Chouteau County Fine Arts Council

08/25/2026

“If you see someone without a smile, you should give them one of yours!”
-Dolly Parton

Dolly, we know that you will be able to finally rest easy and in absolute peace, thank you for bringing kindness and love to our world.

May we all take a piece from her life and spread love, positivity, and kindness!

05/26/2026

More Community Mural Project panels located inside the Agricultural Museum

05/23/2026

Go check out the Museum of the Upper Missouri, Old Fort and get your picture taken as a steamboat captain.

05/23/2026

Congratulations to Elijah and Lu-C on their upcoming graduation. Both are Art Club members. Elijah received our Higher Education Assistance of $1,000 and both received $500 for their Senior Mural Project.

05/15/2026

Looking for a couple folks to run Chalk Up Fort Benton during Summer Celebration.

Contact Joellen Fort Benton Chamber of Commerce for more information.

05/14/2026

05/14/2026

Our Art Hearts are happy with more public art coming to Fort Benton!

Jul1art Studio & Rilie Tane Art are working on new murals, Super cool!

Here is a look at their new works in progress as well as some of the others we have been involved in with the Art Club, Gilded Gals community improvement project, & Jul1art.

05/13/2026

I spy with my little eye……Couple new homes.

05/06/2026

Well all good things must come to an end, again. While we are all saddened by the news we received today, we know there is always a rainbow after the storm.

We are sorry that the full story is not ours to tell. We wish to respect the owners.

Because of unforeseen circumstances we have to remove the panels our that our beautiful community and Gilded Gals have spent 10 months painting for our community improvement project.

Here is the rainbow. We are actively working on re-imagining, and re-homing these beautiful paintings. As soon as we know anything we will let you know.

What we do know is…… We are sooo proud of our Sunday artists and we are grateful for all the donations and support that helped us complete this project.

Know that our history and art will not be lost, just re-homed to tell our story.

Thank you to all those that helped us remove the 1st floor, 3rd floor will be done later this week. And Thank you to the Montana Agricultural Museum for storing and keeping our art safe.

05/04/2026

And all good things must come to an end, as they say. So proud of our Gilded Gals with getting this last panel done. We only have 3 to clear coat and get the remaining hung. But the Choteau House Project is coming to its close.

These ladies have shown up every Sunday for the past 10 months. We are so amazed with their dedication to our community.

Wish we could have gotten a picture of all of them.