ARTIST COOP
The Community Development Group facilitated a meeting with artist from the community in an effort to get individual artists to come together to talk about forming some sort of organization. We used the Study Circle approach and had a huge turn out.
This effort has led to the formation of an Artist’s Coop in Big Timber which was celebrated with the grand opening of a Coop Gallery on Friday June, 20th. There was an artist’s walk (featuring multiple local works of art), several business open late that evening, horse drawn carriage rides, street musicians and a very large crowd. Two more artist’s walks are planned this summer and it is the hope of the group that we can attract patrons to Big Timber’s struggling downtown business areas via these events.