The Pocatello Arts council showcasing chris doucette at november first friday art walk
Mark your calendars: The Pocatello Arts Council is showcasing Chris Doucette at the November FIRST FRIDAY Art Walk. Come see Chris and his art at our table inside Dude’s Market from 5 to 8 p.m.!
Chris is a native of Pocatello, and received a BFA from ISU. Occasionally he gets to do big cool murals. He, with the help of his very strong and lovely brother Matt Nelson, created the Running Horse Mural for Stan Gates on the firehouse across the street from Poky High School. Currently he is working on a new mural commissioned by the Museum of Idaho in Idaho Falls, that is also quite big and some would say very cool.
His studio work is focused on an exploration between the abstract and the observable, as well as a conceptual consideration between aspects of the structure of the art market and using altruism as an adaptive strategy for society at large.
You can see more of his work on his website www.artbychrisdoucette.com and on TikTok @artbychrisdoucette
If you are an artist and would like to be showcased at the First Friday Art Walk, visit pocatelloartscouncil.org.
The Pocatello Arts council showcasing cat goodwin at october first friday art walk
Mark your calendars: The Pocatello Arts Council is showcasing Cat Goodwin at the October FIRST FRIDAY Art Walk. Come see Cat and her art at our table inside Dude’s Market from 5 to 8 p.m.!
Cat Goodwin is a 69-year-old Mixed Media Artist originally from Long Island, NY, now residing in Pocatello. Her recent work focuses on repurposing vintage wooden windows and creating abstract stained glass interpretations. Cat draws inspiration from all around her, finding creative freedom in being an abstract artist.
To date, she has completed one commission piece and enjoys expressing herself through various mediums, including found objects, rusty materials, river rocks, old windows, dream catchers, and pencil sketches. While she isn’t seeking fame or fortune, Cat finds immense satisfaction in knowing others enjoy her art. If someone is interested in investing in an original piece, she’s happy to accommodate.
One of her greatest personal achievements through art has been overcoming the fear of judgment and gaining confidence. Cat believes strongly in the therapeutic power of art and its ability to heal and empower.
If you are an artist and would like to be showcased at the First Friday Art Walk, visit pocatelloartscouncil.org.
Local Artists Help Pay for Pocatello Art Center Roof Repairs
International award winning artist Torgesen Murdock, left, with Denis Yost, the brother of Faye, Naida, and Ruth Yost. Murdock painted a portrait of Faye and Naida, who, along with their sister Ruth, helped contribute to the advancement of women’s sports in Pocatello.
Photo courtesy of Jennifer Fisher
Back in the summer of 2023, the Pocatello Art Center had a problem.
The roof was leaking. Water was seeping into the three upstairs apartments above their location at 444 North Main Street, and it was a situation that required quick action.
Unfortunately for Pocatello Art Center board members, they had just spent almost all their fund money refurbishing the upstairs apartments and found themselves without the funds to pay for an expensive roof repair.
2024 Empty Bowls
A Charity Fundraiser to Benefit the Idaho Foodbank
Empty Bowls is an annual fundraiser to benefit the Idaho Food Bank. We have some amazing bowls this year made by the ISU Clay club. All proceeds from this event will go to the Idaho Foodbank to fight hunger in our local community.
With a $25 donation you will receive a handmade bowl of your choice, and hearty soup dinner. There will be a silent art auction and live entertainment.
Please join us.
Live Music by the Reese Thompson Trio
Friday, March 8th, 6:00-8:00
Westside Players 1009 S 2nd Ave
$25
Steven Oberg's MFA Thesis Exhibition
A catered gallery reception for Steven Oberg's MFA Thesis Exhibition will take place Tuesday, January 23rd from 6 until 7:00pm on the main floor of the Fine Arts Building. All are welcome.
Steven's exhibition will be on display in the John B. Davis Gallery from January 22nd through February 2nd 2024. The gallery is open to the public Monday through Friday from 12 until 6:00pm.
