MING's Studio Space Residency: Placemakers Union
April 5 - May 10, 2025

MING Studios welcomes Placemakers Union to its residency program for local artists, MING Studios Space, for a 5-week period from April 5 to May 10, 2025.

Placemakers Union is a long-running conversation between Reggie Mace and Lena Walker, centered around a central question: What if, instead of relying on large institutions or profit-driven organizations, we draw on our collective resources to create the city we want—a city shaped by all of us, a place of shared language and experience that supports the free exchange of ideas and resources?

As a core group, Placemakers Union draws from a range of professional and lived experiences as architects, designers, educators, musicians, community organizers, and caregivers, and welcomes placemakers of all identities to collaborate. They define placemaking as the act of imbuing space with meaning. Everyone already practices placemaking, whether they realize it or not. Placemakers Union's mission is to raise awareness of this and empower actions by creating opportunities and infrastructure for exchange, connection, and practice.

Over several seasons and increasingly larger tables, Placemakers Union has evolved into a community of practice focused on co-education, design, and taking action for a more ethical commons in the Boise metro region. Identifying more as an incubator of praxis than as a community organization, Placemakers Union germinates conceptual practices as Space Labs, which "can spin off into orbit as a symbiotic organism, a flash of burning light, or a comet setting its own course."

While in residency, Placemakers Union will incubate Space Labs, featuring both new and ongoing projects like Third Shelf: A Placemakers Cooperative Library, Street Notes: Urban Field Recordings, Urban Poetics, Runes for Solidarity, and It’s Your Neighborhood, So What Are You Going to Do About It? Collaborative partner A Creative Asset will also lead and facilitate gameplay with New SUM, a cooperative neighborhood design table game. Weekly open studios will provide opportunities for community members to engage in the development of these projects and join the broader conversation about shaping our surroundings through placemaking.

Thursday, April 10, 5:30-8PM
Third Shelf Library: Book Mountain 
How much does a placemakers’ cooperative library weigh?
 
Friday, April 11 
New SUM Game Session 
Reserve a spot HERE
 
Saturday, April 12, 12-6PM
Placemakers Union Space Lab Incubator: Open Studio
 
Thursday, April 17 
New SUM Game Session
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Saturday, April 19, 12-6PM
Placemakers Union Space Lab Incubator: Open Studio
 
Thursday, April 24 
New SUM Game Session 
Reserve a spot HERE 

Saturday, April 26, 12-6PM
Placemakers Union Space Lab Incubator: Open Studio

Saturday, May 3, 12-6PM
Placemakers Union Space Lab Incubator: Open Studio
Residency Reception, 6-9PM

Thursday, May 8, 5:30-8PM
Third Shelf Library: Book Mountain
Member Collection Pickup Party

My___on Mondays Episode 177: Three Angsty Poets gathered, initially chatting about poetry, but the chatting turned to ranting. The ranting turned to rage. The bombardment of news—fake news, real news, personal news—churned into storm. Much like most poets, they took the news and created art. Well…only some of the news. Episode Twelve interrogates the news. My Angst on the News. Now more than ever, create art.

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”.

THIRDSPACE QUARTET / State of the Art
Sunday, May 4th, 2-4PM

Orbiting the topic of “People & Place”, the first iteration of SOTA explores an intersection of collective and personal identity and the places we call home through the lens of the string quartet.

Jesse Salinas - Depot Quartet (world premiere!)
Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) - Quartet No. 5 “Parks”
Gemma Peacocke - Erasure
Shelley Washington - Middleground
Kevin Puts - Home

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7o'clock is a time and space dedicated to pure experience free of explanations, artist statements, or analysis. From music and dance to literature and theater, every Sunday brings new artists and a new performance, as the clock strikes 7.

UPCOMING PERFORMANCES

03/30/25  Closed for Treefort 
04/20/25  Closed for Easter 

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