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Leslie Van Stavern Millar II

  • P.O. Box 387
  • Arlee, MT 59821
  • 406.726.5044
  • leslievanstavernmillar.com

 Selected Group Exhibitions (since 2000)

We The People, Brunswick Gallery, Missoula, MT 2017

Art of the Auction, Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT 2017

Studies From the Figure, Annual Exhibit, Brunswick Gallery, Missoula, MT yearly 2017 – 2000

Mystery of the Stars, Collaborative installation by Joe Batt & Leslie Van Stavern Millar, The Urban Art Project, Great Falls, MT 2013

Recent Acquisitions, Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT 2013

Watermedia 2012, Montana Watercolor Society’s 30th National Juried Exhibition, Bigfork Museum of Art and History, Bigfork, MT 2012

Purple: Selections from the MAM Collection, Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT 2012

Montana Women in the Visual Arts 1860 – 2011, Emerson Gallery, Bozeman, MT 2011

Caravan Project Print Portfolio, Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls, MT 2011

Montana Landscape Show: Eye of the Beholder, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT 2010

Americas 2010 – Paperworks, Northwest Art Center, Minot State University, Minot, North Dakota 2010

Dragana Crnjak, Leslie Van Stavern Millar, James Stroud, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA 2009

Montana Triennial, Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT 2009

Photography Exhibition, Gallery Saintonge, Missoula, MT 2008

Encaustic Invitational, Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT 2008

Deep Play: Joyful Revelry and Subversive Whimsy in MAM Collections, Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT 2007

Caravan Collaboration, Alone/Together, MAGDA traveling show. University of Montana Western, Dillon, MT, 2007, Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT 2007, & the Emerson Art Center, Bozeman, MT 2007

Women Beyond Borders, Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT 2007

MAM Unwrapped II, Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT 2007

Many Faces of Women – Photography Exhibit, Gallery Saintonge, Missoula, MT 2007

MAM Unwrapped I, Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT 2006

Spirit of Place – Unmapped Journeys, Beall Park Art Center, Bozeman, MT, 2005

Americas 2000: All Media, Northwest Art Center, Minot State University, Minot, ND, 2004

Art on the Plains 7, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, S.D. 2004

Annual Juried Show, Allied Artists, Richland, WA 2004

ANA 32, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT 2003

Polemics, Art Museum of Missoula, Missoula, MT 2003

Play Ball, Art Museum of Missoula, Missoula, MT 2003

Minitreasures, Holter Museum, Helena, MT 2002

Recollecting: The Role of Memory in Making and Collecting Art, Art Museum of Missoula, Missoula, MT 2002

Selected Solo Exhibits  (since 2000)

Montana Peepshow Stories, Montana Art Gallery Director’s Association Traveling Show, Carbon County Artists Guild, Red Lodge, MT, April 2017

Montana Peepshow Stories, Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT 2016

Cabinet of Curiosities, Babcock Gallery, Sweetbriar College, Amherst, VA 2014

Timeless/Transient – New Encaustic Panels, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA 2012

An Ideal Girl – Gouache Paintings, Brink Gallery, Missoula, MT 2011

Diatom Universe, Catalyst, Missoula, MT 2009

Hush – New Photographs, Brunswick Gallery, Missoula, MT 2006

Mystery of the Stars – Black & White Photographs, Brunswick Gallery, Missoula, MT 2001

Four Artists From Montana, Artist’s Gallery, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA 2000

Performances

 My Cup of Tea, Slideshow and performance, Nordic Pines Lodge, Missoula, MT 2016

Montanarama, Science Woman Performances, Speakers Bureau, Humanities Montana, 2015 – 2007

Lives of the Artists, Narrative performance, Brunswick Gallery, Missoula, MT 2012

First Time – Poll, Science Woman Performance, Artini, Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT 2006

Science Woman & Beauty Ranger Deconstruct the Corps of Discovery, Beall Park Art Center, Bozeman, MT 2005

Science Woman – My History of Art – People, Places & Things – Performance # 1, May 2005 & Performance #2, June 2005, Brunswick Gallery, Missoula, MT

 The Early Years of Science Woman, Science Woman Performance, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA 2003

Mary Lyon’s True Identity, Science Woman Performance, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, June 2002

History of Science, Science Woman Performance, An Evening of Weird Science with Dr. Science, University of Montana Theatre, Missoula, MT 2001

Art Improves the Quality of Life, Science Woman Performance, Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls, MT, April 2001; and Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT  yearly 2001 – 1997

Lectures

Montana Peepshow Stories, Gallery Talk, Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT 2016

The First Queen Elizabeth Time Travels to Montana, Montana Book Festival, Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT 2016

Cabinet of Curiosities, Art Lectures – Gallery, Art and Biology Departments, Sweet Briar College, Amherst VA 2014

Clock Encaustics  – Insects and Birds of Virginia, Natural History Class, Sweet Briar College, Amherst, VA 2012

Timeless, Transient, Gallery Talk, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA 2012

Ideal Girls, Ideal Women, Gallery Talk, Brink Gallery, Missoula, MT 2011

My History of Art – Encaustics, Science Woman and Persian Miniature Painting, Lecture, Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT 2009

Encaustics, Lecture/Slide Show, Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT 2008

Art in Science/Science in Art, Panel Discussion, Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls, MT 2006

