James Castle House

09/09/2026

We’re thrilled to welcome self-taught multidisciplinary artist Oluwatobi Adewumi to the for an eight-week residency through October 31, 2026.

Oluwatobi Adewumi’s work explores identity, culture, migration, and the emotional landscapes shaped by movement across place.

Born in Nigeria and now based in McNeil, Arkansas, he creates multimedia drawings and paintings that bridge realism and abstraction, layering figures, portraits, and symbolic objects to examine how personal and collective histories are carried, transformed, and expressed.

Inspired by James Castle’s use of everyday and found objects, Adewumi plans to use materials gathered in Boise as well as draw from his personal archive of photographs, documents, textiles, and other ephemera retracing his experience of immigration to create new work.

“The James Castle House residency resonates deeply with me because it honors place, memory, and the quiet power of introspection — all themes central to my work as a contemporary Nigerian American artist,” says Adewumi. “Like Castle, I believe in the power of “making do,” and transforming the ordinary into sacred storytelling.”

Adewumi’s work has been exhibited and awarded nationally and internationally and includes public art commissions with Bentonville, AR and Miami Beach, FL. His work has been collected by the North Dakota Museum of Art and The Bunker Artspace in Palm Beach, FL. He has participated in residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, the Foundation House Residency, and Arts Letters & Numbers.

Meet Oluwatobi Adewumi at the following events:

📌Inside the Studio: September 26, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
📌 Inside the Studio: October 10, 2 - 4 p.m.
📌Final Presentation at : July 23, 6-8 p.m.

Learn more and plan your visit at jamescastlehouse.org or the link in bio.

Image: Oluwatobi Adewumi in the James Castle House Studio.
Artwork: The time will come (2024) by Oluwatobi Adewumi

07/21/2026

Summer 2026 James Castle House Resident CL Young’s final presentation is this Thursday, July 23, at 6 p.m. at The Common Well by Fort Builder!

CL Young is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and facilitator based in Hailey, Idaho. Their work spans writing, performance, installation, and sound, to explore how time, place, and attention shape our experiences.

Doors open at 5:45 p.m. and the presentation begins at 6 p.m. Individuals can attend virtually via Zoom with American Sign Language interpretation provided.

For more information visit https://ow.ly/nRER50ZqYhn

Common Well Exhibition: "To Talk About Trees" (2025) by Kirsten Furlong. Used as video backdrop.

07/16/2026

RESIDENCY OPPORTUNITIES

We are excited to invite emerging and mid-career artists and professionals working in any creative field to apply for 2-month and 2-week residency terms at the historic in Boise, Idaho, for 2027.

During their stay, residents are encouraged to find inspiration in American artist James Castle, his prolific art practice, the surrounding community, and the house itself, to develop a body of visual art, performance, writing, scholarly research, or other work relating to their field.

In addition to time and space to create, residents enjoy a private bedroom, restroom, live/work studio, and the opportunity to connect with the community of through open studios, workshops, and other public engagement events.

Deadline to apply is August 28, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. MT. Video applications are available for individuals who are d/Deaf or hard of hearing.

Want to learn more?

Join our free 30-minute virtual information session on Tuesday, July 21, at 1 p.m. MT on Zoom. American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation will be provided. A recording will also be available afterward on the James Castle House YouTube channel.

Learn more and apply at the link in bio or jamescastlehouse.org.



Image: Summer 2025 Resident Ariana Martinez inside the James Castle House studio. Photography by Wytske van Keulen.

06/25/2026

Join us for a hands-on artmaking workshop with James Castle House Resident CL Young!

With deep attention to external surroundings and internal experiencing, participants will gather found materials and sensory impressions during a gently guided walk through the neighborhood where James Castle lived and worked.

These gathered materials will be brought back into the studio and explored further through a series of artmaking experiments and investigations.

🗓️ Saturday, July 11, 2026

🕑 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.

📍James Castle House (5015 Eugene St.)

💵15 | Registration Required

💻 Learn more and register at the link in bio.

CL Young on a gathering walk. Photograph by Yi Hsuan Lai. Artworks by CL Young.

06/10/2026

We’re thrilled to welcome Hailey, Idaho-based interdisciplinary artist CL Young to the for an eight-week residency running through July 31, 2026.

CL Young’s work spans writing, performance, installation, and sound, exploring how time, place, and attention shape human experience.

During their residency, they plan to create tactile installations and new written works inspired by the physical and emotional qualities of the James Castle House and the surrounding Collister neighborhood.

