In the late 1980s, Valentina LaPier returned to Montana from Seattle, and began devoting more time to her artwork.  She now works in acrylics, watercolors, dyes, oils, and on many surfaces, including canvas, silk, rawhide, cotton shirts, greeting cards, and rocks.  A new edition this year is glassware and fanciful garden sculptures of copper wire.

Ms. LaPier has attended and contributed to exhibitions in San Francisco and Portland, as well as closer to home in Kalispell, Whitefish, East Glacier, and the Museum of the Plains Indian in Browning, Montana.