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Art Gallery
The Frame of Mind Art Gallery is Missoula’s new home for the artwork of Monte Dolack and Mary Beth Percival. Monte’s body of work is inspired by his love of nature and mythology, capturing the hearts of nature enthusiasts and art aficionados world wide. Mary Beth Percival’s watercolor paintings are an insight into the land where she was born, and celebrate the quiet comforts of daily living.
The Frame of Mind Art Gallery hosts a variety of artists and shows throughout the year. We welcome artists of all locales to submit work to become a part of our art exhibits. We feature Juried art shows, group artist shows, and also welcome artists to submit their work for a solo show.
Follow us here or on Facebook to learn about upcoming shows and opportunities to participate.
Gallery Staff
Our gallery staff works closely with local artists to bring Missoula shows that highlight artwork relative to all walks of life. Featuring exhibits focused on the exploration of gender identity through art, works on immigration, unique perspectives of young artists, as well as the works of Monte Dolack and Mary Beth Percival. Our close relationships with our featured artists allow us to bring Missoula a unique insight into their work. We strive to bring Missoula art in all forms from all over the world.
Now Accepting Art Submissions
Frame of Mind invites artists to contribute to “The Colors We Carry,” an art exhibition dedicated to raising awareness for breast and ovarian cancer. This exhibition will showcase a powerful collection of artwork that explores the journeys of strength, resilience, and hope, using the symbolic colors of pink and teal, and imagery related to the BRCA genetic mutation.
Through your art, we aim to create a visual dialogue about these cancers—bringing awareness, sharing stories, and honoring the individuals who are impacted by these diagnoses. Whether through abstract, figurative, or symbolic work, we encourage artists to express their personal connection to the cause and to contribute to the collective healing and awareness.
We welcome all visual media including painting, photography, sculpture, mixed media, and digital art. Together, let’s use our creativity to spark conversations and inspire change.
On Display Now
Hold the Wild - Our National Parks in Art
Various Artists
August 3-26, 2026
Alana Brevick
Just a young girl with a camera that’s inspired by everything I pass, trying to make a global impact.
Website: https://1ifelense.myshopify.com
Instagram: @1ifelense
Huckleberry Hen 
Before trading my reins for a paintbrush, I spent years as a mounted backcountry wilderness guide and it all started in Glacier Park. I shared the trails with the local wildlife so often that coworkers dubbed me the “Bear Lady,” and my radio handle officially became “Baloo.”
That whimsical, firsthand connection to the wild inspired these two acrylic pieces. A majestic grizzly navigating a lush meadow, while a curious cub peers down from a pine. Born from years of deep respect and shared high-country trails, this collection offers a heartfelt glimpse into the wild heart of our National Parks.
Website: https://huckleberryhen.com/
Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/TheHuckleberryHen/
Instagram: @huckleberryhenart
Christopher Paul Dillon
Chris Dillon is an independent wildlife photographer based in Missoula, Montana. With a background in television production, including years of experience as an assistant editor at Warm Springs Productions, Chris brings a keen cinematic eye to his still photography.
Deeply inspired by the timeless work of Ansel Adams and the immersive storytelling of nature documentaries like Planet Earth, his photography captures fleeting moments of raw, untamed beauty in the natural world. Through each image, Chris aims to evoke a sense of wonder, respect, and connection to the wild places and creatures that often go unseen.
Chris’ work invites viewers to slow down and appreciate the quiet details of wilderness, reminding us of what’s worth protecting.
Website: https://www.crystallinephotomt.com/
Instagram: @crystalline_photos
Dianne Beesley 
I am a Montanan with a degree in Biology and Chemistry from Carroll College and accredited through the College of American pathologists as a Medical Technologist and a Specialist in Blood Banking. I completed my career as a Director of Laboratory Services in a Denver area hospital.
My art journey started in hand quilting, telling stories thru color, shape and texture. I have enjoyed watercolor for 8 years and it has enabled me to express my feelings of joy and wonder for the simple beauty of life.
Dot Harris
Dot Harris paints landscapes. She prefers working plein air but also paints from reference photos. After painting in watercolors for 40 years in northern Wisconsin, Dot moved to Missoula seven years ago. She now also paints in acrylic which she finds work better for Montana’s vast, drier landscapes.
Emory Padgett 
I am a Montana photographer inspired by the abundant generosity of the Earth–by its metamorphoses and cycles that are both perpetual and fleeting. In my art, I work in tandem with nature to create portraits brimming with beauty, vibrance, and mystery; I invite viewers to marvel with me at the living power and moods of the land and its creatures. Beyond the Earth, I am transfixed by the moon’s pearly glow and its gravitational tie to us all. As a carpenter, I create natural wood frames to complement my imagery, further grounding the work and evoking the centrality of place.
