Join us for refreshments as we celebrate the opening of the exhibition Idaho Stories. This BIG IDEA project explores Idaho’s fascinating ties to literary history and also considers the state as a place that has long generated all kinds of stories. Special guest artists Scott Fife and Troy Passey and the Idaho Commission on the Arts’ Idaho Writer in
Residence Christian Winn, will make remarks at 6pm.

What are Idaho’s stories? Who has told them? How have contemporary artists and writers interpreted those stories? This BIG IDEA project explores Idaho’s fascinating ties to literary history and also considers the state as a place that has long generated all kinds of stories. Key figures are the controversial poet Ezra Pound, born in Hailey; author and illustrator Mary Hallock Foote, who lived in Boise; self-taught artist James Castle, based in Idaho all his life; Ernest Hemingway, who visited the state many times before ending his life in Ketchum; and Marilynne Robinson’s novel Housekeeping, set in northern Idaho.

Exhibition featuring artwork by James Castle, Scott Fife, Mary Hallock Foote, Amanda Hamilton and Troy Passey —all responding to Idaho’s landscapes and literature.

Idaho Stories exhibition is on display Oct 21-Jan 6, 2017 at The Center, Ketchum.

Part of The Center’s BIG IDEA project Idaho Stories, Oct 20, 2016–Jan 6, 2017.