Special Events & Exhibits
CARTER COUNTY MUSEUM, EKALAKA, MT
Special Exhibits and Events
Check out this page for changing exhibits and special events at the Carter County Museum.
Saturday, June 1 at 9 a.m.
Exhibit Opening: Big Sky Seaway
Free Admission
"Big Sky Seaway" explores the evolutionary narrative of marine life during the Mowry through the Pierre Shale; a ~30 million year record of marine transitions. This travel through time will include highlighting vibrant marine diversity, such as ammonites, marine reptiles, crabs and more!
Funding for this exhibit provided by a Brand Montana Eastern Montana Initiative Tourism Grant.
Friday, JUNE 28 AT 1 P.M.
Exhibit Opening: Matthew Warren Lee, Artist in Residence
Free Admission
Matthew Warren Lee is a Wisconsin born artist and professor at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. Lee applies traditional oil painting methods and materials from Northern Europe to contemporary scientific subjects. His landscapes depict rugged landscapes interrupted by human activity; from massive telescopes in Antarctica to dinosaur bones collected in Montana. Lee has been digging near Ekalaka with the Carthage Institute of Paleontology (Kenosha, Wisconsin) for nearly a decade. 2024 will mark Lee’s first official involvement with The Carter County Museum, who is hosting the first solo show of his work focused specifically on Dinosauria and Montana. This exhibition includes paintings, drawings, and diaries produced over several years of field work and studio time. This work seeks to create a space to contemplate a possible future, one that captures urgency and hope for both the preservation of nature and the ambitions of civilization.
Exhibition runs June 28 through July 28, 2024.
FRIDAY, JUly 26 From 10 a.m. to noon
watercolor Workshop with Matthew Warren Lee
$25/person, limited to 10 people
Join us on for a special watercolor workshop with Matthew Warren Lee, CCM 2024 artist in residence. Participants will have the option of a paint by number approach to a Mourning Cloak or a Mockingbird (Montana's state butterfly and bird), or they may choose to paint a landscape. Limited to 10 participants, first come, first serve. Fees are $25 per person due at the time of the workshop and include all materials and instruction. Click the button below to reserve your space.