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Story Story Night: Relevant, Empowering & Exhilirating

Story Story Night is many things to its audiences, community, and the world. They stage events that electrify and illuminate our lives.

Filmed on a sound stage in Boise with host Jodi Eichelberger, catch this season of true storytelling live from anywhere. With featured storytellers intermixed with a story slam open to anyone in the audience – like the
Price is Right – come on down! Virtually, of course.

LIVE ONLINE – SPRING SCHEDULE
February 23rd, March 30th, April 27th
Get your tickets online.

The Pettitt Group is proud to support the Treasure Valley arts community. We believe they make Boise a better place for everyone to live, work, and give.

Each month we donate $1000 to a designated local nonprofit arts organization to support and…

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Allie Zeyer: January 2021 Artist of the Month

Allie Zeyer is an award-winning member of the Oil Painters of America (OPA) and a member of other respected arts organizations such as the American Women Artists (AWA) and the American Impressionists Society (AIS). In the Spring of 2019 Southwest Art Magazine singled her out as an up-and-coming “Artist to Watch.”

Rural life defines much of Allie’s subject matter, which can be attributed to her surroundings growing up in Utah and her current typography of Western Idaho.

Follow Allie on her Facebook page, Allie Zeyer, on Instagram @alliezeyerfineart, or visit her website. 

In 2020 the Pettitt Group purchased this original piece from the artist. Each year we expand our signature art collection with 12 new originals from local…

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Project Flux: Creating Experiences Through Collaboration

Project Flux fosters an environment where professionals and students can work together, without hierarchy, to create experiences. It takes the time to transform non traditional spaces into immersive environments that break the fourth wall between performer and audience member. 

Since the inception in 2013, Project Flux has created over 30 professional works and collaborated with approximately 20 different organizations including the Museum of Broken Relationships (Croatia), Ballet Idaho, Boise State University, the College of Southern Idaho, Idaho State Correctional Center, MING Studios, JUMP Boise, SALT Dance (SLC), Treefort Music Fest, 208 Ensemble, and WHYTEBERG LA.

Project Flux is committed to community engagement through project…

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JanyRae Seda: December 2020 Artist of the Month

JanyRae began painting full time as a vocation in 2011. She creates over 100 new works each year and sells most of them at fine art festivals throughout the West. She often makes detours on roads less traveled for subject matter, specifically the Western landscape.

JanyRae’s downtown Boise studio, built in 1895, is open to the public when she is working. Her technique creates heavy impasto paintings with geometric forms, graceful curves and chunky marks.

Follow JanyRae on Instagram @janyrseda, on her Facebook page, Jany Rae Seda, and on her website.

In 2019 the Pettitt Group purchased this original piece for our ongoing art collection. As part of our…

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Treasure Valley Artists Alliance: Supporting and Connecting Local Creatives

The Treasure Valley Artists Alliance connects visual artists in Boise, Eagle, Meridian, and beyond.

Their members represent an incredibly diverse set of talents, abilities, and experience. TVAA supports art and artists through exhibitions, an online gallery, local art news and community posts, workshops, a directory of resources, and social meet and greet events.

For more information visit their website.

The Pettitt Group is thrilled to continue supporting local artists and local arts-based nonprofits.

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Sally Stevens: November 2020 Artist of the Month

Sally Stevens graduated with a fine arts degree, but side-stepped painting for a number of years to jump into the world of graphic design.

She mostly paints landscapes, working with water-mixable oil paints (much like traditional oil paint minus the turpentine, with the added benefit of soap and water cleanup).

Each day she completes a 6×6” painting on Masonite, which has a smoother quality than painting on canvas. Follow Sally on Instagram @Sally_Stevens, on her Facebook page, Sally Stevens, and on her website.

In 2019 the Pettitt Group purchased this original piece for our ongoing art collection. As part of our annual Supporting the Arts initiative, we offer…

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Opera Idaho: 47 Years and Counting!

Opera Idaho has been a vital part of the Treasure Valley for 47 years. It brings both traditional and contemporary opera to audiences all over Idaho.

In addition to its staged productions, the popular Operatini allows adults to experience opera in a fun and relaxed setting over dinner and drinks. Opera Idaho also introduces the genre to younger generations through free performances at elementary schools, the opera training and college preparatory program Rising Stars, and the Children’s Choruses.

Community outreach efforts allow Opera Idaho’s beautiful voices to fill hospitals, libraries, and more.

For more information visit their website.

The Pettitt Group is thrilled to continue supporting local artists and local arts-based…

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April VanDeGrift: October 2020 Artist of the Month

April VanDeGrift is an artist, illustrator, and arts professor from Boise, Idaho. Much of her art reflects the impact of climate change on how humans and animals coexist. Empowered action and coordinated efforts can save many of the species that are represented in her work.

VanDeGrift’s work is currently on display at the College of Idaho, College of Western Idaho, Boise City Department of Arts and History, Visual Arts Collective, Picture This Gallery and Frame Shop, and The College of Idaho.

You can follow April on Instagram @april_vandegrift, on her Facebook page, April VanDeGrift, and on her website.

In 2019 the Pettitt Group purchased this…

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Rachel Teannalach: September 2020 Artist of the Month

Rachel Teannalach is a contemporary landscape painter based in Boise, Idaho. Originally from northern New Mexico, her traveling painting pack has taken her from Marin County to Iceland and many places between.

She collaborates with conservation groups, supporting their efforts to preserve the lands she loves to paint. Teannalach is known for her “tinyExpanse” daily paintings, and is represented by Capitol Contemporary Gallery in Boise and Simon Breitbard Fine Arts in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Follow her on Instagram @tinyexpanse, on her Facebook page and on her website.

In 2019 the Pettitt Group purchased this original piece for our ongoing art…

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Boise Contemporary Theater: Representing the Genre for the Intermountain West

Boise Contemporary Theater (BCT) is Idaho’s only professional theater dedicated to producing contemporary plays, and one of the few doing so in the entire Intermountain West.

Along with our five MainStage productions each year, BCT is also home to A.C.T., the Academy for Contemporary Theater, that invites young artists from 6-18 to find their own voices. The students collaborate in small groups to create a wholly original play that is then performed for family, friends and the community on stage.

BCT’s Children’s Reading Series delights audiences of all ages, and its 5X5 Play Reading Series examines brand new plays, some of which have never before been heard or seen. For more information visit their website.

Whether you’re new to Boise…

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