Join SVMoA staff and docents for fifteen minutes of conversation about a single artwork in the summer exhibition Hidden Gems: Sun Valley Collects. Drop by, get your art fix and check out our newly renovated galleries!
Play, create, discover, and have fun! Families and friends are invited to visit SVMoA's Hailey Classroom, explore various art materials, and create art inspired by SVMoA's summer exhibition Hidden Gems: Sun Valley Collects. Projects will change monthly. Age & Ability: all ages, families encouraged to attend together. FREE! Drop in anytime between 1:30–4:30pm; no registration required!
Join SVMoA staff and docents for fifteen minutes of conversation about a single artwork in the summer exhibition Hidden Gems: Sun Valley Collects. Drop by, get your art fix and check out our newly renovated galleries!
Join SVMoA staff and docents for fifteen minutes of conversation about a single artwork in the summer exhibition Hidden Gems: Sun Valley Collects. Drop by, get your art fix and check out our newly renovated galleries!
Play, create, discover, and have fun! Families and friends are invited to visit the Museum, explore the summer exhibition Hidden Gems: Sun Valley Collects, and energize their creative spirits with artmaking in the newly refreshed Ketchum Studio. Projects will change monthly. Age & Ability: all ages, families encouraged to attend together. Admission to the museum is always free!
Go Figure! Elevate your Tuesday evening and join SVMoA for a creative studio session that will explore the human figure in variations of lighting, pose, and setting. SVMoA provides a clothed or unclothed model, refreshments, and an open, self-guided studio setting for participants of all abilities. Open to anyone interested in working from the model, regardless of experience level. Familiarity with basic drawing fundamentals recommended. $25 adults / $15 for students Bring your own supplies; drawing boards will be provided. Age & ability: 16+, all skill levels welcome!
Sightings considers our connection to the night skies and our fascination with the extraterrestrial. The exhibition asks why we look to the night skies for signs of life, and how we experience phenomena we can’t explain. Featuring commissioned projects by artists Deb Sokolow and Cable Griffith alongside work by Karla Knight, Robyn O’Neil, Ionel Talpazan, Esther Pearl Watson, and Timothy Wyllie. Located in rural Idaho, the number one state per capita for UFO sightings, SVMoA sits at the edge of the 1,416 square-mile Central Idaho Dark Sky Reserve. The exhibition is motivated in part by this geography and by local lore surrounding the possibility of extraterrestrial activity in the region.
Join artists Deb Sokolow and Cable Griffith for a conversation about their practices, processes, and mutual interest in the human fascination with night skies and the extraterrestrial.
Join us as we celebrate the opening of Sightings. Living through the Covid-19 pandemic, Americans developed a new relationship to the night sky, looking to the stars for connection at a time of isolation. Located in rural Idaho, the number one state per capita for UFO sightings, SVMoA sits at the edge of the 1,416 square-mile Central Idaho Dark Sky Reserve. Motivated by this geography and by local lore surrounding the possibility of extraterrestrial life, SVMoA’s fall exhibition considers our human experience of UFOs and the extraterrestrial. Rather than ask what those who report UFO sightings have actually seen, the exhibition asks why we look to the night skies for signs of life, and how we experience phenomena we can’t explain. Featuring commissioned projects by artists Deb Sokolow and Cable Griffith alongside work by Karla Knight, Robyn O’Neil, Ionel Talpazan, Esther Pearl Watson, and Timothy Wyllie.
Learn how to create stunning images under some of the darkest skies in the lower 48 states with astrophotographer Nate Liles! This class will cover pre-trip planning, camera settings and ideal equipment, composition, panorama creation, and post-processing techniques. Participants will meet at the Sun Valley Museum of Art's Hailey Classroom on Fri, Sep 15 at 4:30pm to make a pre-trip plan and review camera basics. Carpools will depart for the shooting location at Craters of the Moon by 6pm. Students will photograph the sunset (7:50pm), discuss camera settings and composition, and shoot a bit during blue hour (twilight) before astronomical twilight (fully dark sky). Once the sky fully darkens (9pm), participants will practice creating long-exposure night sky compositions before heading back to Hailey around 10:30pm. If the sky is cloudy at the chosen site, arrangements will be made to find an alternate site with clear skies. On Saturday, students will discuss post-processing techniques, including light noise reduction, panorama stitching, lens corrections, and image retouching. Age and ability: 17+ years old and basic knowledge of how to operate your camera in manual mode; advanced photography skills not required.
Learn how to create stunning images under some of the darkest skies in the lower 48 states with astrophotographer Nate Liles! This class will cover pre-trip planning, camera settings and ideal equipment, composition, panorama creation, and post-processing techniques. Participants will meet at the Sun Valley Museum of Art's Hailey Classroom on Fri, Sep 15 at 4:30pm to make a pre-trip plan and review camera basics. Carpools will depart for the shooting location at Craters of the Moon by 6pm. Students will photograph the sunset (7:50pm), discuss camera settings and composition, and shoot a bit during blue hour (twilight) before astronomical twilight (fully dark sky). Once the sky fully darkens (9pm), participants will practice creating long-exposure night sky compositions before heading back to Hailey around 10:30pm. If the sky is cloudy at the chosen site, arrangements will be made to find an alternate site with clear skies. On Saturday, students will discuss post-processing techniques, including light noise reduction, panorama stitching, lens corrections, and image retouching. Age and ability: 17+ years old and basic knowledge of how to operate your camera in manual mode; advanced photography skills not required.
Rock and roll recording artists and globetrotting journeymen Devon Allman and Donavon Frankenreiter have their sights set on a world record with their new SEE IT ALL TOUR 2023: 50 shows in all 50 states in less than 50 days. SVMoA is bringing the tour to Ketchum for its one and only stop in Idaho. Donavon Frankenreiter has been travelling the globe for over three decades, first as a professional surfer who started jamming ukulele with Jack Johnson on the circuit. He now has over a dozen albums under his belt. Frankenreiter will be joined by Blues Music Award-winning singer, guitarist, songwriter and producer Devon Allman (son of rock legend Gregg Allman) and co-founder of supergroups Royal Southern Brotherhood and The Allman Betts Band. In their one and only Idaho performance, Allman and Frankenreiter will perform one set entirely together with a backing band, playing songs off their soon-to-be released collaborative EP titled “Rollers.” Be a part of music history and cheer on Team D&D. Standard & Balcony Seats: $50 member / $60 nonmember
