Museum kicks off community mosaic project

The Hockaday Museum of Art is hosting another community mosaic project.

The project invites community members to help turn a photograph into a different work of art. Bill Goodman’s photo of a mountain goat at Gunsight Pass in Glacier National Park is the subject of this year’s project.

The photo will be enlarged and divided into 300 squares. Those interested in participating in the mosaic purchase a 2- by 2-inch canvas with a square of the photograph for $2. They may use any media as long as it is permanent and dry when it is returned to the Hockaday.

The Hockaday created its first community mosaic project in celebration of Glacier Park’s centennial. Local artists and nonartists turned a Bret Bouda photograph of a red “jammer” bus on Going-to-the-Sun into a mosaic that was sold at an auction to benefit the museum in 2010.

The project was continued in 2011 with a photograph by Hungry Horse News photographer Chris Peterson and in 2012 with a photo by Brian Eklund, the Hockaday’s communications director.

Those interested in participating in this year’s project may pick up their squares at the museum, located at 302 Second Ave. E., Kalispell, starting Saturday. Canvases must be returned to the Hockaday by June 8.

The finished mosaic will be unveiled June 22 during the Hockaday’s Plein Air Paint Out Party and Sale.

For more information about the project, visit www.hockadaymuseum.org or call 755-5268.