Absolutely! Time to get excited to visit the Art and Roses Festival at Julia Davis Park, next to the Boise Art Museum and Rose Garden downtown on Sunday, June 7, 2026. The Festival hours are 10 AM to 5 PM, and there will be over a hundred local artists and vendors to check out. I […]
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I’m excited to share the exciting new work that will be on display May 24th at Boise First United Church of Christ, during this month of Pentecost and Memorial Day! Jesus is all about growing understanding between people. This starts small between individuals understanding one another’s language, but then, with God’s love, it can blossom
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Hello! Welcome to my Holy Week 2026 post! I will have three paintings up for Holy Week at Boise First United Church of Christ. Here is a piece from years past that Reverend Josh requested of me for this Palm Sunday. Palm Sunday Arrival Palm Sunday Arrival (original $499) is a painting and woodblock print
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Exciting news! Boise First United Church of Christ, my progressive church home, has a new artistic development! The Fireside Room, a smaller meeting room where I remember years of meetings and observing Lent next to the fire, is now a gallery space for my art! Here’s a peek of some of the works that begin
I’m excited to share the Empathy Collection with you! These are six of my past paintings that I am inspired to share with words about our current times. Separate from these, I have an upcoming exhibition of seven carved paintings that will be shown at the Initial Point Gallery in Meridian City Hall that will
Welcome to Gretty Beth Arts’ Advent 2025 paintings! As Artist in Residence at my church, I love to create artwork for this season leading up to Christmas. I made four paintings spanning the four Sundays before Christmas with the themes of Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love. Each of these paintings began as a block of
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(Title Photo: Jefferson Market branch of the New York Public Library, NY. Photo credit: Herb Scher) For the month of October 2025, I took weekly classes from an organization known as Lifetime Arts and got my certificate of completion in “Creative Aging Foundations.” This was a 6-hour training course that emphasized connecting older adults (for
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It’s here! More than 26 artists presented artwork for Artistic Interpretation of Scripture Sunday, which happened September 28, 2025 at Boise First United Church of Christ! If you missed the Sunday, don’t worry – the show will be up until Sunday October 19, 2025. The participants artistially interpreted Matthew 5: 14-16: 14 “You are the light
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Greetings from Gretchen! As many of you know, I’m Artist in Residence at Boise First Congregational, United Church of Christ. Recently, I taught a Woodblock Printmaking Class specifically for my church congregation. I planned it to precede the Artistic Interpretation of Scripture Sunday if the participants wanted to share what they made in the Artistic
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If you’ve seen my painting Heron before, here is a story about how it came to be and the meaning it has gathered for me over the years. Getting to Know Heron It started when I saw a photograph of a heron on the Boise River that my friend Marc Jourdenais captured, and I loved
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