Joe Abbrescia Jr.
Joe Abbrescia Jr. specializes in restoration and conservation services for fine art oil paintings. His expertise in art restoration employs modern techniques combined with old world craftmanship for optimal problem solving and results. He trained under his uncle, Dominick Abbrescia, at The Village Art School and under his father, Joseph Abbrescia, at the Abbrescia Art Gallery. Abbrescia Jr. now owns and runs Abbrescia Art Restoration.
Sydney Boveng is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in her hometown of Kalispell, Montana. Curiosity and a passion for trying new mediums are driving forces in her creative practice, as is her fierce love of nature. She connects people with art at art markets and small shows. In 2025, Boveng was a Resident Artist for the Bob Marshall Wilderness Foundation’s Artist Wilderness Connection Residency.
Alyssa Cordova is the Executive Director of the Glacier Art Museum (formerly Hockaday Museum of Art) and has spent the last twenty years working in galleries and museums in Southern California and Montana. She holds a BFA in sculpture and MFA in Exhibition Design and Museum Studies. In 2024, Cordova was named the Museum Association of Montana’s Person of the Year Award, and in 2021 she received the Daily Inter Lake’s 40 under 40 Award, she was also a contributing arts writer for Artillery Magazine and has authored essays for art catalogues and journals.
Tessa Heck is a visual artist and owner of Good Luck Gallery. She received her BFA from Pacific Lutheran University and her MFA in Visual Studies from Pacific Northwest College of Art. Heck has shown in the Northwest at Kalico, the Museum of Contemporary Craft, Stumptown Coffee Roasters, Montana Modern Fine Art, Disjecta, The Carle Gallery, Hap Gallery, Killjoy Collective, Jupiter Gallery, and Wildfang. Residencies include Western Creatives Initiatives Open AIR, Caldera Artist’s Residency, and PNCA’s Global Studios. She is the recipient of the Artists in Schools and Communities Grant (Montana Arts Council), and the Working Artist’s Grant.
Mark Ogle was raised and educated in Kalispell where his first venture into the art business was to help the Ace Powell Bronze Foundry in 1970. He studied art under contemporary painters such as Joe Abbrescia, Robert Cavanaugh, Ace Powell, and Bud Helbig. Ogle won numerous top artistic awards in the Northwest USA and Canada including the Ace Powell Memorial Award in 1982 and placed in the Top 100 in Arts for the Parks four times between 1987 through 1998. His work has been on tour throughout the nation including the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC and been featured in Southwest Art and Art of the West magazines. Ogle is a former studio gallery owner and has taught various classes in the valley.
Derek Vandeberg was born and raised in Missoula Montana and stumbled into the world of fine art over 30 years ago when he landed a job as a picture framer in a local gallery. Vandeberg is still actively involved in picture framing, both in the FoR Fine Art workshop and as an educator in the art and framing industry, but most of his time is now spent crafting the vision behind FoR Fine Art in this ever-evolving art market.
Kenneth Yarus pursued his artistic passion through high school and earned several awards including a Gold Key from the Scholastic Art Awards, 2nd place in the Montana “Paint the State” anti-meth contest, and The John and Anne Taylor Scholarship. Yarus studied at the Ashland Academy of Art and the Grand Central Academy. He returned to the West Coast to continue his learning by taking workshops and painting “plein air” in the land he loves.
