Mark di Suvero, Beethoven's Quartet, 2003. (Tippet Rise/Iwan Baan)

Founded by artists Cathy and Peter Halstead on 11,500 acres in Fishtail, Montana, Tippet Rise Art Center combines contemporary art, architecture and land to create an immersive outdoor art experience for its visitors.

“After six years of planning and work and a lifetime of dreams, we are about to have the pure joy of opening Tippet Rise by adding the only element that’s still missing: the public,” Cathy and Peter Halstead wrote in a press release. Their goal has been “to make Tippet Rise a place where people feel the profound connection between their own inner nature and the natural world around them, a place where great music collaborates with the big sky and art is rooted deeply in the land.”

Tippet Rise's mission is to show that art, music, architecture and nature are “inextricably linked in the human experience,” and “each makes the others more powerful.” The Halsteads hope to forge an intimate understanding and connection between the center’s visitors, classical music and outdoor artwork.

The site-specific works include large-scale sculptures and structures by Patrick Dougherty and Stephen Talasnik, Mark di Suvero, Ensamble Studio and an additional two temporary works on loan by Alexander Calde from the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. The works will be on display for seven weeks through the first week of August, accompanied with classical music performances.

“Tippet Rise presents unique opportunities for the display of sculpture,” said Hirshon Director Melissa Chiu. “At a time when art is being experienced as much in the digital realm as in person, it is wonderful to be able to welcome a breathtaking new physical destination that is devoted to the private contemplation of solitary works—and the landscape that enfolds them.”

One of the commissioned works created by Talasnik is designed in a series of nomadic wooden structures, titled "Satellite." The artist draws inspiration from imaginary architectural structures that transform into landscape-hugging natural sculptures.

For more information on the works at Tippet Rise, visit their