As 'Acts of Painting' Closes, Ming Studios Looks Ahead to 2019 Art Installations, Events

• By Harrison Berry
The Grand Slam/Storyfort Regional Qualifier, Gradient multimedia arts event and Lay of the Land group exhibition are all coming up at Ming Studios.
• Tags: Visual Art, art, Arts, Boise, Downtown, music, Poetry, Ming Studios, William Lewis, Acts of Painting, Grand Slam/Storyfort Regional Qualifier, Gradient, Lay of the Land

Boise Artist Kate Masterson Teases Social Justice Themes in Upcoming James Castle House Exhibition

• By Harrison Berry
Short-term Artist-in-Residence Kate Masterson will hold an exhibition at the James Castle House on Saturday, Dec. 1.
• Tags: Visual Art, Art, Arts, Boise, James Castle House, Kate Masterson, exhibition, artist in residence

Boise Weekly Cover Auction

Wednesday, Oct. 17, Visual Arts Collective

• By Harrison Berry
• Tags: Visual Art, Visual Arts Collective

Art About Forever: 'Holding What Can't Be Held' Grapples With Nuclear Waste at Ming Studios

• By Harrison Berry
"I'm trying to create a culture around this substance that's always going to be there."
• Tags: Visual Art, Art, Environment, nuclear, MING Studios

Join Us for the Boise Weekly Cover Art Auction, 2018 Edition!

• By Harrison Berry
This year's Boise Weekly Cover Art Auction will take place at the Visual Arts Collective in Garden City on Wednesday, Oct. 17, from 5-9 p.m.
• Tags: Visual Art, Visual Arts Collective

Skyline On a Skyline: Artist Gets to Work Sprucing Up Myrtle-Facing Fowler Wall

• By Harrison Berry
Artist David Carmack Lewis hopes to have completed the mural by Saturday, Sept. 1.
• Tags: Visual Art, Art, Boise, Downtown, The Fowler

Video

Former Graffiti Artist Prime Returns to Boise to Debut Solo Exhibition, Teach Workshop

• By Harrison Berry
"I just really want to bring what I'm doing and what my testimony is of my journey with starting off with typography and lettering, and where it's brought me to, where it's being exhibited."
• Tags: Visual Art, art, Boise, Downtown, Boise, MING Studios, Prime, Los Angeles, graffiti, Video

None of the Colors of the Rainbow: Boise Weekly Black & White Photo Contest is Now Open

• By Harrison Berry
The submission period for the 16th-annual Boise Weekly Black & White Photo Contest is now open!
• Tags: Visual Art, Boise Weekly, photography, Black & White Photo Contest, Boise, art

Crafting Resistance Opening Reception

• By Harrison Berry
Crafting Resistance offers a broad view of how artists deal with social issues.
• Tags: Visual Art, Boise State Liberal Arts Building

Olsen to Present Layers Digital Art Tutorial at MING Studios Thursday

• By Harrison Berry
"This process has really helped with a lot of other parts of my art and music."
• Tags: Visual Art, Arts, Grant Olsen, MING Studios, visual art

Drawing the Donald: How Local Artists Are Coping With PEOTUS

• By Harrison Berry
"I wish I had more time because [Trump] is a political cartoonist's dream."
• Tags: Visual Art, Larry Calkins, Donald Trump, Editorial Cartoon, political art

Boise Artist's 'Tangible' Works Can Be Felt as Much as Seen

• By Harrison Berry
"Most art you can't touch. People who are totally blind can't appreciate it."
• Tags: Visual Art, Arts, First Thursday, National Federation for the Blind, Alexa Rose Foundation, Idaho Commission for the Blind

Celebrate Freedom of Speech, Erotic Art With The Naughty Show at VAC

• By Harrison Berry
The Naughty Show is an erotic art exhibition that throws everything from nudity to sex and taboo literally on the wall, with pieces by some of the most popular visual artists in town.
• Tags: Visual Art, Arts, erotic art, VAC, Visual Arts Collective