Instagram: @owl.flowers
Erin E. Johnson
Erin E. Johnson is a local Missoula based multimedia artist, illustrator, and the designer behind Fire Sprung Creations. Originally from Helena Montana, Erin grew up traveling across the High-line living in diverse rural communities along the top of the state’s northern line of railroad towns bordering Canada – later starting college in Eastern Montana (Glendive) and finally finding her way to the mountains of Missoula to study at the University of Montana. These experiences offered her different views into the many ways of life a person could experience having under the ‘Big Sky’ State. Albeit a complicated and at times lonely and isolating journey the one constant through it all, were the wonders of the animals and natural wild places surrounding them.
Her work explores the lighthearted interplay of geomorphic graphic structure and imperfect organic shapes in animal and nature inspired forms. She loves humor, word play and the intimacy of small cute things. She is a colorist that loves to experiment with the effects that different color combinations have on the eye to – entice and provoke onlookers. Her artwork predominantly focuses on animals and storytelling – drawing on influences from midcentury artists, folklore, mythology, lame dad jokes, cartoons, graphic novels, and the silly playfulness of childhood nostalgia.
Instagram: @fire.sprung
My work focuses on the importance of public lands in the American West, viewing them through the cultural contexts of how we shape landscapes and are in turn shaped by them. The National Park System forms a backbone of protections for areas that may otherwise be considered only by their economic prospects. It is more important than ever to preserve the undeveloped world, as it is nearly impossible to return a place to how it was once it has been developed.
The history of photography in the environmental movement stretches back to the 1860s, when Carleton Watkins’ prints of the Yosemite Valley played a crucial role in President Lincoln’s decision to protect the area from logging interests. Almost 80 years later, the work of Ansel Adams and the Sierra Club similarly convinced President Roosevelt to protect Kings Canyon National Park. In the present day, photography helps raise awareness of attempts to remove protections from lands throughout the U.S., with multiple pressure campaigns the last two years causing unpopular land sell-off amendments to be cut from bills they were attached to.
The current push by economic and political leaders in the Western United States to glean as much profit from the lands that form the cultural bedrock out here threatens both undesignated and highly protected regions, from Southern Utah to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge of Alaska. Additionally, the impacts of climate change on the region are pushing the ecology of the West to breaking points, as can be seen in the Colorado River Basin. This work shows what we risk losing if we choose to develop protected public lands.
Heather HumphreyJessie Smith 
Born and raised in Montana; surrounded by mountains, rivers, and valleys, Jessie Smith is an artist whose work is a poetic exploration of the natural world and beyond. Smith’s natural artistic talents were nurtured by her family and teachers throughout her childhood, fueling her development into a passionate artist. Smith’s fine art journey began with group and solo exhibitions in Missoula. This led to a transformative artist residency that deepened her connection to Montana’s rich biodiversity and fostered a new artistic direction; transforming her real life observations into surreal illustrations. Smith’s utilization of meticulous drawing processes mixed with symbolic elements that stir the emotions, inspire awe when viewing her artwork.
Through the transmutation of personal photography into mixed-media drawings I create poetic narrative pieces best described as surreal illustrations.
Kirsten PabstKirsten Pabst is a multi-media & plein air artist based in Missoula where she lives on a small ranch with her family and horses. After a rewarding career in the law, she opened Sunridge Wellbeing Discovery Center, where clients build resiliency tools through facilitated art and equine experiences.
Before law school, Kirsten studied with Barb Schwarz Karst, Beth Lo, Don Bunse, Jim Todd, and other local artists, eventually earning a minor in art accompanying a B.A in Paralegal Studies. Following the loss of a child, Kirsten had two pieces from her series, Condolences, accepted into the Missoula Art Museum’s 2012 Montana Triennial. The complete Condolences series was a featured First Friday event. More recently, Kirsten’s mixed-media paintings have been featured at the Montana Museum of Art and Culture, the ZACC and Berkshire Hathaway Gallery.
Kirsten actively paints with a local en Plein Air group and, in the studio, creates mixed-media abstract landscapes highlighting Montana’s wild flowers, mountains, honey skies, and horses. She is open for commissions and on-site installations and her on-line gallery is at sunridge-studio.com.
From painting to mixed medium, texture and dimension became my passion. Exploring papers led me to Joomchi. Using this beautiful, organic technique in my work created textures that took my collages to a new level.
I realized that I enjoy drawing in the art observer and seeing them wonder at my art. They ask what medium I use. They want to touch it. They are always surprised that it began as paper.
