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FREE EVENING EXHIBITION TOUR: Free Play

Thursday, May 14, 5:30 pm

Enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators. Free Play considers the relationship between design and creativity in social spaces dedicated to recreation and play. Inspired in part by artist Isamu Noguchi, who believed in the power of social spaces to unite art and play in ord...

FREE EVENING EXHIBITION TOUR: Free Play

Thursday, April 2, 5:30 pm

Enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators. Free Play considers the relationship between design and creativity in social spaces dedicated to recreation and play. Inspired in part by artist Isamu Noguchi, who believed in the power of social spaces to unite art and play in ord...

FREE GALLERY WALK & OPENING CELEBRATION: Free Play

Friday, March 20, 5:00 pm

Start your Gallery Walk at The Center and join us as we celebrate the opening of Free Play. Locals and visitors alike take in thought-provoking exhibitions, enjoy wine, mingle with friends, and often meet the artists. Free Play considers the relationship between design and creativity in social spaces dedic...

ARTIST TALK: Free Play with Tucker Nichols

Thursday, March 19, 5:30 am

Join us for participating artist Tucker Nichols’s talk about the role of play, experimentation and interactivity in his practice. Many of Nichols’s projects give museum visitors the opportunity to participate in them in some way, from rearranging objects to create sculptural installations to making images...

FREE EVENING EXHIBITION TOUR: The Bottomlessness of a Pond: Transcendentalism, Nature and Spirit

Thursday, March 5, 5:30 pm

Enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators. The mid-19th century in the United States saw the emergence of a group of progressive thinkers who advocated for a new understanding of the relationship between the individual, the divine and the natural world. Ralph Waldo Emerson,...

FREE SPECIAL EVENT: JPC After Hours Exhibition Tour The Bottomlessness of a Pond: Transcendentalism, Nature and Spirit

Thursday, February 27, 7:00 pm

Join us for JPC After Hours Tour of the exhibition The Bottomlessness of a Pond: Transcendentalism, Nature and Spirit! This BIG IDEA project offers the notion that Transcendentalism’s retreat from the material in favor of a spiritual or divine encounter with the natural is an idea that continues to be relev...

FREE GALLERY WALK: The Bottomlessness of a Pond: Transcendentalism, Nature and Spirit

Friday, February 14, 5:00 pm

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 mid-19th century in the United States saw the emergence of a group of progressive thinkers who advocated for a new understanding of the re...

FREE EVENING EXHIBITION TOUR: The Bottomlessness of a Pond: Transcendentalism, Nature and Spirit

Thursday, February 13, 5:30 pm

Enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators. The mid-19th century in the United States saw the emergence of a group of progressive thinkers who advocated for a new understanding of the relationship between the individual, the divine and the natural world. Ralph Waldo Emerson,...

FREE EVENING EXHIBITION TOUR: Behind the Sagebrush Curtain with members of Sara Joyce’s family

Thursday, January 9, 5:30 pm

The artist Sara Joyce’s son Bill Caccia will join us to speak about her work and her practice. Enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators. Behind the Sagebrush Curtain includes work by seven 20th-century artists who were active in Montana and Idaho: Gennie DeWeese, Edith F...

FREE GALLERY WALK: Behind the Sagebrush Curtain: Women Modernists in Montana and Idaho

Friday, December 27, 5:00 pm

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. Behind the Sagebrush Curtain includes work by seven 20th-century artists who were active in Montana and Idaho: Gennie DeWeese, Edith Freeman, ...

FREE EVENING EXHIBITION TOUR: Behind the Sagebrush Curtain: Women Modernists in Montana and Idaho

Thursday, December 12, 5:30 pm

Enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators. Behind the Sagebrush Curtain includes work by seven 20th-century artists who were active in Montana and Idaho: Gennie DeWeese, Edith Freeman, Isabelle Johnson, Sara Joyce, Helen McAuslan, Frances Senska and Jessie Wilber. Working i...

FREE GALLERY WALK: Behind the Sagebrush Curtain: Women Modernists in Montana and Idaho

Friday, November 29, 4:00 pm

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. Note the special Thanksgiving “Giving Walk” hours (4-6pm)! Behind the Sagebrush Curtain includes work by seven 20th-century artists who we...

FREE EVENING EXHIBITION TOUR: Behind the Sagebrush Curtain: Women Modernists in Montana and Idaho

Thursday, November 21, 5:30 pm

Enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators. Behind the Sagebrush Curtain includes work by seven 20th-century artists who were active in Montana and Idaho: Gennie DeWeese, Edith Freeman, Isabelle Johnson, Sara Joyce, Helen McAuslan, Frances Senska and Jessie Wilber. Working i...

FREE EVENING EXHIBITION TOUR: Marketplaces: From Open Air to Online

Thursday, October 24, 5:30 pm

Enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators. Marketplaces considers the idea of the marketplace in the 21st century. How has our exchange of goods and services changed over the last 25 years and the last few centuries? What remains the same? How do our choices as consumers sh...

FREE EVENING EXHIBITION TOUR: Marketplaces: From Open Air to Online

Thursday, September 19, 5:30 pm

Enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators. Marketplaces considers the idea of the marketplace in the 21stcentury. How has our exchange of goods and services changed over the last 25 years and the last few centuries? What remains the same? How do our choices as consumers sha...

FREE EXHIBITION OPENING CELEBRATION & GALLERY WALK: Marketplaces: From Open Air to Online

Friday, August 30, 5:00 pm

Join us as we celebrate the opening of Marketplaces: From Open Air to Online. Participating artists Chad Erpelding and Mark R. Smith will speak about their artwork at 6pm. The last twenty-five years have seen a transformation in the way Americans buy and sell goods and services. Recent shifts toward online sh...

FREE EVENING EXHIBITION TOUR: Mirage: Energy, Water and Creativity in the Great Basin with artist Laura McPhee

Thursday, August 15, 5:30 pm

Enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators. Mirage considers the Great Basin, defined by its closed watershed system, as a uniquely dynamic landscape and source of regenerative power—a place for resource extraction, renewable energy, and creativity. Participating artist La...

FREE COMMUNITY EVENT: 50 Years of Center History: Community Photo ID Session

Thursday, August 15, 4:00 pm

As the Sun Valley Center for the Arts gears up for its 50th anniversary, Center staff members are digging through the archives! We’ve pulled out photos from the 1970s and 1980s and need the community’s help in identifying the people, places and activities that they depict. On Aug 15, stop by The Center be...

