Meet the Tenants
The Arts have been an essential part of our history in Red Lodge—and the artistic heritage of Red Lodge is enriched by the artists who live and work here today. Learn more about the local artists, performers, nonprofits and small businesses at the Roosevelt Center.
Beth Korth
Beth Korth's goal at the Roosevelt is to create a space for Bethdrawsbunnies studio to actively be working and displaying art open to the community and encouraging people to come visit and check in. She plans to utilize the wonderful alternative spaces and fellow residents as much as possible in art shows, workshops and collaboration. Beth is excited to be at the Roosevelt Center and represent a part of this art community.
Ellen Herminghaus
Ellen Herminghaus considers herself “at the beginning of [her] artistic journey.” Ellen grew up in Billings, Montana, adventuring all across the Red Lodge area with her family. While out in the woods on her family adventures, Ellen would wander off gathering leaves, bark, moss, and rocks. She now attributes these experiences to her art. Being a quilter, Ellen collects fabrics, and many have a nature theme.
She did not start as a quilter, though. Ellen attended the University of Montana to study art but decided after a year to go in a different direction. Her 30-year career in the gas and oil industry started and ended in Houston, Texas, after receiving her finance degree from the U of M.
She met her husband in Houston, and with Ellen having retirement already in the back of her mind, they visited Red lodge and both decided they would like to retire here. They bought a couple of properties around Red Lodge, so that by the time they were able to retire, their home was already constructed.
After retiring to Red Lodge full-time in October 2017, Ellen found herself at some of the meetings on the revitalization of the Roosevelt Center. She took one of the tours of the building, and thought it was perfect for her and what she wanted to do. Ellen moved into the Roosevelt Center in June 2018. Says Ellen of the Roosevelt Center, “it is extremely important for Red Lodge, and it’s building a community of artists.”
Elizabeth LaRowe
Elizabeth LaRowe Watercolor Artist can be found at the Roosevelt Center in her art studio rm107 C. She welcomes visitors as she enjoys sharing her knowledge and love of art. Color and light are the focus of Elizabeth LaRowe’s artwork, her personal artistic efforts have concentrated on using water media techniques for the past 42 years.
She loves plein air painting. For the past five years she has co-sponsored the Beartooth Plein Air Society Blitz, a week-long painting exploration of our area, open to all interested adults regardless of experience. Elizabeth, also known as Betsy and her husband Miles have enjoyed owning property in Red Lodge since 1988. Regardless of their job locations as educators they were able to enjoy summers here. For Elizabeth being involved in Red Lodge’s art scene through both painting and teaching workshops was an important part of those summers. After thirty-nine years as an art educator she and Miles retired to Red Lodge in 2009.
Her studio space in the Roosevelt Center is a long-awaited dream. After so many years of public-school teaching just entering the old school building brings a feeling of comfort and belonging. She is finding her space to be an excellent place to creatively stretch. Having other artists in the building is beneficial. It’s a place to share ideas, get critiques and learn of ways to expand the arts in the community.
Always a champion of education she holds a BFA degree from the University of Denver and a MAT from the University of Wyoming. Elizabeth has participated and won awards in many local and regional juried shows. Her paintings have been published in North Light Books Splash 16 The Best of Watercolor Exploring Texture, Splash 18 Value and Splash and Splash 20 Creative Composition..
Always the teacher, she welcomes visitors to her studio. She is available for art presentations and workshops.
Faith Rumm
The dentition of a prolific artist, Faith Rumm has maintained a livelihood in art for over 20 years. Fine art painter, interpretive illustrator and designer, and musician, Faith uses her passions and skills to promote appreciation, stewardship and conservation of our planet.