Education 

Traditional Mosaic Instruction, workshop of Luciana Notturni, Ravenna, Italy, 2016

Encaustic Instruction: R & F Encaustics, Kingston, N.Y. 2002            San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, CA 2002

Printmaking Instruction: University of Montana, Missoula, MT 1999, 1985, 1974

Traditional Mosaic Instruction: Centro Internazionale Studi Insegnamento Mosaico, Ravenna, Italy 1977

B.A. in Studio Art/Biology (interdepartmental study): Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA 1972

Articles and Media

“We The People art show responds to political movement”, by Cory Walsh, Missoulian, Missoula, MT. August 17, 2017

“At the Brunswick, We The People sends a message for the ages and for the age of Trump,” by Erika Frederickson, Missoula Independent, Missoula, MT. August 3, 2017

More books: The First Queen Elizabeth Time Travels to Montana”, Alumnae Association of Mount Holyoke College, Spring Issue, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA. 2017

“Leslie Van Stavern Millar on View at the Missoula Art Museum”, State of the Arts, Winter Issue, Montana Arts Council, Helena, MT. 2017

“Leslie Millar and Queen Elizabeth1 turn back the clock at the Missoula Art Museum”, by Erika Frederickson, Missoula Independent, Missoula, MT. December 8, 2016

Taking a Peek at Montana History, Rendered in Gouache”, by Cory Walsh, Missoulian, Missoula, MT. November 3, 2016

“Missoula Art Museum hosting “Montana Peepshow Stories” on First Friday”, Missoula Current, Missoula, MT. October 28, 2016

“Pattee Canyon Ladies Salon Finds Live Drawing a Tradition Worth Keeping,”by Leland Buck, Missoulian, Missoula, MT. August 30, 2013

“Pattee Canyon Ladies Salon Holds Annual Exhibit of Figure Studies,” by Betsy Cohen, Missoulian, Missoula, MT. July 29, 2012

Article on Timeless/Transient and Natural Wonders Exhibit, Art Life, Albermarle Magazine. April/May 2012

”Spotlight – An Ideal Girl at the Brink,” by Jason McMackin, Missoula Independent, Missoula, MT. November 3, 2011

“First Friday – Missoula Studio Tempts with Teapots,” by Joe Nickell, Missoulian, Missoula, MT. February 4, 2011

“Everyone Maturing Artistically at Salon,” by Joe Nickell, Missoulian, Missoula, MT. August 20, 2010

“Twisted Sister,” (Gouache painting – Cover of Entertainer Monthly) Missoulian, Missoula, MT. June 3, 2010

“Missoula’s Vibrant Arts Community Could Hold the Key to an Economic Turnaround,” featured interview with Leslie Millar, by Erika Frederickson, Missoula Independent, Missoula, MT. March 26, 2009

“Waxing Eloquent at MAM,” Article on Encaustic Invitational by Joe Nickell, Missoulian, Missoula, MT. July 3, 2008

“Artist Inspired by National Encaustic Conference,” Article and Photograph by L.V.S. Millar, State of the Arts – Montana Arts Council Newsletter. September/October 2007

“Art, Denuded: Pattee Canyon Ladies Salon,” by Joe Nickell, Missoulian, Missoula, MT. July 26, 2007

“Leslie, This Is Your Life,” Documentary biography by Chris Autio and Aprille Hammond, International Documentary Challenge. March 2007

“An Artist That Collects Inspiration,” Missoulian, Missoula, MT. February 22, 2007

 Grants, Fellowships and Awards

 Prop Foundation Individual Artist Grant, Missoula, MT. 2016

Montana Arts Council, Strategic Investment Grant, Helena, MT. 2016

Merit Award, Americas 2010 – Paperworks. Northwest Art Center, Minot State University, Minot, ND. 2010

Nancy Award, Juried Show. Allied Artists Association, Richland, WA. 2004

Juror’s Choice Award, ANA 32. Holter Museum, Helena, MT. 2003

Selected Collections/ Public & Private

Federal Reserve Bank of Northwest U.S., Minneapolis, MN

City of Missoula, Missoula, MT

Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT

Montana Museum of Art and Culture, University of Montana, Missoula, MT

Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls, MT

Jundt Art Museum, Spokane, Washingto

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Sharon Alexander, Missoula, MT

Jeff & Pat Aresty, Seeley Lake, MT

Page Bond, Richmond, VA

Frances Brodsky, San Francisco, CA

Debra Earling & Robert Stubblefield, Missoula, MT

Fredericka Hunter, Houston, TX

Laura Millin & Craig Menteer, Missoula, MT

Estate of Edward R. Murrow

Susan O’Connor, Missoula, MT

Linda Wachtmeister, Scottsville, VA

Education

Traditional Mosaic Instruction, workshop of Luciana Notturni, Ravenna, Italy. 2016

Encaustic Instruction, R & F Encaustics, Kingston, N.Y. 2002

San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, CA. 2002

Printmaking Instruction, University of Montana, Missoula, MT. 1974, 1985, 1999.

Traditional Mosaic Instruction, Centro Internazionale Studi Insegnamento Mosaico, Ravenna, Italy. 1977

B.A. in Studio Art/Biology, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA. 1972

 

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