Drumlummon Institute Current Projects

1. Drumlummon Institute continues to publish, on a semiannual basis, Drumlummon Views, its online journal of Montana arts and culture, which features reviews of and substantial essays on western, and especially Montana, cultural productions, together with original visual art, poems, and stories.

The journal publishes all texts in PDF format (and in some instances, an acompanying print version; see below).

2. Since 2006, DI has published the following books and offprints from Drumlummon Views (clicking on the titles below well take you to the Drumlummon Bookstore):

"Unique and Handsome":
Cass Gilbert's Designs for the Montana Club
Essay by Patty Dean

Food of Gods and Starvelings: The Selected Poems of Grace Stone Coates
Lee Rostad & Rick Newby, editors
Drumlummon Montana Literary Masters Series

Long Lines of Dancing Letters:
The Japanese Drawings of
Patricia Forsberg

(To order, go to www.blurb.com)

Essay by Rick Newby
Drumlummon Contemporary Artists Series

Notes for a Novel: The Selected Poems of Frieda Fligelman
Alexandra Swaney & Rick Newby, editors
Drumlummon Montana Literary Masters Series

Drumlummon Views, Volume 2, No. 1 (Fall 2008)
(To order a printed copy of our online journal, go to www.blurb.com)

The Pass: A Novel
by Thomas Savage
Introduction by O. Alan Weltzien
(in collaboration with Riverbend Publishing)
Drumlummon Montana Literary Masters Series

Robert Harrison: The Architecture of Space
Essays by Rick Newby & Glen R. Brown
(in collaboration with the Holter Museum of Art)
Drumlummon Contemporary Artists Series

Drumlummon Views, Volume 3, No. 1 (Spring 2009)
Coming Home
A Special issue Devoted to the Historic Built Environment and Landscapes of Butte and Anaconda, Montana

3. Forthcoming in Fall 2009:

Splendid on a Large Scale: The Writings of Hans Peter Koch, Montana Territory, 1869-1874
Kim Allen Scott, editor
(In collaboration with Bedrock Editons)

Drumlummon Institute Future Projects

1. Compile, edit, and publish a collection of essays on the rise of modernism in the visual arts in Montana

2. Continue to publish books by historical and contemporary Montana poets and fiction writers, including the Drumlummon Montana Literary Masters Series.

2. Continue to publish series of monographs on historical and contemporary western visual artists, including the Drumlummon Contemporary Artists Series..

3. Continue to publish works of scholarship on a wide range of western cultural subjects.

4. Launch series of video documentaries on western cultural subjects.

5. Launch series of compact discs featuring Montana jazz