Hi-Line Living: Cooperative continues to foster fine art on the Hi-Line

Fifteen years after it first opened its doors, Artitudes Cooperative Gallery is continuing its mission to provide a location for emerging and established artists to display their original fine art.

"They asked us in the beginning, 'What does success look like to you?'" Kris Shaw, one of the founding Artitudes members, said. "And I said, 'If we're here in five years we've been successful.' So we've been successful three times already."

Shaw said that she first got the idea in 2003 for an art co-op in Havre because she was part of another art co-op, in Bozeman, and after discussing it with frien...