What does the West mean to you? Is it a place, a lifestyle, a feeling, a philosophy? In the centuries since Euro-Americans first explored the country’s interior, the West has changed beyond the imaginations of those who first mapped it. In that relatively short time,...
Edna Mae Berkey has joined Montana Ballet Company as its general manager, taking on a newly created position that the organization hopes will enhance operations and support continued growth across its performance, training, and community engagement programs. Founded in 1984, Montana Ballet Company is a nonprofit...
This spring, longtime Great Falls, Montana resident and former C.M. Russell Museum Director of Art and Philanthropy Duane Braaten was appointed as the museum’s new executive director. Over the past two decades, he helped establish the museum as a nationally recognized leader in Western art...
Great Women Sculptors Written by Phaidon Editors, with an introduction by Lisa Le Feuvre A celebration of more than 300 female sculptors from around the world, this book surveys the past 500 years, recognizing trailblazing artists from the Renaissance to the present day. The alphabetically organized tome...
Museums, galleries, and curated art events celebrating the artists of the Northern Rockies offer an intimate glimpse at life in the American West. Upcoming calendar highlights include: Ongoing Through August 17 Patchworking: Big Sky Domestic Cast-Offs Aunt Dofe’s Gallery | Willow Creek, MT auntdofegallery.com Rebecca Hutchinson’s volumetric, human-scale paper-and-clay vessels incorporate...
If there were only one moment to capture a dining experience, let it be this one: My date and I had just finished the Smoked Mangalitsa Pork Tostada, which we had smelled the moment it hit open flame, the air so smoky and sweet. From...
Mike Morelli leads a tour of wide-eyed adults through the inner workings of Missoula Children’s Theatre (MCT) prior to the opening of one of five performances the theater puts on as part of its Community Series. An expressive and exuberant speaker with dancing eyes behind...
Carving trenches from ageless grass is a lonely ordeal beneath the far gray. A careless horse will die in a ditch so digging them wide will spare us the grief. We toil in the earth in an aging machine, no less weathered by time than the skull of a steer. Under...
The utter largeness that is the legacy and artistic relevance of the late Jim Harrison seems impossible to contain. His novels, novellas, screenplays, and poetry collections have left a once-in-a-generation mark on the literary landscape. Perhaps equally celebrated (or condemned), his life was lived with...
On a Thursday night in early May, there is hardly an empty seat at Bozeman, Montana’s Tune Up Bar. The bustling crowd is largely on the younger side — a snapshot of the growing city’s hipster population — and eagerly awaiting the night’s performers. The...