Date: Friday, December 4th
Time: 5:00-7:00 p.m.
Location: Montana Natural History Center
Cost: FREE! (Unless you buy something…)

MNHC’s Holiday Bazaar is back! This fan-favorite festive event brings together the best of the holiday spirit: local artistry, support for nature education, holiday treats, beverages, homemade cookies and family recipes, and the joy of giving back to our community.

At MNHC’s Holiday Bazaar, you’ll find unique gifts crafted with care by local artists. From beautiful prints and photography to paintings and ceramics, there’s something for everyone on your list. By shopping here, you not only bring home one-of-a-kind gifts but also support our talented local artists and our Montana community.

Join us at MNHC’s Holiday Bazaar, and enjoy a little magic of this special time of year by giving back, supporting local artists, and nurturing a love for learning and nature. We look forward to celebrating the season with you!

MEET THE ARTISTS

Rich Adams, Brian Christianson, Cathryn Raan and Sydney Morical,
Michelle Nowels, Madelise Winters, Jason C. Poole, Kiley Voss, David Lusk,
Elena Ulev, Bailey Zook, and Pat Kittelson

David Lusk / Anomal Press
David Miles Lusk is an artist living and working out of Missoula, Montana. David received his Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphasis in printmaking from the University of Montana in 2014. He is inspired by the intersection of science and mythology, and nature & humanity. He started Anomal Press in the fall of 2016. INSTAGRAM @anomalpress

Bailey Zook / B. Zook Ceramincs
Bailey is the gal behind B. Zook Ceramics and she enjoys hand making unique and functional pottery. Her pottery is inspired by patterns and the natural world around us. Each piece is handmade and infused with the peace that comes naturally when the maker is connected to the earth through mud-covered hands. INSTAGRAM: @bzook_ceramics

Brian Christianson / Brian Christianson Photography
Brian’s guiding principle is ‘what makes today different from any other day?’ With that question, he does his best to make strong photographic decisions about where and what to shoot. How is the light interacting with fall colors? What atmospheric conditions complement the feeling of spring wildflower blooms? What frozen/snow texture balances well with the semi-frozen creek? These are the types of questions that he love to explore! Each photographic outing affords an opportunity to practice, implement and evolve this practice. Every day is a new opportunity to better understand and photograph the landscape. INSTAGRAM: @bchristiansonphoto

Madelise Winters / Botaniques
Botaniques sunprinted pillowcases and wall hangings are crafted using the cyanotype process, designed to bring light and elegance to homes. Founded in March 2024 by Madelise, the brand emerged after extensive trials, resulting in beautiful natural art pieces.  INSTAGRAM: @botaniques.design

Rich Adams / Rich Adams Fine Art
Rich’s artwork is really a reflection of his love for the natural world. Rich likes to say that his drawings are his love letters to Montana. He really can’t imagine a better place to live and raise a family. If his work can connect with other people’s experiences and love of the natural world, Rich feels like it has served its function. He produces all of his own fine art prints and inspect each one to ensure it is of the highest quality he can produce. They are made with U.S. made, acid-free fine art paper and pigment-based inks to ensure they will last a lifetime when hung on the wall. INSTAGRAM @adams.rt

Michelle Nowels / Ashes and Arbor
Michelle draws inspiration by looking for the beauty in nature and preserve it in creative ways, like her beautiful hand pressed paintings from cross sections of trees found through the Northwest. Each of Michelle’s pieces are handmade, and due to their nature — of being from nature — one of a kind. INSTAGRAM: @michelle_nowels

Cathryn Raan and Sydney Morical / Wild Wanders Herbalists
Cathryn and Sydney are herbalists and longtime foragers of wild food and medicine that have devoted years to sharing their passion for plants and fungi with their Western Montana community. Both have served together on the working boards of the Western Montana Mycological Association since 2018 and the Montana Herbal Festival since 2025. They create elegant handcrafted botanicals from the land and host a variety of hands-on, life-changing learning experiences for the next generation of earth stewards. Their latest ventures are a small medicinal herb farm and budding native food forest as well as a series of membership tiers including inspiring digital content, in-person class passes, and an ever-evolving Seasonal Apothecary Subscription. They are humbled and delighted to be two of many on a long strand of plant-loving humans sharing their experience and knowledge with others. INSTAGRAM @wildwandersmt

Kiley Voss / Sage and Sky Art
For the nature lovers, sun seekers, wilderness explorers, and those who adore the wild west. For the past six years, Kiley has worked as a seasonal National Park Ranger. She is a lover of landscapes and little moments, of multitudes and wild spaces, of vast openness and the details on a single pinecone, of cliffs that look like they have been painted onto the sky, and of bees buzzing from tiny flower to tiny flower. She makes handmade nature cards and earrings of her photography from her time working in the national parks and exploratory weekend road trips, hoping to share her love of the truly wild west, and connect people with a deeper appreciation for our remarkable natural world. INSTAGRAM @topo.wanders

Elena Ulev / Artisan and founder of Blue Heron Nature Tours
Elena Ulev is a Master Naturalist and Certified Interpretive Guide with 30 years of experience as a scholar, professional biologist, writer, and educator. Elena has been making and selling her crafts in Missoula since 2000. She teaches with the Montana Natural History Center, the Glacier Institute, MOLLI, the O’Hara Commons and Sustainability Center, and her business, Blue Heron Nature Tours. INSTAGRAM @blueheronnaturetours

Jason C. Poole / Paleo Artist: Painting, Sketches, & More
Jason C. Poole has worn many hats, Adjunct Professor of Paleontology, Scientific Illustrator, art teacher, and Paleontology field instructor. Jason has excavated dinosaurs on three continents, including Africa, South and North America. Paralititan, Dreadnoughtus and Suuwassea are three dinosaurs worked on by Poole, all were new to science when discovered and two of which are supermassive titanosaurs. Poole is also a Paleontological Artist who has published in National Geographic and whose art work appears in many museum and private collections. INSTAGRAM: @jasoncpoolepaleoartist

Pat Kittelson / Bee-cycled Crayons
Pat Kittelson grew up in Minnesota and graduated from the University of Minnesota. She went on to complete a master’s degree in library science with an emphasis in early children’s literature. Pat, working with illustrator Brooke Connor, started writing books for children in 1978 for the Bryce Canyon Natural History Association and recently created a series of books focused on scientists tackling environmental problems using homespun research. Also, a beekeeper, Pat, works with the National Crayon Recycling Program to keep old crayons out the landfill. “Bee-cycled Crayons” are made using broken abandoned crayons and beeswax from Pat’s Missoula hives.