2006 Featured Art Show
"Vital Ground"
September 16 - December 31, 2006
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Jan Perkins
Al Feldstein
Monte Dolack
Paula Pearl
Kendahl Jan Jubb
Gerry Keenan
David Swanson
Marni Grossman
Kristin Abraham
Rocky Hawkins
Derek Reich
Tom Ulmer
Lance Schelvan
Susan Burrows Dabney
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Brad Markel
Harry Koyama
A MINIMUM of 20% percent from EACH sale during this featured show
will be donated directly to Vital Ground.
Vital Ground evolved from a unique relationship between man and bear. Doug Seus and his wife, Lynne, raised and trained a Kodiak brown bear named Bart to appear in feature films which include "The Great Outdoors," "Legends of the Fall," "The Bear" and "The Edge." As Doug and Lynne worked with Bart, it became clear that he was teaching them far more than they could ever teach him.
Inspired by Bart, the Seuses launched Vital Ground through the purchase of 240 acres of prime grizzly bear habitat adjoining protected land in Pine Butte Preserve along Montana's eastern front of the Rocky Mountains. Bart took on an important new role as Ambassador for Vital Ground, and until his death in 2000, his public appearances with Doug and Lynne sought to convey the dire predicament of our rapidly diminishing natural areas - along with their resident wildlife - while promoting a message of hope that we might become better stewards of these great lands. (To learn more, please visit www.vitalground.org.)
Artists and photographers participating are Rocky Hawkins, Ed Totten, Al Feldstein, Monte Dolack, Paula Pearl, Susan Burrows Dabney, Tom Murphy, Harry Koyama, Dennis Harrington, David Swanson, Michael Coleman, Jan Perkins, Brad Markel, Larry and Jennifer Kramer, Audrey Hall, Gerry Keenan, Thom Coffman, Karry Hesla, David Holiway, Cacky Bell, Bill Gamradt, Lance Schelvan, Derek Reich, Kendahl Jan Jubb, Marni Grossman, Tom Ulmer, Jim Moore, and Ghost Wolf Publishing.
Please call the gallery at 406-222-3004 for more information or to inquire about any of the artwork.
The House of FINE ART Presents
Special screenings of Animal Planet's
Growing Up Grizzly 2
hosted by Jennifer Aniston
Animal Planet follows the lives of two orphaned Alaskan Grizzlies, Bart the Bear 2 and Honey-Bump Bear, who starred in the original Growing up Grizzly. After a hunter killed the cubs' mother, the Seuses of northern Utah adopted the brother and sister. Honey-Bump and Bart are now three years old and quite an awesome presence on screen, weighing in at 800 and 1,100 pounds, respectively. Jennifer Aniston narrates this hour-long documentary, in which you witness first hand the interactions between the bear siblings and their new parents, Lynne and Doug Seus. We get to follow this amazing family to their home, movie sets and a picnic atop a remote mountain in Utah. More importantly, we are offered a closer look at Bart's and Honey-Bump's wild cousins and some of the ways Vital Ground is involved in saving their habitat - their homes.
Special screenings will be held throughout the summer. Please check back for dates and times or email penny@houseoffineart.com for more information. Also, please check your local listings for air dates on Animal Planet.