FREE GALLERY WALK: Mirage: Energy, Water and Creativity in the Great Basin

Friday, August 2, 5:00 pm

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 exhibition considers the Great Basin, defined by its closed watershed system, as a uniquely dynamic landscape and source of regenerative p...

FREE GALLERY WALK: Mirage: Energy, Water and Creativity in the Great Basin

Friday, July 5, 5:00 pm

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 exhibition considers the Great Basin, defined by its closed watershed system, as a uniquely dynamic landscape and source of regenerative p...

FREE EVENING EXHIBITION TOUR: Mirage: Energy, Water and Creativity in the Great Basin

Thursday, June 27, 5:30 pm

Enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators. Mirage considers the Great Basin, defined by its closed watershed system, as a uniquely dynamic landscape and source of regenerative power—a place for resource extraction, renewable energy, and creativity. Exhibition on view J...

FREE PANEL DISCUSSION: Is Landscape Still Relevant in 21st Century Art?: A discussion with Jim Ballinger and Frances Ashforth, moderated by Kristin Poole

Thursday, June 13, 6:00 pm

Immediately following the Opening Celebration, join esteemed museum director Jim Ballinger and Mirage exhibition artist Frances Ashforth in a discussion that will explore why landscape remains an important subject for artists in 21st century America.  At this moment, when some critics declare painting de...

FREE OPENING CELEBRATION: Mirage: Energy, Water and Creativity in the Great Basin

Thursday, June 13, 5:00 pm

Join us as we celebrate the opening of Mirage. The exhibition considers the Great Basin, defined by its closed watershed system, as a uniquely dynamic landscape and source of regenerative power—a place for resource extraction, renewable energy, and creativity. Immediately following the opening celebration, ...

FREE OPENING CELEBRATION: 2018-19 Classroom Enrichment Exhibition: Deepen the Discussion

Thursday, May 30, 4:00 pm

Join us for refreshments as we celebrate the opening of 2018-19 Classroom Enrichment Exhibition: Deepen the Discussion. The exhibition showcases and celebrates the artwork created by students who participated as a part of the Center’s enrichment program. Students engaged in and completed projects that c...

VISUAL ARTS EXHIBITION: 2018-19 Classroom Enrichment Student Exhibition: Deepen the Discussion

Thursday, May 30, 9:00 am

This exhibition showcases and celebrates the artwork created by students who participated as a part of Sun Valley Center for the Arts' Classroom Enrichment Projects. Students engaged in and completed projects that combined art-making skills with core curriculum goals. Their pieces exemplify the academic and a...

FREE SPECIAL EVENT: JPC After Hours Exhibition Tour—Unraveling: Reimagining Colonization in the Americas

Wednesday, May 22, 7:00 pm

Join The Center’s Junior Patrons Circle for a free exhibition tour of our current exhibit, Unraveling: Reimagining Colonization in the America. At 7:15pm, Curator of Visual Arts, Dr. Courtney Gilbert, will give a short guided tour through the exhibit to start the night off. The history of the colonizatio...

FREE EVENING EXHIBITION TOUR: Unraveling: Reimagining the Colonization in the Americas

Thursday, May 16, 5:30 pm

Enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators. The history of colonization in the Americas has traditionally been taught as a straightforward story of European conquest of indigenous cultures and expansion across territories already settled by native peoples for millennia. W...

FREE EVENING EXHIBITION TOUR: Unraveling: Reimagining the Colonization of the Americas

Thursday, April 18, 5:30 pm

Enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators. The history of colonization in the Americas has traditionally been taught as a straightforward story of European conquest of indigenous cultures and expansion across territories already settled by native peoples for millennia. W...

FREE EVENING EXHIBITION TOUR: Unraveling: Reimagining Colonization in the Americas

Thursday, March 21, 5:30 pm

Enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators. The history of colonization in the Americas has traditionally been taught as a straightforward story of European conquest of indigenous cultures and expansion across territories already settled by native peoples for millennia. W...

FREE OPENING CELEBRATION & GALLERY WALK: Unraveling: Reimagining the Colonization in the Americas

Friday, March 8, 5:00 pm

Join us for refreshments as we celebrate the opening of Unraveling: Reimagining the Colonization in the Americas. The history of colonization in the Americas has traditionally been taught as a straightforward story of European conquest of indigenous cultures and expansion across territories already settled...

FREE SPECIAL EVENT: JPC After Hours Exhibition Tour – At the Table: Kitchen as Home

Thursday, February 28, 7:00 pm

Join The Center’s Junior Patrons Circle for a free exhibition tour of our current exhibit, At the Table: Kitchen as Home. At 7:15pm, Curator of Visual Arts, Dr. Courtney Gilbert, will give a short guided tour through the exhibit to start the night off. Enjoy complimentary cocktails courtesy of our sponso...

FREE GALLERY WALK: At the Table: Kitchen as Home

Friday, February 15, 5:00 pm

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. At the Table examines the central role of the kitchen in shaping our memories, our families and our social lives. Kitchens are places of priva...

FREE EVENING EXHIBITION TOUR: At the Table: Kitchen as Home with Artist Julie Green

Thursday, February 7, 5:30 pm

Enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators and participating artist Julie Green, who created a new body of work for At the Table during a residency at The Center, Hailey. The work of the nationally known Green has been featured on the PBS NewsHour, in The New York Times and,...

FREE EVENING EXHIBITION TOUR: At the Table: Kitchen as Home with artist Abby Carter and the Hunger Coalition

Thursday, January 24, 5:30 pm

Enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators and gallery guides. At the Table examines the central role of the kitchen in shaping our memories, our families and our social lives. Kitchens are places of private ritual—spaces for the preparation of food as well as its sharing....

FREE ARTIST TALK with MK Guth

Wednesday, January 9, 5:30 pm

Join artist MK Guth for an evening talk about the role of social ritual, performance, food and drink within her artistic practice. At the Table examines the central role of the kitchen in shaping our memories, our families and our social lives. Kitchens are places of private ritual—spaces for the prepara...

FREE EVENING EXHIBITION TOUR: At the Table: Kitchen as Home

Thursday, January 3, 5:30 pm

Enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators and gallery guides. At the Table examines the central role of the kitchen in shaping our memories, our families and our social lives. Kitchens are places of private ritual—spaces for the preparation of food as well as its sha...

