I’m back in the saddle as a freelancer for Montana Free Press! It’s an honor to share how this For Freedoms collaboration—part of 53 billboards across the US examining justice from the lens of artists and collaborators—landed between Monad and Laurel Road montanafreepress.org/2022/05/20/bil…

Jesse Albrecht is a thoughtful & reserved speaker who channels intense expression through art. He explores the trauma of war in beautifully adorned & haunting ceramic vessels: stories within stories, on display in Billings (YAM) through July ypradio.org/show/resounds-… Jesse Albrecht

Bringing “Apsáalooke Women and Warriors” from the Field Museum to Montana represents a historic moment. The sacred war shields, tobacco bundles and other objects have not been in the same place at one time on Crow land since the late 1800s and early 1900s. montanafreepress.org/2022/06/02/exh…

An exclusive scoop tonight on Yellowstone Public Radio with the marathon runner of the orchestra world Megan Karls. She’s commissioned works by Montana composers Phil Aaberg, Grant Harville, Nick Davies, Charles Nichols, and herself, to be video recorded in Montana's first mission churches.

It's no surprise that Tippet Rise is already booked for the season! This treasure in the Beartooth Mountain foothills is host to a new season of music, hiking, biking & guided tours following a challenging two years in pandemic mode. More at Montana Free Press montanafreepress.org/2022/06/10/tip…

Our interview with violin explorer Meg Karls is up on Yellowstone Public Radio where she shares the most energizing news about her next collaborative video album that includes commissions by several Montana composers ypradio.org/show/resounds-…

It’s astounding how much life Doug Peacock shared with us in under 30 minutes. He was the inspiration for George Washington Hayduke in Ed Abbey’s “Monkey Wrench Gang,” and accompanied Abbey on his last journey into the wild, where he would also bury him ypradio.org/show/resounds-….

This one is worth revisiting. There are plenty of ways to earn good karma, and it's sometimes immediate. MontanaFolkFestival billingsgazette.com/entertainment/…

Festival founder and executive director Sterling HolyWhiteMountain created the event for fellow Indigenous writers to come together and talk publicly about their work with one another.  “We need to create a space for ourselves to talk freely,” he said. montanafreepress.org/2022/07/25/ina…

Michael Hayken’s exhibit at the Yellowstone Art Museum, Painting a Pandemic, is a sharp and haunting look back to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. “It created a space in me as a painter that I didn’t know existed, and it was full to overflowing.” ypradio.org/show/resounds-…

Courtney Blazon’s narrative landscapes are part history, part fantasy, and all heart. Though plenty of professors told her she had to change her style as an illustrator to be an “artist,” she found her true calling was her authentic self all along. ypradio.org/show/resounds-…

“It’s fun to play in big halls. It’s fun to play in symphonies. But this feels like the most important work that I could be doing right now through the violin.” It’s been an honor to follow and share this story for Montana Free Press montanafreepress.org/2022/10/18/new…

A quiet book for a noisy times…YES PLEASE. “We wanted something soft that counteracted a lot of what was going on—and is still going on—in the world,” said poet Charles Finn of this collaborative book of poetry and photography, “On A Benediction of Wind.”ypradio.org/show/resounds-…

We had a blast with John Zirkle in the studio. I had no idea how much was going on at this robust but small community arts center in Big Sky, named for Warren Miller. WMPAC Yellowstone Public Radio ypradio.org/show/resounds-…

My writing is on the cover of the Billings Gazette entertainment section today for my reporting on the upcoming exhibits at Helena’s Holter Museum of Art featuring transgender, nonbinary and two spirit artists from across Montana. Published first by Montana Free Press montanafreepress.org/2023/01/10/hel…

Did Corby Skinner bring disco to Billings? My cohost on Yellowstone Public Radio was at the epicenter of this time, as was Kirk LeClaire, who grew up in Billings and has just released two contrasting live recordings of bar bands and punk rock powerhouses. ypradio.org/show/resounds-…

This documentary series, which started streaming on SHOWTIME today, is the most profound work I’ve seen on the crisis of missing and murdered girls and women in Montana. Thank you to the Montana Free Press for providing me a platform to share this important work montanafreepress.org/2023/02/02/sho…

Where #apsaalookewomenandwarriors goes, museums change. The work of the Apsáalooke within these institutions has forced change in how they interact with objects and the people who made them. It was an honor to write about this exhibit for the Carnegie Museum of Natural History carnegiemuseums.org/carnegie-magaz…

It’s a dream to see my writing featured on the cover of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s magazine. This story is the culmination of many years covering museums and their willingness to engage in difficult and complex discussions around the objects in their care. carnegiemuseums.org/carnegie-magaz…

Parker Brown on Yellowstone Public Radio “The universe was telling me you either have to love your stuff or you’re gonna be stuck in this abyss forever, and I really didn’t want to be in this abyss. I really did want to love my creations like I wanted to love myself.” ypradio.org/show/resounds-…