Long before mass media, Americans built their own republic of knowledge through lecture halls, study clubs, and civic organizations. Join Crystal Alegria, Director of the Extreme History Project, and curator and historian Dr. Melissa Ragain for a conversation tracing two chapters of that story in Montana — from the 19th-century Lyceum movement to the Sweet Pea Study Club, whose Black women members helped shape community life in Bozeman through education, organizing, and mutual support.

Tinworks Art: In Conversation are ticketed evening events, open to the public, hosted at the Rialto Theater in downtown Bozeman. Tinworks Art is an artist- and community- centered nonprofit organization and art space that contributes to the cultural and social fabric of greater Bozeman by supporting inclusive and immersive contemporary art experiences for artists and audiences in non-traditional spaces, where art meets the American West.