Rae Porter, Artistic Director
3903 Highway 93
Stevensville, MT 59870
(406) 777-3535
Rae is the artistic director and inspiration for Art in the Bitterroot. She has lived in the Bitterroot Valley more than 25 years and has been instumental in organizing workshops, special art events,
and life drawing classes as well as exhibiting in regional art shows.
Rae owned and operated Sunflower Gallery in Stevensville, Montana and Golden Apple Gallery in Julian, California
where she exhibited and held workshops featuring artists from the western Montana and southern California regions.
She is a portrait artist who lives in Stevensville, Montana.
"I like to paint people! It's a magical process to see their images come to life on canvas. I
work in watercolor, oil and acrylic - each medium has it's own special feel.
"I love to paint anything with a face - animal or human. I
welcome commissions, live or from photos."
Rae and her husband Merv provide the venue for Art in the Bitterroot - July Workshops.
Visit Rae Porter's Sunflower website.
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Pam Cote, Executive Director
PO Box 698
Stevensville, MT 59870
(406) 642-3200
Pam manages the Art in the Bitterroot workshops together with Rae and a tightly knit, highly trained group of people.
Her recent relocation to Stevensville, means we can expand the successful workshops.
"I'm so pleased to bring Len McCann's popular sculpting class back again this year. "I grew up with and around artists and love the synergy of creating with others."
She has managed the Red Wing Arts Association's Fall Festival of the Arts since 2003, an outdoor art fair on the streets of
historic downtown Red Wing, Minnesota. Red Wing is a center of creativity in the midwest. She organized and managed the Grand Excursion
Art Fair, a one time only event, in Red Wing in 2004 in coordination with Mississippi Valley cities from St. Louis to St. Paul.
Pam is a Usability Professional and is active in the art community designing websites for artists, other professionals and small businesses. She is a computer graphics artist and dabbles in silver jewelry and handmade paper.
Visit her website PC Expressions to learn more about User Centered Design and Usability.
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