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BACC offers a spectrum of Art workshops and presentations.  Year round workshops and lectures are available in the visual,  digital, dance and music arts.  We encourage you to join us for a wonderful learning experience led by our local Montana artisans.   "Through visual storytelling, art conveys complex cultural narratives that might otherwise be lost"

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🎨 Art - Culture - Community

At the Bigfork Art & Cultural Center

The Bigfork Art & Cultural Center (BACC) is your hometown hub for creativity, culture, and community. Located in the heart of downtown Bigfork, we offer art exhibits, lectures, workshops, and events that bring people together to learn, make, and experience something meaningful.

From gallery shows and museum talks to hands-on art projects and private rentals, BACC is a welcoming space where all ages can connect with the arts and with one another.

Whether you're visiting for an exhibit, attending a lecture, hosting an event, or just dropping into the makerspace, there's always something happening at BACC!

 

🕒 Walk-In “Create-IT” Makerspace Hours

Drop in & get creative!               Starting April 15th!

  • Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday: Noon – 5:00 PM
  • Friday & Saturday: 11:00 – 6:30 PM
  • Evenings by reservation

Non-Member Fee: Supplies + $15 studio day use fee
No reservation needed—just bring your imagination!

🎉 Private Party & Group Reservations

Celebrate or collaborate through creativity.

Whether it’s a birthday, bridal shower, or a team-building session for your business or organization, the BACC is the perfect place to gather and make something memorable.

🌙 After-Hours Studio Reservations

  • Time: Starts at 6:30 PM (Not available Sundays)
  • Fee: $120 for 2 hours (member rate) $150 non-member.
  • Includes: Exclusive studio access + BACC staff co-host
  • Projects: Priced per activity
  • BYO: Food, drinks, and your favorite people
     

 

🌞 Daytime Classroom Reservations

  • Fee: $90 for 2 hours
  • Location: Upstairs conference room or downstairs Makerspace
  • Projects: Priced per participant
  • Perfect for: Family celebrations, kids’ parties, reunions, or community meetups
     

🎨 Pick Your Creative Project

Choose from a variety of hands-on art experiences:

  • Pottery Painting
  • Glass Fusing
  • Clay & Handbuilding
  • Fiber Arts & sewing
  • Digital Arts
  • Custom Art Workshops
     

✨ Signature Experiences

Cake & Create- Birthday Party
For kids—paint, snack, and take home a masterpiece.

Painting with a Twist
For adults—sip something fun while painting in a relaxed, social space.

Clay Date (coming soon)
Work with your hands and explore pottery or handbuilding with a partner or group.

Bigfork Originals
See website for list of classes!  Custom creative sessions inspired by Flathead Lake, local wildlife, and the Bigfork way of life.

 

🧡 Join the BACC membership

Support local arts and enjoy creative perks!

Become a BACC member and enjoy:

  • Unlimited Makerspace access during walk-in hours
  • Free admission to exhibit openings and museum lecture events
  • Priority registration for special workshops and programs
  • Invitations to member-only experiences
     

🎉 Discounted Makerspace Memberships Available For:

  • Active Military & Veterans (plus immediate family members)
  • Students enrolled in 2–4 year colleges, trade schools, or universities
  • Educators – Current and retired PreK–12 teachers, college/university professors
  • Seniors age 65 and up
     

🎨 Bigfork Art & Cultural Center (BACC) Membership Program

Support creativity, culture, and community in the Flathead Valley

🧵 Artisan Member – $75year

Best for: Individuals who actively create, explore, and support the arts

  • Access to the Makerspace during open studio hours (orientation required)
  • Invitations to member mixers, exhibit previews, and artist talks
  • Eligible to participate in member exhibitions and calls for art
  • Supplies and workshop fees not included
     

🧒 Student/ Educator Member – $50/year (Ages 12 and up)

