Western Art Collector

Featured in the August Art issue
Connections to the land and the energy that surrounds the land ignite the art process within Annie. She began her art career 50 years ago on the wild plains of Laredo, Montana. Montana’s diversity of landscape and color palette never failed to inspire. She currently lives in the mountains of Lincoln, Montana… (link will be available upon publication)

Distinctly Montana

The artists of the Blackfoot Valley are as diverse and varied as the land that anchors them. Charles Geary, an artist-metalsmith; Annie Allen, a painter working with her homemade dyes; and Michael Brown, with his perfect pencil art, all bring their distinct styles

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Blackfoot Valley Dispatch

Local artist Annie Allen Clark’s book, “Undulating La Roux,” is due out this December from Sweetgrass Books, a division of Montana’s Farcountry Press.

“Undulating La Roux” will feature a variety of characters and quotes and is an all ages book, said Clark…  (read full Blackfoot Valley Dispatch article)

Image: Annie Allen Clark puts the finishing touches on a Great Blue Heron while painting the door of the Lincoln community center with Lisa Gibson in 2018.

Tour of the Arts brings visibility to local artists

The Alpine Artisan’s Tour of the Arts returned to Lincoln last weekend as the Lincoln Art Haus Co-op once again hosted an exhibition and sale of their artwork at the Community Hall.

Annie Allen, founder of the co-op, said … (read article)

Bigfork center dresses up with Uncommon Threads

Felted animals created by Jill Spady sit on a shelf at the Bigfork Art and Cultural Center for the Uncommon Threads exhibit. (Aaric Bryan/Daily Inter Lake). The wildest, woolliest waterfall in Western Montana made its debut as the centerpiece of the Bigfork Arts and Cultural Center’s “Uncommon Threads” month-long exhibit on Aug. 25.

The nearly one-story-tall, three-dimensional piece … (read article)

Bigfork Art and Cultural Center celebrates opening

The newly imagined Bigfork Art and Cultural Center will hold a grand opening event and celebration Friday, April 8, from 5 to 8 p.m.

The grand opening will feature live music, food and wine. It will also mark the opening of the new exhibit, “The Wilderness Connection: Beyond Glacier’s Borders,” featuring artwork by local artists Annie Allen, Raette Meredith and Greg Thurston. The exhibit will be on view until April 30.

Last summer, Allen, Meredith, and Thurston were chosen to participate in the annual Artist-Wilderness Connection… (read article)

Sculpture in the Wild welcomes children, artists

LINCOLN — A tangle of branches became an anteater as children gathered around artist Annie Allen of Stevensville and her sketchpad
“Sometimes we forget when we enter the forest that a magical world is before us,” Allen said. “You live in the midst of paradise.”
With their own sketchpads, the children taking part in the camp at Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild turned stumps into creatures and sculptures into mystical towers. (read article)

Annie has also been featured in these print publications:

March 16, 2020: Distinctly Montana
October 2015: Arts in the Bitterroot Magazine. Article on Wilderness and Art.
November 2013: Montana Woman, Article “Roasted” by Annie Allen
December 2013: Montana Woman, Panache “Authentic Notions” by Annie Allen
November 17, 2013: Great Falls Tribune by Kristen Inbody “Coffee and Art Merge in Lincoln”
August 29, 2013: Blackfoot Valley Dispatch by Roger Dey, “Artists Retreat to Lincoln”