The Creative and Cultural Economy

Today is Wednesday, December 17, and at 10:35 on this morning, 100 years ago, Orville Wright, achieved the first sustained motorized aircraft flight. He piloted The Flyer, weighing 605 pounds, on a 12 second flight…

Mark Martin and I would like to thank everyone who participated in the Creative Cluster Roundtable last Friday. Everyone was very interested in learning more about what everyone else was doing and associated with. This…

Austin, Seattle and Portland are thriving in part because they became hip destinations for young talent — offering not just jobs, but cafes, clubs, tattoo parlors, tolerant gay neighborhoods and bike routes.

The sister-state relationship that binds Kumamoto and Montana turned into more personal bonds for two Kalispell natives who spent most of the 1990s living in Japan. By William L. Spence The Daily Inter Lake Tim…

For the past two years, Burch has brought students of The Haverford School, an elite prep school that he once attended, as well as the Agnes Irwin School, both of Philadelphia, as well as Big Timber area students, to his ranch for a week of enrichment in the arts and good Montana fun.

“The heart of any community beats stronger where there is art and culture to stimulate and satisfy it." Geoff Badenoch (Thanks Geoff!)

Montana is famous for its big skies, big mountains and big
mammals.

Gerry Mullins also finds a big welcome.

Welcome to the first issue of the Montana Natural History Center e-newsletter!

“Montana is a very culturally rich area. We have a plethora of the arts.” The Montana World Trade Center is a nonprofit organization that helps businesses establish and strengthen their international commercial capabilities. The Center develops untapped international trade opportunities, then works with businesses to capitalize on those opportunities.

In the end, the spike in Oz-oriented attractions may be less a rebirth of cultish interest – the fascination has always been there – than a stronger focus in small towns like Wamego on providing jobs and attracting people.