Free Spring Break Wildwalk Sculpture Camp
March 20 - March 24 2023
Start Time: 9 AM
End Time: 12 PM
FREE for all ages! Looking for some creativity and fun over spring break? Celebrate your connection to the WILD. Come help build a huge spider sculpture to be paraded in the Wildwalk procession on Earth Day, April 22. Kids, teens, and adults will collaborate with Resident Artist Elisha Harteis, Mari Rizzuto (Artist Assistant), and the MAM team to create a large-scale spider sculpture! Inspired by artist, Louise Bourgeois, and her 30-foot spider sculpture, Maman, participants will use recycled materials to collaborate. This is a partnership between the International Wildlife Film Festival and the Missoula Art Museum.
Materials provided. Drop by for one day or come all five days. First come, first served: no registration necessary but capped at 15 participants daily. Children 12 and under must be accompanied by an adult. Donations requested but not required; pay what you can.
Image (above): Resident Artist Elisha Harteis, Wolf, 2019, white earthenware, luster, and underglaze, copyright the artist.
Louise Bourgeois, Maman. Credit: Chuck Heiney/The Easton Foundation/VAGA/ARS
Spruce-fir moss spider, a tiny endangered species that lives in high-elevation forests in western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee (from kidadl.com).