Museum of Fine Arts Butte Building 55,000 Square Feet For Sale For $500,000

Museum of Fine Arts Butte For Sale $550,000

Non-profit organizations struggle to exist even in times when the economy is flourishing. During this time when the country is experiencing a recession, a large number of non-profit organizations are downsizing and reorganizing in order to continue to offer services to their communities. The Butte Silver Bow Arts Foundation (BSBAF) is one of the nation’s non-profit organizations that is struggling to survive this recession. With the rise of heating and electrical costs and the struggle that the BSBAF is experiencing because of operational costs of the MoFAB building, the BSBAF has decided to put the MoFAB building up for sale.

We would like to thank the many members of the community and local businesses that helped the BSBAF to try and save the MoFAB (for a list of the major donors who gave to our fundraising efforts please see the support page at http://www.bsbarts.org). Due to the unfortunate circumstances, the BSBAF does not believe we could sustain another winter in the MoFAB building. Therefore, we will put the MoFAB building on the market and move our operations into the Charles W. Clark Chateau Museum at 321 W. Broadway by the end of the summer 2010.

MoFAB (the old YMCA) is located at 405 West Park Street, Butte, Montana in the old historic YMCA building. The MoFAB is centrally located in Uptown Butte’s National Historic Landmark District, the old “Y” was built in 1917, once housed national and international guests, and operated a community-wide YMCA co-educational facility. Butte’s Park and Broadway Street vicinity entertained its residents with many prominent theaters, exquisite music halls, famous artists, and literary geniuses. The YMCA building’s significant mark on the local community has left its indelible impression as a place for all to enjoy. We hope that the future of the MoFAB building will still allow for members of the community to enjoy the building and its history.

The BSBAF will continue to seek funding to promote its arts educational programs, the Artist-in-Residence programs, Arts Immersion Summer Programs, and a variety of arts, cultural, heritage, and recreational opportunities. The Butte Silver Bow Arts Center will move to the Charles W. Clark Chateau Museum at 321 W. Broadway Street, Butte, Montana. The Butte Silver Bow Arts Foundation formed the “Arts Center” to serve the needs and interests of the art community in Butte and Southwest Montana. The Arts Center offers classes in fine arts, performing arts, literary arts, and music. It also offers activities and events that promote artistic and cultural development in the local art community and Southwest Montana. For more information please contact us at 406.723.7600 or our real estate agent Vickie Leskovar at Leskovar Honda at 406.494.6606

Recycle Your Art for the Arts

Butte Art Consortium

Better when they are together
Non-profit arts groups team-up in first-time fundraiser

A new organization has formed allowing a few non-profit businesses that promote the arts in Butte, MT to pool resources, share ideas, and create awareness through unification in the community. Aptly named, The Butte Arts Consortium, or the BAC, consists of four groups – the Butte Community Concert Association, the Butte Silver Bow Arts Foundation, the Butte Symphony Association, and the Butte Center for the Performing Arts, which is the umbrella association for the Mother Lode and Orphan Girl Theatre.

“Recycle Your Art for the Arts” is the BAC’s first, all-inclusive fundraiser. It’s simple: The public is given the opportunity to buy or sell artwork. For sellers, whether it be one’s own artwork or a valuable treasure one has kept hidden away, he or she can set his or her own asking price and commission. The BAC will sell it in a gallery at the Museum of Fine Arts Butte (MoFAB). If one is interested in expanding his or her art collection, this would be a prime opportunity to purchase beautiful, new artwork.

The art sale is slated for Saturday, May 8th, 2010 from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. with free wine, refreshments, and live music from 4 – 6 p.m in the MoFAB building located at 405 W Park S. If you are interested in selling art, please stop by the MoFAB Monday, May 3rd from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.  For more information, please call (406) 723 – 3602.

Submitted by Jennifer Grant

Contact: Mother Lode Theatre
Tel: (406) 723-3602
Info@buttearts.org

The BSBAF Annual Membership Drive

Win an iPod Touch

The Butte Silver Bow Arts Foundation would like to announce the launch of our annual membership drive. If you become a member or renew your membership between now and the end of May, you will be entered in a drawing to win an “APPLE IPOD TOUCH.” There are several options for memberships.

To become a member visit our Web site at http://www.bsbarts.org/members.html and then scroll to the bottom of the page to choose the type of membership you would like, and click on the pay now button to pay with PayPal. Once you have paid through PayPal, you will be asked to fill out a form that provides us with your name and contact information. Your name and contact information will be needed for us to contact you if you win the “APPLE IPOD TOUCH.”

Open Mic & Old Forge Pizza Night

Friday, March 26, 2010

6:00pm – 9:00pm

Venus Rising Espresso House, 1 S Main St – Metal’s Bank Bldg Underground, Butte, MT

Good food & music + Good friends = Good times.
We have an exceptionally eclectic line-up:
6 P.M: Steve Robinson
6:30: Marko Hayden
7:00: Glenn Bodish
7:30: Too Smug + Sage
8:00: Sara Mirabdolbaghi
8:30: Teresa Rose

AND WAIT! THERE’S MORE….

