IMAGE Caitria Mir and Teal Gardner

DUST ON A GLACIER
April 11 - May 15, 2026

OPENING EVENT  Saturday, April 11, 6-8PM 
SCIENCE + ART IN CONVERSATION  May 8, DOORS 6:30PM  TALK 7PM 

Caitria Mir, Ellis Locke, Emily Iskin, Matthew Kennedy, Robyn Holmes, Teal Gardner

Antarctica exists on many scales- it is an ice archive that precedes human timekeeping by millions of years, and a massive landscape that in its sheer hugeness and remoteness is relegated to the bottom of popular maps and globes, hiding its size at the base of a curving projection. From this landscape, Dr. Anna Bergstrom, a hydrologist at Boise State University, studied the relationship between grains of dust deposited on glacial surfaces, and their collective effects on seawater chemistry. This exhibition, "Dust on a Glacier” takes Dr. Bergstrom's prompt to explore scale, and makes its way into both familiar and uncanny territories via works that feature intensively worked surfaces, meditations on the human hours taken to conduct a science experiment, video that zooms from miniature worlds of moss to full-system topographies, photography of a close-to-home, world-making catastrophe, and more.

SCIENCE + ART IN CONVERSATION
Friday, May 8, DOORS 6:30PM TALK 7PM 

On May 8, 2026 from 7-8:30 PM,  please join the artists from the Dust on a Glacier exhibition and Dr. Anna Bergstrom in Art + Science talks. Dr. Bergstrom will describe her research in Antarctica, which explores the potential effects on the chemistry of seawater by the erosion of particles of minute sediment over glacial surfaces. The artists will discuss how they responded to Dr. Bergstrom's interdisciplinary "question of scale" through their works. 

Doors at 6:30PM, presentations begin at 7:00.
There is no fee for attendance.

Signs and Psalms
Poetry Reading w/ Dena Parker Duke
Sunday, June 7, 6PM

Dena Parker Duke is a non-native Idahoan and a rebel poet who keeps using poetry to tip the scales toward more of the words that deserve to be said and heard- especially right now.

Last December she launched her newest collection called Signs & Psalms at Rediscovered Books to a sold out crowd. She’s grateful to Ming Studios for giving another opportunity for the community to help her celebrate this book. An eclectic collection of complaints, hallelujahs, and complete exhaustion and/or surrender, it has all the essentials of life. In December she shared a set of poems from it focused on hate and hope including Poet as Prophet, American Psalm, and Build Hope. On May 3 she will share a new set focused on forgiveness and fire including White Flag, Whiplash from Elvis and Morning is Not Broken. This is your invitation to come hear more of the poems that make this book stand out at a time when poetry is crying out to be heard.

My___on Mondays Episode 219: Tiffany Eller is a poet, entertainer, and all-around creative. Her poetry explores themes of spirituality, love, and the complexities of being human. She values vulnerability and authenticity, advocating for everyone to find the freedom to Be. Her first publication, the Little Cuties coloring book, featured hand-drawn characters to encourage body positivity. Every project she finds herself poring over stems from the desire to create safe spaces for people to express themselves. Tiffany lives in Boise, Idaho, where she manages The Boise Bard Players, a nonprofit theatre company, and raises her daughter Henley. This week, she shares eight short poems.

MY ON MONDAYS 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”.

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