explores the possessive “My” through narratives, art and sound. Every Monday, we publish a new audio, performance or experimental piece where only one rule applies:  the title must begin with the determiner “My”.

My___on Mondays' nineteenth episode is by Idaho author and screenwriter, Samantha Silva. Silva's debut novel, Mr. Dickens and His Carol, was published by Flatiron Books in 2017, followed by Love and Fury: A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft in May of 2021. Her essays appear on LitHub, and her short story, “Leo in Venice,” was the September 2019 issue of One Story. She is currently working with Seattle Repertory Theater to adapt Mr. Dickens and His Carol for the stage, and was a 2020 Idaho Commission on the Arts Literary Fellow.

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BASALT
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Lara Almarcegui

EXHIBITION   December 11 - January 28, 2022
OPENING   Saturday, December 11, 7PM
ARTIST TALK   Thursday, January 13, 5PM

Netherlands-based artist Lara Almarcegui explores the material aspects of land and urban space.  Her work draws attention to mineral extraction and mineral rights and the raw materials used in the construction of our cityscapes.

Basalt is a massive pile of rock recently blasted from a quarry on the northwestern corner of the Snake River Plain. The basalt began as lava released 15 million years ago from what we now call the “Yellowstone Hotspot”. Placing 150 tons of the broken basalt in the gallery, Almarcegui offers the material a position in the dialogue regarding its fate.  [MORE]

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5TH ANNUAL
HOLDING WHAT CAN’T BE HELD

​GROUP EXHIBITION   October 9 – October 30, 2021
OPENING RECEPTION   Saturday, October 9th 7pm

ARTISTS   Teal Gardner, Pato Hebert, Huma Aatifi, Lara Almarcegui, Saratops, Jeremiah Day, Tim Andreae

​Holding What Can't Be Held invites artists to contemplate the legacy of Idaho's involvement in the nuclear industry and the radioactive waste in our own backyard. After a visit to the Idaho National Laboratory and after learning about the radioactive clean-up program, participating artists are showing work that came about as a byproduct of two years of holding this material in contemplation. 

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