Backyard Artists
Backyard Artists empowers emerging artists in Idaho’s Treasure Valley by providing professional opportunities through community-driven exhibitions, literary events, project grants, and strategic partnerships.
Community & Creativity
Our vision is to cultivate a vibrant, inclusive arts community — in Boise and beyond — where emerging artists feel welcome to thrive, collaborate, and have a lasting impact on the developing cultural landscape.
Backyard Artists facilitates a literary publication, visual art events, open mics, readings, community events and more! We welcome artists of all skills and experience levels.
Backyard Artist Events
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Illumibrate Festival March 2024
Backyard Artists brought together a team of 15 local artists to create an immersive, larger than life, multimedia installation. Under the festival’s theme of “DREAMS,” the BYA artists’ team utilized hanging sculptures, lighting design, found objects, dance performances, soundscape, and more to transform JUMP’s Pioneer Room into an ethereal Dreamscape, all centered around the custom-designed inflatable brain.
Paper Plane Press:
Volume 1 Reading
After selecting and publishing 13 emerging authors in the first edition of Paper Plane Press, BYA hosted the Volume 1 Launch Party where authors had the opportunity to read their original pieces to an audience of about 140 people.
