Tinworks Art Expands: Rialto Theater & Western Art

Tinworks Art in Bozeman expands to the Rialto Theater with Matthew Barney's 'Redoubt.' Focus on Western art, environmental themes, and community engagement. Mill building restoration planned.

Tinworks Art, the fledgling charitable contemporary art area in Bozeman, Montana, is broadening its impact from a former industrial website in the city’s northeast neighbourhood to the historical Rialto Theater downtown. Opening up 21 November, Tinworks at Rialto will certainly be showing Matthew Barney’s 2018 Western movie Redoubt (up until 1 February 2026), releasing Tinworks’ first room open year-round for setups, artists’ talks, efficiencies and testings.

Tinworks at Rialto: New Art Space

Under Moore’s leadership, Tinworks has actually offered exhibits by Theaster Gates, Gabriel Chaile, Lucy Raven, Stephen Coast and Layli Long Soldier, to name a few, in various means inspired by the landscape of the American west. Last year, Agnes Denes, at the age of 93, repositioned her introducing environmental artwork Wheatfield– initially planted in 1982 in lower Manhattan– on the land at the Tinworks site, drawing wide art globe interest.

“What I enjoy concerning the structures is that there’s absolutely nothing priceless architecturally,” says Moore, who led the Chinati Structure in Marfa, Texas, for nearly a years, where commercial areas were in a similar way repurposed for the setup of art by its creator, Donald Judd, yet with the specification in his will certainly that his art be protected equally as it was sited in the style. Even discussion of including services such as bathrooms came to be contentious throughout Moore’s period.

Rialto Theater Acquisition & Restoration

In addition to the procurement of the Rialto– which opened as a theater in 1924 and was donated by its previous proprietors to Tinworks– the organisation is stewarding the restoration of its deteriorating mill building. Salvaging three initial crib wall surfaces and the exterior grain chute, the brand-new framework– built on the original impact and expanded a little to the north– will certainly offer versatile gallery areas along with a site visitor centre and offices (home heating and washrooms will certainly be an initially at the northeast campus).

“We’re excited about the chance to have an existence on Main Street and to existing really engaging shows that may be a various way of approaching familiar subjects or exposing visitors to art that attaches in a different means,” claims Tinworks’ inaugural director Jenny Moore. She took the helm in 2023 with the required to construct Tinworks into a lasting long-term arts organisation. At Tinworks at Rialto, visitors will be able to go down in during 2 day-to-day screenings of Barney’s Redoubt, fired in Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountains and linking the classic myth of Diana the seeker with the reintroduction of the wolves in the west, a preservation initiative currently celebrating its 30th anniversary.

Jenny Moore’s Vision for Tinworks

At Tinworks at Rialto, visitors will be able to decrease in throughout two everyday testings of Barney’s Redoubt, shot in Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountains and linking the classic misconception of Diana the seeker with the reintroduction of the wolves in the west, a preservation initiative currently celebrating its 30th anniversary. “The story is conveyed via the soundtrack and gorgeous dancing flows and these beautiful landscape sights,” Moore claims. “It’s actually meditative.”

Moore prepares for expanding her organisation’s yearly operating expense by 70% with the enhancement of Tinworks at Rialto and the opening of the reimagined mill building following year. Annual participation has actually approximately doubled from 2024 to 2025 with 12,000 site visitors this year, a number Moore anticipates to a minimum of double once more with year-round programs.

“So much of what I gained from Chinati has aided us make much better educated choices regarding this website,” says Moore, that values being “at the start of a brand-new art space in the west and having the possibility to believe expansively and flexibly concerning exactly how these buildings can be completely in solution to the artists we’re collaborating with and their installments”.

“We’re delighted about the opportunity to have a visibility on Main Street and to present really compelling programming that might be a various way of approaching acquainted subjects or subjecting visitors to art that links in a different way,” states Tinworks’ inaugural supervisor Jenny Moore. She took the helm in 2023 with the mandate to build Tinworks into a lasting long-lasting arts organisation. The charitable was established in 2019 as a seasonal pop-up for aesthetic and doing musicians to display operate at a two-acre facility that includes a repurposed tin production storage facility, pig barn, mill structure and field of open land.