Meet: Sam Bolt

 FACETIME Silent Auction Artist Sam Bolt

Samuel August Bolt is an Eighteen year old Citizen of Missoula, MT who sometimes likes to refer to himself as an artist. A Great Falls native, he was unwillingly moved to Missoula by his parents at the age of approximately five and a half, and after much deep emotional turmoil and introspective conflict was eventually able to accept his fate and his new surroundings. Almost immediately after this, he answered a knock at the front door in his pajamas and made a new friend. As he grew up in his new home, he continued to come into contact with many great people throughout the years who introduced him to such marvelous aspects of life as skateboarding, street art, rock and roll, and many others. These people, although very different from each other, collectively fueled his creative spirit and inspired him throughout the years. They planted and watered a seed inside of him that grew into the artist he is now, so really, he feels like he owes anything he has accomplished in art to them. These days, he tries his best to create imagery that is heavily representational of human emotion and personal experience. Covering anything from humor to sorrow, from true love to hopeless depression, he attempts to capture a full spectrum of feeling in his art, in hopes that it is reflected onto the viewer. He desires to share his view of the world and its impact on him in ways that he could never attempt to describe with the use of words, and therefore can only hope that when people view his work, they take away a smidgen of the emotion that was put into it, even if it is just a fraction ever so small. . . And if they just think that it is a nice picture to look at for a little while, that is just fine with him too. Although his love for Missoula and the people within it is unbreakable, he will be moving in a couple weeks to Bellingham, Washington, where he will attend Western Washington University and pursue his desire for a somewhat successful career in the field of graphic design. He hopes to go forth from there and someday make some sort of name for himself as an artist. However . . . his one true dream in life is to be a rock star.