About Us: The Idaho Art Lab is a not-for-profit education organization. Our facility is staffed by volunteers.
And here are our volunteers who lead special projects or offer 3 1/2 hours of their time each week:
Founded August of 2010, the Idaho Art Lab is a do-it-yourself makerspace and fabrication lab, fine art & craft supply store, art gallery and artist residency in rural St. Anthony. The Idaho Art Lab is nurturing the Creative Revolution with our network of makers and offers access to over $30k dollars worth of high quality machines, tools and software. At this time, we are an all volunteer crew. Above are the many volunteers who are helping fulfill the Lab's mission. We hope to get funding soon that will allow for a steady salary for our teaching artists and staff members. Many volunteers help with fundraisers, manning the Lab, volunteering to teach workshops and getting the word out. The Idaho Art Lab can easily keep 3 full-time and two part-time staff members busy. Please check out our Volunteer page to see how you can help. History: After spending the summer of 2010 touring 23 makerspaces, renovations of a building at 7 N. Bridge Street in St. Anthony, Idaho began in November of 2010 . The Marion Hamilton Gallery of Art opened on March 17, 2011. The drop-in community art makerspace opened in August of 2011 and the ceramics and pottery labs opened in February of 2012. The Idaho Art Lab Center quickly outgrew the old building. We reopened in June 2012 at our current 5,300 sq. ft. location at 2355 S. Yellowstone Hwy. in St. Anthony. The Gallery is now the Yellowstone Teton Gallery. In April of 2013 we opened the art supply store and began our artist-in-residence program. In 2015 we began inviting art leaders from around the nation as part of our Director Exchange program. In 2016 we began hosting painting retreats in Yellowstone National Park and quickly added other location (www.PleinAirInTheParks.org). In 2020 we started bringing in first-rate Hollywood artists to teach classes in special effects (www.IdahoArtLab.org/HollywoodFX). In 2021, with the help of a group of artists called the I AM Coaltion, we were able to purchase the building! There are now Labs for fourteen art mediums and the Paint Your Own Pottery drop-in studio is going strong. Drop by for a tour anytime we are open!
Use our art equipment for $5.00/hour (only $3.00/hour with a punch card!). You will need to take a certification class before using a Lab to learn how to use the equipment and properly care and help us maintain it. Ceramics studio - We offer hundreds of ceramic bisque ware to paint or glaze. The ~1,500+ casting molds inventory is in a database so you have access to ALL of our inventory, not just the bisque ware we have room to display. Pottery studio - We have 11 electric pottery wheels, 1 adult kick wheel, a slab roller & extruder. We can fire to Cone 10 with electric or gas kilns and have a raku kiln in the kiln shelter. We sell clay in 5 lb. bags for $5.00 per bag (low fire earthenware to high fire stoneware). We can fire your works priced by-the-inch or rent a whole kiln. Sculpture Lab - Use one of the 3 ergonomic electric sculptor's tables or 6 sculpture stands to raise & lower your sculpture base so you don't have to stoop or stretch. We sell clay in 5 lb. bags (low fire earthenware to high fire stoneware). We can fire your works priced by-the-inch or rent a whole kiln. Drawing & Painting studios - Free, open to the public. Use of our 4 ft. light table, a straight-edge board for cross-hatching, easels (standing, bench or tabletop), overhead projector, paper cutters and 6 & 8 foot project tables. Cartoon Animation - A large light table is set up next to a copy stand and computer digitizing station or rent a Digital Cartoon Animation Station. Lapidary - stone slabbing, trimming, grinding and polishing to make cabachons Faceting - the Faceter guides you in cutting & polishing facets (angle cuts) into precious gemstone or glass. Lost Wax Metal Casting - create jewelry or small sculptures in metal. We have 6 jewelers benches with everything you need to work the wax and polish the metal. This Lab uses a centrifuge method of casting metal. Screen printing - We offer photo emulsion tables, a 4 ft. vacuum table and 90 screens in many sizes for fine art serigraphs. The 4-color T-Shirt press printer is also available. Block printing / Monoprinting - carve into lino blocks, use our brayers, glass surfaces and book press or try out Speedball gelatin plate printing. Computer Arts Lab, Media Production & Sound Booth- We teach Photoshop and all the other Adobe Creative programs, 3D Rendering and other graphic arts. A 10 foot green screen is available for video production as well as a small sound booth for voice overs and recording. Photography Darkroom - Our large format photography darkroom offers developing of black & white negatives up to 4" x 5" and prints up to 16" . Vacuum forming / Vinyl Baking - form plastic, sylicone or vinyl or bake vinyl onto metal in up to 4 x 4 ft. sheets or small as 5 x 5 in. Wood Working - Our wood shop has 1 scroll saw, hand saws and flex shafts are available for wood carving.
The Mobile Art Lab provides art outreach throughout the region. We have a small 10 seater bus and a large 40 seater bus to provide outreach throughout east Idaho and into Yellowstone Park. Do you have any outreach ideas? We'd love to hear them! Please see our Contact page if you have any questions or would like to get involved. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Yellowstone Teton Gallery of Art is located in the Idaho Art Lab and showcases art by local artists. As a nonprofit, the gallery space allows us much more freedom than a for-profit art gallery. Exhibits can include Private Collections, art of the children who excel in our art education program, pieces that relate to our local events or history, etc. The ideas are endless.