Best for: Creative youth and educators with a passion for making and learning

  • Access to Makerspace hours and youth afterschool programs
  • Educators receive discounted center reservation rates.
  • Both may participate in clubs, mentorships, and youth exhibits
  • Orientation required for tool access
  • Supplies and workshop fees not included
     

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Member – $150/year (Up to 4 family members)

Best for: Families looking to create and connect together

  • Makerspace access for all listed family members during open hours
    Invitations to Family Art Nights and seasonal creative events
  • Includes discount for two birthday party space reservations per year (pre-booking required; supplies not included)
     

Individual or Senior Member – $100year

Best for: Individuals or seniors with a passion for connecting with other community members, making and learning

  • Access to Makerspace hours 
  • Participation in BACC events and exhibit openings
  • Orientation required for tool access
  • Supplies and workshop fees not included

Veteran /Military Member – $35 /year.

Honoring those who serve: 

  • Access to Makerspace hours and youth afterschool programs
  • Participation in clubs, mentorships, and exhibits
  • Access to private team-building experiences in the Makerspace or gallery BACC host included.
  • Discounted facility rental rates for meetings, retreats, or events
  • Invitations to special sponsor appreciation events
  • Orientation required for tool access
  • Supplies and workshop fees not included
     

🏢 Business Member – $250/year

Best for: Local businesses that want to support BACC and offer creative opportunities for their teams

  • Access to private team-building experiences in the Makerspace or gallery BACC host included.
  • Discounted facility rental rates for meetings, retreats, or events
  • Recognition on BACC’s website and printed materials
  • Invitations to special sponsor appreciation events
     

💡 Not Ready to Join?

  • Day Pass: $15/person during open studio hours
  • Room Reservation (non-members): $125 per use/ hour + supplies

📞 Let’s Plan Your Party or Sign You Up!

We’d love to help you celebrate or create something great.

📍 Visit: 525 Electric Ave, Bigfork, MT
📧 Email: info@baccbigfork.org
📞 Call: (406) 837-6927
🌐 Website: www.baccbigfork.org

 

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Meet our Instructors

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William Smith

Graphic designer by trade. Artist and teacher by heart.

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William Smith

I have been an artist my whole life. At a young age I would draw every day for hours. I experimented with pencil, charcoal, pen and ink and finally developed a passion for oil painting. I pursed my artistic passion through art classes in school and commercial art classes in high school where everything changed. After receiving a A.A.S. in Commercial Art from Ferris State University, my career took me from newspaper editorial illustration, to design agencies and eventually to owner and creative director of a successful marketing communications firm in Michigan, from which I retired. My wife and I moved to Montana where I began my latest career in Bigfork, designing full-time for an award-winning creative firm. In my spare time, I work in my home studio putting brush to canvas using the beauty that surrounds me for creative inspiration.
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Jennifer Bach

Artist & Transformational Coach

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Jennifer Bach

As an artist and Transformational Wellness Coach I have the unique opportunity to  provide creative workshops for small groups and work teams. Creating in a group format cultivates connection and collaboration. For many people painting and other creative projects are outside their comfort zone, at JB Inspired Living I implement a functional approach to wellness and living. Meaning, we work together to master the Art of Flourishing through Transformational Wellness; Inspiring health and wholeness in all areas of life. All systems of the body...mental, emotional, physical and spiritual, function in tandem with one another. Not one part of our wellbeing is isolated. Creating provides many health benefits to the mind, body and soul.
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Giovanna Carlson

Homeschool & Dance Consultant

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Terrisa Olson

Artist and workshop leader.

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Terrisa Olson

Terrisa is a popular artist and BACC workshop leader!

