjoyed for the simplicity and authenticity they offer. I often choose to paint flowers or plants that are overlooked, those quiet flowers that may not immediately catch someone's attention..