Tinworks Art: In Conversation brings together artists, writers, scientists, and creative thinkers from various fields to discuss the topics of our time. Monthly from March through June, Tinworks will convene thought leaders from the region and beyond for a pilot series On Food and Farming. The conversations have been developed in consideration of artist Agnes Denes’ new work, Wheatfield—An Inspiration. The seed is in the ground, presented at Tinworks for the 2024 exhibition season, and in collaboration with Mary Stein, a community leader in sustainable food systems endeavors and recently retired program leader of the Sustainable Food and Bioenergy Systems degree program at Montana State University.

Tinworks Art: In Conversation are ticketed evening events, open to the public, hosted by The Rialto Theater in downtown Bozeman. Doors at 7pm, event at 7:30pm. Tickets can be purchased in advance through Tinworks’ website, www.tinworksart.org.

Tinworks Art is an artist- and community-centered non-profit organization. Tinworks enriches the cultural and social fabric of Bozeman by supporting inclusive, immersive contemporary art experiences in non-traditional places.

We recommend purchasing tickets ahead of time. If you are unable to use your ticket please contact us at info@tinworksart.org to pass your ticket on to another. You can also sponsor someone who may otherwise be unable to participate by purchasing a “Gift Ticket”. If tickets sell out, select the “Waiting List” option for tickets which may become available. We recommend waiting list folks come to the Rialto the night of the event to be sold available tickets the most quickly. 

Parking downtown can be tricky, so we recommend arriving with plenty of time and using the parking garage located on Tracy Avenue or coming via public transportation.

Mary Murphy, Food Historian. Professor Emeritus. Author

Dr. Mary Murphy is an American historian who has taught courses on the history of gender, the North American West, and the history of food at Montana State University since 1990. She served as co-director and director of the Ivan Doig Center for the Study of the Lands and Peoples of the American West and was the Michael P. Malone Professor of History from 2005-2010. In 2013 she was named a Distinguished Professor in the College of Letters and Science. Murphy is the author of Hope in Hard Times: New Deal Photographs of Montana, 1936-1942; Mining Cultures: Men, Women, and Leisure in Butte, 1914-41; and Like a Family, The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World. She has won numerous prizes and fellowships for her research, teaching, and mentoring, and received the Montana Governor’s Humanities Award in 2013. Along with colleagues Molly Kruckenberg, Zoe Ann Stoltz, and Jan Zauha, Murphy is currently writing a culinary history of Montana.

Host: Sarah Calhoun, Businesswoman. Social Entrepreneur. Founder of Red Ants Pants 

Sarah Calhounis the owner of Red Ants Pants, the executive director of the Red Ants Pants Foundation, and the producer of Red Ants Pants Music Festival, which was named the Event of the Year by the Montana Office of Tourism. In 2018 she was inducted into the Montana Business Hall of Fame. Calhoun was named the National Women in Business Champion for the SBA in 2012 and Entrepreneur of the Year for the State of Montana in 2011. Dedicated to supporting rural communities and women’s leadership, she has given two TEDx talks, dozens of keynote addresses, and has gained national press such as CNBC, CNN, Bloomberg, Sunset, Entrepreneur, National Geographic, The New York Times and The Huffington Post.