2026-2027 EXHIBIT SEASON
October 29th, 2026 - January 2nd, 2027
Shared Ground: Art and Animals
Shared Ground: Art and Animals explores the enduring relationship between humans and animals through the work of artist Jessie Wilber and related contemporary perspectives. Drawn from a traveling exhibition organized through the Montana Art Gallery Directors Association (MAGDA), the exhibition centers on Wilber’s prints, including relief prints, lithographs, and screen prints, which reflect a deep engagement with observation, craftsmanship, and the natural world.
The exhibition will be presented alongside a selection of recent acquisitions from TAM’s permanent collection, as well as work by a contemporary regional artist, creating a dialogue between historical and contemporary approaches to animal imagery.
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Animalia: Selections from the Permanent Collection
Discover a menagerie of artistic perspectives in Animalia: Selections from the Permanent Collection, featuring works from The Art Museum of Eastern Idaho's Permanent Collection. Through paintings, prints, sculptures, and more, artists celebrate the beauty, personality, and enduring presence of animals in our lives, from cherished companions to wildlife and everything in between.
Artwork by Meredith Bobb
Get lost in the depths of Meredith Bobb's paintings featuring abstract forms that twist and turn in unique, captivating ways. This local artist will have her artwork featured in the museum corridor alongside Shared Ground and Animalia, offering a unique addition to this already beautiful exhibit.
Sponsored by Idaho Central Credit Union
January 21st - March 27th, 2027
Everything Becomes Something
Everything Becomes Something celebrates the drawings and prints of artist Tyler Joseph Krasowski, whose work transforms everyday materials and spontaneous mark-making into richly imaginative and deeply detailed compositions. A virtuosic draftsman and printmaker, Krasowski embraces drawing not simply as preparation for finished works, but as an art form in itself, full of immediacy, experimentation, humor, and discovery. Influenced by the dense visual language of historical printmakers such as Albrecht Dürer, his works invite viewers to slow down, look closely, and uncover layers of imagery, texture, and meaning.
Born in Minneapolis and educated at the University of Montana, Krasowski has built a multidisciplinary practice spanning drawing, printmaking, textile design, and collaborative projects across the country. His work balances technical mastery with a playful openness to process, reminding viewers that creativity can emerge from ordinary materials and fleeting moments of observation. Featuring an eclectic range of subjects and approaches, Everything Becomes Something highlights the energy, curiosity, and transformative possibilities of drawing while encouraging visitors to engage with art through careful attention, imagination, and exploration.
April 3rd - 24th, 2027
Young at Art
Join TAM as we celebrate the voices of young artists in our community. Hundreds of vibrant pieces from elementary & junior high students cover the walls during this annual exhibit. Catch a glimpse into the imaginations of our budding artists!
April 30th - May 1, 2027
Off the Wall Art Sale
Discover unique, art-inspired treasures and original art you won’t find anywhere else! Mark your calendar for Off-the-Wall, The Art Museum of Eastern Idaho’s premier art sale event.
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2027-2028 EXHIBIT SEASON
May 13th - July 24th, 2027
A Sense of Place: 25 Years of Collecting and Connecting
For twenty-five years, The Art Museum of Eastern Idaho has served as a cultural steward for our region, preserving and sharing the artistic voices that help define who we are and where we come from. A Sense of Place: 25 Years of Collecting & Connecting celebrates this legacy through a selection of significant works drawn from the museum's permanent collection, many returning to public view for the first time in decades.
Featuring artists whose work reflects the landscapes, communities, histories, and traditions of Idaho and the surrounding Intermountain West, the exhibition traces the stories that have shaped our region and the museum itself. Together, these works reveal the power of art to document place, preserve memory, and foster connection across generations.
As TAM enters its twenty-fifth year, A Sense of Place invites visitors to rediscover beloved works, encounter hidden treasures from the collection vaults, and reflect on the role museums play as caretakers of cultural memory. More than a retrospective, this exhibition is a celebration of community, stewardship, and the enduring stories that continue to shape Eastern Idaho.
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Echoes of Home: Beginning Anew
Through watercolor, ink, and mixed media, Rebecca Dresser explores themes of memory, loss, and renewal in the aftermath of the 2018 Camp Fire that destroyed her hometown of Paradise, California. Pairing remembered landscapes with scenes inspired by Idaho's wildlife and scenery, Echoes of Home: Beginning Anew reflects on the experience of carrying one home in memory while building another in the present.
Artwork by Emily Pinson
Life is made up of countless small moments that often pass unnoticed until they become cherished memories. Through a series of intimate oil paintings, Emily Pinson celebrates the beauty found in everyday experiences, inviting viewers to slow down, be present, and discover the extraordinary hidden within the ordinary. Selected works are paired with original poetry, creating a thoughtful reflection on memory, gratitude, and the fleeting moments that make up a life.
