Boise Art Museum and Boise State University are partnering to offer free Museum admission to BSU students. Currently enrolled Boise State students who present valid student ID cards will be admitted to BAM free of charge during regular operating hours. In addition to the permanent collection, BAM also presents exhibitions throughout the year. Just a few of the current and upcoming exhibits include:
Marsden Hartley: American Modern
March 15 - June 22, 2008
Hartley was an American avant-garde artist who was involved in pivotal art events of the 20th century, first as an artist shown by Alfred Stieglitz’s at the groundbreaking 291 gallery in 1909, and then at the famed Armory show of 1913. Later, he painted in Taos and Santa Fe, depicting the American southwest at a time when the great luminaries of southwest painting were drawn to New Mexico. Hartley today is recognized as a twentieth-century American master.
Gerri Sayler: Ad Infinitum
June 14 - October 2008
Idaho artist Gerri Sayler presents her first solo museum exhibition at the Boise Art Museum. Her site-specific installation, consisting of over 900 glistening strands of sculpted hot glue resembling drizzled icicles or frozen ripples of water, cascade 20 feet from the ceiling enveloping the viewer in a web-like room. Her repetitious creating of the fibrous glue strands are connected to craft traditions historically associated with women, who have used their hands to spin and weave the fibers of their lives into the tapestry we know as culture.
Catherine Chalmers: American Cockroach
July 12 - November 9, 2008
This exhibition highlights the photographs, sculpture, and video work of Catherine Chalmers. Chalmers' series theatrically dissects the life of the prehistoric cockroach and the sometimes-surreal operations of nature that deposited the creature in the middle of modern homes. American Cockroach offers up an ecosystem where laws of roach life and survival become strange and distorted human manifestations. Her eco-system is both natural and exquisitely overwrought, seen from behind the lens of a camera, as well as shot from the one-on-one perspective of the roach itself.
For more information including hours of operation, additional current and future exhibitions and upcoming events, go to:
http://boiseartmuseum.org/aboutus/aboutus.php
