Chisel & Razor, Act I: The Artistic Legacies of Edmonia and Samuel Lewis unites, for the first time, the stories of Mary Edmonia Lewis, the first internationally acclaimed Black and Anishinaabe sculptor, and her brother Samuel W. Lewis — a Bozeman-based performer, entrepreneur, and community leader. On view at Tinworks, 719 N Ida Ave, through October 25, 2026.

In conjunction with Chisel & Razor, Act I, Tinworks at Rialto presents a film screening series featuring the work of Gisela Torres, Georges Méliès, and Oscar Micheaux. On view in the Rialto Lobby, Torres’s Reverie and Slumber is a 3D mapping film drawn from Torres’s project Looking for Edmonia (Self-Portrait) that chronicles the artist’s interest in connecting with Lewis and investigating her success and eventual fate.

In the Rialto theater a program of scheduled screenings celebrates the films of Oscar Micheaux whose work as a pioneering Black filmmaker brought Black life, agency, and complexity to the screen during the same era that Chisel & Razor illuminates; and the short films of Georges Méliès, the visionary French illusionist, theater director, and filmmaker whose films documented magic tricks and fantastical scenes that were popular during the time of Samuel and Edmonia.

Screenings are free and open to the public. Check the Rialto lobby for screening times. Visitors are encouraged to continue the experience at Tinworks, 719 N Ida Ave, where Chisel & Razor, Act I is on view through October 25, 2026.

Screening:

Georges Méliès
Le Manoir du diable (The House of the Devil), 1896, ~3 minutes
Le Magicien (The Magician), 1898, ~1 minute
Un homme de têtes (Four Troublesome Heads), 1898, ~1 minute
La Statue animée (The Living Statue), 1903, 3 minutes
Le Royaume des fées (The Kingdom of the Fairies), 1903, 17 minutes
Les Quat'Cents Farces du diable (The Merry Frolics of Satan), 1906, 22 minutes
Digital video projection, originally 35mm film, silent, select titles hand-colored.

Oscar Micheaux
Symbol of the Unconquered, 1920, ~54 minutes
Body and Soul, 1925, ~94 minutes
Digital video projection, originally 35mm film, black and white, silent.

In addition to the works on view at Tinworks Art’s campus and Tinworks at Rialto, Chisel & Razor will be a citywide celebration in partnership with Montana State University College of Arts & Architecture.

Tinworks Art gratefully acknowledges the generous support of VIA Art Fund for the production and exhibition of Edmonia Triumphalis by Auriea Harvey, and the Vilcek Foundation for their support of Sunflowers, to follow the wheat by Agnes Denes, an ongoing ecological intervention in Tinworks’ field. Major program support for Tinworks Art is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and Tinworks Founding Director’s Council. Additional support is provided by coal tax revenues allocated to Montana’s Cultural and Aesthetic Projects Trust Fund.