Corby Skinner
Resounds: Arts & Culture On The High Plains HostCorby Skinner is an independent marketing professional with an enormous capacity for assessing issues and creating positive, effective messages.
His work is evident in all aspects of performing, visual and literary arts. He led the marketing and programming for the Alberta Bair Theater for 18 years, and served as Arts and Humanities Field Coordinator for the National YMCA of the USA for eight years.
Skinner has been the Director of The Writer's Voice since its beginning in 1991. Skinner has coordinated six Big Read programs for the National Endowment for the Arts and 15 consecutive High Plains Book Festivals
Corby Skinner received the Montana Governor’s Humanities Award in 2009, and the Philip N. Fortin Humanitarian Award in 2016.
He joined in the YPR staff as a community programmer co-hosting Resounds: Arts And Culture On The High Plains alongside Anna Paige in spring 2017.
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William G. Thomas III is the dean of the College of Letters and Science at Montana State University. Taylor Brorby is the author of Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land, Crude: Poems, Coming Alive: Action and Civil Disobedience, and co-editor of Fracture: Essays, Poems, and Stories on Fracking in America. -
Betsy Gaines Quammen is the author of American Zion and True West, which won the 2024 Reading the West Book Award. -
Juni Clark is the owner of Aunt Dofe’s Gallery in Willow Creek, Montana. She is a prominent businessperson in Billings, in addition to serving on the Yellowstone Art Museum Board of Trustees. -
Born in Caracas, Venezuela, and raised in West Palm Beach, Florida, Mario Lopez is currently the CEO of the Billings Symphony. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
Chase DeForest creates collaged and stitched leather artworks exploring themes related to the environment and the American West. -
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.