FREE GALLERY WALK: At the Table: Kitchen as Home

Friday, December 28, 5:00 pm

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.

FREE EVENING EXHIBITION TOUR: We the People: Protest and Patriotism

Thursday, December 6, 5:30 pm

Enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators. We the People investigates the role of civic participation within American democracy, from the simple act of voting to running for office, from voicing dissent to flying the flag. How are each of these actions expressions of pat...

FREE GALLERY WALK “Après Ski Giving Walk”: We the People: Protest and Patriotism

Friday, November 23, 4:00 pm

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. Note the special Thanksgiving event time (4-6pm)! Supporting The Hunger Coalition—please bring healthy non-perishable goods to any SVGA gall...

FREE EVENING EXHIBITION TOUR: We the People: Protest and Patriotism

Thursday, November 1, 5:30 pm

Enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators and gallery guides. We the People investigates the role of civic participation within American democracy, from the simple act of voting to running for office, from voicing dissent to flying the flag. How are each of these actions...

FREE EVENING EXHIBITION TOUR & ARTISTS TALK: We the People: Protest and Patriotism with Deborah Aschheim and Paul Shambroom

Thursday, October 11, 5:30 pm

Enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators and gallery guides. Participating artists Deborah Aschheim and Paul Shambroom will speak at 6pm. We the People investigates the role of civic participation within American democracy, from the simple act of voting to running for o...

FREE EVENING EXHIBITION TOUR: Burchfield’s Influence: Hayley Barker, Anna Fidler, Katy Stone

Thursday, July 12, 5:30 pm

Enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators and gallery guides. Burchfield’s Influence presents the work of 20th-century artist Charles E. Burchfield (1893–1967) in conversation with three contemporary artists who count Burchfield among their most important influences:...

GALLERY WALK: Burchfield’s Influence: Hayley Barker, Anna Fidler, Katy Stone

Friday, July 6, 5:00 pm

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. Burchfield’s Influence presents the work of 20th-century artist Charles E. Burchfield (1893–1967) in conversation with three contemporary ...

FREE OPENING CELEBRATION: Burchfield’s Influence: Hayley Barker, Anna Fidler, Katy Stone

Friday, June 29, 5:00 pm

Join us as we celebrate the opening of Burchfield’s Influence! Artists Katy Stone and Anna Fidler will be present. Remarks at 6pm. Burchfield’s Influence presents the work of 20th-century artist Charles E. Burchfield (1893–1967) in conversation with three contemporary artists who count Burchfield amo...

FREE EVENING EXHIBITION TOUR: Bees

Thursday, June 14, 5:30 pm

Enjoy a glass of wine while you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators and gallery guides. Bees exhibition and BIG IDEA project explores the critical role bees and other pollinators play in our food chain and environment and the challenges they face today, from colony collapse disorder to shrinking ...

FREE EVENING EXHIBITION TOUR: Bees

Thursday, May 24, 5:30 pm

Enjoy a glass of wine while you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators and museum guides. The Bees exhibition and BIG IDEA project explores the critical role bees and other pollinators play in our food chain and environment and the challenges they face today. The project offers opportunities for all...

FREE EVENING EXHIBITION TOUR: Bees

Thursday, April 26, 5:30 pm

Enjoy a glass of wine while you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators and gallery guides. The Bees exhibition and BIG IDEA project explores the critical role bees and other pollinators play in our food chain and environment and the challenges they face today. The project offers opportunities for al...

FREE SPECIAL EVENT: Pollinator Pop Up (Celebrate Earth Day!)

Friday, April 20, 5:00 pm

The Center and the Environmental Resource Center are celebrating Earth Day! Visit the exhibition at The Center, participate in activities at the ERC, and enjoy pollinator-inspired cocktails from Roadbars and other refreshments at both locations. Join us! Part of The Center's BIG IDEA project Bees, April 13...

FREE OPENING CELEBRATION: Bees

Friday, April 13, 5:00 pm

Join us for refreshments as we celebrate the opening of Bees exhibition and BIG IDEA project. Bees explores the critical role bees and other pollinators play in our food chain and environment and the challenges they face today, from colony collapse disorder to shrinking habitat. The project offers opportuniti...

FREE EVENING EXHIBITION TOUR: This Land Is Whose Land?

Thursday, March 22, 5:30 pm

Enjoy a glass of wine or a beer while you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators and gallery guides. Prompted by current global and local conversations about refugees and immigration, This Land Is Whose Land? explores these timely topics in the context of the United States’ history as place of res...

FREE GALLERY WALK: This Land is Whose Land?

Friday, March 9, 5:00 pm

Start your Gallery Walk at The Center! Join us at 6pm to hear from participating artist Angie Smith about her work photographing Boise’s refugee community for The New York Times Magazine! Prompted by current global and local conversations about refugees and immigration, This Land Is Whose Land? explores ...

FREE EVENING EXHIBITION TOUR: This Land is Whose Land?

Thursday, February 22, 5:30 pm

Enjoy a glass of wine while you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators and gallery guides. Prompted by current global and local conversations about refugees and immigration, This Land Is Whose Land? explores these timely topics in the context of the United States’ history as place of resettlement ...

FREE GALLERY WALK: This Land is Whose Land?

Friday, February 16, 5:00 pm

Start your Gallery Walk at The Center and see The Resettled, a 30-minute film focusing on refugee stories from around the U.S., including a refugee in Boise who observes, “I was not born a refugee, I was made one.” Prompted by current global and local conversations about refugees and immigration, This ...

FREE OPENING CELEBRATION: This Land is Whose Land?

Friday, January 26, 5:00 pm

Join us for refreshments as we celebrate the opening of This Land is Whose Land? Prompted by current global and local conversations about refugees and immigration, This Land Is Whose Land? explores these timely topics in the context of the United States’ history as place of resettlement and contested (and s...

FREE EVENING EXHIBITION TOUR: Art into Architecture: Frank Lloyd Wright, Archie Teater and Teater’s Knoll

Thursday, January 11, 5:30 pm

Enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators and special guest, Henry Whiting, the current owner of the Archie Teater Studio. Idaho is home to just one building designed by world-renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright: Teater’s Knoll, located on the edge of the Snake River...

