Discover cool art and indoor exhibitions

You might not know it, but the Zootown Arts Community Center is home to a full print shop on the second floor, and even regularly hosts resident printmakers. For years now, the nonprofit and print shop manager Patricia Thornton have celebrated the medium’s versatility with the Last Best Print Fest.

This year, that means print shows in all of its galleries, including work by guest Reinaldo Gil Zambrano, a Venezuelan artist who teaches at Gonzaga University. He’s visited Missoula before to collaborate with University of Montana’s Matrix Press on his deeply detailed prints. He’ll show along with a total of 40 other artists.

During Friday night’s opening from 5-8 p.m., you can bring a T-shirt to get it printed (5-7:30 p.m.) and see demonstrations of methods like linoleum prints (with Jules Lucero) and four-color screen-printing (with Dagny Walton).

Details: There are even more print-related events on tap. Go to zootownarts.org for the full schedule for the month.

Songwriter Margo Cilker grew up in the once agriculture-heavy Santa Clara Valley, spent time farming in the Bitterroot and elsewhere, and now lives in the Columbia River community of Goldendale, Washington. She brings those experiences to bear on “Valley of Heart’s Delight,” her second album. The Willamette Week called her “one of the most promising old-soul songwriters today.”

She’s touring with Junior, a Montana trio comprising vocalists/songwriters Caroline Keys, Jenny Fawcett and Hermina Harold. You can check out their full-length “Warm Buildings” on streaming services.

Details: ZACC Show Room. Doors at 7 p.m., show at 7. $18 in advance and $22 day of. All ages.

The contemporary art gallery’s latest exhibition pulls its title from “Moby Dick,” specifically a description of the island from which Queequeg hails: “It is not down on any map; true places never are.”

This show brings together work from four artists of varied mediums. Jared Shear, who had a solo exhibition of small-scale paintings of Cougar Peak at the Missoula Art Museum in 2013, is presenting a series of pieces based on Herman Melville’s classic novel. He’s joining Jennifer Eli Indreland of Billings, whose paintings merge realistically rendered animals with magic realist flourishes; Kaetlyn Able of southwest Montana, who adorns stately animals with floral crowns; and David Swenson, a ceramic sculptor whose elaborate designs imply stories of their own.

Details: Reception on Friday from 5-7 p.m. On view through Aug. 24.

Country is everywhere now. Post Malone is doing it. Beyonce is doing it. You might worry that all variations on the time-tested genre have been exhausted. But have you heard of an electronics-tinted country band with an alien abduction/savior theme? That’s the story with Ty Walker and the Humanoids, who also have songs solid enough to back up the schtick. They’re on a tour right now with Montana’s own Izaak Opatz.

Details: Monk’s, 7 p.m., $15.

See the veteran Montana songwriter and his band, Last Resort, in a different setting out at Fort Missoula.

At this gig for the Northern Rockies Heritage Center, he’ll play behind the Heritage Hall, where you’ll also hear a bit about the center’s preservation projects, according to the event site. El Cazador will have their food truck on site, and you can buy beer or non-alcoholic drinks as well.

Details: All ages, $5 suggested donation.

The Missoula bluegrass band released their second album, a self-titled entry, back in May. Catch their energetic tunes in a different type of venue, the Longstaff House, a small, converted church. The record’s available on Bandcamp.

Details: 7 p.m., $25 suggested donation. Head to longstaffhouse.com for more information.

Edgar Allen Poe speakeasy: At this “chilling cocktail experience,” Poe historians will present four of his stories along with classic cocktails at the Westside Theater. Thursday-Saturday, July 11-13, with multiple shows a night. Go to thewestsidetheater.com.

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit: The venerable singer-songwriter and his tour-tested band can’t seem to drive their tour trucks by western Montana without a stop at KettleHouse Amphitheater. Catch them and Adeem the Artist, an up-and-coming country performer who has a new album, “Anniversary,” that furthers their path as a queer artist in a traditionalist genre. Tickets for the Sunday, July 14, show were still available as of this publication, for $42.50-$89.50. Doors at 6:30 p.m., doors at 8.

Godzillas of surf rock: Daikaiju, an anonymous and mask-clad instrumental band with a monster-movie theme, have a reputation for wild live shows, which you can see for yourself on YouTube or by showing up in person for their show at Monk’s. Tuesday, July 16, 7 p.m., $15.