Arts-Entertainment
Wheatgrass Books, located at 120 N. Main Street in Livingston, will be hosting two events during the first scheduled art walk of the 2025 season on Friday, June 27th from 5 to 8 pm.
Cassidy Randall, an award-winning author from Missoula, will be celebrating the recent release of her book Thirty Below: The Harrowing and Heroic Story of the First All-Women’s Ascent of Denali. Randall, whose stories have appeared in Rolling Stone, National Geographic, and the New York Times, amongst other notable publications, will be in attendance for a signing.
Her other stories, including The Hard Parts, have won the Alex Award from the American Library Association and the Lowell Thomas Gold Medal in Adventure Writing, typically focus on the environment, adventure and people who expand human potential.
Her new story, as seen in Vanity Fair, Men’s Journal and Outside, and named one of the most noteworthy books of the month by the Washington Post, is a gripping story of a group of adventurers and their treacherous pioneering ascent of Denali. The story draws on extensive archival research and original interview to tell an engrossing, edge-of-the-seat adventure story about a forgotten group of climbers who had the audacity to believe that women could walk alone in extraordinary and treacherous heights.
Further details regarding the story can be read on the Park County Community Journal website.
Wheatgrass will also host a reception with six artists involved in The Subversive Stitch, a fiber arts show curated by local artist Traci Jo Isaly, who commented that the show “brings together six talented artists; everyday people, who are carving out a creative life, living the best life, with thread and needle in hand.”
These artists work with their hands by sewing and weaving together fiber, thread and cloth in a cohesive manner to express themselves.
Isaly claims that the idea for the title of this show came from a book called The Subversive Stitch by Roszika Parker, published in 1984, which led her to discover Cecilia Andersson, author of The Powerful Agency of Threads.
The artists include:
- Cindy Owings of McAllister, MT (Fiber artists- mixed media works)
- Elli Haws of Melville, MT (Samplers- artful beading on felt)
- Amanda Nadig of Chicago, IL (Large contemporary quilts)
- Jessi Konley of Livingston, MT (Fiber art, weaver, rugs, and wall hangings)
- Jay Manford of Livingston, MT (Flower grower extraordinaire and quilt artist)
- Traci Jo Isaly of Bozeman, MT (Mixed media fiber art- soft formed figured, wall pieces and small intricate novelty pieces).
Please join Wheatgrass for these events at the upcoming Art Walk on Friday, June 17th.