Art inspired by the pandemic, nature and the spiritual experience of Boise artist Gretchen Weitemier. In the gallery at Surel's Place during Flipside Fest.
Surel's Place once again hosts a music and arts venue at the 2nd Annual Flipside Fest in the Surel Mitchell Live-Work-Create District. Details to come soon!
McKenna Esteb will share her experience with journaling: personal tips, how to workshop creative ideas, and how to release tension in the body through journaling.
Our celebration of arts and artists in the Surel Mitchell Live-Work-Create District.
What is emotional freedom? McKenna Esteb sees it as the ability to identify difficult emotions and learn from them - liberating yourself from negative feelings rather than attaching to them. Rather than predict the genre of music she will create during her residency at Surel's Place, McKenna is challenging herself to write a set of […]
Our new Artist-In-Residence, Willow Wells, will have an open studio in conjunction with the annual Boise Open Studios Collective Organization open studios tour. at Surel's Place: 212 E. 33rd Street in Garden City Meet the artists and plan your artist studio tour now!Go to BOISEOPENSTUDIOS.COM to see the interactive map and print your own. To visit an […]
Willow Wells will guide you through the process of observing and mimicking patterns seen in nature and how to use these patterns to create something new. With a focus on the beauty and diversity of plants, you will draw and transform them into other things using various drawing techniques such as sketching and coloring. You […]
Willow Wells is creating a hand drawn animation to use as a large-scale projection over a panoramic display of drawings. Her inspiration came from the surrounding environment and the local narratives that rise from it which she developed from extensive plein-air studies at the beginning of the residency. Using the landscape, she morphs the local […]
You can join Artist-in-Residence Mary Welcome during one of her workshops “Make Good Cheer: Holiday Cards as Mail Art.” These hour-long sessions will include a 15-20 minute presentation, following which you will be provided with materials to make mail art, postcards, or other postal correspondence. Presentations will include anecdotal samples of mail art projects, readings […]
Our celebration of arts and artists in the Surel Mitchell Live-Work-Create District.
You can join Artist-in-Residence Mary Welcome during one of her workshops “Make Good Cheer: Holiday Cards as Mail Art.” These hour-long sessions will include a 15-20 minute presentation, following which you will be provided with materials to make mail art, postcards, or other postal correspondence. Presentations will include anecdotal samples of mail art projects, readings […]
Mary Welcome is using her time in residence to expand the creative research already spanning over a decade in "God Bless the USPS," a performative endurance research project which she began with a spontaneous photo of the post office in her hometown of Palouse, Washington in 2012. By meticulously photographing and archiving post office buildings […]