The John B. Davis Gallery is located on the main floor of the Fine Arts Building in room 105. Please contact Ryan Babcock at 208-220- 6895 with any questions
ARTISTS-IN-FIRE: Immersive Prescribed Fire Residency
As the Pacific Northwest and other regions grapple with the increasing reality of wildfire, the Confluence Lab is working to reimagine shared fire stories. Alongside the Stories of Fire online exhibitions, it’s our hope that this residency for artists and writers will generate a greater public familiarity with landscape fire that is not catastrophic, while also demonstrating the possibility that non-professionals can and do participate in prescribed fire.
Artists-In-Fire
The Confluence Lab’s inaugural Artists-In-Fire (AIF) residency will support up to 10 artists and writers from the Pacific Northwest and adjacent regions as boots-on-the-ground participants in prescribed fire. Participants will train as wildland firefighters and attend an immersive prescribed-fire module as a firefighter. Returning home, artists and writers will be asked to reflect upon this experience through their creative practice and share those reflections with their communities.
Each AIF recipient will be given a one-time $4000 (USD) stipend to support time, travel and material costs associated with training, immersive experience and creative work development.
Eligibility
Participants must be 18 years of age or older, reside in the PNW or adjacent regions, and will be required to maintain their own medical insurance. This project seeks to promote a diversity of voices and applications are encouraged from women, the BIPOC community and others not traditionally represented within wildland fire operations or who would not otherwise have access to such an experience.
Learn more and apply HERE: https://www.theconfluencelab.org/artists-in-fire-residency
2023 Third Annual Pocatello Art Center Members Group Art Exhibition
A catered gallery reception for the 2023 Third Annual Pocatello Art Center Members Group Art Exhibition and the Annual Professional Practice Art Exhibition: Converging Paths will take place tomorrow Tuesday, November 7th from 6 until 7:00pm on the main floor of the Fine Arts Building. All are welcome.
Both exhibitions will be on display in the John B. Davis and Compartment Galleries from November 6th through November 17th 2023.
The galleries are located in the Fine Arts Building #11 on the I.S.U. lower campus. The John B. Davis Gallery is in room 105 on the main floor, and the Compartment Gallery is in room 408 on the fourth floor. Please contact Ryan Babcock at 208-220- 6895 with any questions.
SIGHTLINES Call for Art
After a successful showings of GROUND TRUTHS and FUEL LOADING for our Stories of Fire exhibition series, we're excited to spread the word about our call for Part III: SIGHTLINES art submissions. We are reaching out to you in the hopes that you can help us share this opportunity with folks in your area who might be interested in participating.
Fire is transformative. While wildfires may trigger fear and loss, they also foster new growth. Fire is essential to forest health, as trees with serotinous cones need the heat of fire to drop their mature seeds onto nutrient-rich mineral soils. In human communities, fire enables new Sightlines to emerge. New ways of seeing and feeling about fire become visible in its aftermath. Resilience, humility, relief, and compassion may sprout, as communities in post-fire landscapes sift through what was lost, what was changed, and what was gained.
What seeds could be planted and what social and ecological trajectories fostered? Where do you want to support new abundance? Where does your community want to hold open lines of sight? What does it mean to live with fire and what does justice look like in a fire-prone landscape?
As the third and final part of the Stories of Fire online exhibition series, SIGHTLINES seeks new work that engages sightlines for fire prone landscapes by envisioning speculative futures that help us live better with more fire. The exhibition will showcase creative works that explore collective emotional and material resilience by (re)imagining human relationships with fire across the Pacific Northwest.
eligibility & terms: Artists & designers may be residents of the states of Idaho, Oregon, Washington, tribal sovereign nations of the region, or any artists responding to fires within the Pacific Northwest and adjacent regions. Some of the artists selected for the Stories of Fire series may be invited to participate in the Stories of Fire Atlas, a brick-and-mortar exhibition (gallery construction pending), and other Confluence Lab opportunities.