Fine Art: Faith draws upon her extensive travels, hikes, and observations of nature to create dramatic and inspirational landscape paintings. She maintains a practice of painting outdoors whenever possible, and regularly works on large studio pieces. Her work is collected worldwide, and has reached as far as Baku, Azerbaijan and Wolong, China. She most recently spent time plein air painting in Kyrgyzstan. In the fall of 2022 she hauled her plein air oil setup down the Colorado River on a 21 day private raft trip through the Grand Canyon, painting every day. In 2020 she completed the John Muir Trail 100 Paintings Project after thru-hiking the 211 mile John Muir Trail a total of four times. Faith has just begun exploring the artistic possibilities found in Montana, and is excited to see where that may lead.
Interpretive Art and Design: Faith works with public and private land managers to promote preservation of land, threatened and endangered species, wetland and other restorations, and parklands. She has also worked with multiple indigenous tribes to tell their story and help preserve their cultures.
Music: Faith enjoys playing violin and singing harmony, exploring different genres of music with different people. In the backcountry she usually takes her trusty recorder to play songs for the deer and coyotes.
Background: Faith Rumm grew up with a violinist mother, mountaineer father and three brothers. Family backpack trips helped to form her love of nature. In her twenties and early thirties, she worked in Grand Canyon, Bryce Canyon and Great Basin National Parks as an interpretive ranger, and in Inyo National Forest as a wilderness ranger. Her work as an artist developed directly from these experiences.
"It's simple — my plan is to spend my life expressing and sharing my own interpretations of nature. The power, wonder and beauty of our planet speaks to me and I respond. I seek out beautiful places for my own personal sense of connection. Nature is my muse, and art is my form of activism. We need to remember over and over again just how precious and vulnerable our earth is; my work acts as a reminder. The beauty of the wild humbles me, prompts my attention, appreciation and reverence for this world.
The Glass Feather Studio by RJ Slaven
The journey of creating stained glass art started in 2016 with an intro to stained glass class in the middle of one of our long Montana winters. I have enjoyed the process of design and creation of stained glass art since. As a plumbing and hydronic heating contractor for most of my life, I have designed and installed several water and heat distribution systems that can get technical to piece together and in a sense became an art form to me.
My experience with soldering copper with lead and silver helped me to understand the way solder flows with glass. The experience of design and creation of heating systems has helped me to fit all the pieces together.
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The designs I create come from several different ideals. I see something and wonder what it would look like made out of glass, and so the process begins. The natural sunlight reflecting through the glass helps me with the imagination of color choices. The attraction with birds and feathers as my messengers has lead me to create one of my signature pieces, "The Glass Feather".
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To contact RJ, you can email him at TheGlassFeather1@gmail.com or give him a ring at (406) 425 -0781.
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Hero's STEAM Center
Hero’s STEAM Center opened its doors in February 2019 thanks to the encouragement and support of the Red Lodge Area Community Foundation, several enthusiastic community organizations and individuals, and the tenacity of its founder, Ken Whistler. It’s a place to create, explore, learn and share knowledge in the Red Lodge area. Its nonprofit Board together with community volunteers offers Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math-related (STEAM) presentations, workshops and youth programs.
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We glean sharable knowledge, expertise and skills from local and regional sources to bring STEAM enrichment and exploration into our own backyard for curious residents and visitors of all ages. Hero’s serves and supports such programs as Code Girls United, Northwest Earth and Space Science Pathways/NASA Challenges, and Video Game Programming. Summer programs vary depending on volunteer expertise and availability. Previously offered: Basics-of-Bots, Programming Your Bot, Stop-Motion-Animation, Morse Code Escapades, Greatest Tardigrade Hunt in Red Lodge History, Video Game Programming, and Building Beartooth Bears (soft engineering).
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Hero’s is the home-base for the Red Lodge Dark Skies group founded in July 2021 with a goal of preserving and protecting our rural starry night skies for the enjoyment of all residents and visitors to our area. The Whistler Observatory, an extension of Hero’s STEAM Center, is the perfect place for anyone to observe and learn about our universe using telescopes with the guidance of community volunteers
All imagined ideas are worth exploring! Learn more about the programs on offer at our website or on our Facebook page.​​
John Potter
John Potter grew up in the Upper Great Lakes, where the forests of the Great Northwoods inspired a lifelong love of the natural world. After earning degrees in Painting and Illustration from Utah State University, John enjoyed a 20-year career as an award-winning illustrator before transitioning to full-time painting in 2002.
