Idaho Artists: A Contemporary Selection

Idaho is favored with a remarkable number of fine artists, especially if one's definition of art is generous enough, expansive enough, to include objects of enduring beauty, handmade and unique. Such art encompasses, for example, things as disparate as signs and books, saddles and belt buckles.

Idaho Artists (the first book of its kind in more than 20 years) profiles 36 men and women from 22 towns with 17 art forms whose lifeway compels them to "make art." It examines the wellsprings of their creativity, their traditions and training, how they go about their work, and their own aspirations and assimilated inspirations. Accompanied by 120 color photographs, the text conveys the remarkable range of Gem State artistry.