My journey with Joomchi is far from over. I am inspired as I continue to experiment and learn from this ancient technique that absolutely belongs as a contemporary artist’s medium.
Website: lindacohenart.com
Sheila Gonzalez
I began painting nine years ago, at my mother’s kitchen table. My hope was to paint with her. Instead she breathed painting into my soul and I was hooked. I have painted more days than not ever since.
In my thirst for learning I explored YouTube, local classes, online learning platforms, and piles of art books. I paint using watercolors, and landscapes are a favorite topic. Recently I have begun the adventure of learning to paint portraits and now I happily split my time between the two. I am finding myself moving to a more loose style, experimenting with different textures and painting surfaces.
Sheri Nagy 
Sheri Nagy was born in Bozeman, Montana and she graduated with honors from Montana State University with a B.A. in Fine Arts.. Sculpture was her main focus for many years and led to the commission to create the monumental bronze eagle sculpture for the Veterans Memorial Park in Renton, Washington. The passion for sculpture influences the way she sees a landscape and transformed her oil painting technique so that she uses a palette knife exclusively to carve out the forms in most of her paintings. Sheri has participated in numerous art shows including the American Artists Professional League, New York, N.Y., the C.M. Russel National Art Show, Great Falls Montana, and the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Art Show Denver, Colorado. She also participated for the last 7 years in the Glacier Museum’s Plein Air Glacier Paint Out. Sheri lives in Missoula. Montana. She works primarily in her studio, but loves plein air painting outdoors as much as possible.
The natural world has always been a fascination for me and is the inspiration for my work. From my love of animals and their environment came the appreciation of shape and color, the drama of light and shadow and the patterns of nature. In my painting and sculpture I hope to give the viewer a window to the way I see the world and to promote the desire to look again, maybe in a different way.
Stacey Klocke
My name is Stacey Klocke. I live in Lolo, Montana. I have always loved nature and the peace it brings me. I’m a self taught new artist.
Susan Beyer 
Susan Beyer – They say, Susan W Beyer, is becoming a Montana artist from her heart and soul with her own unique impressionistic eye. Being Montana born in Cut Bank, the Hi-Line vastness was her youth’s playground. The Big Sky stretched endless to the east and the Rocky Mountains landscaped the west. Glacier National Park Eastside splendor humbled her before Ninaiistako (Chief Mountain) and the Rocky Mountain front. Her lifelong home is western Montana mountains. These experiences molded her spirituality and love for the land. Naturally, landscapes are Susan’s inspiration. Susan has been blessed with the spirit of love, life and light through family, friends, and critters, especially the horse. Riding a cutting horse for the first time was one of her altering experiences. Likewise, so was her first oil painting art lesson in March of 2022. Once Susan felt the brush and oil on the canvas, she was found a new passion.
Susan‘s creamy oils flow across her canvas like the never-ending childhood of the four winds of the Hi-Line or, her creamy oils don’t flow at all! When she picks up her brushes, you can trust Susan spirit is on the canvas. Undisciplined, wild and free, uniquely true to herself, is how she paints. Perhaps one of her oil paintings will evoke emotion in you. That is Susan‘s dream and purpose.
Susan is a proud member of The Brush & Chisel of Hot Springs Montana since March 2023 and The East Studio Art League of Taos, New Mexico since January 2024. Currently her artwork is available through On the Wall Gallery, 131 N Wall Street, Hot Springs, MT.
Monte Dolack
Frame of Mind is pleased to announce the addition of our gallery space to the store. The gallery space is the new home for Monte Dolack and Mary Beth Percival’s art work, where we can display the full collection of their posters, fine art prints, notecards, post cards, and lithographs available in stock at our location.
Monte Dolack is a staple in the world of Montana artwork. His artwork captures the true magic and beauty that is found all around us in Montana. A native of Great Falls, Monte Dolack grew up surrounded by the same sweeping vistas and big sky that inspired Charlie Russell. His love of Montana and passion for the West’s diverse landscapes and wildlife are evident in the images he creates and the commissions he undertakes.
Visit us today to see the artist’s collected works and view a rotating gallery of beautifully framed pieces by both Monte Dolack and Mary Beth Percival.
Submit Your Work!
Frame of Mind is always on the look out for up and coming artists. We have many opportunities to show local and national artists in our gallery. Our annual Juried Art Exposition allows artists to not only show their work, but to get feedback from local celebrity judges. Our individual and themed group shows offer artists a chance to exhibit their work in our gallery along side famous artists like Monte Dolack and Mary Beth Percival. Past artists include Missoula artist Monte Dolack, Missoula Artist Mary Beth Percival, Missoula artist Courtney Blazon, and Missoula artist Gavin McClure. Submit your work with the link below.
