Erika Fredrickson

Missoula

Co-Founder and Publisher at The Pulp

Articles

'Outrage' at Missoula Art Museum: Portraits honor Montana's MMIP – The Pulp

3 weeks ago | thepulp.org | Erika Fredrickson

When Irish artist Brian Maguire first heard about the epidemic of missing and murdered young factory girls in Juárez, he was visiting friends in Idaho. While in Sandpoint, he happened to pick up a book — new at the time — called “The Daughters of Juarez: A True Story of Serial Murder South of the Border,” written by two Mexican journalists. The book described how young women and girls, mostly factory workers, were being murdered and their assaulted bodies dumped on the edge of the city.
Saturday market fever – The Pulp

1 month ago | thepulp.org | Erika Fredrickson

Once May rolls around, the Clark Fork River Market and the Farmers Market become Missoula’s unofficial weekend religion. Sure, you can attend yoga or church, but have you ever received unsolicited rhubarb wisdom at 8 a.m. from a third-wave barista moonlighting as a radish farmer? Enlightenment achieved.
Watching the watchdogs – The Pulp

1 month ago | thepulp.org | Erika Fredrickson

Even though it was an “old” movie when I was in high school, All the President’s Men was one of the primary reasons I was inspired to write for the Hellgate High School newspaper, The Lance, and aspired, one day, to be a journalist. The 1976 film based on a 1974 non-fiction book tells the true story of the Watergate scandal and the two Washington Post reporters, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, who broke the story.
Flipping the script – The Pulp

2 months ago | thepulp.org | Erika Fredrickson

The Co-Lab for Civic Imagination is, at its core, an experiment in what’s possible. It’s built on the idea that art isn’t just about reflection — it’s about creation. What if, instead of merely reacting to crises, communities had the space and resources to imagine something better? What if they could take those ideas and make them real?That’s the driving force behind the Co-Lab, an initiative housed at the University of Montana but designed to work far beyond it.
ZEST in show - The Pulp

Mar 27, 2025 | thepulp.org | Erika Fredrickson

The ZACC’s signature Mini Show Art Auction started as a scrappy, DIY fundraiser in a Northside basement. Under then-Executive Director Kia Liszak, it was an intimate sit-down dinner where guests bid on 12-by-12-inch artworks and mini-desserts to support the growing arts nonprofit. As the ZACC expanded, so did the event, moving to The Wilma and then the fairgrounds, evolving into larger, themed benefits. Even the mini-art got a little bigger.
It takes a village (and a disco ball)

Feb 28, 2025 | thepulp.org | Erika Fredrickson

On Jan. 7, Missoula International School teacher Gillian Kessler called her sister in California. Her sister, also a teacher, let her know that the Santa Ana winds were raging, and that her school in Pasadena was waiting to hear if it would have to shut down.
For queer theater, history - and resistance - repeats

Jan 31, 2025 | thepulp.org | Erika Fredrickson

The roots of queer theater are complex and inherently obscure (and I’m no expert in the history). But it’s fair to say that LGBTQ+ communities have faced unequal and unsafe (see: violent) treatment for a long time. And it’s clear that the stage has provided a space to reflect queer issues of the day — though often it’s been a reflection constrained by law.
A last-minute Missoula gift guide 🎁

Dec 19, 2024 | thepulp.org | Max Savage Levenson |Kate Whittle |Arren Kimbel-Sannit |Erika Fredrickson

We see you, you last-minute shopper. We know you by the panic in your face like you’re the last person on Earth searching for signs of life. We recognize the way you shamble down the street like the walking dead. Don’t worry, it’s all going to be OK, because your failure to get holiday gifts ahead of time is just an opportunity in disguise. Businesses in Missoula and beyond have tons of great, easy stuff for whatever holiday you celebrate.
Body found in river identified as Missoula's Eva Masin Prather

Nov 1, 2024 | thepulp.org | Erika Fredrickson

A body recovered from the Clark Fork River on Oct. 13 has been identified as Eva Masin Prather, a 43-year-old mother of two who had been missing for more than nine months. After Prather disappeared from her Missoula home in the early hours of Dec. 30 last year, organized search parties spent weeks looking for her. The Facebook group “Search for Eva” jumped from several hundred members to around 2,300 in less than two days.
The Pulp's 2024 election guide 🗳️

Oct 23, 2024 | thepulp.org | Arren Kimbel-Sannit |Erika Fredrickson |Matthew Frank

All eyes are on Montana this election season. But over the next two weeks voters in the state will do a lot more than decide whether to re-elect longtime incumbent U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, the race that’ll likely determine which party controls the U.S. Senate. Montanans also face myriad consequential choices in races for the governorship, the state Supreme Court, the Legislature, and other offices and seats at the state and local levels.