MING Studios

05/31/2026

Join us next Sunday for a poetry by Dena Parker Duke!

Dena is a non-native Idahoan and a rebel poet who keeps using poetry to tip the scales toward more of the words that deserve to be said and heard- especially right now.

Last December she launched her newest collection called Signs & Psalms at Rediscovered Books to a sold out crowd. She’s grateful to Ming Studios for giving another opportunity for the community to help her celebrate this book. An eclectic collection of complaints, hallelujahs, and complete exhaustion and/or surrender, it has all the essentials of life. In December she shared a set of poems from it focused on hate and hope including Poet as Prophet, American Psalm, and Build Hope. On May 3 she will share a new set focused on forgiveness and fire including White Flag, Whiplash from Elvis and Morning is Not Broken. This is your invitation to come hear more of the poems that make this book stand out at a time when poetry is crying out to be heard.

Signs and Psalms
Poetry Reading w/ Dena Parker Duke
Sunday, June 7, 6PM

Learn more at www.atinylight.com

04/30/2026

7o'clock, 05/03/2026: Dena Parker Duke is a non-native Idahoan and a rebel poet who keeps using poetry to tip the scales toward more of the words that deserve to be said and heard- especially right now.

Last December she launched her newest collection called Signs & Psalms at Rediscovered Books to a sold out crowd. She’s grateful to Ming Studios for giving another opportunity for the community to help her celebrate this book. An eclectic collection of complaints, hallelujahs, and complete exhaustion and/or surrender, it has all the essentials of life. In December she shared a set of poems from it focused on hate and hope including Poet as Prophet, American Psalm, and Build Hope. On May 3 she will share a new set focused on forgiveness and fire including White Flag, Whiplash from Elvis and Morning is Not Broken. This is your invitation to come hear more of the poems that make this book stand out at a time when poetry is crying out to be heard.

7o'clock is time and space dedicated to pure experience free of explanations, artist statements, or analysis. From music and dance to literature and theater, every Sunday brings new artists and a new performance, as the clock strikes 7.

A tiny light

04/27/2026

My___on Mondays Episode 219: Tiffany Eller is a poet, entertainer, and all-around creative. Her poetry explores themes of spirituality, love, and the complexities of being human. She values vulnerability and authenticity, advocating for everyone to find the freedom to Be. Her first publication, the Little Cuties coloring book, featured hand-drawn characters to encourage body positivity. Every project she finds herself poring over stems from the desire to create safe spaces for people to express themselves. Tiffany lives in Boise, Idaho, where she manages The Boise Bard Players, a nonprofit theatre company, and raises her daughter Henley. This week, she shares eight short poems.

My___on Mondays explores the possessive “My” through narratives, art and sound. Every Monday, we publish a new audio, performance or experimental piece where only one rule applies: the title must begin with the determiner “My”.

Listen to the episode at:
www.mingstudios.org/my-on-mondays.html

EPISODE 219 04/27/2026

04/20/2026

7o'clock, 04/26/2026: Holy People is a avant-pop composer & storyteller from New York. Her multi-instrumentalist set oscillates between ethereally layered melodies of spoken word to confrontational noisy hymns, with a dose of whimsy to wash the medicine down.

7o'clock is time and space dedicated to pure experience free of explanations, artist statements, or analysis. From music and dance to literature and theater, every Sunday brings new artists and a new performance, as the clock strikes 7.

www.leahvictoria.net/music

04/20/2026

My___on Mondays Episode 218: Christy Claymore is a Boise-based writer, editor, and educator who enjoys running the foothills and adventuring with her kids. She has been published in the Cabin’s Writers in the Attic anthologies over the years, as well as other Treasure Valley publications. This week, she shares two poems and the opening of a novel in progress.

My___on Mondays explores the possessive “My” through narratives, art and sound. Every Monday, we publish a new audio, performance or experimental piece where only one rule applies: the title must begin with the determiner “My”.

Listen to the episode at:
www.mingstudios.org/my-on-mondays.html

04/15/2026

7o'clock, 04/19/2026: SCALE / bodies in places is a new devised work by Rolodex that asks: “How can we see our collective humanity large enough to re-create the world while individual humans are so small and short-lived?” Collaboratively choreographed for flexibility, the piece conforms to the space in which it is performed. Movers respond to the DUST ON A GLACIER exhibition at MING by becoming glaciers, becoming sand, becoming light, becoming time.

7o'clock is time and space dedicated to pure experience free of explanations, artist statements, or analysis. From music and dance to literature and theater, every Sunday brings new artists and a new performance, as the clock strikes 7.

04/13/2026

My___on Mondays Episode 217: Simon Schabot is a 35 mm slide collector and (creative) writer. They've presented for Storyfort, The Backyard Artists, Realms, The Spill and Address Book. Their published work is forthcoming (they promise.) In the meantime, here are three of their essays on gardening.

My___on Mondays explores the possessive “My” through narratives, art and sound. Every Monday, we publish a new audio, performance or experimental piece where only one rule applies: the title must begin with the determiner “My”.

Listen to the episode at:
www.mingstudios.org/my-on-mondays.html

04/07/2026

7o'clock, 04/12/2026: Green + growing poetry and essays for the coming of spring. Work on gardening and growth from Simon Schabot and Christy Claymore.

Simon Schabot is a 35 mm slide collector and (creative) writer. They've presented for Storyfort, The Backyard Artists, Realms, The Spill and Address Book. Their published work is forthcoming (they promise.)

Christy Claymore is a Boise-based writer, editor, and educator who enjoys running the foothills and adventuring with her kids. She has been published in the Cabin’s Writers in the Attic anthologies over the years, as well as other Treasure Valley publications.

7o'clock is time and space dedicated to pure experience free of explanations, artist statements, or analysis. From music and dance to literature and theater, every Sunday brings new artists and a new performance, as the clock strikes 7.

04/07/2026

Join us Saturday, April 11th, from 6–8 PM for the exhibition opening of DUST ON A GLACIER, with artists Caitria Mir, Ellis Locke, Emily Iskin, Matthew Kennedy, Robyn Holmes, and Teal Gardner.

Antarctica exists on many scales- it is an ice archive that precedes human timekeeping by millions of years, and a massive landscape that in its sheer hugeness and remoteness is relegated to the bottom of popular maps and globes, hiding its size at the base of a curving projection. From this landscape, Dr. Anna Bergstrom, a hydrologist at Boise State University, studied the relationship between grains of dust deposited on glacial surfaces, and their collective effects on seawater chemistry. This exhibition, "Dust on a Glacier” takes Dr. Bergstrom's prompt to explore scale, and makes its way into both familiar and uncanny territories via works that feature intensively worked surfaces, meditations on the human hours taken to conduct a science experiment, video that zooms from miniature worlds of moss to full-system topographies, photography of a close-to-home, world-making catastrophe, and more.

04/06/2026

My___on Mondays Episode 216: This week, we have five new poems for children from Syd Bergeson, a creative writer and actor based in Boise, Idaho. Syd’s work explores nature and urban spaces.

My___on Mondays explores the possessive “My” through narratives, art and sound. Every Monday, we publish a new audio, performance or experimental piece where only one rule applies: the title must begin with the determiner “My”.

Listen to the episode at:
www.mingstudios.org/my-on-mondays.html