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Classes are split into 10 classes per session

Tuesdays 10:30am-12:00pm:

• Spring Session March 25th - May 27th

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All Ages Welcome. Max capacity is 20 participants.

All Classes held in MosCo's new Palouse Mall Space:

2012 W Pullman Rd, Moscow

Park and enter at the Ross Entrance, then head right to find us, you will see our sign.

$10 suggested donation, includes friend/caregiver

RM Francis
RM Francis is an artist based in Seattle working with computer-generated sound and language via recording, installation, and performance. His practice foregrounds computation-based compositional strategies, focusing on methods that exploit discrepancies between human and artificial auditory systems. His current work exploits latent phonological data extracted from non-linguistic sound in order to generate the tonal, rhythmic, and semantic content of synthesized speech. The resulting asubjective narration articulates the potentialities of speech decoupled from embodied human expression, navigating between abstract sound and uncanny characterological specificity.

His oeuvre spans multimedia work incorporating sound, video, performance, and chocolate (Hyperplastic Other, 2017), investigations of historical computer synthesis methods (A Taxonomy of Guffaws, 2020), procedural text works for a chorus of synthetic voices (Every Single Person Has Some Muscle, 2022), and hallucinatory duets between dictation apps and deep learning networks (pedimos un mensaje, 2023). His most recent work, H E L L O After-Person, will be released in March 2025 on etat.xyz. In addition to his solo projects, in recent years he has collaborated with Jack Callahan & Jeff Witscher, Jung An Tagen, and farmersmanual, among others.

Kahyun Uhm
Kahyun (Kate) Uhm is a sound artist, graduate student in studio arts, and a member of the Digital Audio Collective at Washington State University. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree from The Evergreen State College with an emphasis in audio recording and electronic music. In her current art practice, Uhm explores her positionality in and between the U.S. and South Korea through the fusion of often-cacophonous sounds and visual media. Her interests range from culture, society, technology, and the environment to contemporary politics and immigrant experiences.

In this workshop attendees will explore Bookmaking using the Coptic stitch and expand on their skills or learn new skills. Participants can choose from recycled book covers gathered from the Moscow Recycling Center, creating their own book cover, or using a wooden cover. Coptic binding is a way of binding pages of a book together without glue or staples. In this workshop attendees will learn about the Coptic stitch and how to use it to create a sketchbook or journal with a cover of their choosing.

$65.00

Three improvised performances by three performers.

Michael Schumacher - dance

Corrie Befort - dance

Jason E Anderson - synthesizer

Learn Lonnie Hutson’s technique and process behind his paper fish casting and make your own! His paper casting uses different materials such as cotton paper pulp, natural dyes and other natural materials which are mixed together into a unique pulp.

$120.00

In this workshop attendees will continue to explore or begin to explore bookmaking using the Coptic stitch. Participants can choose to  use a recycled book cover gathered from the Moscow Recycling Center, or to create their own book cover. Coptic binding is a way of binding pages of a book together without glue or staples. In this workshop attendees will learn about the Coptic stitch and how to use it to create a sketchbook or journal.

$65.00

Three improvised performances by three performers.

Michael Schumacher - dance

Corrie Befort - dance

Jason E Anderson - synthesizer

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$10 suggested donation

Prompts by Collage Club Creator Lauren McCleary
February 8th: Lunar

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Join us for a monthly prompt to get your creative juices flowing. We will provide all the materials you need to create your own work of art, while in great company with your community. If you love collaging and are interested in hosting a class email artsed@moscowcontemporary.org

Registration helps us set the space for the correct amount of attendees.

*All ages are welcome, but anyone under 18 needs to be accompanied by an adult.

Join exhibiting artist Lonnie Hutson for an artist talk/gallery walk about his current exhibit Swimming in Circles and his journey as an artist.

In this workshop attendees will explore Bookmaking using the Coptic stitch and recycled book covers gathered from the Moscow Recycling Center. Coptic binding is a way of binding pages of a book together without glue or staples. In this workshop attendees will learn about the Coptic stitch and how to use it to create a sketchbook or journal with a recycled book cover.

$65.00

Imagine a world without the free-flowing rivers, wild salmon or the 175 million year-old great white sturgeon, North America's largest freshwater fish.

Swimming in Circles is a collection of paper relief sculptures, documenting native fish species including the threatened or endangered chinook salmon, steelhead bull trout, sockeye salmon, and white sturgeon.

Native fish are a barometer for river health. This work brings awareness to ecological concerns, sparking conversations about maintaining and/or rebuilding our natural resources for everyone and everything with an interest in a healthy sustainable future. - Lonnie Hutson

Major support provided by NRS. Completion of the work in the exhibit supported by an artist fellowship from the Idaho Commission on the Arts.

Three improvised performances by three performers.