FREE GALLERY WALK: Art into Architecture: Frank Lloyd Wright, Archie Teater and Teater’s Knoll

Friday, December 29, 5:00 pm

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 exhibition Art into Architecture: Frank Lloyd Wright, Archie Teater and Teater’s Knoll exhibition on view Dec 1, 2017 – Jan 17, 2018

FREE EVENING EXHIBITION TOUR: Art into Architecture: Frank Lloyd Wright, Archie Teater and Teater’s Knoll

Thursday, December 7, 5:30 pm

Enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators and gallery guides. Idaho is home to just one building designed by world-renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright: Teater’s Knoll, located on the edge of the Snake River. Teater’s Knoll also happens to be the only artist studio ...

FREE OPENING CELEBRATION: Art into Architecture: Frank Lloyd Wright, Archie Teater and Teater’s Knoll

Friday, December 1, 5:00 pm

Join us for refreshments as we celebrate the opening of Art into Architecture: Frank Lloyd Wright, Archie Teater and Teater’s Knoll. Idaho is home to just one building designed by world-renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright: Teater’s Knoll, located on the edge of the Snake River. Teater’s Knoll also hap...

FREE Gallery Walk “Giving Walk”: The Unreliable Narrator

Friday, November 24, 4:00 pm

In the spirit of the season, the Sun Valley Gallery Association is hosting a Gallery Walk/Giving Walk. The public is invited to donate items in support of the Hunger Coalition. The Giving Walk offers residents and visitors the opportunity to engage with world-class visual art while supporting an organization ...

FREE EVENING EXHIBITION TOUR: The Unreliable Narrator (DATE CHANGE)

Thursday, October 12, 5:30 pm

Enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators and gallery guides. The Unreliable Narrator considers the power of the narrator who may not be trustworthy: a storyteller who misleads, or perhaps misunderstands the events unfolding in the course of a story, or asks the reader t...

FREE Evening Exhibition Tour: The Unreliable Narrator

Thursday, September 28, 5:30 pm

Enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators and gallery guides.  The Unreliable Narrator considers the power of the narrator who may not be trustworthy: a storyteller who misleads, or perhaps misunderstands the events unfolding in the course of a story, or asks the re...

FREE Opening Celebration & Gallery Walk: The Unreliable Narrator

Friday, September 1, 5:00 pm

 Join us for refreshments as we celebrate the opening of The Unreliable Narrator. The Unreliable Narrator considers the power of the narrator who may not be trustworthy: a storyteller who misleads, or perhaps misunderstands the events unfolding in the course of a story, or asks the reader to construct th...

FREE GALLERY WALK: Night Watch

Friday, August 4, 5:00 pm

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. his exhibition presents the work of contemporary artists who expose the many ways the night frames our lives and our dreams. Exhibition on vie...

FREE EVENING EXHIBITION TOUR: Night Watch

Thursday, July 13, 5:30 pm

Enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators and gallery guides. This exhibition presents the work of contemporary artists who illuminate the many ways the night frames our lives and our dreams. Participating artist Vanessa Marsh will speak about her work. Exhibition on ...

FREE GALLERY WALK: Night Watch

Friday, July 7, 5:00 pm

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. his exhibition presents the work of contemporary artists who expose the many ways the night frames our lives and our dreams. Exhibition on vie...

FREE OPENING CELEBRATION: Night Watch

Friday, June 30, 5:30 pm

Join us for refreshments as we celebrate the opening of Night Watch. The night has long been a subject for painters, poets and photographers. Evoking danger and excitement as well as mystery and awe, night is a time of renewal and transformation. Night’s darkness alters form from sharp clarity to elusive sh...

FREE EVENING EXHIBITION TOUR: Contemplative Practice

Thursday, June 8, 5:45 pm

Enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators and gallery guides. The exhibition features painting, video, sculpture and works on paper all made by artists who incorporate contemplative practices into the making of their artwork as part of a larger conversation about meditation...

FREE SPECIAL RECEPTION & Clearing Ceremony with Dana Lynn Louis

Thursday, May 25, 5:00 pm

As part of Contemplative Practice exhibition and BIG IDEA project, artist Dana Lynn Louis will create a site-specific installation that features drawings, sculptural elements and video projections designed to encourage contemplation. Dana Lynn Louis will lead a Clearing Ceremony at the conclusion of a publ...

FREE EVENING EXHIBITION TOUR: Contemplative Practice

Thursday, May 18, 5:30 pm

Enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators and gallery guides. The exhibition features painting, video, sculpture and works on paper all made by artists who incorporate contemplative practices into the making of their artwork as part of a larger conversation about meditation...

FREE EVENING EXHIBITION TOUR: Contemplative Practice

Thursday, April 13, 5:30 pm

Enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators and gallery guides. The exhibition features painting, video, sculpture and works on paper all made by artists who incorporate contemplative practices into the making of their artwork as part of a larger conversation about meditation...

FREE GUIDED MEDITATION with Compassionate Leaders

Thursday, April 13, 5:00 pm

The Compassionate Leaders program involves local high school students as part of the Flourish Foundation. The Flourish Foundation is dedicated to promoting contemplative practices in communities to cultivate healthy habits of mind and inspire personal well-being, benevolent social action, and environmental st...

FREE GUIDED MEDITATION with Compassionate Leaders

Tuesday, April 11, 4:00 pm

The Compassionate Leaders program involves local high school students as part of the Flourish Foundation. The Flourish Foundation is dedicated to promoting contemplative practices in communities to cultivate healthy habits of mind and inspire personal well-being, benevolent social action, and environmental st...

FREE OPENING CELEBRATION: Contemplative Practice

Friday, March 31, 5:00 pm

Join us for refreshments as we celebrate the opening of the exhibition Contemplative Practice. What is the connection between art and contemplation? For centuries, artists have created religious objects meant to offer a contemplative or devotional experience. But how do art and contemplation intersect outside...

FREE EVENING EXHIBITION TOUR: Rayguns, Robots, Drones with special guests WRHS Robotics Team

Thursday, March 16, 5:30 pm

Enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators and gallery guides. Hear from our local 2017 WRHS Robotics Team (BCB Bots) on the technology they have created and use to compete in the VEX Robotics Championships. The exhibition uses rayguns, robots and drones as metaphors for ...

FREE GALLERY WALK: Rayguns, Robots, Drones

Friday, March 10, 5:00 pm

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 exhibition uses rayguns, robots and drones as metaphors for a conversation about technology’s inherent promise and potential danger. Par...

