The University of Montana's Montana Museum of Art and Culture (MMAC) will present three solo exhibitions by Montana artists this fall. The season opens October 16 with Sara Mast's "Standing in the River," featuring abstract paintings and glass sculptures. Manette Rene Bradford's "Unsettled Lands" opens November 13 with collage drawings and sculptures blending landscape and human figures. The final exhibition, "Rand Robbin," opens December 4 and showcases the graphic and sculptural work of the recently deceased artist, a UM alumnus and former rancher whose modernist works are held by the Library of Congress and National Gallery of Art.
These exhibitions highlight the depth and diversity of contemporary and historical art in Montana, bringing together a living artist pushing material boundaries (Mast), an emerging voice exploring human-landscape tensions (Bradford), and a rediscovered modernist whose career spanned ranching and artmaking. The shows underscore MMAC's role as a regional hub for both cutting-edge and overlooked artistic traditions, while the posthumous Robbin exhibition offers a chance to reassess a significant but under-recognized figure in American printmaking and sculpture.