Come have a blast with your local nonprofits, sing a song with us! Make a donation to get MosCo staff to stop singing!

$12 suggested donation to support art and artists. Bring a canned good to donate to Alternatives to Violence of the Palouse and receive $2 off admission.

The Widow Cameron is the new project of poet and songwriter Cameron McGill. Originally from Champaign, IL, he is the author of Meridians (Willow Springs Books) and In the Night Field (Augury Books) and has released seven albums, most recently 2022’s The Widow Cameron. He lives and writes and plays the piano in Moscow, Idaho.       

Lauren W. Westerfield is the author of Depth Control, a collection of genre-bending essays out in 2025 from Unsolicited Press. Her second book, Woman House: Essays and Assemblages, was awarded the 2025 Juniper Prize in Creative Nonfiction and will be published in 2026 by the University of Massachusetts Press. Westerfield’s essays and poetry have most recently appeared in FENCE, Seneca Review, Willow Springs, Denver Quarterly, Indiana Review, and Ninth Letter. She teaches in the English department at Washington State University, where she serves as the editor-in-chief of Blood Orange Review, and lives in Spokane, WA.

Michael McGriff is an author, editor, and translator whose work centers on the intersection of surrealism with place, working-class narratives, and poverty in the rural American West.

Oscar Oswald grew up in the southwest, and hopped around the northwest and the Mojave before landing in the Palouse. His 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.

The mission of Alternatives to Violence of the Palouse is to empower individuals affected by domestic violence, sexual assault and abuse, and stalking. They work to create a safe and equitable community through education and prevention.

“Malheur Forest Lookout” and “Little Cowhorn”

Two video projections by Colin Ives.

April 17-19 only

This program is supported in part by a grant from the Idaho Humanities Council, a state- based partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this do not necessarily represent those of the Idaho Humanities Council or the National Endowment for the Humanities.

$10 suggested donation

Prompts by Collage Club Creator Lauren McCleary

This month’s theme is STORM!

Second Saturday Every Month From 2:00-4:00 pm

Have you ever written a song and wondered if it was any good?

Do you love songs and wonder where they come from?

Have you ever wanted to write a song but don’t know where to start?

Award winning songwriters and educators, Bruce Michael Miller and Heather Platts, will be presenting a free “Introduction to the Art and Craft of Songwriting” that will answer these questions and more. Come to this “mini workshop” to learn some songwriting tips and tricks, hang out with fellow song lovers, and recharge your creative powers.

FREE

This is a series workshop Wednesday evenings from 6:00pm-7:00pm

April 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th, and May 7th

Learn the elements of drawing from local artist, owner of “Harry & Llyods” tattoo studio, and board member of the MosCo Board, Thad Froio. This is a series, each class will build on the next.

$175 for all 5 classes

Join artists Sasha Michelle White and Michelle Robinson for the opening reception of their exhibition Finding Fire’s Form.

Join local artist Audrey Murray for an introduction to hoop embroidery class. Learn the basic stitches and skills to embroider your own unique fiber art creation! All supplies will be provided. 12+ (under 18 must be accompanied by an adult). All abilities welcome!

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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