There is no submission fee or age expectation.
Works submitted may be of any genre and must be original work. There are no size restrictions for work, but in line with an online exhibition, quality documentation is paramount.
submission deadline: December 1, 2023
jury notifications: December 15, 2023
exhibition opens: January 12, 2024
More submission information here:
https://www.theconfluencelab.org/sofa-call-for-art
Empty Bowls 2022 was a huge sucesss!
Our first year back since the beginning of the pandemic and boy did it go well. We had an amazing turn out and lots of community support this year. We raised $ 3320, which is equivalent to 13, 280 meals. The evening was filled with wonderful music, amazing tasting food, and even better people. We were so very pleased with the turn out and are so very grateful we were able to raise a great amount of money for the Idaho Food bank. We are looking forward to this years event. It will be held earlier in the year this year. We are aiming for September or October. Thank you to every one who supported the event and hope to see even more people at the next one!
Thank you!
Call to Artists
Call to artists. Download the complete file to fill out at: file:///C:/Users/eleec/Downloads/Artists%20Wanted%20(1).pdf
Empty Bowls December 2nd, 2022.
Join us for an evening of delicious food, good company and entertainment. All proceeds go the the Idaho food bank.
December 2, 2022 6-8pm
Westside Players
1009 S. 2nd Ave
Pocatello, Idaho.
Hope to see you there!
“Twelfth Night” performed by Montana Shakespeare in the Parks
Montana Shakespeare in the Parks present: “Twelfth Night”, a free public performance at Idaho State University.
“Twelfth Night” is on July 21st, starting at 6:30 PM. Food trucks and adult beverages will be available for purchase.
Related: King Lear and Fools in Shakespeare
Hope to see you there!
"King Lear" performed by Montana Shakespeare in the Parks
Montana Shakespeare in the Parks will be performing “King Lear” at Idaho State University.
This performance is free and open to the public, and is the second of two plays this July. Food trucks and adult beverages will be available for purchase.
Related: Twelfth Night and Fools in Shakespeare.
Hope to see you there!
"Fools in Shakespeare" Lecture by Dr. Jessica Winston
The Pocatello Arts Council and Marshall Public Library present “Fools in Shakespeare”, a lecture by Dr. Jessica Winston, accompanied by a performance by Ted Bonman.
Lecture and performance will be held at the Marshall Public Library on Wednesday, July 20th 2022, from 6:30-7:30 PM.
Free and open to the public!
This lecture leads into the Montana Shakespeare in the Park performances, also free for the public, on July 21st and 23rd: “Twelfth Night” and “King Lear”.
See you there!
Letterpress Transformations Workshop with Cait Harris - April 8-9
The upcoming Pocatello workshop April 8-9, 2022 with visiting artist Caitlin Harris is open to students, faculty, and community members.
Workshop Description:
Letterpress Transformations
Work with artist Caitlin Harris to create an interactive letterpress print. Learn to set type by hand in the Pinyon Jay Press and print a collaborative movable book. Explore letterpress composition and printing to create a paper device that transforms to reveal and conceal hidden information.
BIO:
Cait Harris is a multidisciplinary artist, printer, and designer. She is the co-proprietor of Wheelhouse Press and an adjunct instructor in the Boise State University Department of Art, Design & Visual Studies. Her work investigates the form of the book and engages with sequential information that transforms over time. She makes intricate folded paper structures, inky prints with wood type, and dot matrix poems. Collaboration with students, writers, and community organizations enables her to share printing and publishing skills in support of the exchange of underrepresented voices.
Cait has taught art and printmaking classes at Oregon College of Art & Craft, Boise State University, and Boise Art Museum. She served as the Studio Manager at the IPRC , a non-profit organization that provides open access to printing and publishing skills in support of visual and literary work. Currently Cait serves as President of the Rocky Mountain Printmaking Alliance, and Vice Chair of Member Relations at the College Book Arts Association.
