Zootown Arts Community Center

Requiem, Water’s Edge

Before: Ocean of Grass

Before: Mission Fall

Before: Rattlesnake Summer

Before: Snowberries

Requiem, Streamed

Requiem, Forest Underwater

Requiem, After the Flood

Requiem, Wild Stump

Requiem, Reflections, and Shadows

Katrina Ruhmland – 
Icelandic wool, washed, spun, and dyed by hand. Woven on a 4 harness, 6 treadle Bergman Countermarch Loom.

Multicolor rectangles

Red Striped

Grey with purple-blue

Cornflower Blue

Requiem, Burn

Katrina Ruhmland – 
Seed beads, conveyor belt chain, deer rawhide, Dogbane cordage, my mom’s old mink stole. – 
29" x 26" x 4" – 
2016

Recurrence

Katrina Ruhmland – 
Buffalo and mountain goat hair, buckskin, peyote stitched seed beads on apple branches from my yard, metal staves, found farm implement. – 
21" x 23" – 
2018

Sweet Memory Keeper

Katrina Ruhmland – 
All seed beads Peyote stitched on elk leg bones. Black Walnut base. – 
13" x 3" x 3" – 
2017

Flicker

Katrina Ruhmland – 
All seed beads Peyote stitched on elk leg bones. Black Walnut base. – 
13" x 3" x 3" – 
2018

Feeder Birds

Katrina Ruhmland – 
Wool panels woven on a hand built Navajo style loom, copper, up-cycled oak flooring from an old bar in St Ignatius. – 
28" x 57" – 
2017

We Are All One

Katrina Ruhmland – 
 Weaving is 38 x 58. Icelandic wool - hand washed, spun, dyed and woven on a 4 harness, 6 treadle, Bergman Countermarch Loom, conveyor belt chain. – 
48" x 58" – 
2023

Despicable Control

Katrina Ruhmland
All seed beads Peyote stitched on elk leg bones. Black Walnut base. – 
16" x 4" x 4" – 
2016

Osprey

Katrina Ruhmland – 
Romney wool - hand washed, carded, spun, dyed and woven on a Kesinich 4 harness jack loom, gifted bunk bed ladder. – 
64" x 63" – 
2020-2023

Accordion

Katrina Ruhmland – 
All seed beads Peyote stitched on elk leg bones. Black Walnut base. – 
14" x 3" x 3" – 
2018

Trumpeter Swans

Katrina Ruhmland – 
Wool, mountain goat hair, buffalo rawhide, gunny sack, re-bar. – 
47" x 57" – 
2016

Garment Of The Soul

Katrina Ruhmland – 
All seed beads Peyote stitched on elk leg bones. Black Walnut base. – 
17.5" x 4" x 4" – 
2014

Canada Goose

Katrina Ruhmland – 
Mountain goat hair, seriously hand collected in the Montana mountains over four summers, washed, spun, and woven on a table loom. Copper. – 
15" x 28" – 
2018-2023

Refuge

Katrina Ruhmland – 
All seed beads Peyote stitched on elk leg bones. Black Walnut base. – 
17" x 4" x 4" – 
2018

Golden Eagle

Katrina Ruhmland – 
Wool hand washed, carded, dyed, and spun. Woven on a hand built Weighted Warp Loom. Found bullribs that had reportedly been chewed on by a Grizzly Bear (it was long gone when I collected them!) – 
35" x 63" – 
2023

It’s A Very Fine Line

Katrina Ruhmland – 
Hand washed, dyed, carded and spun Romney wool, seed beads, branches from cherry trees in my yard, assorted larger beads, deer buckskin, Milagros and charms. Woven on a hand built Navajo style loom. – 
35" x 60" x 4" – 
2019

Memoriam: Death’s In The Desert

Katrina Ruhmland – 
14” flat-stitched diameter circle with seed beads, surrounded by Mountain Goat hair, mounted on a 24” metal stave. – 
24" x 25" x 3" – 
2020 – 2023