Young is the author of multiple poetry chapbooks, most recently Rose of No Man’s Land, in collaboration with Emily Skillings (Belladonna* Collaborative), and What Is Revealed When I Reveal It to You (dancing girl press). Their writing and performances have been shared across the Northwest and beyond, and their work has been published in numerous literary journals.

They received a Literature Fellowship from the Idaho Commission on the Arts in 2020 and hold a Master of Fine Arts in poetry from Colorado State University. Young has also been supported by organizations including the Vermont Studio Center, Naropa University, the Alexa Rose Foundation, Surel’s Place, and The Common Well.

Meet CL Young at the following events:

📌Inside the Studio: June 20, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
📌Workshop: July 11, 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.
📌Final Presentation at The Common Well: July 23, 6-7:30 p.m.
📌Inside the Studio: July 30, 6-7:30 p.m.

Learn more and plan your visit at jamescastlehouse.org or the link in bio.

Image: CL Young in the James Castle House Studio
Artwork: “BOISE” Work [how’d you?] (2025) by CL Young. Process photo, photography by Kevin Huelsmann.

05/21/2026

“Place & Perception: Architecture, Landscape, and the Art of Observation” opens TONIGHT, Thursday May 21 at 6pm. We hope to see you there!

05/19/2026

Over the past few days, Jeffrey Mansfield and his design team from MASS (Model of Architecture Serving Society) have been installing the James Castle House's newest exhibition "Place & Perception."

In this short video, Jeffrey shares more about the concept behind the exhibition and gives a sneak peek into the gallery.

Transcript:
Hello! I’m Jeffrey Mansfield, and I’m with MASS Design Group, where I lead our Deaf and Disability Design Lab. The last few years, I’ve been researching the architecture of Deafness, focusing on the architecture of Deaf schools throughout North America.
Today I’m excited to be in Boise, Idaho at the James Castle House. We are partnering with the James Castle House to hold a new exhibition. This exhibition will explore James Castle’s art in the context of key themes in the Deaf experience and modernity and examine how architecture and landscape reflect evolving social attitudes towards deafness. I’m thrilled because today is installation day – let’s check it out!
I’m here in the James Castle House’s Gallery – as you can see, it’s being transformed. We’re setting up an immersive installation and we’ll be putting up exhibit panels throughout the gallery. It’s an exciting moment – the show will open on Thursday, May 21, at 6pm, and will be up for a while – see you there!

05/19/2026

We hope you'll join us for the opening of "Place & Perception" this Thursday, May 21, 6-8 p.m.

The James Castle House’s newest exhibition Place & Perception by guest curator Jeffrey Mansfield, a Deaf architect and artist, opens this month! Explore the legacies of the American West, Deafness (and disability) and modernity through James Castle's spatial memory. Join us for an opening reception on Thursday, May 21st from 6-8 p.m.

https://www.jamescastlehouse.org/whats-on/exhibitions/

Image: James Castle (1899-1977), Untitled, n.d. © 2026 James Castle Collection and Archive, All Rights Reserved.

02/02/2026

“Echoes of Home” highlights the powerful bond between James Castle’s art and the people who choose to make it part of their lives. Featuring pieces from private local collections, the exhibition reveals the diverse range of Castle’s work that finds its way into Boise homes and into the hearts of those who cherish it.

This exhibition is made possible thanks to the generous contributions of loaned and donated artworks from the private collections of Jim and Ariel Agenbroad, Cate Brigden, Eve and Thomas Chandler, Clark and Sydney Fidler, James Gilles, Deborah Hardee, the Higgins Family, Melissa Martin, Kenneth McCulloch, Andrea Merrell, Lisa and John Pisano, and Laura Rasmussen.

Learn more and plan your visit at jamescastlehouse.org

01/16/2026

Welcome to Short Stay Resident Lydia Ricci!

Lydia Ricci (she/her) is a sculptor and animator who turns the discarded remnants of daily life into intimate tributes to the ordinary.

“I’m interested in the moment when you realize that objects have insides — that they are made of parts and that they work because someone learned how to make them work,” says Ricci of her work, “Like James Castle, I’m interested in how understanding can emerge outside formal instruction through making looking and paying close attention. During this residency I’d like to reflect on the belief that knowledge is built through intuition, curiosity and attention rather than instruction alone.”

Join Lydia Ricci for Inside the Studio on Saturday, January 24, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the James Castle House (5015 Eugene St., Boise). This event is free and open to all.

Learn more about Lydia Ricci at jamescastlehouse.org.

Images: Lydia Ricci inside the James Castle House Studio. This Might Make It Worse (2025) by Lydia Ricci.