FREE EVENING EXHIBITION TOUR: Rayguns, Robots, Drones

Thursday, February 23, 5:30 pm

Enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators and gallery guides. Special guest artist Mahwish Chisty will present an artist talk about her work following the tour. The exhibition uses rayguns, robots and drones as metaphors for a conversation about technology’s inherent p...

FREE GALLERY WALK: Rayguns, Robots, Drones

Friday, February 17, 5:00 pm

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 exhibition uses rayguns, robots and drones as metaphors for a conversation about technology’s inherent promise and potential danger. Par...

FREE EVENING EXHIBITION TOUR: Rayguns, Robots, Drones with special guest speakers

Thursday, January 26, 5:30 pm

Join us and enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators and gallery guides. The exhibition uses rayguns, robots and drones as metaphors for a conversation about technology’s inherent promise and potential danger. Special guest speakers Taan Robrahn, Captain of Sun Valley...

FREE OPENING CELEBRATION: Rayguns, Robots, Drones

Friday, January 13, 5:30 pm

Join us for refreshments as we celebrate the opening of the exhibition Rayguns, Robots, Drones. Can any technology ever exist solely for good? Science fiction authors have imagined worlds in which technology becomes a threat. But is this more than the stuff of fiction? This BIG IDEA project considers the role...

FREE GALLERY WALK: Idaho Stories

Thursday, December 29, 5:00 pm

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 Halloc...

FREE EVENING EXHIBITION TOUR: Idaho Stories

Thursday, December 1, 5:30 pm

Enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators and gallery guides. Idaho Stories features work by five artists exploring Idaho’s fascinating ties to literary history and considering the state as a place that has long generated all kinds of stories. Part of The Center's BIG ...

FREE APRÈS-SKI GIVING WALK: Idaho Stories

Friday, November 25, 4:00 pm

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 exhibition...

FREE EVENING EXHIBITION TOUR: Idaho Stories

Thursday, November 10, 5:30 pm

Enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators and gallery guides. Idaho Stories features work by five artists exploring Idaho’s fascinating ties to literary history and considering the state as a place that has long generated all kinds of stories. Part of The Center's BIG ...

OPENING CELEBRATION: Idaho Stories

Friday, October 21, 5:00 pm

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 Ida...

OPENING CELEBRATION: Safety Zone: Dazzle Works by Angela Tsai

Thursday, September 1, 5:00 pm

Angela Tsai decorates model ships with glitter in extreme dazzle patterns. Drawing on her experience growing up in Boise, Idaho, as an Asian American, her interest in dazzle camouflage was sparked by the contradiction between standing out and blending in. Her ink drawings of dazzle ships on old Chinese callig...

FREE EVENING EXHIBITION TOUR: Dazzle Camouflage: Hiding in Plain Sight

Thursday, August 25, 5:30 pm

Join us and enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators and gallery guides. This exhibition considers dazzle camouflage, a system of high-contrast, disruptive camouflage applied to U.S. and British naval ships during World Wars I and II. Uniting visual art with warfare, da...

FREE GALLERY WALK: Dazzle Camouflage: Hiding in Plain Sight

Friday, August 5, 5:00 pm

Start your Gallery Walk at the Center! Each year Sun Valley Gallery Association hosts seven gallery walks (exhibition openings for all SVGA galleries), which are eagerly anticipated and free to the public. Locals and visitors alike take in thought-provoking exhibitions of newly installed art, enjoy wine, m...

FREE GALLERY WALK: Craters of the Moon

Friday, July 8, 5:00 pm

Start your Gallery Walk at the Center! Each year Sun Valley Gallery Association hosts seven gallery walks (exhibition openings for all SVGA galleries), which are eagerly anticipated and free to the public. Locals and visitors alike take in thought-provoking exhibitions of newly installed art, enjoy wine, m...

FREE EVENING EXHIBITION TOUR: Craters of the Moon

Thursday, July 7, 5:30 pm

Join us and enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators and gallery guides.  Coinciding with the National Park Centennial, Craters of the Moon is an exhibition in two parts celebrating the unique landscape at Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve. An exhibiti...

FREE EVENING EXHIBITION TOUR: Craters of the Moon

Thursday, June 23, 5:30 pm

Join us and enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators and gallery guides.  Coinciding with the National Park Centennial, Craters of the Moon is an exhibition in two parts celebrating the unique landscape at Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve. An exhibiti...

FREE EXHIBITION OPENING RECEPTION: Craters of the Moon

Friday, May 20, 5:00 pm

Coinciding with the National Park Centennial, Craters of the Moon is an exhibition in two parts celebrating the unique landscape at Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve. An exhibition in the gallery at The Center, Ketchum, features artwork ranging from paintings, drawings and photographs to vide...

FREE Evening Exhibition Tour: I Need to Tell You Something: The Lost Art of Letter Writing and Communication Today

Thursday, May 5, 5:30 pm

Join us and enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators and gallery guides. When was the last time you received a hand-written letter? Or sent one? In this era of instantaneous communication, a handwritten letter is a rare and treasured item. From Charles Gute’s presenta...

FREE Evening Exhibition Tour: I Need to Tell You Something: The Lost Art of Letter Writing and Communication Today

Thursday, April 7, 5:30 pm

Join us and enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators and gallery guides. When was the last time you received a hand-written letter? Or sent one? In this era of instantaneous communication, a handwritten letter is a rare and treasured item. From Charles Gute’s presenta...

FREE Gallery Walk: I Need to Tell You Something: The Lost Art of Letter Writing and Communication Today

Friday, March 11, 5:00 pm

Start your Gallery Walk at the Center! Each year Sun Valley Gallery Association hosts seven gallery walks (exhibition openings for all SVGA galleries), which are eagerly anticipated and free to the public. Locals and visitors alike take in thought-provoking exhibitions of newly installed art, enjoy wine, m...

FREE Evening Exhibition Tour: I Need to Tell You Something: The Lost Art of Letter Writing and Communication Today

Thursday, March 10, 5:30 pm

Join us and enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators and gallery guides. When was the last time you received a hand-written letter? Or sent one? In this era of instantaneous communication, a handwritten letter is a rare and treasured item. From Charles Gute’s presenta...

