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This is a special invitation to Phillips County and the surrounding region! Art Spot, your community benefits Arts Organization, is presenting the 2nd Annual Heritage Arts Fair at the Malta City Hall on December 3, and all of you are invited! Art Spot will be presenting information on the ongoing School Art Workshops that are happening at Dodson and Whitewater Elementary Schools. The students have sent their latest and greatest paintings for your viewing pleasure. Students from all the schools...
LOCATION (June 26, 2017) – Ranchers Stewardship Alliance, Inc. (RSA) has been awarded a $300,000 conservation grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF), RSA’s president Leo Barthelmess announced. Additional matching funds of $110,000 bring the total funds to $410,000. The NFWF grant allows RSA to reach out to and engage landowners in Blaine, Phillips and Valley counties to achieve positive results for wildlife and the ranching community. Member agencies and groups have pledged to act cooperatively to support the mission sta...
A fantastic new event was held at City Hall in Malta on Sunday, December 4, 2016. The First Annual Phillips County Heritage Arts Fair held four separate arts demonstrations from 11 a.m. – 8 p.m. The Phillips County Student Art Competition included visual arts submissions from students in Elementary through high school grades. The most submissions were received from Whitewater Schools. The lucky winners included Vanessa Mann, Malta High School – 1st Prize high school, Dylan Brown – 1st Prize...
Hello Phillips County! Do you want to know what’s happening at the Art Spot? The Phillips County Heritage Arts Fair is coming up – mark your calendars for Sunday, December 4! From 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., there are four events happening at once at the Malta City Hall on 2nd Street. We’re starting with the Phillips County School Arts Competition which includes art submissions from all of the Phillips County Schools and the home schooled children. There are prizes for elementary school, middle school and high school projects! We hope all the proud...
If you’re visiting the Malta Middle and High Schools and want to see a sampling of the visual artwork that is being created, you have two options. You can walk down the Middle School corridor and look above the lockers or you can look to your right as you enter the school doors near the office and see the High School artists’ work displayed in the showcase! Mrs. Anna LaBrie is the Fine Arts Teacher for the Malta Public Schools middle and high school students and Kalli Reintjes is the 4th grade teacher that works with the 4th and 5th grade stu...
Last Sunday I had the pleasure of spending an hour with a group of the 4-H Members. We spoke about leadership and made kites to soar our wishes for better leadership skills to the heavens. The kites will also be displayed at the Phillips County Fair booth in July/August. And, yes, our kites did soar – all of the 8 feet that we allowed on the string. We had a great wind and, standing out in the Veterans Memorial Park, with the wind blowing the kites in loop-de-loops, I thought about how great it was that our two groups could share those m...
First State Bank’s Car Show happened this weekend! The Dirt Daubers Garden Club held their Garden show and there was a concert at the Pavilion, and Phillips County Motor Sports conducted racing that boomed through the city of Malta. Art Spot and Bohn’s Bones Art Gallery held its 3rd Annual City of Malta Arts in the Park. Sixty seven young and young at heart people came to the Art Spot booth in the park. Taking paint brush in hand, they indulged in creating race car paintings, horses, pick up trucks and tractors. Hopefully, some of those wer...
It’s not easy bringing the fine arts to people’s attention in such a physically active community. Our sports teams are among the finest in the state of Montana. Their recognition is well deserved and competition is fierce. Speech and Drama Club are extremely important as our students learn to inter-act with and negotiate with other people in and out of our community. And the music programs and outside performing arts are key ingredients for entertainment and learning in our community. But I found out something sad the other day. In talking to...
I listen at meetings in our community of Phillips County and I read the statistics about who we are and what we do as a community and as families. According to those statistics, given to us by the U S Cen-sus bureau, Phillips County performs 35% over the national median for being members of charitable organizations. In other words, we ROCK as far as volunteerism is concerned! What is volunteerism? There are many discussions around the world about volunteerism and the needs of nonprofit organizations. Do you know what the needs are at the...
Lately, I’ve been seeing a number of posts on Facebook and Pinterest where people are proclaiming their love of coloring and how it helps them to de-stress from the day. Their comments and photos remind me of the simpler time of childhood where our parents threw coloring books and crayons at us to occupy our time so they could get a few things done. You can get coloring pages on just about any subject, including free coloring pages on the internet, which, by the time you print them out, aren’t really free because you had to pay for the ink. The...
Community Theater has been around for a very long time! The Greeks and Romans had their own theaters which were brought by them to the British Isles and throughout Europe. Eastern Europe and the Asian Continent also had their form of performance acting and village community theater for entertainment. Evolving from legend-telling around the campfires of our ancestors into dramatic productions involving costumes and turning into a profession, acting is as old as the ages. What compels us to want to act? My theory, when you don’t have anything t...
As a relative newcomer to Malta, MT, one of the first things I learned about even before coming to Montana was of Leonardo the mummified dinosaur technically known as a Brachylophosaurus or duck billed dinosaur. Now that I’m here in Malta, I’ve taken time to do more Googling and, amazingly, there is tons of information about Leonardo including video clips of documentaries. The best documentary that I saw was called “Best Dinosaur Mummy ever Found Guinness Record” and you can find it on YouTube. It runs almost an hour, but goes through the who...
Did you know that creating any type of art requires project management skills? Whether you are planning a fine arts visual painting, a play that you want to perform, a musical composition, or a dance routine, you must have an end goal and work your way backwards to where you need to start creating. The Montana Council for the Arts recently published a full article on the decline of arts programs in the schools called “Art Smart” with the subtitle that “Art classes rarely schools’ top priority, yet research suggests they should be”. Sarah She...