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Missoula is home to a plethora of artists who express themselves in a variety of media. Alexia Beckerling is venturing into the studios and performance venues of a handful of local artists and bringing back multimedia glimpses into their creative worlds.

Meet Molly Murphy, a descendant of the Oglala/Lakota tribe, who defines herself as a contemporary sculptural native beadwork artist. Murphy had a solo exhibition at the Missoula Art Museum in March, 2008.

Check out previous multimedia profiles of Missoula artists Marcy James, Jason Bohman, Jerry Baldwin, Marty Fromm, Valentina LaPier and Nan Bovingdon.

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Missoula is home to a plethora of artists who express themselves in a variety of media. Alexia Beckerling is venturing into the studios and performance venues of a handful of local artists and bringing back multimedia glimpses into their creative worlds.

Meet Nan Bovingdon, a Missoula folk musician who brings a musical perspective to America's history by playing a variety of antique instruments. [more]

alternative energy projects

Dr. Paul Williamson, director of Alternative Energy Technologies at the University of Montana, shows Senator Jon Tester a Chevy S10 pickup he developed that runs entirely on electric power.

Tester visited the Forest Service Technology Development Center in Missoula today as part of his tour of alternative energy projects across Montana.

"This is early generation stuff. It is only going to get better," said Tester. "It is probably the only pick-up in town that runs on chips," he added. [more]

Multimedia

Missoula is home to a plethora of artists who express themselves in a variety of media. Alexia Beckerling is venturing into the studios and performance venues of a handful of local artists and bringing back multimedia glimpses into their creative worlds.

This week, meet Valentina LaPier, an enrolled member of the Blackfoot tribe who sold her first painting at the age of 14 and is currently working and exhibiting at the Hanging Art Gallery in Arlee.

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Thousands of music lovers from near and far descended upon Butte, Montana this weekend for the 70th National Folk Festival. Festivalgoers ambled among seven different stages taking in music, dance and cultural traditions ranging from zydeco to cowboy poetry to gospel and blues.

Enjoy this multimedia glimpse from the festival. [more]

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Missoula is home to a plethora of artists who express themselves in a variety of media. Alexia Beckerling ventured into the studios and performance venues of a handful of local artists and brought back multimedia glimpses into their creative worlds.

Meet Marcy James, a photographer who is currently working on a project entitled “Very Important Things.”

6th annual sustainability tour

This weekend, homeWORD hosted the 6th Annual Sustainability Tour. The public was invited to visit 12 Missoula homes that are creative examples of innovative urban land use, energy conservation, water resource management, and remodeling with recycled building materials. The overall aim of the tour was to show the public that building green on a limited budget is an achievable goal. [more]