Roosevelt Center

07/14/2024

Montana Shakespeare in the Parks is on location at Lions Park— let the unboxing begin! Join them at 6:30 pm for a FREE performance of “A Winter’s Tale”. Come early at 6 pm and enjoy a bonus double feature with local familiar faces dancing a special Renaissance dance in costume.

07/14/2024

07/09/2024

We had a grand time at the first of three Red Lodge Summer Fest events this past weekend!

Hope to see you at the next one happening on Saturday Jul. 27! Doors at 1pm. Want to lend a hand and volunteer? Send us an email to [email protected] !

07/05/2024

Join us tomorrow, Saturday, July 6th for Red Lodge Summer Fest at the Roosevelt Center at 1 pm and keep the party going on Sunday, July 7th and join us for the first to Bluegrass Breakfast from 10-noon at Regis with the Grizzly Peak Pickers!

07/01/2024

Coming up this weekend to cap off the Red Lodge Rodeo!

Join us at 1pm on Sat. Jul. 6 at the Roosevelt Center for the first of three FREE fun-filled evenings at Red Lodge Summer Fest.

Music from some awesome acts: Maxwell & the Head Change - The Dead & Down - Cactus Cuts - Lena Marie Schiffer Music trio - Zechariah Peabody Band.

06/28/2024

Join us on Jul 6, Jul 27 and Sept 7 for the party of the summer at the Roosevelt Center! Vendor applications are closed for the first date, but keep them coming to [email protected] to be considered for other dates. We're also still looking for volunteers for all of the shows. Reach out via email for details.

06/25/2024

A freshly tuned piano at the Roosevelt Center is music to our ears! 🎹♫🎧ᡣ♪

Our friend Jim Guimont volunteered his time and tuned this 100+ year-old Cable Nelson upright piano that is now located outside the Roosevelt Center conference room. At one time, this piano lived inside the Roman Theater in Red Lodge playing accompaniment to silent films. Thanks for helping keep this gem playing, Jim!

The piano has been getting a lot of use lately from attendees at the Red Lodge Music Festival, Red Lodge Songwriter Festival and David and Cheryl Whitcomb's Open Mic. It even received some play during the Intermountain Ski Area Association Conference. We welcome everyone to stop by and play us a tune during business hours Mon-Fri 9-5 p.m.

06/20/2024

Happy Solstice! On the longest day of the year, the Roosevelt Center is thankful for its new 18,000kWh solar array. ☀️🕶🌞🌻

Enjoy these photos from the solar power dedication ceremony! We invited the community to come celebrate the occasion, have a popsicle, paint a rock with Red Lodge Artist Beth Korth and celebrate World Environment day.

We also welcomed people to slap a sticker on one of the former Miami Beach chairlift towers that now support the array.

Since the panels were brought online earlier this month, they've saved the Roosevelt Center about $250.00 in electricity.

The Roosevelt Center is thankful to have had such wonderful sponsors and local installers that helped see the solar project to fruition, including: NorthWestern Energy, Generous Anonymous Donor, Red Lodge Mountain, Sundance Solar ,Back Alley Metals, HMH Electric, Red Lodge Tree Service.

Photo Cred: Greys River Photography

06/19/2024

Never a dull moment! It's officially time for Red Lodge Songwriter Festival 2024! Thanks for letting the Roosevelt Center in for a sneak peek during the festival's songwriter workshop!

In this clip, you'll hear a piece from Natalie Price Music, then Goldpine Music.

06/19/2024

Recap time! The final David and Cheryl Whitcomb's Open Mic for the season was a smashing success. So many amazing performances were had! Shout out to Roosevelt Center tenant artist Sheila Johns for leading rock painting during the event.

Huge thanks is due to David and Cheryl Whitcomb for making this fun event possible, along with Red Lodge Songwriters Festival.

Another tenant artist, Justin Satterfield, deserves thanks too, for always bringing instruments and helping run sound at every open mic in the series.