ISU's Art a la Carte 2/21/22-3/4/22
Idaho State University Department of Art's Annual Art a la Carte Silent Auction 2/21/22 to 3/4/22
The Idaho State University Department of Art will host its annual Art a la Carte Silent auction online offering artwork donated by faculty, students, and alumni to raise funds for art student scholarships.
Primetime Auctions will host the auction on their website. It will run from February 21st to March 4th.
Bid on the artwork here: http://www.primetimeauctions.com/
You can preview auction artwork in person in the exhibition on the 1st floor of the ISU Fine Arts Building #11 in the John B. Davis Gallery. Gallery hours are M-F 12-6pm.
At the completion of the art auction, winning bidders will need to complete the payment with Primetime Auctions before picking up purchased artwork from the Davis Gallery. Shipping can be arranged by contacting Primetime Auctions. Primetime Auctions: 208-232-4912, 221 S. 5th, Pocatello, Idaho 83204
ISU Ceramics Pottery Sale
ISU Ceramics is having a pottery sale. Stop in the Vocational Arts Building #46 on Friday, December 10, from 10 am to 5 pm to get your handcrafted pottery!
Art a la Carte 2022 - CALL for ARTWORK DONATIONS
‘Got art . . . ’ you’d like to donate to fund scholarships?
In February 2022, the Idaho State University Department of Art will host its annual Art á la Carte Silent Auction! Due to the pandemic, we will be holding an online art auction in order to raise funds for student scholarships. We welcome students, alumni, and faculty of the department donations of artwork for the silent auction.
Items do not need to be framed, but are ready to hang or display. Please do not place the item under glass permanently, as we will need to take digital images of your artwork. All media accepted. Artwork donations will be accepted: January 24-February 4, 2022 on the 4th floor of the ISU Fine Arts Building in the compARTment Gallery. If you would like to donate work before these dates, please contact us.
Empty Bowls is LIVE
Empty Bowls Pocatello
A charity fundraiser to benefit the Idaho Foodbank's Pocatello branch.
Each year, ISU Ceramics students and local artists join forces with the Pocatello Arts Council and the Idaho Foodbank to bring you the Empty Bowls event. Artists from our own community make and donate handmade bowls to raise awareness and funds to combat the threat of hunger here in Pocatello and southeast Idaho. All proceeds benefit the Idaho Food Bank and help fight hunger here in our own community where the need is greatest.
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This online event will run from the 1st through the 30th of November. Bowls will be $20 each, with all proceeds benefitting the Idaho Food Bank. Purchased bowls may be picked up between 9:00am and 6:00 pm, Nov. 29th through Dec. 3rd at the Idaho Food Bank located at: 555 s 1st Ave, Pocatello, ID.
Empty Bowls Throw-A-Thon - Glazing and Firing Party
3rd Annual Empty Bowls Throw-A-Thon
Who wants to get dirty for a good cause?
We hope you will join us for the 2021 throw-a-thon in support of the upcoming Empty Bowls benefit fundraiser for the Idaho Food Bank. We will make 200 bowls for the event this year. That’s a tall order, and why we’ve decided to stack the deck in our favor by asking you to join us. This year we are inviting makers in our community to lend us their skilled hands to fight local hunger. All you need to bring is your creative mojo, we’ll provide the rest. There will be good vibes, food, music, a sweet t-shirt and an optional art exchange if you feel so inclined.
Q: When and where is this throw-a-thon throw down happening?
A: Glazing and firing, Oct 9th and 10th @ 10am. at ISU Ceramics Studio.
Q: Who are the wonderful people sponsoring this event?
A: The Pocatello Arts Council, the Idaho Food Bank, ISU Clay Club, and local merchants.
Q: What do I need to do to participate?
A: All you need to do now is confirm participation via email: rachellecooper@isu.edu
More information will follow once attendees are confirmed.
We are still building our invitation list. Please let us know of any local potters that might be interested in participating. We look forward to hearing from you!