Terrisa was born and raised in Billings, Mt. As a child she spent summers visiting her Aunt and Uncle's farm in Pryor,Mt. on the Crow Reservation. 
She was greatly influenced  during these visits, gaining a love for the mountains, wildlife and farm life.
  Terrisa is an enrolled member of the Crow Tribe, with  roots  deep in Montana's history.
Terrisa's initial medium was watercolor but through the years has added pastels, acrylics, collage and inks. 
Terrisa has a line of greeting cards, " dipper Cards" and a line of stickers, " Montana Stickers" found at several retailers in Montana.
Terrisa is a Signature member of the Montana Watercolor Society and her work was selected to be in the up-coming Water Media Show at the Hockaday Museum of Art, Kalispell, Mt. She has recently been in the " Our Town Show", Dana Gallery, Missoula,Mt. and the "Resilience Show" at the Bigfork Art and Cultural Center.
Terrisa is an art instructor, in the past she donated, time to teach art at the Rattlesnake  Elementary School. Missoula Mt.  and currently teaches from her home and ships lessons to rural area's in Montana.
 
 
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Grace Powell

Owner Cranky Goose Hill Farm

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Grace Powell

Welcome to Cranky Goose Hill Farm located on the west shore of Flathead Lake in northwestern Montana. We are a small urban farm located in the center of the community of Lakeside committed to providing locally grown cut flowers. 

Started in 2020, our farm was created to fulfill a lifelong desire to be able to farm and provide the beautiful blooms that have always brought me happiness to others.  This lifelong passion has resulted in a ever-expanding collection of annual and perennial blooms. The farm started as a way to provide blooms for ourselves and has grown into my dream job of providing fresh locally grown flowers to our community. 

Cranky Goose strives to provide affordable stunning arrangements and wholesale blooms for just about any occasion that are the epitome of fresh, sustainable, and organically grown. 
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Pamela Beer

Artist and workshop leader.

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Pamela Beer

"Spacious Joy, with emotion, with humor, with love...always" is Pamela Beer's motto!

Pam grew up as a creative personality coming from a life that demanded more a focus on survival than the expression of her creativity.

Each feeling of excitement, burst of pleasure, or dreams of laughter were squelched by the need to navigate through the challenges of being raised rural and poor along with the challenges stemming from that environment.

Through sheer determination and a long career in technology, she finally burst onto the art scene in 2013 with a renewed spirit to make things that brought joy and completeness, not only for herself but to bring uplifting moments to others.

Each work takes many weeks to complete and begins with several layers of an oil paint and cold wax mixture applied with squeegees onto wood cradled panels. More layering and subsequent colors are applied with soft brayers for an effect that is simultaneously bold and subtle.

Her designs often begin chaotic and stormy only to end up in a very joyful dance that emanates from each work.

Life creates her work and she makes whatever resinates in the current.
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Chelcee Humphrey

Art experience leader

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Chelcee Humphrey

Chelcee, a Montana native, has nurtured her love for art since childhood. Exploring various mediums from a young age, she studied art in college and showcased her work at local coffee shops and small galleries in Oregon. Transitioning into the nonprofit sector after graduation, Chelcee continued cultivating her passion for art through teaching classes to underprivileged children and families. Even during the pandemic, her commitment to spreading artistic joy persisted as she conducted virtual classes. Art remains Chelcee's enduring passion and source of fulfillment.

Email: Chelcee@baccbigfork.org

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Schoolhouse Corner

Founded in 1893, The Swan River School has been a beloved landmark in the Bigfork community for over 125 years. In the spring semester of 2018, the students of Mrs. Emslie’s 5th grade glass undertook a project to tell part of their school’s rich history, in the form of short video documentaries that they researched, wrote, shot, and edited themselves.

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Bigfork Art / Cultural Center

We are an creative and educational hub in Bigfork that inspires people of all ages through a wide variety of workshops, lectures, and learning opportunities. BACC shares cultures through art and story stewardship. This is BACC’s way of bridging the connection between our past and the future we wish for our children, ourselves, and our world. As determined by the Internal Revenue Service Code, Bigfork Art and Cultural Center is a 501(c)3 organization, exempt from federal income tax. Bigfork Art and Cultural Center's tax identification number is 366212000. 

525 Electric Avenue
Bigfork, Montana

406.837.6927

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Bigfork Art \ Cultural Center