Clyde Aspevig's Studio Tour (LOTTERY)

Regular and lottery registration open on January 8, 2026.
Dates: February 25, 2026
Meets: W from 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
 Location: Bozeman MT - Clyde Aspevig's Studio
Cost:  $0.00

There are still openings remaining at this time.

Date Day Time
02/25/2026Wednesday10 AM to 11:30 AM

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Please note: This course program requires membership in a 2025-2026 OLLI at MSU Membership

Lottery Information

A lottery process is in effect for this program. Lottery entry opens January 8, 2026 and closes at the end of the day January 15, 2025. Selected registrants will be notified via email by January 20, 2025, and payments are due by January 22. If payment is not received by January 22, lottery placement will be transferred to someone from the waitlist. Any registrants who are not selected will be placed on the waitlist in case of a cancellation. Click or tap here for full details about the lottery process.

Tuition

Lottery entry for this program does not require payment. If your entry is drawn in the lottery, the $15 per person tuition is due within 48 hours.

Description

Landscape painter Clyde Aspevig will discuss the ideas, techniques and execution behind his art. We will explore the duality between representational art and abstraction in painting, examining how we perceive the world by creating symbols to explain the illusion of light and dimensions on a flat surface. Many of the ideas incorporated in his paintings come from other aspects of the humanities and are part of the "orchestration'' of each painting.

Space is limited to 25 people.

Tuition and Membership

OLLI membership is required to attend this program. The tuition will be $15 per OLLI member.

Scholarship

Apply for a needs-based scholarship to take this offering.

Fee:  $0.00

Fee Breakdown

DescriptionAmount
Lottery entry for one. Tuition 15.00.$ 0.00
Lottery entry for two. Tuition 30.00$ 0.00

Bozeman MT - Clyde Aspevig's Studio

6690 Sourdough Canyon Rd
Bozeman, MT 59715
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Clyde Aspevig

"Landscape is not just everything visible to the eye. It also includes all the inner visions of the soul." Edvard Munch (1863-1944)

It is not necessary to adhere to an esoteric religion to hold the conviction that all things are animate, unfolding their own histories for those who are patient enough to observe. Montana landscape painter Clyde Aspevid knows this. He knows from long and close familiarity with mountains and shores, timbers and stones, and water and snow, that every day of observation is like turning the page to discover more of the epic journey the land takes through the seasons and through time. His process is studied and contemplative, in step with the cadence of nature, and the resulting paintings also invite a slow, appreciative gaze.

It would be remiss not to draw attention to Clyde Aspevig's finely honed sense of place. He possesses an ability to call forth the scent of the air and the color of the light in each of his chosen locales, and particularly the American West, with a forcefulness that collectors and critics alike have noted. As many have stated before, knowing a place and then seeing an Aspevig painting of it is to experience a jolt of recognition at a visceral level. Nowhere is this perfect pitch more evident than in his paintings of the coulees, peaks, creeks and plains of his home ground in Montana. Peter Hassrick refers to Aspevig's "wedding of the spirit of place with aesthetic harmonies and personal temperament."

It makes perfect sense that home, in its purest sense, should inspire some of Aspevig's finest work. It also follows that, knowing the land as he does, he should wish not to lose it. Both through his art and in other ways, he works with an almost missionary zeal to share the land, preserve it, and help others see what he sees. He would be the first to say that his paintings should be but a gateway to each viewer's personal communion with land itself.

Excerpt from Robyn G. Peterson's essay "The Stone's Story"

Clyde Aspevig was born and raised in Rudyard, Montana. He currently lives outside Bozeman, Montana, with his artist wife, Carol Guzman.