John’s work reflects a deep respect for nature and the creatures that inhabit it.
He describes his art as a spiritual dialogue:"Painting for me is a form of communication with our Creator… I paint to listen."His work has been exhibited across the U.S. and internationally, and he maintains his home and studio in Red Lodge, Montana.
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Awards Include: Best of Show 2D, Buffalo Bill Art Show & Sale (2025), People’s Choice Award, Buffalo Bill Art Show & Sale (Quick Draw), 2024, Founder’s Award of Merit (2017), Legacy Award (2010), Robert Kuhn Award (2008), and more. Website: johnpotterstudio.com
Justin Satterfield
If you want to learn to play guitar, ukulele, or bass in Red Lodge, Justin Satterfield is your guy.He can also fix any stringed instrument (16 years of Luthierie Experience) – some of his faithful clients from North Dakota still send him their broken prized possessions to mend, as well as clients throughout Montana.
With over 20 years of live touring experience, he has also worked behind the scenes for rock bands as a guitar tech. Justin and his wife Lisa have been hosting jam nights on Tuesdays at 8 pm at the Snow Creek for over 5 years. You can find him strumming away at the Roosevelt on Wed-Friday. Or catch him on stage with Fracture, a local rock/alternative/punk band, as well as singing with his wife (and talented vocalist). Justin might do a bit of everything, but he makes a point to not miss family dinners with his kids, his wife Lisa, and their three dogs.
Karin Solberg
Karin Solberg received her undergraduate ceramic degree from James Madison University in 1995 and
a MFA from Utah State University in 2003, concentrating on wheel thrown pottery fired in atmospheric kilns. Having taught ceramics at universities and community art centers throughout the United States, she settled in Montana, after completing a year residency at the Red Lodge Clay Center in 2013. In 2015, Karin founded Heist Art & Sundries, a downtown Red Lodge gallery located in the historic Carbon County Bank, specializing in local art and Montana handcrafted goods. Rock & Star Studio was established in 2018, upon requiring space to create art for the gallery and teach youth and adult art classes.
Karin produces pottery to celebrate craft, locally produced food and our surroundings. A clay platter, containing a home cooked meal, initiates community between family and friends. The daily habit of using a handmade object is a worthy ritual in this fast paced, mass produced gadget filled world. Karin’s personal goal as an artist is to produce wares that invite art, health and pause in the everyday, enlivening the home, food, body and mind.
Kelsey Bowen
Kelsey grew up in the California foothills, spending summers making up stories and picking thistles from her socks. Her figurative sculptures are inspired by emotion, metaphors, and childhood memories, themes that she uses to create a narrative caught between whimsy and disquiet. She moved to Montana in 2017 where she was an Artist in Residence at the Red Lodge Clay Center and an instructor at Rocky Mountain College. Her ceramic work has been exhibited internationally and in galleries from coast to coast. She received her BFA in Ceramics from the California College of the Arts in 2017 and is currently working as a workshop instructor and professional artist at her home base in Montana.
Kim Hays
I founded “Roving Fibers Adventures” because of my love of traveling and designing knitwear and patterns that are fun to knit and easy to wear. I have learned so many things from knitters around the world, and love to share their knowledge! The Shetland Islands, north of Scotland, is one of my favorite places to travel to and is rich in the style of Fair Isle knitting. When creating Fair Isle pieces to wear and knit I try to keep the colors of nature and traditional Shetland wear in mind. When I’m knitting with my other favorite stitch, the brioche stitch, I get to go wild with different colors. That’s the fun of textile arts!
I love teaching the crafts of knitting and crocheting and showing students that they too can be textile artists also. I also create garments that I enjoy wearing and have found that others enjoy them as well. One of my designs even made it as a finalist at the Vogue Live Show Rowen Yarn design contest and even made it to the runway. I didn’t win but it was fun to see it on a model in an international show.
