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Courtney Blazon is a graduate of Parsons School of Design, where she received a BFA in illustration. She is working as an artist and freelance illustrator in Missoula, MT.
Her work has been featured at various local and regional art galleries and venues, at the Missoula Art Museum, on Juxtapoz.com, as well as the Western edition of New American Paintings in October 2007. She has illustrated for Slumgullion, Montana Lyric Opera, Missoula Oblongata, as well as a variety of magazines and publications.
She has a booth at the Missoula People's Market, which runs from May-October in downtown Missoula, and she participates in art fairs and alternative venues such as the Alternative Press Expo in San Francisco and the Portland Zine Symposium in Portland, OR. Along with her booth at the People's Market, her handmade goods can be found at Tart in Bozeman, Tender Loving Empire in Portland, OR, at Betty's Divine and Noteworthy Paper and Press in Missoula, MT, and on her etsy site: courtneyblazon.etsy.com (she is in the process of updating both her shop on here on her website as well as her etsy site).
She is currently working on/planning/researching the following projects:
1.A historical drawing project about the destroyed ski resort on Mt. Uncanoonuc in New Hampshire.
2.A historical project that deals with the relationships of the Native Americans to the French Canadians in early New England.
3. A Boy-Girl romance sketchbook project with brush painting.
4.A collage project.
She is inspired by nature, nostalgia, black and white movies, history, words, memory, and a little bit of everything else.
Current and Upcoming Exhibitions
Past Exhibitions
June 2009, "16th annual Holter art auction", group show, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT.
June 2009 "You hand looks like my hand", solo exhibition, Tart, Bozeman, MT.
May 2009 "On Deck 4 Art Auction", group show, Missoula, MT.
May 2009 "Missoula is the Cairo of the Northwest", two person show, ZACC, Missoula, MT.
April 2009 "Our dancing daughters", solo exhibition, Noteworthy Paper, Missoula MT.
April 2009 "Potsketch", group show, Clay Studio, Missoula, MT.
February 2009 "MAM's 37th annual art auction", group show, Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT.
February 2009, "In your Face, Artini art auction", group show, Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT.
January 2009 "Missoula Now", group show, Catalyst, Missoula, MT.
November 2008 "Anatomy of the Aves", solo exhibition, Catalyst, Missoula, MT.
November 2008 "20/20 Vision", group show, Burien Art Gallery, Burien, WA.
October 2008 "Pen and Marker drawings", solo exhibition, Bernice's Bakery, Missoula, MT.
September 2008 "Missoula Now", group show, Ceretana gallery, Missoula, MT.
September 2008 "A three artist extravaganza", group show, Zootown Arts, Missoula, MT.
August 2008, "The street has strange houses", solo exhibition, Victrola Coffee and Art, Seattle, WA.
August 2008 "Pin-ups", group show, Tender Loving Empire, Portland, OR.
July 2008 "Open meadows", group show, Danforth gallery, Livingston, MT.
June 2008 "Tight wires between us, pegs too deep to uproot", solo exhibition, Tart, Bozeman, MT.
June 2008 "Little and cheap", group show, Tender Loving Empire, Portland, OR.
May 2008 "Potsketch", group show, Clay Studio, Missoula, MT.
April 2008 "Sustainability", group show, Ceretana gallery, Missoula, MT.
March 2008 "Crystal Theater showcase", group show, Crystal Theater, Missoula, MT.
February 2008 "Smooch", group show, Tart gallery, Missoula, MT
February 2008 "Documentary", group show, Catalyst, Missoula, MT.
February 2008 "Double-jointed, group show, Tender Loving Empire, Portland, OR.
February 2008 "The story always old and always new", solo exhibition, New West, Missoula, MT.
January 2008 "Paper Dolls", group show, Pulp gallery, Omaha, NE.
January 2008 "We are one: MAM's 36th annual art auction", group show, Missoula Art Museum,
Missoula, MT.
September, 2007 "Art we like", group show, Ceretana gallery, Missoula, MT.
July 2007 "All this buttoning and unbuttoning", solo exhibition, Pony Club, Portland, OR.
January 2007 "Open to strangers", group show, Pony Club, Portland, OR.
January 2007 "Full circle: MAM's 35th annual art auction", group show, Missoula Art Museum,
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