Coyote is Seeing All of the Land

According to the Missoulian, the palette represents the seasons moving clockwise: yellow for fall, blue for winter, green for spring and red-orange for summer. The Missoulian reports that the repeated figure refers to Jonathan Borofsky's stacked silhouettes, and that the artists worked with paper cutouts to arrange the arms. For the Salish elements they turned to artists Aspen Decker and Linda King, both members of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. Decker, a linguist, was hired to consult on the title; she said the original concept alluded to four Coyotes facing four directions, but the transitive phrase 'sees all of the land' made more sense in Salish.

Ambrose-Smith described Coyote as the troublemaker, the storyteller and the one who gets things done. Wolf Magritte, a Missoula art installation and fabrication firm, built and installed the sculpture, and a crew put it in place on 14 October 2025. Mayor Andrea Davis told the gathering that Coyote is a reminder that people can come together as community members.

Arts Missoula places it in front of the museum's historic Carnegie Library building. The museum describes free admission, and a visit pairs well with its galleries.