Roosevelt Center is proud to present two Guest Art Exhibitions through July 2026. Everyone is invited to see the art of local artists, Mana Lesman and Tess Lehman.

 

"Get Outside" by Tess Lehman on First Floor

is an art exhibition created by Tess Lehman to inspire viewers to enjoy the great outdoors through camping, gardening or some other way!

 

Tess Lehman is a Montana native pursuing her passion of art through color. Utilizing oil, acrylic and encaustic mediums she paints all kinds of subjects from VW vans/campers to landscapes and flowers. Tess’s aim is to simplify the subject or scene into something interesting and then capture the light. She insists, the trick is to see the difference between the shadow color and the sunlit color and manage to get it on her canvas!

 

Her paintings have been accepted into numerous juried shows around the country, including Montana, Texas, California, Oregon, New York, Massachusetts, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, and North Dakota. Please join the Roosevelt Center in welcoming Tess Lehman to our First Floor Gallery.

 

​A Life Time Retrospective by Mana Lesman on 2nd Floor

 

The paintings of Mana Lesman are a journey through many times and places.  Ms. Lesman has spent a lifetime exploring mankind’s history, science, arts, beliefs and deeds.  Her work has evolved from her fascination with human kind’s development of art as “message.”

 

All of these shapes and colors resonate with us and we interpret them according to our experiences. They have no name but in time we have assigned them meaning, and we continue to interpret them from the emotions they inspire to the knowledge. They awaken in us.  They have evolved into systems of communication which we depend on for our very Lives.  How far from the primitive beings we once were

 

This exhibition will take the viewer on a surreal journey of discovery and amazing achievement. Each painting speaks to its own issue and carries us to a point of view to ponder.  

 

​​​Visit guest art exhibits during Art Walk on Saturday, July 11, 2-6 pm, with Tess Lehman or Saturday, August 8, 2-6 pm with Mana Lesman.  Or visit during open building hours 9 am to 5 pm, Monday - Friday.

 

If your are interested in becoming a guest artist, please contact Pat Olding.

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Featured Below Mana Lesman, left; Tess Lehman, right