Originally published in Big Sky Journal.
CORBY SKINNER IS A BIG SKY HUMANITARIAN for the humanities. For more than 30 years, Skinner has nurtured and nourished Montana’s creators of words, performers, sculptors, and painters.
He helped raise the curtains at the landmark Alberta Bair Theater in Billings, gave writers a venue with the Writer’s Voice, and honored authors through the High Plains BookFest and High Plains Book Awards. For his efforts in these various arenas of arts, he received the 2009 Governor’s Humanities Award. These days he is promoting the nascent music venue Tippet Rise in Fishtail, Montana.