FREE Gallery Walk: Role Play: Changing Ideas about Gender

Friday, February 12, 5:00 pm

Start your Gallery Walk at the Center! Each year Sun Valley Gallery Association hosts seven gallery walks (exhibition openings for all SVGA galleries), which are eagerly anticipated and free to the public. Locals and visitors alike take in thought-provoking exhibitions of newly installed art, enjoy wine, m...

FREE Evening Exhibition Tour: Role Play: Changing Ideas about Gender

Thursday, February 11, 5:30 pm

Join us and enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators and gallery guides. The way we understand gender is shifting—moving away from strict categories of male and female toward looser definitions that give us all more freedom. At the same time, traditional expectations ...

FREE Evening Exhibition Tour: Role Play: Changing Ideas about Gender

Thursday, January 7, 5:30 pm

Join us and enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators and gallery guides. The way we understand gender is shifting—moving away from strict categories of male and female toward looser definitions that give us all more freedom. At the same time, traditional expectations ...

FREE Gallery Walk: Role Play: Changing Ideas about Gender

Tuesday, December 29, 5:00 pm

Start your Gallery Walk at the Center! Each year Sun Valley Gallery Association hosts seven gallery walks (exhibition openings for all SVGA galleries), which are eagerly anticipated and free to the public. Locals and visitors alike take in thought-provoking exhibitions of newly installed art, enjoy wine, m...

FREE Opening Celebration: Role Play

Friday, December 11, 5:30 pm

Join us for refreshments as we celebrate the opening of the exhibition Role Play: Changing Ideas about Gender. The way we understand gender is shifting—moving away from strict categories of male and female toward looser definitions that give us all more freedom. At the same time, traditional expectations...

FREE “Giving Walk”: Sleight of Hand

Friday, November 27, 4:00 pm

The Giving Walk is a night organized by the Sun Valley Gallery Association to collect donations for the Hunger Coalition, Advocates, and Animal Shelter. Each gallery will have a donation drop off for the above organizations. Please note the time change for this event: 4pm-6pm. Start your Gallery Walk at t...

FREE Evening Exhibition Tour: Sleight of Hand

Thursday, November 5, 5:30 pm

Join us and enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators and gallery guides. This exhibition is part of The Center’s fall BIG IDEA project about the line between illusion and truth in the history of art and beyond. It features a selection of paintings by forger Mark Landi...

WRHS Exhibition Opening Celebration: Redesigning Art History

Thursday, October 22, 5:00 pm

Last year, Wood River High School art teacher Betty Ervin asked her students to research three artists and to incorporate elements of each artist’s work into a single painting. The resulting artworks exceeded all her expectations. This exhibition features the students’ reimagining of their favorite artist...

FREE Evening Exhibition Tour: Sleight of Hand

Thursday, October 1, 5:30 pm

Join us and enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators and gallery guides. This exhibition is part of The Center’s fall BIG IDEA project about the line between illusion and truth in the history of art and beyond. It features a selection of paintings by forger Mark Landi...

FREE Gallery Walk: Defying Gravity: Interventions in Clay

Friday, September 4, 5:00 pm

Start your Gallery Walk at the Center! Each year Sun Valley Gallery Association hosts seven gallery walks (exhibition openings for all SVGA galleries), which are eagerly anticipated and free to the public. Locals and visitors alike take in thought-provoking exhibitions of newly installed art, enjoy wine, m...

FREE Evening Exhibition Tour: Defying Gravity: Interventions in Clay

Thursday, September 3, 5:30 pm

Clay attracts artists who respond to its physicality—a hugely malleable, fluid material that through fire becomes fixed.  The artists in this exhibition celebrate this contradiction—honoring the tension between the opposing forces of stability and instability, motion and stasis, permanence and temporalit...

FREE Gallery Walk: Defying Gravity: Interventions in Clay

Friday, August 7, 5:00 pm

Start your Gallery Walk at the Center! Each year Sun Valley Gallery Association hosts seven gallery walks (exhibition openings for all SVGA galleries), which are eagerly anticipated and free to the public. Locals and visitors alike take in thought-provoking exhibitions of newly installed art, enjoy wine, m...

FREE Evening Exhibition Tour: Defying Gravity: Interventions in Clay

Thursday, July 30, 5:30 pm

Clay attracts artists who respond to its physicality—a hugely malleable, fluid material that through fire becomes fixed.  The artists in this exhibition celebrate this contradiction—honoring the tension between the opposing forces of stability and instability, motion and stasis, permanence and temporalit...

FREE Gallery Walk & Opening Celebration: Defying Gravity: Interventions in Clay

Friday, July 10, 5:00 pm

Clay attracts artists who respond to its physicality—a hugely malleable, fluid material that through fire becomes fixed.  The artists in this exhibition celebrate this contradiction—honoring the tension between the opposing forces of stability and instability, motion and stasis, permanence and temporalit...

FREE Evening Exhibition Tour: Moving Pictures: Early Animation and Its Influence

Thursday, July 2, 5:30 pm

Join us and enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators and gallery guides. Featuring a selection of early animation cels from the collection of Jay and Gretchen Basen, this exhibition considers the history of animation, from its roots in 18th and 19th century magic lanter...

FREE Evening Exhibition Tour: Moving Pictures: Early Animation and Its Influence

Thursday, June 11, 5:30 pm

Join us and enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators and gallery guides. Featuring a selection of early animation cels from the collection of Jay and Gretchen Basen, this exhibition considers the history of animation, from its roots in 18th and 19th century magic lanter...

FREE Evening Exhibition Tour: Moving Pictures: Early Animation and Its Influence

Wednesday, May 6, 5:30 pm

Join us and enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators and gallery guides. Featuring a selection of early animation cels from the collection of Jay and Gretchen Basen, this exhibition considers the history of animation, from its roots in 18th and 19th century magic lanter...

FREE Evening Exhibition Tour & Artist Lecture with Rebecca Kamen – The Brain

Thursday, April 9, 5:30 pm

Join us for a tour of the exhibition followed by artist Rebecca Kamen’s talk about her sculptural work and its relationship to the drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal, who won the 1906 Nobel Prize for his drawings of neurons. This project investigates recent scientific discoveries and celebrates the brai...

FREE Gallery Walk: The Brain

Friday, March 13, 5:00 pm

Start your Gallery Walk at the Center! Each year Sun Valley Gallery Association hosts nine gallery walks (exhibition openings for all SVGA galleries), which are eagerly anticipated and free to the public. Locals and visitors alike take in thought-provoking exhibitions of newly installed art, enjoy wine, mi...

