The Creative and Cultural Economy

An audience of about 700 at Bozeman’s Emerson Theatre stood to applaud and cheer after seeing a 50-minute sneak preview of the new 12-hour Burns documentary “The National Parks: America’s Greatest Idea.” http://www.pbs.org/nationalparks/ It will air this fall over six nights.

Applications must be for cultural and aesthetic projects,
including but not limited to the visual, performing,
literary and media arts, history, archaeology, folklore,
archives, collections, research, historic preservation and
the construction or renovation of cultural facilities.

Using Arts and Culture to
Stimulate State Economic
Development

The International Wildlife Film Festival is the premier venue for
wildlife, natural history, environmental and nature films

"Many of the Old West mining centers are now ghost towns – but not Virginia City," says True West Executive Editor Bob Boze Bell. "It is a living, breathing example of what people can do when they decide to preserve their heritage, and as they figure out new ways to use older buildings."

Forsman’s donation is the largest monetary gift ever received by the nonprofit museum.

This year’s films cover the gamut of possibilities within the
non-fiction form, with topics ranging from the ivory-billed
woodpecker to art cars; from rock docs to opera; from Antarctica to
Swaziland!

Boise, Idaho and other cities in the region have adopted "percent for the arts" initiatives, and are looking to public art to reflect the region’s ‘maturity.’

Filmmaker Ken Burns plans to speak in Bozeman on Jan. 22 and provide a glimpse of his six-part television series titled “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea.”

Those involved in the project have dubbed the new wave “The Max” in memory of Max Lentz, a 17-year-old Missoula native who died kayaking the Gauley River in West Virginia in October 2007.