Start your Gallery Walk at the Center! Locals and visitors alike take in thought-provoking exhibitions, enjoy wine, mingle with friends, and often meet the artists.

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, Oct 20, 2016–Jan 6, 2017.