In The Quiet

<p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 18px;padding:0px;font-family:Merriweather, serif;font-weight:400;font-size:16px;line-height:1;color:rgb(123, 123, 123);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">The ZACC is thrilled to be hosting 'Earth & Life: Discussions’, works by Katrina Ruhmland and Gail Trenfield, in our Main Gallery for the month of August 2023.<p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 18px;padding:0px;font-family:Merriweather, serif;font-weight:400;font-size:16px;line-height:1;color:rgb(123, 123, 123);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">The Gallery Opening is free and open to all, with works available for purchase.<p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 18px;padding:0px;font-family:Merriweather, serif;font-weight:400;font-size:16px;line-height:1;color:rgb(123, 123, 123);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">‘Earth & Life: Discussions’ is a culmination of eight years of discussions between Katrina Ruhmland and Gail Trenfield, two artists and friends about their vastly different approaches to art. Katrina a mixed media weaver and Gail a painter have found surprising common ground in their work and are excited to share it with the Missoula community.<p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 18px;padding:0px;font-family:Merriweather, serif;font-weight:400;font-size:16px;line-height:1;color:rgb(123, 123, 123);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Katrina works with fiber – finding it in natural places, cleaning, carding, spinning, dying, and finally, weaving. The work takes time and patience. It is direct and tactile. She starts with an idea, an emotion, and stays open to allowing the work to have voice in the process – bringing together history, background, location, ideas, the nature of the materials and process into the final work. Each piece is rich with the stories that brought it into being.<p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 18px;padding:0px;font-family:Merriweather, serif;font-weight:400;font-size:16px;line-height:1;color:rgb(123, 123, 123);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Gail’s work with oil, pastel and watercolor is more immediate – often starting as plein air work, coming out of deep appreciation of what is simply before her, and working to bring it to life again in a new form. The light she chases is ephemeral, but the result of that chase is a solid, more permanent object ... a memorial of a few passing moments.<p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 18px;padding:0px;font-family:Merriweather, serif;font-weight:400;font-size:16px;line-height:1;color:rgb(123, 123, 123);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">ABOUT THE SHOW In their own words, "We have a shared studio space and are learning from each other's ideas and processes. Our discussions continue and deepen. What we have found in common is reverence for humanity’s time on this beautiful earth – for all the stories and all the moments that have brought us to the brink of destroying that world. We hope to evoke discussions from our viewers, with the possibilities of shared solutions, moving from grief to hope. This show will include new works by both of us – including weavings, beadwork, oils, pastels, drawings, watercolors, and mixed media sculptures. The examples of the work that we are sharing are about humanity and the relationships with the land we use to survive. We intend to expose the plight we see and create a call to action."

Hello <span contenteditable="false" data-custom-variable="{{firstname}}" fr-original-class="fr-deletable styled-tag-chip " style="background-color:rgb(248, 248, 255);border:1px solid rgb(191, 191, 255);border-radius:4px;color:rgb(42, 42, 196);display:inline-block;margin:0px;padding:1px 8px;font-size:11px;line-height:16px;overflow-wrap:anywhere;user-select:none;box-sizing:inherit">First name <span contenteditable="false" data-custom-variable="{{lastname}}" fr-original-class="fr-deletable styled-tag-chip " style="background-color:rgb(248, 248, 255);border:1px solid rgb(191, 191, 255);border-radius:4px;color:rgb(42, 42, 196);display:inline-block;margin:0px;padding:1px 8px;font-size:11px;line-height:16px;overflow-wrap:anywhere;user-select:none;box-sizing:inherit">Last name, Thank you for choosing to purchase art from the ZACC Gallery! This show comes down at the end of May. If you require shipping then we will invoice you for the additional cost.  Kind regards. Delaney Wascheroldelaney@zootownarts.org406-549-7555