Open mic is on hiatus for the summer, but keep an eye out for more dates to be announced when the school is back in session!

📸: Greys River Photography

06/17/2024

Thank you Intermountain Ski Association for selecting Red Lodge to host your 2024 conference! We hope you had a great time and we hope you guys will return to our neck of the woods soon.

Thanks to all attendees, sponsors, staff & board for making the trek from ski hills across Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, and also to our local Montana ski hills. Here are a few pictures of the event thanks to Greys River Photography.

Alta Ski Area, Beaver Mountain, Bogus Basin Mountain Recreation Area, The Great Divide, Deer Valley Resort, Park City Mountain, Powder Mountain, Snowbasin Resort, White Pine Ski Resort, Beaver Mountain, Bridger Bowl, Discovery Ski Area, Red Lodge Mountain, Pebble Creek Ski Area, Hole, Snowbird, Sundance Mountain Resort, Woodward Park City, Big Sky, Brighton Resort, Magic Mountain, Pine Creek Ski Resort, Showdown Montana, Sun Valley Resort, Blacktail Mountain, Brundage Mountain Resort, Grand Targhee Resort, Lookout Pass Ski and Recreation Area, Pomerelle Mountain, Silver Mountain, Snow King Mountain, Soldier Mountain, Wasatch Peaks Ranch

06/17/2024

More photos from each event are to come, but check out the busy few weeks we've just had at the Roosevelt Center! Lots of fun going on around here. In no particular order...

-Solar Flower Power Dedication Ceremony
-Hosted 250+ ski business professionals from Intermountain Ski Area Association
-Hosted our final David and Cheryl Whitcomb's All Ages Open Mic of the season.
-Hosted friends from Beartooth Industries to paint rocks for the garden.
-Hosted a nationally-touring musical act: Mark 209

And a few more that we're sure we're forgetting. Thanks for keeping the summer busy at the Roosevelt Center 🌴🍹🍉⛱️🥥. And shout out to all the folks who helped these events come together!

06/05/2024

Ya'll better be ready! We're back with one final David and Cheryl Whitcombs' All Ages Open Mic for the season! Happening tomorrow (6/6) from 6-8 p.m. 🎤🎧🎶🎸

We've got raffle prizes galore, live painting with Sheila Johns and King sized candy bars. What's not to love?! Hope to see you at the Roosevelt Center.

06/04/2024

Just a quick reminder that our grand opening for the solar array in the Youth & Art Garden is tomorrow from noon-2pm! Jim and Jannette Swanson have been working tirelessly to make sure that progress moves forward and that the garden is ready for guests. Hope to see you in the garden – remember to bring kid-friendly stickers to adhere to the Miami towers, old skis if you have them, and wear old clothing if you want to help or participate in rock painting.

05/29/2024

We would like to invite the community to the Grand Opening of the solar array in the Roosevelt Center's Youth & Art garden!

Join us for popsicles to celebrate World Environment Day next Wednesday, June 5th from noon to 2 pm.

Bring your favorite sticker to put on the old towers from the Miami chair lift. **please keep the stickers kid friendly***. Thanks to Sylvan Peak Mountain Shop-- they are making sure everyone gets a sticker who wants one and to NorthWestern Energyfor the cold treats. Have an old pair of skis that are no longer snow worthy? Bring those too and we will incorporate them into the garden.

Thank you to all of the sponsors and local installers for getting us to this point:
NorthWestern Energy a generous anonymous donor, Red Lodge Mountain Mick, Alanna, and Forrest with Back Alley Metals, Ernest Miller, Henry and Terry with Sundance Solar, Devin Kohn and Kevin with Red Lodge Tree Service Special thank you to the Youth & Art Garden sponsors including: GroMoreGood Grassroots Grant, "Imagine If" fund, and our amazing Youth & Art volunteers, Jim & Jannette Swanson.

05/29/2024

Oh boy! We had a birthday in the house last weekend! Red Lodge local legend Gary Demille celebrated 80 trips around the sun, along with a whole lot of his friends and family. HAPPY BIRTHDAY Gary!

