Resounds: Arts And Culture On The High Plains

Jennifer Corning, Corby Skinner · ypradio.org

Resounds: Arts and Culture on the High Plains features interviews with individuals and organizations creating art in its myriad forms throughout our listening area. Hosts and Corby Skinner and Jennifer Corning bring listeners access to the creators who live in our communities and who tell our stories through their art.

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Episodes 20

Resounds: Montana Chamber Music
1mo ago · 28:59
The mission of Montana Chamber Music is to advance chamber music by delivering the highest quality performances in the Big Sky country, and to expand ongoing cultural relevance for all by engaging a diverse public.
Resounds: Museum of the Rockies
1mo ago · 28:59
Museum of the Rockies hosts a mix of primary and traveling exhibitions, including one of the most extensive and significant collections of dinosaur fossils in North America.
Resounds: ZooMontana
3mo ago · 28:59
ZooMontana is a zoological/botanical garden, accredited arboretum and educational facility in Billings. It is dedicated to the conservation of wildlife throughout Montana and the 45th parallel of earth.
Resounds: Western Heritage Center
3mo ago · 28:59
Incorporated over 55 years ago, the Western Heritage Center (WHC) began as a community center displaying a private collection of western artifacts in a historic building. Today, the center also provides outreach programs and walking tours, changing interactive exhibits, traveling displays, and a collection of over 400 oral histories and 40,000 historic items and photographs. Becky Jeter is the Executive Director of the WHC.
Resounds: Chase DeForest
4mo ago · 28:59
Chase DeForest creates collaged and stitched leather artworks exploring themes related to the environment and the American West.
Resounds: This House of Books
4mo ago · 28:59
This House of Books was established in 2016 as an independent, full-service bookstore serving the region around Billings, MT.The bookstore was established as a cooperative with members buying shares to become co-owners with voting rights.
Resounds: Jonnie Jonckowski and Sabrina Lee
5mo ago · 28:59
Montana legend Jonnie Jonckowski is the focus of Jonnie, an upcoming Montana PBS documentary. Her outsized accomplishments and challenges both in and out of the rodeo arena centers this new film.
Resounds: Art Under the Big Sky
5mo ago · 28:59
The Yellowstone Art Museum has assisted the Billings Logan Airport art program, Art Under the Big Sky, with the selection and rotation of art exhibits in Concourse B.
Resounds: Jan Dietrich
6mo ago · 28:59
A community leader, volunteer, and Executive Director of the largest performing arts center in a five-state region, Jan Dietrich has an impressive career in the nonprofit world. In the summer of 2026, Dietrich retires after ten years at the helm of the Alberta Bair Theater (ABT) in Billings.
Resounds: Darren Hackey
6mo ago · 28:59
Born and raised in Billings, Darren Hackey left his hometown to pursue a passion for music. After living across the country, coming home to Montana reignited his passion for the West. His love for western hats started in Texas, and he pursued the craft upon his return to his home state.
Resounds: Montana Performing Arts Consortium
7mo ago · 28:59
The Montana Performing Arts Consortium (MPAC) formed in 1981. Since then, the nonprofit has connected the arts to communities across Montana.
Resounds: C.M. Russell Museum
8mo ago · 28:59
The C.M. Russell Museum contains more than 3,000 pieces of Western art in a complex that covers an entire city block. The Western art complex, a National Historic Landmark, includes Charlie Russell’s fully restored home and studio, where he lived and created for 24 years alongside wife and business partner Nancy Cooper Russell.
Resounds: Shann Ray
8mo ago · 28:35
Czech-American writer and American Book Award winner Shann Ray teaches at Gonzaga University and poetry at Stanford University. He is a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow and group Fulbright recipient to South Africa.
Resounds: Russell Rowland and Gordon McConnell
9mo ago · 28:59
Fourth-generation Montanan Russell Rowland is a critically acclaimed author of eight books. For over thirty years, Billings-based artist Gordon McConnell has created works derived from Western film stills and informed by his sustained study of the history of the American West and its representations in literature, art, film, and photography.
Resounds: Elk River Arts and Lectures
9mo ago · 28:59
Yetta Rose Stein is the Executive Director of Elk River Arts & Lectures based in Livingston. She also serves as the Board Vice President for Opera Montana. Previously, she served as the Managing Editor for Hunger Mountain Review. Stein is a graduate of Hellgate High School and has an MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Resounds: Joe Wilkins
10mo ago · 28:59
Novelist, essayist, and poet Joe Wilkins was raised on a sheep ranch north of the Bull Mountains of eastern Montana. His novel The Entire Sky recently won the 2025 High Plains International Book Awards for Fiction.
Resounds: Caroline Joan Peixoto
10mo ago · 28:59
Caroline Joan Peixoto is the co-founder and director of River Arts and Books. Her background in community arts and management aligns with her passion of creating spaces of beauty for people to explore and connect. She is an Azorean writer and mother living in the Beartooth Mountains.
Resounds: Giano Cromley
11mo ago · 28:59
Giano Cromley is the author of two indie young adult novels novels, The Prince of Infinite Space, and The Last Good Halloween, and a short story collection, What We Build Upon the Ruins. He is a recipient of an Artists Fellowship from the Illinois Arts Council and was a BookEnds Fellow with Stonybrook University.
Resounds: Todd Forsgren
1y ago · 28:59
Photographer Todd Forsgren lives in Billings, where he is an Associate Professor of Art at Rocky Mountain College and also serves as the director of the Ryniker-Morrison Gallery.
Resounds: Art House Cinema and Pub
1y ago · 28:59
Matt Blakeslee was born and raised in Billings, MT. In 2015, Matt and his wife Kate started Art House Cinema, a new non-profit independent cinema to bring film and art opportunities to Billings.