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Join us Friday, December 13th at The Common Well for a performance by Surel’s Place artist-in-residence MAXINE FLASHER-DÜZGÜNEŞ in which she presents an evening-length installation on the three-dimensionality of erasure poetry and its cross pollination with the disciplines of dance, animation, sound, and scenic design. Original poems of Surel’s Place workshop participants will be displayed and opportunities will arise for attendees to strikethrough portions of text to create new ones. What remains of the poems will change the landscape of the space. The installation will culminate with a solo performance in response to “strikethrough 48,” an erasure poem about ending one’s life in a country flooding with natural beauty but drought ridden when it comes to services for the mentally ill. In collaboration with Taipei based animators Jade Lien & Irene Lin, whose “drawn-on-film” technique will be projected at intervals throughout the evening, along with ambient sound by Salt Lake City based composer Michael Wall. A talk-back at 8pm will discuss the impact of interactive media and how both language and dance can be malleable and ephemeral in their attempts to touch the hearts and minds of those who encounter them. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased here.

Don’t miss your chance to meet artist Benny Merris and hear him talk about his newest work in his solo exhibition — IN LOVE WITH THE WORLD — at The Common Well. (Come in person or follow us on Instagram for a live feed.)

Do your holiday shopping at The Common Well & Big Moon Barter this year. Join us during First Friday for our HOLIDAY MARKET featuring work by your favorite Show & Tell residents and Common Well artists, along with a pop-up exhibition on the 2nd Floor by artist SEAN AHERN. Meanwhile, you can be sure to be entertained in the main gallery amidst BENNY MERRIS’artworks by WHISTLE GRINDER, an improvisational live performance ensemble driven by the unique talents of THEO MONTROSE (Jazz/Americana/Blues/Ska) and STEPHANIE LAISHY(Flamenco). And many of our artists throughout the building will have their studios open late, including our newest wave of Show & Tell Artists-in-Residence. The Holiday Market will open at 4:00 for early birds. Everything else begins 5:30. Hope to see you!

Join us on Thursday, December 5th, as we welcome home New York-based artist BENNY MERRIS for a solo exhibition and the official lighting of a new outdoor public artwork — IN LOVE WITH THE WORLD — at The Common Well in Garden City, Idaho. The show includes photographs from Merris' ongoing series, An Other Another, in which he paints and then photographs his forearm during exploratory play in varied landscapes. Most were made this past summer in the Boise foothills, Boise River, Payette Lake in McCall and one during the 2017 total eclipse in Lost River Range, Idaho. And lucky us — our favorite DJ, GRANT OLSEN, will be in the house making it sing. All are welcome!