FREE Evening Exhibition Tour – The Brain

Thursday, March 12, 5:30 pm

Join us and enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators and gallery guides. This project investigates recent scientific discoveries and celebrates the brain’s wonder and mystery. We will investigate this BIG IDEA through lectures, films, brown bag lunches and small forma...

FREE Evening Exhibition Tour – The Brain

Thursday, February 19, 5:30 pm

Join us and enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators and gallery guides. This project investigates recent scientific discoveries and celebrates the brain’s wonder and mystery. We will investigate this BIG IDEA through lectures, films, brown bag lunches and small forma...

FREE Gallery Walk: The Brain

Friday, February 13, 5:00 pm

Start your Gallery Walk at the Center! Each year Sun Valley Gallery Association hosts nine gallery walks (exhibition openings for all SVGA galleries), which are eagerly anticipated and free to the public. Locals and visitors alike take in thought-provoking exhibitions of newly installed art, enjoy wine, mi...

FREE Evening Exhibition Tour – Under the Influence of Rock & Roll

Thursday, January 8, 5:30 pm

Join us and enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators and gallery guides. Under the Influence of Rock & Roll is a celebration of an art form with uniquely American origins and its impact on our culture. Since the 1950s, Rock & Roll has influenced not just music i...

Gallery Walk: Under the Influence of Rock & Roll

Saturday, December 27, 5:00 pm

Start your Gallery Walk at the Center! Each year Sun Valley Gallery Association hosts nine gallery walks (exhibition openings for all SVGA galleries), which are eagerly anticipated and free to the public. Locals and visitors alike take in thought-provoking exhibitions of newly installed art, enjoy wine, mi...

FREE Evening Exhibition Tour – Under the Influence of Rock & Roll

Thursday, December 4, 5:30 pm

Join us and enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators and gallery guides. Under the Influence of Rock & Roll is a celebration of an art form with uniquely American origins and its impact on our culture. Since the 1950s, Rock & Roll has influenced not just music i...

FREE Under the Influence of Rock & Roll Opening Celebration

Friday, November 21, 5:30 pm

The exhibition will include paintings, photography, sculpture, contemporary and historic show posters and a timeline of the 1960s created by Sage School students that illustrates the connections between Rock & Roll and social, political, musical and historical events. Join us for refreshments as we celebr...

FREE Evening Exhibition Tour – Forests, Foraging and Fires

Thursday, November 6, 5:30 pm

Join us and enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators and gallery guides. Forests, Foraging and Fires will look at the forest as an ecosystem, a resource and a place of transformation. The project will consider what we take from the forest—both materially and spiritual...

FREE Evening Exhibition Tour – Forests, Foraging and Fires

Thursday, October 16, 5:30 pm

Join us and enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators and gallery guides. Forests, Foraging and Fires will look at the forest as an ecosystem, a resource and a place of transformation. The project will consider what we take from the forest—both materially and spiritual...

Exhibition Opening Celebration – Janet Starr: Abstract Landscapes

Thursday, September 11, 5:30 pm

From white cloth, Hailey fiber artist Janet Starr uses dye and a variety of techniques to produce artwork which is bold in color and graphic in design. Her work is an abstraction of the natural world evoking forms like mesas, river beds, or aspen groves. Join us and enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the ex...

FREE Evening Exhibition Tour – Forests, Foraging and Fires

Thursday, September 4, 5:30 pm

Join us and enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators and gallery guides. Forests, Foraging and Fires will look at the forest as an ecosystem, a resource and a place of transformation. The project will consider what we take from the forest—both materially and spiritual...

Gallery Walk: Forests, Foraging and Fires

Friday, August 29, 5:00 pm

Start your Gallery Walk at the Center! Each year Sun Valley Gallery Association hosts nine gallery walks (exhibition openings for all SVGA galleries), which are eagerly anticipated and free to the public. Locals and visitors alike take in thought-provoking exhibitions of newly installed art, enjoy wine, mi...

FREE Evening Exhibition Tour – Western Light, Ecstatic Landscapes

Thursday, August 14, 5:30 pm

Join us and enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators and gallery guides. An exhibition exploring the metaphysical and spiritual use of light in paintings made in the American West. It features three bodies of work: paintings from the 1930s to the 1950s by artists affili...

GALLERY WALK: Western Light, Ecstatic Landscapes

Friday, August 8, 5:00 pm

Start your Gallery Walk at the Center! Each year Sun Valley Gallery Association hosts nine gallery walks (exhibition openings for all SVGA galleries), which are eagerly anticipated and free to the public. Locals and visitors alike take in thought-provoking exhibitions of newly installed art, enjoy wine, mi...

GALLERY WALK: Western Light, Ecstatic Landscapes

Friday, July 11, 5:00 pm

Start your Gallery Walk at the Center! Each year Sun Valley Gallery Association hosts nine gallery walks (exhibition openings for all SVGA galleries), which are eagerly anticipated and free to the public. Locals and visitors alike take in thought-provoking exhibitions of newly installed art, enjoy wine, mi...

FREE Evening Exhibition Tour – Western Light, Ecstatic Landscapes

Thursday, July 10, 5:30 pm

Join us and enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators and gallery guides. An exhibition exploring the metaphysical and spiritual use of light in paintings made in the American West. It features three bodies of work: paintings from the 1930s to the 1950s by artists affili...

FREE Exhibition Closing Celebration: Vita Brevis Press: A Printmaking Workshop

Tuesday, July 8, 5:30 pm

Join us for this closing celebration of the Vita Brevis Press: A Printmaking Workshop exhibition. Enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators and gallery guides. What is a master printer? How do printers work with  artists? This exhibition traces that relationship through...

Western Light, Ecstatic Landscapes exhibition opens

Friday, June 6, 9:00 am

An exhibition exploring the metaphysical and spiritual use of light in paintings made in the American West. It features three bodies of work: paintings from the 1930s to the 1950s by artists affiliated with New Mexico’s Transcendental Painting Group, work from the 1940s and 1950s by the artists of Northern ...

Gallery Walk – Creativity at Work

Saturday, May 24, 5:00 pm

Start your Gallery Walk at the Center! Each year Sun Valley Gallery Association hosts nine gallery walks (exhibition openings for all SVGA galleries), which are eagerly anticipated and free to the public. Locals and visitors alike take in thought-provoking exhibitions of newly installed art, enjoy wine, mingl...