August 12th - September 11th, 2027
Vessels of War and Recovery
In Vessels of War and Recovery, ceramic artist and Iraq War veteran Chris Albrecht explores the complicated terrain between combat and homecoming. Drawing from his experiences as a medic deployed to Iraq and his long journey through trauma, recovery, fatherhood, and healing, Albrecht transforms clay into a powerful vehicle for personal and collective memory.
His vessels bear the marks of contradiction: humor and horror, beauty and brokenness, destruction and redemption. Influenced by historical military imagery, global ceramic traditions, and the Japanese practice of kintsukuroi, repairing broken pottery with gold, Albrecht's work reflects the enduring impact of war while affirming the possibility of restoration.
Both deeply personal and universally human, these works invite viewers to consider the visible and invisible scars we carry, the stories that shape us, and the resilience required to find our way home.
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Artwork from Ceci Richardson-Salvador
Inspired by years spent exploring the Frank Church–River of No Return Wilderness, Ceci Richardson-Salvador transforms photographs, stitched thread, maps, and natural materials into immersive installations that evoke the beauty and remoteness of one of America's largest wilderness areas. Inviting viewers to slow down and reconnect with the natural world, her work explores memory, landscape, and our enduring relationship with wild places.
At the Edge of Wonder
Spanning seven continents and more than thirty years of travel, Howie Garber's photography captures extraordinary encounters with landscapes, wildlife, and cultures around the world. Combining the patience of a naturalist with the eye of a storyteller, Wild Light celebrates moments of beauty, wonder, and connection while inviting viewers to reflect on the natural world and our responsibility to protect it.
Art of the Angle
Featuring wood engravings created for editions of A River Runs Through It by Norman Mclean, Home Waters by John Mclean, and Big Two-Hearted River by Ernest Hemingway, Art of the Angle explores the connections between literature, landscape, fishing, and memory. Created by renowned illustrators Barry Moser, Wesley W. Bates, and Chris Wormell, the exhibition celebrates the enduring relationship between storytelling and the natural world.
November 4 - 6, 2027
Beaux Cadeux
Beaux Cadeaux is The Art Museum of Eastern Idaho’s annual holiday market, featuring handcrafted works by local and regional artists. This three day shopping extravaganza offers a wide selection of unique, one-of-a-kind gifts, including jewelry, ceramics, ornaments, prints, textiles, and original artwork that you won’t find anywhere else.
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November 11th, 2027 - January 15th, 2028
Fire and Form: Claudia Whitten and Friends
Fire & Form showcases the work of nine Idaho artists who use heat to transform glass into extraordinary works of art. Through techniques including blown, kiln-formed, cast, fused, enameled, torch-worked, and silkscreened glass, the exhibition highlights the incredible diversity of contemporary glassmaking. Inspired by nature, architecture, memory, and light, these artists reveal the beauty, versatility, and expressive possibilities of one of art's most captivating materials.
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Something to Hold (Glaciers)
Over the past decade, artist Jonathan Marquis has created drawings of glaciers from mountaintops, wilderness ridges, and remote landscapes across the American West. His work documents these extraordinary places while exploring themes of memory, ecology, and our relationship with a changing world. Through careful observation and patient mark-making, the Like a Glacier Marks the Land," invites visitors to experience the landscape on "glacier time,” a pace measured not in urgency, but in attention and care.
February 3rd - March 18th, 2028
Hallie Maxwell and Yidan Guo
Bringing together the work of Hallie Maxwell and Yidan Guo, this exhibit explores the complexities of migration, cultural inheritance, memory, and identity.
Through sculpture, installation, and contemporary media, both artists examine what it means to belong between places, languages, and histories. Their work considers the stories carried across borders and generations, the traditions preserved, the memories transformed, and the identities continually shaped by movement and change.
Rather than presenting immigration as a single event, Maxwell and Guo approach it as an ongoing process of negotiation, adaptation, loss, and renewal. Together, these artists invite viewers to reflect on the universal human search for home and the ways our histories continue to shape who we become.
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Artwork from the Colored Pencil Society of America (CPSA)
Discover the remarkable versatility of colored pencil through the work of the Colored Pencil Society of America, Idaho Falls Chapter. From richly layered landscapes and wildlife to portraits, abstracts, and contemporary compositions, this exhibition showcases the creativity, technical skill, and expressive possibilities of a familiar and beloved medium.
April 1st - 29th, 2028
Young at Art
Join TAM as we celebrate the voices of young artists in our community. Hundreds of vibrant pieces from elementary & junior high students cover the walls during this annual exhibit. Catch a glimpse into the imaginations of our budding artists!