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BOISE, IDAHO - NOVEMBER 7-10, 2016 (M-TH 10-6pm) The Rose Room, downtown Boise (718 West Idaho Street) GRATITUDE. I wish to thank the Alexa Rose Foundation for their vision of helping local artists succeed with professional training and project funding through grants and fellowships. The grant I received was truly a gift of skills I could not have acquired otherwise. To be awarded funds for success by your own art community is the highest honor and inspiration at its finest.  With the grant money I received I was able to attend an intensive one week wax carving clinic in Albuquerque, NM and rapidly enhance...

It's LOVE week. Valentine for AIDS | @Flying M, Boise February 4-14, 2016Valentine for AIDS, 23rd annual art and community event hosted by Flying M Coffeehouse, Downtown Boise (500 W Idaho St). All proceeds from the silent art auction benefit local citizens living with HIV/AIDS through the non-profit organization SNAP. Bidding ends at 4pm on Sunday, February 14. This is my 8th year participating and I always enjoy freedom to explore with this donation project. I usually trend toward geekery, one year submitting Vita-men capsules, another a miniature goat hide (Capra hircus minutulus). This year, a goathead, a thorn on...