In the spirit of the season, the Sun Valley Gallery Association is hosting an Après-ski Giving Walk. The public is invited to donate items in support of three local non-profit organizations: the Advocates, the Animal Shelter of the Wood River Valley and the Hunger Coalition. Visitors can enjoy the exhibitions and refreshments at SVGA’s ten member galleries while making donations to organizations that provide much-needed services to the community.

Galleries will have collections bins where Giving Walk participants can donate the following items:

• Advocates: used clothing for resale at the Attic Thrift Store; new clothing and toys for their Giving Tree drive
• Animal Shelter of the Wood River Valley: canned pet food, pet supplies
• Hunger Coalition: canned or boxed nonperishable food

The Giving Walk offers residents and visitors the opportunity to engage with world-class visual art while supporting organizations that make a vital difference to the Wood River Valley during the holidays and throughout the year.

Note the special Thanksgiving hours (4-6pm)!

The visual arts exhibition’s storyline begins in 1885, the year that poet Ezra Pound was born in Hailey and author/illustrator Mary Hallock Foote and her husband built their Stone House on the Boise River. It spans the lives of self-taught artist James Castle, who was born in Garden Valley in 1899 and died in Boise in 1977, and Ernest Hemingway, who began visiting Idaho in the 1930s and ended his life in Ketchum in 1961. It closes with the 1980 publication of Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping, set in a town in northern Idaho. The exhibition features the work of five artists—two historic, three contemporary—all responding to Idaho’s landscapes and literature.

Part of The Center’s BIG IDEA project, Idaho Stories, October 21-January 6, 2017.