I was born in Billings, Montana and my family bought a home in Red Lodge in 1977 due to our love of skiing and the outdoors. I soon called Red Lodge my home, and have always been in and out of this town from one season to another ever since then. Finally, my husband, Hugh and I moved back here full-time in 2022 and settled here for good.
My designs are published on Ravelry under the name “Roving Fibers”. My Instagram page is @rovingfibers and my Facebook page is “RovingFibersAdventures”
Lynell Kruckeberg
Lynell Kruckeberg is a classical singer, pianist, and music educator. She is excited to relocate her music studio—first established in Red Lodge in 2012—to the Roosevelt Center for the Arts. The studio offers exciting acoustics and a fabulous view of Mount Maurice and the Beartooths.
Lynell maintains a busy private studio, teaching voice, piano, vocal coaching, collaborative piano, and accompanying. She enjoys working with students one-on-one and ensuring that each gets specialized musical instruction.
As a classical soprano, Lynell performed numerous opera roles, oratorios, art song, and musical theater across the United States and Europe. She is also a collaborative pianist and vocal coach, working with singers of all ages.
Lynell has more than 20 years' experience teaching in private, collegiate, and public-school settings. She is a clinician and adjudicator for music festivals as a part of the Montana High School Activities Association. She also serves on the board of directors for the Red Lodge Music Festival. In addition to her private studio work, she is the professional musician for Red Lodge Community Church.
Lynell earned Doctor of Musical Arts in Vocal Performance and Pedagogy from the University of Iowa, a Master of Music in Vocal Performance from the University of Colorado, and a Bachelor of Music Education from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minn.
Lynell lives in Red Lodge with her husband, Chris, and their dog, Pixie. In her free time, she enjoys yoga, skiing, walking, hiking, cooking, gardening, herbalism, reading, and golfing.
Marty Clague
Marty Clague does not shy away from a project — where one person might just see an old tired bathroom, Marty sees a potential ceramic studio space.
An Iowa native, Marty graduated college from the University of Nebraska Omaha and worked in the Omaha area in Elementary Ed for 20 years. He worked with gifted children and ran after-school robotics programs his last few years in Nebraska. He now lives in Red Lodge, Montana, where his wife Martha Brown is on the board for the Red Lodge Area Community Foundation.
When Marty is not creating pottery pieces in the studio, he is volunteering at Hero’s STEAM Center or singing with Homebrewed Harmony, an a cappella group which includes several Red Lodge Area Community Foundation board members. He also directs the Red Lodge Community Church choir, is director of the Big Sky Chorus in Billings, and is in a Barbershop quartet.
Nancy Dunlap
The name “Madwoman Sewing” derives from the state of having lots of stuff on my mind combined with the parts and pieces of fabrics, threads, and embellishments on my cutting table simultaneously. Since I can rarely resist the impulse to collect interesting trims, buttons, and beads, I routinely run into the dilemma of not enough time nor energy to create those designs dancing around in my head, hence the “mad” woman syndrome. Currently, I am transforming “found fabrics”, like upholstery samples, used jeans, men’s ties, and placements, into purses, shopping bags, book covers, and hats. These one-of-a-kind items come about in steps. First, I sort textures and colors. Next, I determine the item’s function and design. Drafting, cutting, sewing follow. My training began when I was 10 years old.
I was born in Torrington, Wyoming in 1952. Like most girl children brought up in a farming community, I began sewing with a group of fellow 4-Hers. It was a highly competitive scene at fair time, and I was awarded more than my fair share of purple and blue ribbons. As structured as the 4-H agenda was at that time, I was able to express a creative, nonconforming streak. Even as a youngster I liked to deconstruct clothes... like my dad’s 501 Levis. A little cutting here and there, and I would have fashionable cutoffs with lots of rickrack trim. I continue to enjoy and profit from my early sewing education. College-level art classes and haute couture training have also served me well. I currently live in Red Lodge Montana. In my workshop, surrounded by numerous totes filled to the brim, I actively remake, upcycle, reassemble, and go a little mad...
