This FREE arts festival returns Saturday, September 9th from 10am - 4pm!
-FREE Art Activities
-FREE Artist Demonstrations
-FREE Root Beer Floats (while supplies last)
-FREE Museum Gallery Admission (the museum is free year-round)
-Artist Alley (vendor list below)
-Food Trucks
-Pottery Sale
-Musical, dance, and theatrical performances throughout the day
This is a FREE event, but any donations collected at Arts on Fire will be used in our Arts Education Scholarship Fund for students of all ages. Learn more about our scholarship program here.
PARKING: Event parking is generously provided by Montana Credit Union across Central Avenue. Parking in the museum lot’s west side is strictly reserved for those needing handicap spots.
Thank you to these fine sponsors for helping us make Arts on Fire possible for the community!
2023 Performance Schedule (Exact times will be posted at the event). All performances will take place on the main stages on the South lawn except as otherwise noted.
MORNING
-Great Falls High Choir & Great Falls High Junior ROTC | National Anthem & Presentation of Colors
-Raku Firing Demonstrations with Rob Kellenbeck, Matt Holbrook, and Shawn Fossen (east side kilns)
-Great Falls High Thespians
-Richard Matoon
AFTERNOON
-Raku Firing Demonstrations with Rob Kellenbeck, Matt Holbrook, and Shawn Fossen (east side kilns)
-12:00pm - 1:00pm: Chamber Fun 101 with Great Falls Symphony Chinook Winds
-Aunya’s Belly Dancing
-Miss Linda’s School of Dance
-Clint Reimann
2023 Food Trucks
Okii Eats | Native + Korean Fusion Food
Sip Invasion | Smoothies, Boba Tea, Italian Sodas
Oddfellows & Rebekahs | Hot Dogs, Cotton Candy, Fair Food
We will have ceramic tumblers and pottery for sale to raise money for the Education Department, as well as the artist vendors below:
2023 Artist Alley Vendor List:
Danielle Lozon- Danielle’s Art Creations (pour paintings)
Colleen Johnson & Jimmie Henry- Pottery
Bruce Vasser- Lathe-turned woodworking
Micky & Amber Luse- Jewelry
John Lee- Photography
Steven Carlyle Smith- Paintings
Kay Feist- Pottery
Micah Rauch- Drawings, Paintings, & Illustrations, stickers, prints
Mary Fry- Pottery
Kathy Sundstrom- Trees of Life, Suncatchers, crystal jewelry
Ebbie Hansen- Rocken Zen Rodeo Design & Fotografix
Karen & Ted Gray- Welded sculptures & sewn goods
Christina Yung- Paintings
Alee Tyler- Pottery
Jake Duty- Pottery
Niki Greene & Paige Stewart- On the Rise Sourdough & The Loaded Bobbin (baked goods and sewn goods)
Susan Casey- Twisted Soul Candy twisted metal jewelry
M’lynda Elliott & Shawn Fossen- Pottery
Lori Stiffler- FairMontana Pottery
Kristina Smith- Get Wild Girl Art & Photography
John Hartsoe- Once Upon a Stump turned wooden bowls
The museum galleries will be open all day! Explore our three ‘summer blockbuster’ exhibitions. More info here.
2023 Art Activities
Mural painting, Weavers & Spinners Guild, photo booth, printmaking, handmade instrument-making, watercolor, coloring book station, sidewalk chalk the block, Lee Steen build-a-Steen, ceramic ornaments, lawn games, AND MORE!