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"""Rick Newby has a penchant (actually, he calls it a compulsion) for seeking out unexpected connections to his home state of Montana. For over forty years, in addition to writing sublime poetry, he has been writing some of the most important essays on our state's literary and visual arts. Local Modernist painters, regional avant-garde writers, homegrown globally-influenced ceramists-Newby has dedicated his career to celebrating the unexpected. And there is cause now for further celebration, as a collection of his essays, A Regionalism That Travels: Writings on (Mostly) Montana Arts, 1975-2022, will soon be published by the Drumlummon Institute.""Andrew Guschausky, State of the Arts (Montana Arts Council, Spring 2024) ""To call [Rick] Newby's forthcoming collection of essays new may seem puzzling at first, since he gathers his exquisite studies of Montana literature, music, and visual arts from the past forty-seven years. Yet A Regionalism That Travels: Writings on (Mostly) Montana Arts, 1975-2022 (Drumlummon Institute, March, 2024) reads as fresh and revelatory. Newby advocates for ""cosmopolitan regionalism"" or, in the charming title of his collection, a regionalism that travels. Montanans may hew close to the reality of their Western lives but can remain open to cultural possibilities gathered from near and far. His essays return often to artists who inhabit this place yet show the curiosity and courage to embrace modes, styles, and concepts drawn from sophisticated outlanders. No essay captures Newby's ""dynamic provincialism"" as memorably as ""The Montana-Paris Axis, or Unpacking My Grandfather's Library: On the Track of a Bookish Tradition."" First published in Writing Montana: Literature Under the Big Sky (still my favorite book on Montana's literary history), this essay became an instant classic, one of the must-read texts about my home state.""Ken Egan, ""Three New Ways of Looking at the American West,"" Radical Acts of Creation, Substack (https: //kenegan.substack.com/p/three-new-ways-of-looking-at-the)"

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"Born in Kalispell, Montana, and educated at the University of Montana, Rick Newby is an award-winning poet, cultural journalist, independent scholar, and editor. Rick is the editor or co-editor of the anthologies Writing Montana: Literature Under the Big Sky; An Ornery Bunch: Tales and Anecdotes Collected by the W.P.A. Montana Writers' Project; and The New Montana Story. He is also editor of Food of Gods and Starvelings: The Selected Poems of Grace Stone Coates (with Lee Rostad); Notes for a Novel: The Selected Poems of Frieda Fligelman (with Alexandra Swaney); and Roger Dunsmore's On the Chinese Wall: New & Selected Poems, 1966-2018.In the field of western studies, Rick is the editor of On Flatwillow Creek: The Story of Montana's N Bar Ranch by Linda Grosskopf; The Rocky Mountain Region, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures; A Most Desperate Situation: Frontier Adventures of a Young Scout, 1858-1864, by Walter Cooper; and The Whole Country was . . . ""One Robe"" The Little Shell Tribe's America, by Nicholas C. P. Vrooman. Rick writes regularly about modern and contemporary art, and his essays on ceramic artists, painters, sculptors, and photographers have appeared widely. Rick's most recent book on a visual artist is the monograph Theodore Waddell - My Montana: Paintings & Sculpture, 1959-2016 (2018).Rick's books of poetry include A Radiant Map of the; The Man in the Green Loden Overcoat, with artist Jack Jasper (1983); Old Friends Walking in the Mountains (1994); The Suburb of Long Suffering (2002); and Sketches Begun in My Studio on a Sunday Afternoon and Completed the Following Day Near the Noon Hour on the Lower Slopes of the Rocky Mountains (2008).A past member of the Montana Arts Council and the Board of Directors of the Montana Center for the Book, Rick served from 2006-2017 as the executive director of Drumlummon Institute. In 2009, Rick received the Montana Governor's Award for the Humanities, and in 2016, he received the Montana Governor's Award for the Arts. Rick makes his home in Helena, Montana, and San Francisco with his wife Liz Gans. Melissa Kwasny is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently Where Outside the Body is the Soul Today (Pacific Northwest Poetry Series, University of Washington Press) and the forthcoming The Cloud Path (Milkweed Editions 2024), as well as a collection of essays Earth Recitals: Essays on Image and Vision. Her first full-length nonfiction book, Putting on the Dog: The Animal Origins of What We Wear, explores the cultural, labor, and environmental histories of clothing materials provided by animals. She is also the editor of two anthologies: I Go to the Ruined Place: Contemporary Poets in Defense of Global Human Rights and Toward the Open Field: Poets on the Art of Poetry 1800-1950. She was Montana Poet Laureate from 2019-2021, a position she shared with M. L. Smoker. Chere Jiusto studied Fine Arts at the University of Montana and then moved to Helena to work as a Resident Artist at the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts. Her interest in historic places and the arts took her into a 40-year career in public interpretation and historic preservation throughout Montana. She served with the Montana Historical Society as the Curator of History for permanent exhibits on state history, then oversaw the state's National Register of Historic Places program. From there, she took on the role of Executive Director of Preserve Montana, a role she held for over 20 years.An accomplished historian and writer, Ms. Jiusto co-wrote the essay ""'A Beautiful Spirit': Origins of the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts"" in 2001 with author Rick Newby, and she co-authored the book Hand-Raised: The Barns of Montana with Christine Brown, which received a 2012 High Plains Book Award. In 2017 Chere received a Montana Governor's Award for the Humanities, and in 2023 her outstanding contributions in the field were honored by a Montana State Historic Preservation Award. She lives in Helena with her journalist husband Jim Robbins and has recently retired, returning to her artistic roots and working in her home studio while still exploring the past and writing about the rich heritage of Montana."

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