🎉🎂✨🍰🥳

📸 Greys River Photography

05/23/2024

Got a bike? Come learn how to take care of it!

Join us for our next Bike Tune / Mechanic Course on rear derailleurs, barrel adjusters and shifting led by Jennifer & Andy.

May 30 at the Roosevelt Center Room #222.

$25 for registration, sign up at montanatour.org/community-bike-center

05/21/2024

Remember this view? It's one of our favorites every summer! Lions Park in Red Lodge packed with Montana Shakespeare in the Parks playgoers.

This summer, you're invited to another FREE performance on Sunday, July 14 at 6:30 p.m. The cast will be back for a performance of The Winter's Tale.

Audiences are encouraged to bring a picnic to enjoy an evening together under the Big Sky among friends and neighbors. Staff with One Legged Magpie will be there to serve adult beverages, as well!

05/20/2024

Thanks so much for joining us for David and Cheryl Whitcomb's All Ages Open Mic in May!

The FINAL open mic of the season is coming up on June 6 from 6-8 p.m. Join us! The best raffle prizes of the series will be up for grabs and you can sing and dance your way into summer vacation.

🌊🏄

📸: Greys River Photography

05/17/2024

What a splendid kick off to the first Red Lodge Art Walk of the season!

Join us for more art and cool conversations at the next one happening on the second Saturday of June on the 8th from 2-6 p.m.

05/15/2024

Another annual meeting in the books for Beartooth Electric! We appreciate the Coop's staff and board for choosing the Roosevelt Center to host its meeting with more than 100 guests.

We are loving the refreshed flooring and lighting in the auditorium. Stop by to check it out and chat with staff about booking the room for your next event.

📸: Greys River Photography

05/14/2024

We heard the turnout was amazing for Carol Hartman and Henry Blond Art's evening of new works at the Roosevelt Center last week. It was extra special to see new works from these two displayed publicly for the first time.

Thanks to all who turned out to support the artists and to Carol and Henry for hosting another lovely event in the Roosevelt Center conference room.

05/13/2024

Help us welcome one of the newest Roosevelt Center tenants, the Community Bike Center by Montana Tour Red Lodge. Bikes are their thing, through and through. Check out what they're doing to keep people riding in Red Lodge!

Our Community Bike Center is a space for people to work on their bicycles, host clinics, reuse parts, meet for events and even hire the in-house mechanic for...

05/10/2024

We're gearing up for the first Red Lodge Art Walk of the season! Join us tomorrow 5/11 from 2-6 p.m. and experience all the Roosevelt Center has to offer! Three indoor art exhibits, sculpture garden, open artist studios and more.

Pictured: A quilt called "Orphanage" by Rita Ortiz.

05/08/2024

New art exhibits are up at the Roosevelt Center!

Kevin Jam has paintings up in the entryway gallery. A former student at the Roosevelt School, Jam has come full circle now showing his acrylic work at the Roosevelt Center.

In the first floor hall, you can find work of Red Lodge artist Dorci Newman Tremblay. She describes her painting's subject matter as "semi-abstract landscapes and figures combined to create 'figure landscapes.'"

Last but not least, the second floor hall features quilts by Rita Ortiz. Admire the intricate stitching and hours of work put into these functional art pieces.

05/07/2024

An Evening of New Works with Carol Hartman and Henry Blond

Date: April 9, 2024 (One evening only)
Reception: April 9, 2024, 5:00-9:00PM in Roosevelt Center Conference Room

Carol Hartman and Henry Blond Art will be hosting an art reception of their most recent artwork at the Red Lodge Roosevelt Center the evening of Thursday, May 9th, 5:00-9:00PM. You are invited to come and enjoy the evening with them!

