July 4th Friday Art Walk & Book Signings

ARTIST RECEPTION & BOOK SIGNING

July 4th Friday Art Walk & Book Signings

Join us at Wheatgrass Books & Green Door Gallery for both the artist reception of Bugs, Blooms, Broadsides with local artist Linda Barnsley, Billings poet Cara Chamberlain, and Billings photographer Marian Lyman and the 4th Friday book signings with Craig Lancaster, award-winning novelist, playwright, & editor, the most recent being Northward Dreams & Scot Frye, author of Most Trout Don’t Read: Lessons from Time on the Water, with photography by Lea Frye on July 26th from 5 pm to 8 pm. There will be a presentation and reading at 7 pm during the art walk.

In Linda Barnsley’s series “Blooms Amid the Stars” she contrasts the color and temporary nature of blooms against the dark and vastness of the universe. Billings entomologist, spider enthusiast, and insect photographer, Marian Lyman catches insects she finds and then brings them home and uses extreme close-up photography to capture their unique beauty. Cara Chamberlain is a conservationist and advocate of animals of all kinds. In 2023, her latest collection of poems, To Gaze Upon Their Loveliness, was released by Finishing Line Press in Kentucky. The collection is full of poetic love letters, not to the natural world, but from the natural world. Chamberlain has long written about her love of animals and the natural world in her poetry, and she is also the author of Hidden Things, The Divine Botany, and Lament of the Antichrist in a Secular World and Other Poems.

In his latest novel, Craig Lancaster, hailed as “one of Montana’s most important writers,” goes deep into how history shapes and confines us and how hope sometimes stubbornly abides. Accompanied by the photography of Lea Frye, Scot Bealer leads you on a journey of discovery, recalling occasions when he, or sometimes his clients, learned important lessons. His stories are warm, funny, and full of great advice to improve your fishing skills and better enjoy your time on the water. His comments on gear, guides, and other aspects of the sport are based on decades of practical experience.