Holiday Art Show at the Holter Presents Townsend Artist
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Nancy Marks
Nancy Marks: MT43 News Secretary and News Editor |
Holiday Art Show at the Holter Presents Townsend Artist Nancy Marks Good art reflects the personality of the artist and Amanda Detterman’s work is no exception. The 2001 Broadwater High School graduate is showing 22 books she painted or created and bound herself. Ten of them are watercolor or mixed media in the Coptic stitch of bookbinding. Twelve are artists’ journals with fabric covers and embroidery. “Those are my specialty,” Amanda said, ”I print the pages with linoleum block prints or pastels of some kind. Sometimes they are called junk journals. Artists can draw on them or make collages.”
Amanda completed both her bachelor's and master's at the University of Montana in Missoula. By 2013 she was working at Washington State University in Pullman where she did artwork for four years. She returned to Montana as a marketing manager at Carroll College for three years. Since then she has been working as a freelance artist. Amanda lives in the Silos area.
The Holter Museum, on Lawrence Street in Helena up from Bert and Ernies Restaurant, is open Tuesday through Saturday 10 am-5:30 pm and Sunday from noon to 4 pm. They are closed on Monday. The Holiday Art Show began on Nov. 3 and will be on display until Dec. 31st.
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