Here's Whose Work Will Be on Display at the Boise Art Museum 2017 Triennial

• By Harrison Berry
John Spiak, director and chief curator of the Grand Central Art Center on the campus of California State University-Fullerton in Santa Ana, Calif., picked 41 pieces by 24 Idaho artists for inclusion in the 2017 Idaho Triennial show, which is held every three years.
• Tags: Visual Art, Arts, Boise Art Museum, Idaho Triennial

First Thursday: Zella Bardsley's A Bestiary

From the actor's studio to the gallery walls

• By Harrison Berry
Lipton's work is seminal in the area, but also shows a playfulness of language that continues to inspire writers, artists and the public.
• Tags: Visual Art, Art Source Gallery

Staff Pick

BOSCO Open Studios Weekend

• By Harrison Berry
Join potter Genie Sue Weppner, textilist Kathleen Probst, sculptor Lynn Fraley, mixed-media artist and Boise Public Arts Manager Karen Bubb, and many more.
• Tags: Visual Art, Staff Pick

Staff Pick

Karen Woods: The Way to Wilder

• By Harrison Berry
In her paintings, Karen Woods puts viewers in the passenger’s seat during a drive to Wilder during a rainstorm, offering a vision of small-town life blurred by the tempest.
• Tags: Visual Art, Staff Pick

International Museum Day

• By Harrison Berry
For convenience’s sake, catch some of Boise’s finest museums all at once on International Museum Day
• Tags: Visual Art

Dr. Don's Digital Paintbrush

Getting up close and meta with ANA, an art-generating computer program

• By Harrison Berry
The viewer could see the exhibition as a display of artificiality and technological prowess, but each piece in the exhibition could also be an invitation to observe and analyze.
• Tags: Visual Art, Boise State Student Union Building

Slideshow

'Huicholes: People Walking in the Search of Sunrise' Opens at Ming Studios

• By Harrison Berry
Standing guard inside the double doors of Ming Studios are two large, beaded Huichol panther heads by Jose Benitez Sanchez.
• Tags: Visual Art, Arts, Mexican Consulate in Boise, Lt. Gov. Brad Little, Ming Studios, art, visual art, Mexico, Slideshow

Cast Your Vote for the Treefort Music Fest T-Shirt Contest

• By Harrison Berry
The winning design will be announced once voting closes, and screen printed on Treefort merch. Cast your vote on the Treefort t-shirt contest Facebook page.
• Tags: Visual Art, Arts, Boise Weekly, Treefort Music Fest, t-shirt, art, visual art

Staff Pick Slideshow

23rd Annual Valentine for AIDS

Runs through Sunday, Feb. 14

• By Harrison Berry
Celebrate (almost) a quarter-century of using art to help those living with HIV/AIDS.
• Tags: Visual Art, Flying M Coffeehouse, Staff Pick, Slideshow

Insight: 2016 Annual Student Juried Exhibition at Boise State University

• By Harrison Berry
The exhibition runs through Friday, March 18.
• Tags: Visual Art, Arts, arts, Boise State University, arts economy, Boise State Visual Arts Center Gallery 1

Staff Pick

Winter Garden aGlow

Thursday, Nov. 26-Sunday, Jan. 3

• By Harrison Berry
It's one thing to visit Santa at a mall; it's another to tell him what you want against a backdrop of enough lights to make Emmett look like Las Vegas
• Tags: Visual Art, Old Idaho State Penitentiary, Staff Pick

John Shinn's 'New Light' Photos at Ming Studios Reveal Beauty in the Banal

• By Harrison Berry
Boise photographer John Shinn says, "I think my photos succeed when people interpret them in a way you can't interact with them verbally,"
• Tags: Visual Art, Arts, photography, Ming Studios, John Shinn, New Light, Boise, arts, photography