Michael Schumacher - dance

Corrie Befort - dance

Jason E Anderson - synthesizer

$10 suggested donation

Prompts by Collage Club Creator Lauren McCleary

Join us for a monthly prompt to get your creative juices flowing. We will provide all the materials you need to create your own work of art, while in great company with your community. If you love collaging and are interested in hosting a class email artsed@moscowcontemporary.org

Let Friday the 13th bring you smiles and cheer! 10% off at Moscow Contemporary’s Gift Store for anyone who dines at Qdoba the same day for our Qdoba Fundraiser (Palouse Mall Qdoba Only).

Show Support!

Eat Qdoba!

Moscow Contemporary will receive 25% of fundraiser sales* during this fundraiser. Participate on Dec 13, 2024 during the scheduled fundraiser time by showing this QR code at the register at this QDOBA location, or by ordering online at this location at qdoba.com using this digital coupon.

*Gift card sales, alcoholic beverage sales and delivery fees excluded.

James Norman assumes the open road would recall his name.  Musician, part-time lover—a heterodoxical historian of the forgotten, a half-assed Buddhist in his concrete monastery, a traveling freak show feeding LSD to a higher consciousness—Contradictions are the meat on the bones that construct him.  James Norman was born to a Navy Man, and the sea never quite left him.  His mother was the son of a preacher, though no God has ever claimed him.  His mountain is too tall for flags anyway.  He has lived in cabins surrounded by forests of marijuana, in that steel onion called ship bobbing across the Atlantic, in squalid houses owned by unscrupulous men chasing the Almighty American Dollar far past the point of no return.  He owes everything to the women in his life, starting with Jean.  He is a lover of animals (even the human kind.)  He hopes you enjoy his musings about Armageddon, though he believes that inevitably we make it out alive to tell the story ourselves.  I suppose he believes in the story more than anything else.  Most of his poems are instructions for how to survive the desert of self for long enough to understand the thirst that drives us, and he wrote them solely to make it through till morning.

Oscar Oswald: I am a poet and editor teaching English at the University of Idaho.

I grew up in the southwest, and hopped around the northwest and the Mojave before landing in the Palouse. My interests in poetry include modernist and postmodernist writers such as Barbara Guest, Lorine Niedecker, and Erin Moure, as well as global literatures and especially Eastern European and Latin American traditions.

My book of poems Irredenta applies a pastoral framework to the American wilderness, in particular what is ‘untouched’ and ‘untamable’ within the United States. It is an experimental thing, written in a sequential mode, drawing upon the work of Henry Thoreau, Gertrude Stein, and Rene Char. I love the desert, and this is why I wrote the book.

I spend my free time hiking and walking – always on my feet.

Cameron McGill is a poet, educator, and musician from Champaign, Illinois. He is the author of Meridians (Willow Springs Books, 2020) and In the Night Field (Augury Books, 2021). His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Grist, Raleigh Review, and RHINO. He has released six studio albums, most recently Gallows Etiquette. A new album, The Widow Cameron, is forthcoming in fall 2022. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Idaho and teaches at Washington State University, where he serves as co-director of the Visiting Writers Series. He lives in Moscow, Idaho.

Daryl Gussin is a writer and musician who has been awkwardly standing around at punk shows for the last twenty-something years. Thankfully at some point in his late teens he decided to become a little more productive, and has been working on zines, setting up shows, and playing in bands consecutively since then. In 2006, he became integrally involved in Razorcake fanzine where he is currently the managing editor. His writing revolves around the honest, bittersweet, and ultimately triumphant aspects of counterculture and its flavorful inhabitants. The heartbreaks, the implosions, and the defiant victories. Community over commercialism, create and destroy.

$30.00

This painting circle is a unique space designed for painters who are eager to enrich their personal practice within a community of like-minded artists. Rather than a how-to-paint crash course, this event is meant to help students tackle creative challenges, and gain new perspectives through collective feedback.

All levels welcome. All mediums welcome. Some supplies provided, but please bring your own if you have them.

Saturday

November 16th

10:00am – 4:00pm

Join a trio of talented artists who will teach you how to make beautiful one-of-a-kind prints using acrylic paints and a gel plate. You will receive a kit to make your own book that can be decorated with the gel prints you make in class.

No experience necessary!

November 13th

6:00-7:30pm

$35

Join local artist Audrey Murray for a clothing alteration embroidery class. Learn the skills to customize and embellish your clothing with embroidery! Please bring your own article of clothing to embroider. 12+ (under 18 must be accompanied by an adult).
All abilities welcome!

Join Teaching Artist Rachael Eastman for an exploration in Linocut Printmaking.

In this workshop attendees will explore the linocut technique of printmaking. A linocut happens when one carves into a linoleum block using various gouges. The resulting carved image is then transferred onto paper by putting ink on the block and pressing it to paper. With this process one may make multiples, called an edition, from the same carved block. 

All materials will be provided, but attendees are encouraged to bring images they may want to use as a resource for imagery.