Nick Lemke
Sensei Nick Lemke Founder and Chief Instructor of Island Dojo. Yondan (4th Degree) Seibukan Shorin Ryu Karate, Sandan (3rd Degree) Matayoshi Kobudo. Sensei Nick Lemke has been training in the Seibukan Shorin Ryu system of karate for over 30 years as a direct student of Hanshi Dan Smith 10th Dan, President of Seibukan USA.
Nick has also trained in the Okinawan traditional weapons system Matayoshi Kobudo as direct student of Dan Smith 8th Dan Matayoshi Kobudo. Sensei Smith is a first generation student of Shinpo Matayoshi 10th Dan, son of Matayoshi Shinko Sensei and successor to the Matayoshi line of Kobudo.
Nick has spent a considerable amount of time (almost 2 years) on Okinawa training at the Honbu Dojo for Seibukan with Hanshi Zenpo Shimabukuro. And also at the Matayoshi Kobudo Honbu training with Hanshi Seisho Itokazu Sensei, 10th Dan and Kancho (Chief Instructor) at the Honbu. Island Dojo, over the years, has hosted several training seminars and produced several National, International and World Champions.
Sensei Nick is extremely pleased to teach and promote Okinawan Traditional Karate and Kobudo. Welcome to Island Dojo Karate and Kobudo!
Priscilla Neff Massage
Priscilla grew up all over the west coast of the U.S., but has felt most at home in the community of Red Lodge, after first coming to visit in 2002 and moving here full time in 2013. She's always been happiest as a creative, hands-on worker, and giving caring touch through massage therapy was a perfect segue into satisfying work.
She considers massage an art; co-creative, meditative, and somatic, it is much like the arts of music, dance, martial arts, or graphic arts. it is a mindful practice she considers co-creative because it's something she doesn't do "to" her clients, but rather "with" her clients.
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She loves having space for her practice in an art center, surrounded by people and spaces which add to the aesthetics and good feel that are nice for a client who's coming in to relax and feel uplifted.
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Learn more at her website, priscillaneff.massagetherapy.com
Sheila Johns and Dan Wells
Dan Wells and Sheila Johns are a husband and wife art team who create in different mediums. Dan, a photographer, and Sheila, a visual artist who paints with acrylic and oils, pastels, and charcoal wash. Sheila also sculpts using driftwood and glass and has cast her own bronze, aluminum and iron sculptures.
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Johns creates art that makes her happy in a style that leans toward nature and the clean lines of contemporary art. You won't find her presence on social media because she believes we miss out on the good things in life if we are focused on technology. Although she does have a website where you can purchase her work, you'll mostly find Johns creating and spending time in the great outdoors gathering inspiration.
Wells specializes in commercial and real estate photography, but he's no stranger to fine art photos. Nature landscapes, wildlife, travel and events photography all have strong showings in his body of work. On his website, you'll find a wide selection of his work available in a variety of mediums, including canvas, metal, wood, acrylic and paper.
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View Sheila's website by clicking here.
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View Dan's website by clicking here.
Red Lodge Bike Center
The Community Bike Center provides a space for people to work on their bicycles, host "how to" clinics, reuse bikes and parts and this is also our event hub! It provides a lead volunteer during our hours of operation to help you find tools, parts and order needed parts. They hope to be open more as we grow and train lead volunteers. The community bike center is funded by donations for bikes & parts, grants and sponsorships.
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Open Community Hours of Operation
Tuesday 9 am - 12 pm
Thursday 5 - 7 pm
Saturday 9 am - 11 am
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​Mechanic Services for Hire:
Andy Baranovic is the in-house mechanic and offers bike repair by appointment. Minor tune-ups, major overhauls and quick fixes. Call or text Andy for scheduling. 406-426-0769
Find out more their website: redlodgebikecenter.com or email to bikes@redlodgebikecenter.com.
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