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The Museum of Fine Arts-Butte (MOFAB) is located at 405 West Park Street, Butte, Montana 59701 in the old historic YMCA building. The Butte Silver Bow Arts Foundation (BSBAF) has been given the opportunity to restore, renovate, and reclaim the old “Y” for a World-Class Art Museum, accredited Art School, and Arts Incubator through an expanded art program to include theater, performance, music, and literary arts. Centrally located in Uptown Butte’s National Historic Landmark District, the old “Y” was built in 1917, once housed national and international guests, and operated a community-wide YMCA co-educational facility. Butte’s Park and Broadway Street vicinity entertained its residents with many prominent theaters, exquisite music halls, famous artists, and literary geniuses. The YMCA building’s significant mark on the local community has left its indelible impression as a place for all to enjoy. It is the focus of this community’s cultural heritage that the BSBAF wishes to preserve for all our future generations.

Through SMARTjobs, BSBAF continues to seek funding to promote its arts educational programs, the Artist-in-Residence programs, Arts Immersion Summer Programs, and a variety of arts, cultural, heritage, and recreational opportunities. BSBAF will accomplish this mission by partnering with the Corcoran Museum and College of Art and Design in Washington, D.C., the University of Utah, the University of Montana Western Outreach Program in Dillon, the Clark Fork Coalition, the Rocky Mountain Agile Virtual Enterprises Technical Development Center (RAVE TDC) at Montana Tech of The University of Montana, the Governor’s Office of Economic Opportunity Creative Enterprise Cluster, the Butte Local Development Corporation, the Urban Revitalization Agency, the local YMCA, and a variety of other organizations and businesses in Southwest Montana.

The Butte Silver Bow Arts Center has moved to the Museum of Fine Arts-Butte (MOFAB) at 405 W. Park Street, Butte, Montana 59701. The Butte Silver Bow Arts Foundation formed the “Arts Center” to serve the needs and interests of the art community in Butte and Southwest Montana. The Arts Center offers classes in fine arts, performing arts, literary arts, and music. It also offers activities and events that promote artistic and cultural development in the local art community and Southwest Montana.

The Butte Silver Bow Art Center operates the MOFAB Art Supply Store located on the first floor of the Museum of Fine Arts-Butte offering a comprehensive supply of art materials and items in all mediums and genre.

For specific art supplies and to order specialty items, please contact Jana Faughts, MOFAB Building and Art Supply Store Manager at (406) 723-7600.