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Invisible Prairie
2023
July 8–October 14, 2023
Invisible Prairie

Overview

Tinworks Art presented Invisible Prairie, a new place-based exhibition from July through October, 2023 at Tinworks Art, 719 N Ida in Bozeman’s northeast neighborhood. Invisible Prairie was a multimedia art exhibition that offered a unique opportunity to connect to the poetry, fragility, and mystery of America’s grasslands.

Invisible Prairie featured eight artists, each of whom explored the sensory experience of the prairie, with a special focus on the importance of sound and the cultural acts of speaking and listening. Intimate and thoughtful, their works collectively encouraged meditation, contemplation, and close attention to the place we call home. The exhibition included work by AK Burns, Abby Flanagan, Kite, Tracy Linder, Layli Long Soldier,* Julie Ann Nagle, Laurel Sparks, and Jeff Rice.

Through stories of land, people, and objects left behind; a region defined by wind, erosion, and never-ending sky; and an openness to the grasslands’ unique ways of speaking, Invisible Prairie shed light on the past, present, and the future of this complex region.

Layli Long Solider’s outdoor works for Invisible Prairie, Day Poem: Sun Mirrors and I don’t trust nobody but the land, are still on view at Tinworks.

About the Artists

A.K. Burns

Abby Flanagan

Kite

Tracy Linder

Layli Long Soldier

Julie Ann Nagle

Jeff Rice

Laurel Sparks

In the Press

“Every one of these recordings has a different story to it. I could talk for hours about it, but maybe it’s good to just listen.”

—Artist Jeff Rice

“The plains are not a landscape. They’re hostile and they’re empty and they’re scary.”

—2023 Curator Melissa Ragain

"If an intimate art experience that encourages meditation, contemplation, and paying close attention to the natural environment calls to you, see this quietly thought-provoking show about life on the prairie."

—Saryn Chorney, 6 mind-bending immersive art experiences around the U.S. AAA Magazine, 17 July 2023.

719 N Ida Ave Between E Cottonwood and E Aspen Bozeman, MT 59715

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Exhibition hours Thursday to Sunday, 10am–6pm

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