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Join us as we celebrate the opening of two exhibitions: In Conversation: Will Wilson and Portraits of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes, Past & Present. In Conversation: Will Wilson features tintype portraits Diné artist Will Wilson has made as part of his ongoing project Critical Indigenous Photographic Exchange (CIPX). A direct response to the work of 20th-century photographer Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868–1952), whose photographs are also included in the exhibition, Wilson’s CIPX offers a critique of Curtis’s 20-volume The North American Indian (1907-1930), which was created to capture the supposed vanishing race of Native Americans. Curtis’ photographs simplified and romanticized Native American life. In contrast, Wilson has created rich, complex portraits that center Indigenous perspectives. Portraits of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes, Past & Present explores portraits of members of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes made at the turn of the 20th century and today. In 1895, the Danish American photographer Benedicte Wrensted arrived in Pocatello, Idaho, where she established a photography studio. Among her clients were members of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes whose portraits Wrensted took until leaving Idaho in 1912. Unlike Edward Curtis, Wrensted invited her sitters to present themselves as they wished, and members of the Tribes appear in her photographs in both traditional ...

Join Boulder Mountain Clayworks in its efforts to benefit the Blaine County Charitable Fund. Bring a friend and make bowls that will be sold at the 10th annual Empty Bowls fundraising event on January 19, 2025. Or schedule your book club or service organization for an “Empty Bowls” event at Boulder Mountain Clayworks this fall, Oct 15th- Dec 15th. No experience necessary.

Join us for the second annual Peruvian Pachamanca! Brought to us by the Sun Valley Community School's Community Table and hosted at the Sawtooth Botanical Garden. The Pachamanca is a traditional Peruvian feast with delicious food cooked right in the earth! The Pachamanca feast is cooked during festivities and in religious celebrations, as a form of paying gratitude to the “Pachamama” or Mother Earth in Andean beliefs. This free event, part of the celebrations for Hispanic Heritage Month invites participants to immerse themselves in this cultural celebration of Mother Earth and all she has to offer. _____ Acompáñenos a la segunda celebración anual de Una Pachamanca peruana. Presentado por la Mesa Comunitaria, el sábado 12 de octubre en Los Jardines Botánicos de Sawtooth. La Pachamanca es un plato típico y una forma tradicional de preparar alimentos en Perú, que se caracteriza por cocinar los alimentos bajo la tierra. La Pachamanca se cocina en celebraciones y festividades religiosas, como una forma de agradecimiento a la Pachamama, la Madre Tierra en la cosmovisión andina. Este evento gratuito es parte de las celebraciones del mes de Herencia Hispana. Si tienen preguntas, pueden comunicarse con Paige al (208) 996-2423.