We will be serving our popular Old-Forge Style Pizza. Try a slice of my favorite the Feta, Tomato, Basil. Yum! Have a Caesar Salad with our house specialty dressing. Our full-service coffee bar will be open for purchase, and you may BYOB if coffee does not suit you at 6 o’clock at night.
I hope to see you there, and a heartfelt thank you in advance.

Lynn Marie Price & The Wobbly Boy

@Venus Rising Espresso House March 12

Lynn Marie Price and Dusty Farnum started playing music together about five years ago in Alaska. Dusty was playing in a hippy rock and roll band, when Lynn helped him to see the light and introduced him to that good old country music. Since then they have had a wonderful time together singing harmony on those old country tunes as well as a variety of covers of current

artists. Both Lynn and Dusty are songwriters and sprinkle a few originals in their sets.

Dusty plays acoustic and electric guitar, flute, and dobro. Lynn plays keyboards, accordion and guitar. The combination of vocal harmonies, instrumentation, and variety of songs, provides an interesting and entertaining performance. They enjoy being together and performing those beautiful old songs.

To watch videos of a three of their songs at the performance http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=108843933665&ref=mf

March 12th @ the Venus Rising Espresso House

Survey to help the BSBAF serve the community

Hello everyone, we are currently doing a research project that involves a community analysis for the Butte Silver Bow Arts Foundation (BSBAF). We are asking members of the community to take a short five minute survey. The survey responses will serve as data to enable the BSBAF to understand their place within the community of Butte. The BSBAF will be able to offer more events and activities that will be focused on the wants and needs of the community Butte.

If you decide to take the survey, it will take about five minutes to complete.Your participation will be appreciated.There are no personal questions on the survey, so your identity will be unknown. Survey answers will be stored on a database, which is housed on the Butte Silver Bow Art Foundation’s Web server. No identifying marks will be on the data. To take part in the survey,please visit http://www.bsbarts.org and click on the survey button located in the top menu on the Web site. If you have any questions regarding this research or the survey questions, please email me at glmiller@mtech.edu.

the love of art

A part of the mission of the Butte Silver Bow Arts Foundation (BSBAF)

incredible works of art from local schools

 is to provide quality arts education and exhibition. Currently we have an amazing exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts Butte (MoFAB) that will be on display through the end of April. The Annual Youth Art Exhibit features over 150 students works from the local Butte schools. You gotta see it to believe it. Fantastic works include ages 6-18 paintings, drawings, ceramics and sculpture. The MoFAB is open Mondays – Fridays 10am – 4pm. I encourage you to take the time to see the talented youth from our community. Check out our website for other exhibits, education workshops and events. www.bsbarts.org You can find the glenn bodish the executive director of the BSBAF on Facebook

Poetry Palooza 2009

On Friday April 17th @ 6pm the Butte Silver Bow Arts Foundation will present the Spring edition of Poetry Palooza at the Venus Rising Espresso House 1 South Main Street in Butte, Montana. Poetry Palooza features Montana poets reading their recent works. The event runs until 9pm, poets are alotted 10 minutes. This event is very well attended. Some slots are still available. Call Shawn Crowe to schedule a slot 406.491.6608. The event is FREE to the public. You’ll be amazed at the quality of work from the region. Check out the Butte Silver Bow Arts Foundation’s website to hear past readings from Poetry Palooza. www.bsbarts.org

silence is broken with words expressing emotions

venus rising espresso house

getting ready for opening night 12.5.08

The Venus Rising Espresso House is a cafe, bakery, art gallery and community center located on the corner of Park and Main Streets in Butte, Montana. The Venus Rising is a 501 (c) 3 not for profit business that supports the Butte Silver Bow Arts Foundation (BSBAF). The Venus Rising hosts dozens of events annually: art exhibits, poetry readings, open mic nights, featured musician spotlights, a book club and many other creative events in the Butte community. Jennifer Grant is the manager of the espresso house and an excellent barista. Check out the BSBAF website for details www.bsbarts.org

call to artists and friends of art

The Butte Silver Bow Arts Foundation (BSBAF) has embarked on a lofty goal. To create an artist’s community and International school for Art in Butte, Montana. We have an incredible facility, an old YMCA building six floors, 55,000 sq. ft located in the largest historic district in America. Currently we are in Phase I of the development and need 3.25 million to complete the 1st floor, energy upgrades and a 70 room youth hostel/artist residence on the 5th and 6th floors. This is the dream of glenn bodish, Executive Director of the BSBAF, with support from the local community and dozens of artists from around the world. Find out more by checking out our web site www.bsbarts.org or become glenn’s friend on facebook: glenn bodish. We need your support for this opportunity to create a world class museum, international school of art, cultural incubator and immersion style art programs in the beautiful Northern Rocky Mountains of Montana. Thanks for your interest and support. Sincerely, glenn bodish bodish.arts@hotmail.com 406.491.1444

Site for new artist's community in Butte, Montana