In Montana’s Big Sky Country, in the shadow of the Beartooth Mountains, midway between Billings and the edge of Yellowstone National Park, the Tippet Rise Art Center opened earlier this month.
The new classical music and art center in Fishtail features performance venues in a range of indoor and outdoor spaces, contemporary sculpture, and the landscape on an 11,500-acre working sheep and cattle ranch.
Tippet Rise, its organizer’s said, is a place to experience art and music in nature and to celebrate the union of land, art, architecture, and music. The center will bring concerts by world-renowned musicians and large-scale, site-specific sculpture “to the hilltops and rolling meadows.”
The center’s founders, philanthropists and artists Cathy and Peter Halstead, said in a statement that their goal is “to make Tippet Rise a place where people feel the profound connection between their own inner nature and the natural world around them, a place where great music collaborates with the big sky and art is rooted deeply in the land.”
(images courtesy of Tippet Rise Art Center)
In addition to performance venues and a permanent collection of outdoor sculptures, Tippet Rise will feature the temporary installation of two major works by Alexander Calder, on loan from the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C.; architectural gateway structures and shelters; an instrument collection, including the concert piano of Vladimir Horowitz; educational programs; walking trails; and preservation and habitat restoration efforts.
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