Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 22. LIBRARIES, ARTS, AND ANTIQUITIES

CHAPTER 2. ARTS

Part 4. Art for State Buildings

Definitions

22-2-403. Definitions. As used in this part, the following definitions apply:

(1) (a) "Artist" means a practitioner in the visual arts generally recognized by the practitioner's peers or critics as a professional who produces works of art.

(b) The term does not include the project architect, or any member of the architect's firm, of a new state building that is to have works of art under the provisions of this part.

(2) "New state building" means any structure to be built, remodeled, or renovated with money appropriated by the legislature that is, in the opinion of the architecture and engineering division of the department of administration, appropriate for the inclusion of works of art.

(3) (a) "Work of art" means any work of visual art, including but not limited to a drawing, painting, mural, fresco, sculpture, mosaic, photograph, work of calligraphy, work of graphic art (including an etching, lithograph, offset print, or silk screen), craft (including crafts in clay, textile, fiber, wood, metal, plastic, or glass), or mixed media (including a collage, assemblage, or any combination of art media).

(b) The term does not include environmental landscaping.

History: En. Sec. 3, Ch. 552, L. 1983; amd. Sec. 353, Ch. 56, L. 2009.