FREE Evening Exhibition Tour – Creativity at Work

Thursday, April 10, 5:00 pm

This multidisciplinary project considers the connection between work and creativity and the impact of the connection on the American workplace. Special guests artists Tracy Linder and Melanie Paisley will speak about their work featured in the exhibition. Join us and enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the e...

FREE Evening Exhibition Tour—Creativity at Work

Thursday, March 20, 5:30 pm

This multidisciplinary project considers the connection between work and creativity and the impact of the connection on the American workplace. Join us and enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators and gallery guides.

Teen Tech Week: Stop Motion Animation Film Screening

Friday, March 14, 5:00 pm

As part of Gallery Walk, The Community Library and Sun Valley Center for the Arts partner to present a screening of short stop animation films by local teens as part of Teen Tech Week! These teens worked with Danica Robrahn, at Sun Valley Center for the Arts, during a recent teen workshop to create individual...

Gallery Walk – Creativity at Work

Friday, March 14, 5:00 pm

Start your Gallery Walk at the Center! Each year Sun Valley Gallery Association hosts nine gallery walks (exhibition openings for all SVGA galleries), which are eagerly anticipated and free to the public. Locals and visitors alike take in thought-provoking exhibitions of newly installed art, enjoy wine, m...

Vita Brevis Press: A Printmaking Workshop Exhibition Opening Celebration

Thursday, March 13, 5:30 pm

What is a master printer? How do printers work with artists to create prints? This exhibition traces the collaborative partnership between master printers and artists through prints made at Jen Galpin’s Vita Brevis Press, a workshop in Hailey. In addition to Galpin, participating artists include Kate Browni...

FREE Evening Exhibition Tour – Creativity at Work

Thursday, February 27, 5:00 pm

Join us and enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators and gallery guides. This multidisciplinary project considers the connection between work and creativity and the impact of that connection on the American workplace through dance, theater, lectures, films and a visual ...

Exhibition Opening: Creativity and Work

Friday, February 21

In 2011, the staff at the popular professional networking site LinkedIn surveyed its members and found the number one word they used to describe themselves was “creative.” They ran the survey in 2012 and came up with the same answer. We associate the word “creativity” with the arts. But obviously work...

Gallery Walk

Friday, February 14, 5:00 pm

Start your Gallery Walk at The Center! As part of the Wish You Were Here multidisciplinary project we’ll be screening Amanda Hamilton’s short film It Happened in Sun Valley, an entertaining look at Sun Valley as a tourist destination through the eyes of Hollywood. Each year Sun Valley Gallery Associati...

FREE Evening Exhibition Tour—Wish You Were Here

Thursday, February 13, 5:30 pm

Join us and enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators and gallery guides. The Community Library’s Regional History Librarian Sandra Hofferber will share the history of the railroad in Sun Valley at the Feb 13 tour. This project explores travel, tourism and the Ameri...

FREE Evening Exhibition Tour—Wish You Were Here

Thursday, January 16, 5:30 pm

Join us and enjoy a glass of wine as you tour the exhibition with The Center’s curators and gallery guides. Artist Elliot Anderson will be lecturing at 6pm following the Jan 16 tour. This project explores travel, tourism and the American road trip through the visual arts.

Gallery Walk

Friday, December 27, 5:00 pm

Start your Gallery Walk at The Center! We’ll be screening Amanda Hamilton’s short film It Happened in Sun Valley, an entertaining look at Sun Valley as a tourist destination through the eyes of Hollywood. Each year Sun Valley Gallery Association hosts nine gallery walks (exhibition openings for all SVG...

Exhibition Opening: Wish You Were Here

Friday, December 13

The road trip has been around for centuries, from trips throughout the Mediterranean geared to ancient Roman aristocrats to package tours of the Holy Land for Medieval pilgrims. Despite this long history, the birth of the tourism industry as we know it today emerged in the 19th century with the development of...

Gallery Walk

Friday, November 29, 5:00 pm

Start your Gallery Walk at the Center! Each year Sun Valley Gallery Association hosts nine gallery walks (exhibition openings for all SVGA galleries), which are eagerly anticipated and free to the public. Locals and visitors alike take in thought-provoking exhibitions of newly installed art, enjoy wine, mi...

FREE Evening Exhibition Tour—Stories of a Changing China

Thursday, November 21, 5:30 pm

Art critic Barbara Pollack has written that “China has changed more over the past 20 years than most countries did in the entire 20th century.” In this exhibition both Chinese and Western artists respond to the economic and cultural changes taking place in China today. Enjoy a glass of wine as you tour...

FREE Evening Exhibition Tour – Behind the Seen, at the Center Hailey

Friday, November 1, 5:30 pm

Please join us at the The Sun Valley Center for the Arts’ current exhibition at The Center in Hailey: Behind the Seen: Theatrical Design at Company of Fools. Stroll through the exhibition while enjoying a glass of wine and then at 6:10 join us for a discussion on design with Fools’ theatrical designers Jo...

FREE Evening Exhibition Tour—Stories of a Changing China

Thursday, October 24, 5:30 pm

Art critic Barbara Pollack has written that “China has changed more over the past 20 years than most countries did in the entire 20th century.” In this exhibition both Chinese and Western artists respond to the economic and cultural changes taking place in China today. Enjoy a glass of wine as you tour...

Gallery Walk

Friday, October 11, 5:00 pm

Start your Gallery Walk at the Center! Each year Sun Valley Gallery Association hosts nine gallery walks (exhibition openings for all SVGA galleries), which are eagerly anticipated and free to the public. Locals and visitors alike take in thought-provoking exhibitions of newly installed art, enjoy wine, m...

Exhibition: Behind the Seen Opening Celebration

Thursday, September 19, 5:30 pm

Behind the Seen explores the pivotal role of design in Company of Fools productions. Featuring examples from 17 years of plays, the exhibition provides a backstage view into the way designers use sound, lighting, costuming, props and set design to transform the space of the stage. Visitors will follow the des...

FREE Evening Exhibition Tour—Stories of a Changing China

Thursday, September 5, 5:30 pm

Art critic Barbara Pollack has written that “China has changed more over the past 20 years than most countries did in the entire 20th century.” In this exhibition both Chinese and Western artists respond to the economic and cultural changes taking place in China today. Join us for this evening exhibition ...

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