Billings, MT
Montana's largest city sits beneath the Rimrocks — dramatic sandstone cliffs that define the city's skyline and show up in its murals. The Downtown Arts District and the emerging Brewery District carry work that reflects Billings' identity as a working-class energy hub with a growing creative class. Crow and Cheyenne heritage, the Yellowstone River corridor, and the Big Sky's famous scale all make their way onto Billings' walls.
Featured Artists
All artists →Aaron Oldhorn
Billings native whose Rimrocks paintings have made him a civic institution in Montana's largest city. Oldhorn has painted the sandstone cliffs in every light and every season for thirty years; his Broadway mural compresses that archive into a single golden-hour image that locals claim is the most accurate depiction of Billings ever painted.
Petra Wills
Environmental artist who focuses on Montana's river systems as subjects for large-scale public work. Wills' Brewery District mural traces the Yellowstone's course from Yellowstone Lake to the Missouri confluence, rendered in the aerial perspective of a topographic map blended with the impressionistic color of the actual water at different seasons.
Dustin Rides At The Door
Enrolled Crow Nation artist whose downtown Billings mural honors the Apsáalooke people and their relationship to the Yellowstone country. Rides At The Door incorporates traditional Crow beading patterns and ledger-art figuration into a contemporary composition that stands as one of the most significant pieces of Indigenous public art in Montana.