Discover your creativity, joy and passion while designing and making a unique silver pendant necklace. Learn basic jewelry making skills like sawing, texture applications, cold joining techniques and more. Explore the world of jewelry design and craftsmanship in this one day intensive workshop. All materials to be provided by the instructor Age & Ability: 18+, beginners welcome! This workshop takes place from 10am-6pm at the Hailey Classroom.
Educator Evening: Installation Challenge
School’s almost out! Take some time for yourself during this Educator Evening and collaborate with peers in a transformation project, turning a space into something new. Consider the ways that installations and/or hands-on making can create community as well as provide opportunities for students to think about, experience, and engage with material in new ways. In a short period of time, turn SVMoA’s Ketchum Studio into a tropical beach. This event begins at 5pm at the Museum in Ketchum. About SVMoA Educator Evenings Open to educators of all subject areas, Educator Evening is a FREE professional development series occurring monthly. Blaine County educators may receive in-service (continuing education) hours for their participation. SVMoA shares the names of those BCSD educators who participate with the school district office for in-service district hours. Join educators, visiting artists, and Museum staff for in-person presentations, discussion, and activity based on current exhibitions at SVMoA and connections to the National Core Arts Standards and Idaho Content Standards. Develop curricular connections and gain tools, strategies, and thinking routines for integrating art and objects into everyday classroom learning. Participate in a professional learning community of supportive and reflective educational practitioners, and have some fun! Topics include: Art …
Wendy Pesky Educator Summit
Connect with peers, explore the transformative power of arts integration, and inspire student success through creativity and self-expression. Teachers across all grade levels and disciplines in southern Idaho are invited for two days of conversation and learning with art scholars and colleagues. The summit will feature presentations from experts in the field, hands-on workshops, and ready-to-use lesson plans, offering practical tools for immediate implementation. Building on SVMoA’s history of supporting arts education, this summit will explore research-backed strategies for connecting visual art to subjects like math, science, social studies, and language arts. Sessions will focus on fostering critical thinking, creative problem-solving, and social-emotional learning, emphasizing the benefits of arts engagement highlighted by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Research shows that intensive arts experiences improve grades, test scores, graduation rates, and civic engagement, especially for at-risk youth. The Summit is named in memory of Wendy Pesky, a beloved longtime Sun Valley Museum of Art board member and tireless champion for arts and education. Together with her husband, Alan, Wendy founded the Lee Pesky Learning Center, which helps students overcome learning disabilities. Wendy and Alan also established SVMoA’s Wendy & Alan Pesky Educator Scholarship, which supports professional development in the …
WORKSHOP: Landscape Photography
Explore the genre of landscape photography. Learn about camera settings, lens choices and the use of natural light to compose dynamic landscape photographs. The two-day workshop will consist of classroom instruction and a location shoot on the first day, where participants will have the opportunity to practice their photography skills and capture the landscape at the magic hour of sunset. On the second day, meet in the Hailey classroom to learn the basics of editing and engage in the post-production process. No prior experience necessary for this workshop. Age and ability: 16+ years, all leverls and beginners welcome.
Locals Guide to Art Galleries in Sun Valley
Ketchum local Rudi Broschofsky grew up with art—after all, his parents opened Broschofsky Galleries in 1987 when he was just 5 years old. Spending days in the gallery after school and helping with Gallery Walks enmeshed him in Ketchum’s art scene and gave him an appreciation for art that would last a lifetime. After becoming partnered into the gallery in 2005, Rudi moved to Portland for several years where he started his own street art gallery, Flat Blak, before moving back to Ketchum almost two years ago to take over the majority of day-to-day operations at Broshofsky Galleries. An artist himself, Rudi’s street art approach to western art can be seen in various spots around town like his “Roper” sculpture on Main and Fourth in Ketchum. As a lifelong local, artist, and gallery owner, Rudi is the best man in town to give you the 411 on Ketchum’s art gallery scene. How would you describe the gallery scene in this town generally? Rudi: I’d say the gallery scene here is better than most cities actually. A lot of people don’t realize the magnitude of the art scene here in Ketchum, it’s world-class and conveniently stuffed within a few short blocks. …
What We’re Made Of: Company of Fools
The Company of Fools (CoF) theater group has been putting on world-class stage productions in the Wood River Valley since the group relocated to Hailey in 1996. Founded in Rusty Wilson’s unheated garage in Richmond, Virginia in May 1992, Wilson and original CoF members Vicki Bodin, John Glenn, Denise Simone, Robert Throckmorton and Joel Vilinsky took inspiration for their name from an essay by visual artist Cecil Collins, “The Vision of the Fool”. Collins describes the fool as embodying truth, joy, creativity and a childlike wonder of all that is magical and mysterious. The CoF went on to launch three productions in their four years in the garage before Wilson and Simone relocated to Hailey to continue their work on the stage of Hailey’s Liberty Theatre, the Fools’ home. In November 2012, the CoF merged with the Sun Valley Center for the Arts, becoming part of what is now the largest arts institution in the state of Idaho. And now, over 20 years later, the CoF is recognized for its award-winning theatre and arts education programming it has brought to the community. The group and the individuals who make it up have been consistently recognized for their contributions to the arts; …
This is The Sun Valley Museum of Art
Nothing is more synonymous with the art culture of Ketchum than the Sun Valley Museum of Art. With its constant rotation of art exhibitions, music, lectures and workshops, educational outreach and more, it has a presence in every part of the Valley in every aspect of art, serving more than 40,000 patrons every year. SVMoA, as it’s known to locals, was founded in 1971 as The Sun Valley Center for the Arts and Humanities making it the oldest arts organization in the Wood River Valley and the largest in the state of Idaho. The Sun Valley Museum of Art has a long and storied history in Ketchum with the original campus of the Sun Valley Center for the Arts and Humanities established on land deed by Bill Janss, owner of Sun Valley Company from 1964 to 1977. The property that is now home to the Sun Valley Community School was the original home of The Center; before that, it was the site of kennels for the Sun Valley Resort’s sled dogs. The Sun Valley Museum of Art has always provided a well-rounded experience of the arts, even in the early days offering art exhibitions, classes in photography, printmaking and ceramics, …