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 In an ever-shifting world, writing poems has been “a stabilizing thread, craft and influence” for Professor Roger Dunsmore. “I feel very lucky to have this craft that I fell into practicing,” he says. Dunsmore, who earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s in English and American literature from Pennsylvania State University, joined the staff at The University of Montana in 1963.
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Explore Tom Foolery’s miniature environments, and you’re apt to discover exactly what the artist’s name implies: visual tricks, art-making mischief. Peer into theater lights and see “See ’em Russell (1947 A.D.)” and the Sacred Cow Gallery. “That’s right folks,” he says. “Right here under the Big Sky, tiny little satires.” Foolery initially studied painting at Oregon State and the University of Washington. In 1975, inspired by sculptor Joseph Cornell, ...more
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Next summer, poet Henrietta Spencer Goodman will find herself in a homestead cabin at the end of a gravel road in southwestern Oregon, two hours from anywhere. And for the first time in years, she’ll have an abundance of the element most precious to any writer: time. “I’ll have time to write, to submit, to read,” she says. This past year has been kind to the Missoula writer. She won the Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing...more
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Doug Hawes-Davis took a trial-and-error approach to filmmaking. “If you were to sit through all 11 films I’ve directed, in chronological order, you’d see that,” he says. “It actually would have been easier to go to film school.” However, there are no film schools in Missoula, and the Missouri transplant has no desire to live elsewhere. “I’ve never been to a place I’d rather live than here,” he says. “It was an easy decision ...more
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The language of movement – the ways in which dancers use their bodies to articulate ideas and emotion – has sparked Karen Kaufmann’s career for more than two decades. Whether she’s planting dancers in a giant maple tree and asking the audience to lie down below and watch the performance, or giving kids a visual lesson in geometry through the lines, arcs and angles of a dancer’s movement, ...more
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In another time – almost another life – Kimberly Navratil-Pope sold bead jewelry to tourists on a beach in Greece and shipped her work to galleries in the States. Her husband’s family was perplexed by their wayward daughter-in-law. They had a business too – a restaurant – which they managed to run without electricity or running water or heat. But the young woman selling beads on the beach, ...more
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Like an artist from another century, Kalispell painter Nicholas Oberling infuses his work with light and a more ineffable quality, which he describes as “mood.” In the studio, he distills onto canvas his observations of the natural world –a quiet valley, trees, perhaps a small house. Instead of specific landmarks, he strives to capture “the eternal pastoral landscape.” ...more
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“I am a kind of backward playwright,” says Mary Olson. “I have to think about acting before I can think about writing.” Fortunately, she is able to think deeply about acting – having been an accomplished thespian for three decades. Olson resides in Helena, where she’s written two plays for Toadstone Theatre Company. Her husband, Christopher Rock, is artistic director of the touring troupe, which brings original children’s plays ...more
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