Community Calendar

A collection of new literary-based mixed media works and collages by local artist Tracy Poindexter-Canton, inspired by various books.

Some pieces draw directly from written sources, while others are created intuitively as visual vignettes that suggest their own narratives. Through layering, fragmentation, and assembly, the work explores how stories can be built, altered, and experienced through image and material.

Library Hours: Mon–Thurs & Sat: 9–6 Fri: 9–4 Sun: 12–4

Artist Reception: Sunday, January 18, 2–4 PM

The Thanksgiving Address, also called "Greetings and Thanks to the Natural World", is an ancient indigenous statement of gratitude for the gifts of the natural world that sustain us all, as passed down for centuries by the people of the Haudenosaunee Confederation of northeast North America. The Liberty Gallery is pleased to exhibit art inspired by this statement of gratitude, created by nine local artists.

The show opens Dec 28th and continues to Jan 24th ~ stop by the Liberty Gallery on First Friday Jan 2 to Meet the Artists from 5-8:30 pm.

Juaquetta hand spins unique yarn using local wool and alpaca. After washing she dyes and prepares these fibers to spin rustic yarns. She also knits, crochets and weaves garments to keep you warm. This is her 20th January as the guest artist at Pottery Place Plus ~ stop by First Friday Jan 2 from 5-8:30 to meet Juaquetta in person!

The work combines photography, embroidery, and slight collage tendencies to explore the intersections of infrastructure, memory, and identity - particularly the idea of connection in both physical and conceptual terms. Rooted in images of power lines and rural landscapes across the American West, my practice transforms photographic documentation through processes of layering, stitching, and erasure. These gestures act as forms of disruption and repair, reconfiguring the image as a tactile site where fragility and resilience coexist.
This exhibition envisions the power grid and hinterland as both literal and metaphorical systems of connection. These structures sustain communities while reflecting the invisible social and emotional frameworks that bind people to place. Through them, I consider how memory, perception, and belonging are mediated by the systems, both human and nonhuman, that surround us.
Informed by systems theory and object-oriented ontology, my practice examines how nonhuman networks - like power lines and rural spaces - reveal unseen forces of connection and dependency. Each work becomes both an image and an infrastructure: a conduit for exploring how power moves through us, how we maintain and repair what connects us, and how photography can serve as a space for reflection, disruption, and renewal.

Our 8-week Intro to Improv course is more than just comedy; it’s an adventure in creativity, connection, and confidence. Whether you are brand-new or brushing up on the basics, you will learn to think on your feet, embrace the unexpected, and turn mistakes into gifts.

Through games, scenes, and plenty of laughter, you will discover how improv can sharpen your listening, unlock your imagination, and help you let go of the inner critic holding you back. No scripts, no pressure. We just offer a welcoming space to play, learn, and surprise yourself.

Dates: January 15 - March 6 (every Thursday)
Time: 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Location: Blue Door Theatre 319 S Cedar St.

Dark winter nights call for dark winter mysteries…

Join us at The Well-Read Moose bookstore on Thurs, Jan 15th at 6 pm for an in-person author event featuring thriller writer Michael Bourne and his chilling new novel, “We Bring You an Hour of Darkness.”

If you love smart, atmospheric mysteries with a strong heroine and snow-dusted suspense, you won’t want to miss this one.
RSVP today on our website—seats fill quickly! You can also order a copy of the book at wellreadmoose.com or by calling the bookstore at 208-215-2265.

At a small ski resort much like our own beloved mountains, an endangered lynx becomes the spark for an eco-terrorist plot—and a deadly game of secrets. When newspaper publisher Tish Threadgill uncovers clues involving a volatile local writer, her fledgling paper suddenly becomes ground zero for a town-shaking investigation.

Jordan Thompson, Washington State University

Recent archaeological evidence points to the Southern Columbia Plateau as an early entry point for the Peopling of the Americas. Understanding the landscape is essential to adaptation in new and changing environments, and archaeological methods combined with Indigenous knowledge are uniquely positioned to investigate these human-environment relationships. In this talk, Jordan Thompson will present collaborative research which integrates geoarchaeology and ethnogeology to examine how land use, mobility, and placemaking shaped the establishment of seasonal subsistence cycle among the Nimíipuu (Nez Perce). This talk will focus on Nimíipuu subsistence in an understudied portion of the western Bitterroot Mountain uplands, a segment of the Northern Rockies, in the North Fork Clearwater River watershed of Idaho by examining toolstone sources, their distribution across the landscape, and how these features acquire meaning.

Join Dream Qwest Experience, Eighty Six and many local artists for the third iteration of this psychedelic rock project weaving covers, originals and expansive improvisations. Experience a dozen songs interspersed with spoken word, comedy, improv, dance and originality. The third hour will be open mic, so if you want to read or sing or whatever, dive in. We did this once in the middle of October and again in December. It keeps evolving. Come join the evolution. See you there.

A collection of new literary-based mixed media works and collages by local artist Tracy Poindexter-Canton, inspired by various books.

Some pieces draw directly from written sources, while others are created intuitively as visual vignettes that suggest their own narratives. Through layering, fragmentation, and assembly, the work explores how stories can be built, altered, and experienced through image and material.

Library Hours: Mon–Thurs & Sat: 9–6 Fri: 9–4 Sun: 12–4

Artist Reception: Sunday, January 18, 2–4 PM

The Thanksgiving Address, also called "Greetings and Thanks to the Natural World", is an ancient indigenous statement of gratitude for the gifts of the natural world that sustain us all, as passed down for centuries by the people of the Haudenosaunee Confederation of northeast North America. The Liberty Gallery is pleased to exhibit art inspired by this statement of gratitude, created by nine local artists.

The show opens Dec 28th and continues to Jan 24th ~ stop by the Liberty Gallery on First Friday Jan 2 to Meet the Artists from 5-8:30 pm.