Many of Hartman’s large contemporary abstracts will be on display before going into storage for a 2025 museum show in Arizona. Her oil paintings, spanning from 4 feet up to 19 feet in width, reflect upon the effect of mankind’s interaction with the environment. Her recent artwork explores the emotional and environmental impact of the 2023 train derailment over the Yellowstone River, fracking in Eastern Montana, and Butte’s Berkely Pit reclamation project.

Henry Blond, currently working in New Mexico, brings to Red Lodge the beginnings of a new body of figurative oil paintings. The series, “Displaced Memory”, explores a recollection and a reframing of narrative through decontextualization of the figure. The work calls on a nostalgic past that is repositioned into the present within a contemporary dynamic.

Exhibition: AN EVENING OF NEW WORKS

Location: ROOSEVELT CENTER CONFERENCE ROOM
Red Lodge, Montana. 406-425-0480
Dates: April 9, 2024 (One evening only)
Reception: April 9, 2024, 5:00-9:00PM

CAROL HARTMAN and HENRY BLOND will be hosting an art reception of their most recent artwork at the Red Lodge Roosevelt Center the evening of Thursday, May 9th, 5:00-9:00PM. You are invited to come and enjoy the evening with them!

Many of Hartman’s large contemporary abstracts will be on display before going into storage for a 2025 museum show in Arizona. Her oil paintings, spanning from 4 feet up to 19 feet in width, reflect upon the effect of mankind’s interaction with the enviornment. Her recent artwork explores the emotional and environmental impact of the 2023 train derailment over the Yellowstone River, fracking in Eastern Montana, and Butte’s Berkely Pit reclamation project.

Henry Blond, currently working in New Mexico, brings to Red Lodge the beginnings of a new body of figurative oil paintings. The series, “Displaced Memory”, explores a recollection and a reframing of narrative through decontextualization of the figure. The work calls on a nostalgic past that is repositioned into the present within a contemporary dynamic.

If you would like more information and/or high resolution photos, please contact
[email protected] or [email protected].
We will try to accommodate your needs.
You may also call Carol at 406-209-1856 or Henry at 406-298-0389.
Our websites also provide additional images.

05/07/2024

We can’t wait for the first Art Walk for the season! This Saturday from 2pm-6pm.

***FREE*** This Saturday 2-6+pm! Kick off the 2024 Red Lodge Art Walk season with us! Tune into FM99 The Mountain at 8am this Thursday 5/9 for more information!

05/02/2024

Join us TONIGHT (5/2) for another edition of David and Cheryl Whitcomb's All Ages Open Mic! Happening inside the Roosevelt Center from 6-8 p.m., we welcome all performing arts to this family-friendly setting with live painting by Red Lodge artist Matilda Wentzel.

We'll see you tonight! 🎤🎧🎶🎸

04/29/2024

Just one of the many awesome things happening under the Roosevelt Center roof! Congratulations Code Girls and Hero's STEAM Center crew on an amazing showing at their competition!

Congratulations to all Hero’s Code Girls! Yesterday they competed in the NW App Challenge and did a great job (it was a long, but exciting day). Each team presented to 3 panels of judges that joined remotely from all around the country. By the end of the event, the Bear Aware App Team (top row) finished in 3rd place and will share a $3000.00 Scholarship! Their app educates residents and tourists about the dangers of bears and how to protect one’s self. The Carpool Buddies App Team did a great job presenting too. Their app is meant to help people in rural areas (such as Carbon County) find drivers that are willing to share rides. We are so proud of the hard work and dedication these teams put in throughout the entire school year. Go CODE GIRLS and we hope you’ll join again next year!

https://youtu.be/9Z0sdpxVBRQ

04/25/2024

Thank you MEDA Montana Economic Developers Association for hosting your annual conference in Red Lodge at the Roosevelt Center. We appreciate you staying in our local hotels, eating at our restaurants, spending money at our downtown businesses, and touring our town. It's been fun to have you return -- the last time they visited we had just barely opened the Roosevelt. Hope you will be back soon! Special thanks to the incredible staff of MEDA and the fabulous speakers.