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Education at Tippet Rise Art Center
Montana State University Honors College Program
A Montana State University Honors College “Art Expedition” course brought approximately twenty Honors students to Tippet Rise in August of 2016 and again in 2017. Students attended concerts; discussions with the art center’s founders, Peter and Cathy Halstead; and lectures by architect Laura Viklund and Tippet Rise Artistic Advisor Charles Hamlen, and more. The visit gave students the opportunity to immerse themselves not only in art, music, and nature, but also architecture, environmental sciences, engineering, and land management, all in a way that links the human experience with the sights, sounds, and sensations of rural Montana. We look forward to continuing this program in August of 2018.
Dean Ilse-Mari Lee, Professor of Music and Dean of the Honors College, and a professional cellist, leads the course each year, helping the students prepare as fully as possible for the weekend. With Dean Lee’s guidance, students study the artists, musicians, musical scores, composers, natural history, and artwork that they will experience at Tippet Rise.
The MSU Honors College aims to enrich the state of Montana by offering exceptional opportunities to Montana students so that they may study, conduct research, and exchange ideas in challenging and supportive environments on and off campus. Honors College students routinely receive some of the most prestigious academic awards, including the Gates-Cambridge Scholarship, the Truman Scholarship (Brown, Vanderbilt, Yale, and MSU all had two winners last year), and the Goldwater Scholarship (MSU ranks eighth in the nation, just ahead of Yale, for the total number of Goldwater Scholars).
Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild
The Tippet Rise Fund of the Sidney E. Frank Foundation is funding Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild International Sculpture Park, which celebrates the rich environmental, industrial, and cultural her- itage of the Blackfoot Valley. Sculptors have been invited to create significant site-specific works of art using the materials—natural and industrial—that are associated with the community’s economic and cultural traditions. The Tippet Rise Fund supported the installation of a sculpture by Patrick
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