Creating

“How to Get on a Horse,” by Mel Ruder, Hungry Horse News. Photo courtesy of Mansfield Library, Archives & Special Collections, University of Montana-Missoula. It seems so serendipitous how [...]

"Standing in the room pictured above, not just a bit overwhelmed by the immensity of the body of work, I saw proof of the confluence of two ideas..."

In the vein of how traditional artists teach their art, Wayland had an apprentice called Flibbertigibbet...

"Or, rather does the crazy quilt's power lie in what has been accomplished stitch by stitch..."

The quilt has become bound by the Seamstress of Time ever more firmly into the country's identity and cultural consciousness.

Seems at times that life is just one big succession of new gates...

At times, I find myself doubting a thought or perspective that pops up like a weed in the midst of what I consider the inner garden of my mind. Usually, though, if I am patient enough, multiple [...]

Early June brings the storms and their seasonal rain to central and eastern Montana. The storms also deliver something else...drama. And in drama, lies a story, complete with a setting and a plot…

Today is the day before Easter. It is a time that commercially we are told to commemorate by brightly colored eggs and chocolate bunnies. A time to gather. A time to renew. A time to celebrate [...]

We believe that in the tangle of our daily demands, we find the possible in the impossible. We understand that in the crush of surviving, we thrive most when we understand and express our unique [...]