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By Gayle M. Irwin For more than fifty years, the Yellowstone Art Museum (YAM) in Billings has brought art to the community. Staff and volunteers also take art beyond the facility’s walls. [...]

By Amy Grisak Great Falls has a rich musical history. We are blessed with the Great Falls Symphony, and appreciate the hard work and exceptional talent of our community members as they bring us [...]

For Joyce Ranum, moving from Syracuse, New York, to Great Falls, Montana, nearly forty years ago was the catalyst for a lifelong artistic journey. Though she first picked up a brush in high [...]

By Amy Grisak Broadway, eat your heart out. With a deep well of talent — actors with flawless delivery and vibrant, moving musical numbers — along with set builders who create a world that makes [...]

By Billie J Olson For over four decades, Jim Senst has been a cornerstone of Montana’s airwaves, but for those who know him in Great Falls, he is far more than a broadcaster—he is a community [...]

By Billie J Olson In the high desert of Nevada, 100 miles north of Elko, the morning air is often thick with the dust of a hundred saddle horses being run into a rope corral. For Philip Page, [...]

By Billie J Olson In the undulating landscapes of Big Sky Country, few artists captured the “Cowboy Way” with as much authenticity as Gregory Eiselein. Born in 1945 in Roundup, Montana, and [...]

By Billie Olson and Hope Good As we gathered recently to listen to the vibrant life story of artist Kevin Red Star in his new gallery in Red Lodge, Montana, a casual, comfortable atmosphere [...]

By Suzanne Waring Great Falls is the home of one of Montana’s most famous pioneers. William Wesley Van Orsdel, or more fondly known as Brother Van, came to Montana on the Far West steamboat in [...]

By Catharine Melin-Moser Great discoveries of gold set in motion a westward migration of 30,000 hopeful Americans to California in 1849. The event also encouraged a mass immigration of people [...]