featured works & experiences

The Common Well SHOW & TELL Artist Residency

October 2025 to March 2026

6 month residency with cohort of 9
Final exhibition in Feb 2026
Artist Talk

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“We are pleased to be in partnership with Alexa Rose Foundation in hosting and facilitating the SHOW & TELL Artist Residency Program at The Common Well. This innovative program is for Idaho artists working in a myriad of disciplines from painting, drawing, photography and printmaking to sculpture, ceramics, fiber arts and new forms. In addition to receiving a generous honorarium, these 5-month artist residencies provides each selected artist with a community of peers, a workspace, mentorship, a culminating group exhibition and an opportunity to present an artist talk or workshop at The Common Well. SHOW & TELL is especially geared toward artists eager to set loose their creative energy and realize their big ideas, all within a vibrant community setting. We couldn’t be more thrilled and honored to be working with the Alexa Rose Foundation as we create lasting, positive outcomes for our most exciting local artists.

In October of 2025, we welcomed the third wave of artists into the club. This talented group includes Ben Huynh, Jamey Baumgardt, Clementine Zenner, Bryan Anthony Moore, Juliana Mclenna, Janell Strouse, Ashley Larson, Kamryn Rose and Matt Bunk. Save the date for their culminating exhibition which will open February 20, 2026.”

Death Rattle Literature Publication

Feb 2026

published two poems in EROTICA VOL. 4 zine: “Erotica: Vibrato”

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”Inspo for ‘Erotica: Vibrato:’
flights of fancy amidst fawns & fairies, sirens & chimaera, nymphs & muses, cupids & cherubs, giant women & quixotic satyrs; symphonic daydreams found in tales of old Atlantis, in sylvan forests, private oases in hidden elvish cities; secret gardens overflowing with poppies & moss & wine & olives, overripe fruit beside bubbling fountains & verdant springs. Spin golden yarns overflowing with brimful bouquets musical ambrosia, rhapsodic rendezvous, symphonic daydreams, alluring mirages, buttercup capriccios, honeydew encounters, midsummer nights, abounding Edens, utopic connections ♡

Content can be fan fiction, original content, auto-bio/true to life, etc. Past reading selections have featured trucks and dragons, aliens, Greek gods, monks, Transformers, Hulk Hogan, Shrek, BG3, Klingons Wuthering Heights and medieval knights alongside tinder dates and cringe meetups, sexcapades, and yearning sonnets. Show us the richness of your imagination & the depth of the heart ♡₊˚✩ ₊˚⊹♡‧₊˚”

Ming Studios Exhibition

October 2025

pop up photo exhibition with Boise PhotoGrid photo group.

exhibited and sold two images produced during the previous 7 months.

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“ARTISTS  Shawna Donahue, John Francis, Amy Jauregui, Karl Henke, Ben Huynh, Emma Hood, Michal Temkin Martinez, Weston McGhee, Castille Miller, Gregg Mizuta, Jason Natzke, Lukas Robertson, Christina Rouse, Jason Sievers, Patrick Sweeney, Chanel Talbot, Tran Tran

The Boise PhotoGrid project includes 18 Boise-based photographers. Organized by John Francis, the project began in February 2025 with the goal of creating a visual archive that captures Boise at this moment in time, in recognition of the rapid changes taking place across the city.

Boise was mapped into a grid of 42 sections, each approximately 1.7 square miles. Each month, the photographers randomly select one square and take photographs within its parameters. Grid by grid, the city is being recorded, one month at a time. The project is expected to span about three and a half years and will cover both Boise and Garden City.

This community of street, documentary, and fine art photographers are keeping a visual collection of Boise as it transforms and develops. Once all 42 grids have been completed, the project will likely start over, this time with new faces and their visual interpretations of a city that continues to grow and change.”