Raymond Plank and the Ucross Foundation have been named the recipients of a prestigious 2011 Good Steward Award from the Arbor Day Foundation. Plank and Ucross are part of a group of 16 individuals and organizations who will be honored by the Arbor Day Foundation for environmental stewardship at the annual Arbor Day Awards Ceremony, to be held at the Lied Lodge and Conference Center in Nebraska City, Nebraska on April 30.

A new exhibition, Making Tracks, will open at the Ucross Foundation Art Gallery on Saturday, February 18, 2012, featuring photography by Montana artist Elizabeth Stone.

Two writers – CA Conrad and Ken Kalfus – who have been recipients of Pew Fellowships in the Arts will be awarded residencies at the Ucross Foundation in 2012, in a new collaboration that began this year.

Five writers and two composers have been chosen for the 2012 Sundance Institute Playwrights Retreat at Ucross Foundation, which will take place at Ucross from February 6 – 24.