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In photos: Spring Art Gala at Touchmark

Local artists and Trey McIntyre Project dancers came together May 9 for the annual Spring Art Gala at Touchmark. The event featured art curated by Monica Payne Culpan and performances by the dancers, among other highlights. Here, find courtesy photos

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Boise playwright’s play will be performed at the Hollywood Fringe Festival

Boise’s Tom Willmorth — one half of the Fool Squad, LLC — is well known for the wacky parodies of Shakespearean plays he creates for the Idaho Shakespeare Festival’s fabled Greenshows with his partner in comedy Joe Golden. A few years

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Peter John Still is nominated for a Tony Award for sound design

Peter John Still has been creating his weirdly creative, layered soundscapes as resident sound designer for the Idaho Shakespeare Festival and Boise Contemporary Theater for more than 20 years. He also “moonlights” occasionally on Broadway, working with former ISF regular

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Vote for two Idaho high schools in the Vans Custom competition

Art students at Mountain View High School in Meridian and Hagerman High School in Hagerman are both finalists in the 2013 Vans Custom Culture art competition. Each year high schools across the country create four pairs of custom designed Vans

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Art piece asks: How would you describe Boise?

Art is happening while Red Feather and Bittercreek Ale House “The Cheers of Boise” undergo an extensive kitchen remodel. Artist Conrad Garner took over the construction wall outside the restaurants on 8th Street between Idaho and Bannock streets with is

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See a Broadway show and help the Idaho Foodbank

Attend the Sunday evening performance of “Disney’s Beauty and the Beast” at the Morrison Center on April 28 and benefit the Idaho Foodbank. The food bank has 48 tickets left at $65-$125 (ticketing fees not included). The premium VIP tickets

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From Houston to Boise

How small is the dance world? Check it out: Last week at Ballet Idaho, Afshin Mofid, a former New York City Ballet soloist now a chiropractor in Boise, showed up for Act II “Swan Lake” rehearsal. He’s doing the role

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Trey McIntyre gives a high five

Check out choreographer Trey McIntyre’s latest artistic project, “High Five,” a very serious mocumentary about the art of the high five. It’s part of a new micro fundraising effort by the Trey McIntyre Project where you can sign up to

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Ketchum is named to top 12 Small Town ArtPlaces by national group

Ketchum is officially a creative hub in the Intermountain West, according to a new designation from ArtPlace, a Chicago-based collaboration of foundations, banks and federal agencies that builds communities through the arts. The small resort town of fewer than 3,000

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Boise Art Museum receives $150,000 grant from the Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation

The grant from the Boise-based Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation will partially fund three future exhibits. Two are already set. “The World Stage: Israel” is a series of large-scale portraits by Kehinde Wiley exploring the Diaspora among people of different religious

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