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    Press Release - Corwin Clairmont - Mar 2023

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    The Missoula Art Museum will host artist Corwin "Corky" Clairmont for a talk titled "Art as Activism" on March 15th. Clairmont is a Salish-Kootenai artist who has used his art to explore themes of environmental degradation and its effects for over five decades. The talk is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and University of Montana departments. Clairmont was born on the Flathead Reservation and is known for works addressing the Dakota Access Pipeline and impacts of the oil industry on tribal lands. A reception will be held before his talk at the Missoula Art Museum.

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    The Missoula Art Museum will host artist Corwin "Corky" Clairmont for a talk titled "Art as Activism" on March 15th. Clairmont is a Salish-Kootenai artist who has used his art to explore themes of environmental degradation and its effects for over five decades. The talk is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and University of Montana departments. Clairmont was born on the Flathead Reservation and is known for works addressing the Dakota Access Pipeline and impacts of the oil industry on tribal lands. A reception will be held before his talk at the Missoula Art Museum.

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    The Missoula Art Museum will host artist Corwin "Corky" Clairmont for a talk titled "Art as Activism" on March 15th. Clairmont is a Salish-Kootenai artist who has used his art to explore themes of environmental degradation and its effects for over five decades. The talk is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and University of Montana departments. Clairmont was born on the Flathead Reservation and is known for works addressing the Dakota Access Pipeline and impacts of the oil industry on tribal lands. A reception will be held before his talk at the Missoula Art Museum.

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    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Anna Wilson

    Mar. 7, 2023 Email: [email protected]

    Missoula Art Museum presents artist Corwin “Corky”


    Clairmont in public talk on “Art as Activism”
    National Endowment of the Humanities and University of Montana’s Native
    American Studies and Anthropology departments sponsor event
    MISSOULA, Mont., — MAM invites the public to “Art as Activism,” presented by Montana artist
    Corwin "Corky" Clairmont on Wednesday, March 15, at 6:30 PM in the Lynda M. Frost Gallery.
    Clairmont (Salish−Kootenai) has expressed his strong convictions through art for more than five
    decades. His work explores Indian Country and themes of environmental degradation and the effects on
    all humans and wildlife. This program is supported by the National Endowment of the Humanities and
    the Native American Studies and Anthropology departments at University of Montana.

    MAM has hosted Clairmont many times and exhibitions of his works have amplified his views and
    activism. In 2018, Clairmont installed Two-Headed Arrow/The Tar Sands Project at MAM. Clairmont
    created unique works from sites including Standing Rock, North Dakota, which connected the Dakota
    Access Pipeline controversy to the project. This wide-ranging conceptual and performative piece
    covered many miles, from MAM to the Suncor mining operations in the Athabasca tar sands. Clairmont
    created works from materials used at 37 sites to remind viewers that decisions made in one place and
    time affect all life on the planet. Previously, MAM exhibited Clairmont’s Yellowstone Pipeline Series,
    which tied the oil trucks that traveled within the Flathead Reservation to environmental hazards and
    potential loss of life through photographic and abstract imagery.

    Clairmont was born on the Flathead Reservation and received a BFA at Montana State University and
    his MFA at California State University. He spent the 1970s as a practicing artist and professor at Otis
    Art Institute in Los Angeles, where he was influenced by the conceptual art movement. He returned to
    Montana to work at Salish Kootenai College in Pablo, where he was instrumental in creating the Fine
    Arts Department. Among other honors, Clairmont received the Montana Governor's Arts Award for
    Visual Arts and an Eiteljorg Fellowship. He designed the emblem of the American Indian Library
    Association and the Tribal seal of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes.

    Doors will open at 5:30 PM for a reception with the artist.


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    About the Missoula Art Museum: Founded in 1975 and accredited by the American Alliance of Museums since 1987,
    MAM is emerging as the leading contemporary art museum in the Intermountain West. MAM is a fully accessible, free
    public museum boasting eight exhibition spaces, a library, and an education center in the heart of Missoula’s historic
    downtown. MAM is situated on the traditional, ancestral territories of the Séliš (Salish or “Flathead”) and Ql̓ispé (upper
    Kalispel or Pend d ’Oreille) peoples in Missoula, Montana, USA. MAM is committed to respecting the indigenous stewards
    of the land it occupies. Their rich cultures are fundamental to artistic life in Montana and to the work of MAM.

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