Boise Weekly: win tickets to Carnevale

Work from industrial metal artist Amber Conger, who works under the name Refinerii, appears all over southern Idaho—including in Meridian City Hall. Conger has become one of the city's most well known artists, particularly for her large-scale pieces.

Idaho Botanical Garden is the most recent recipient of Conger's large-scale work and on Friday, June 3, there's not only an unveiling of the new work but a large-scale party to boot.

Carnevale is a celebration of Conger's art at the garden, with a performance by burlesque troupe Red Light Variety Show, Rose Red Flames and the Fire Kittens. There will also be glass blowing, fortune telling, face painting and fire, belly and arial dancing.

Conger isn't the only local artist whose work will be showing at Carnevale. Also showing will be: Filip Vogelpohl from Boise Art Glass, Bruce Maurey and Wren Van Bockel from Maurey Design, Cody Rutty, Erin Lunstrum Pietsch from Pietsch Pottery, Amber Shing, Reham Aarti Jacobsen of Mosaic Essential and Joe Lopez of mymindsphotographer.com.

Friday, June 3, gates open at 6 p.m., $7 for members and in advance, $10 at the door. Children under 12 are free. Tickets are available at tixxfixx.com, The Record Exchange or at Boise Co-op. Idaho Botanical Garden, 2355 N. Old Penitentiary Road, 208-343-8649

 208-343-8649 idahobotanicalgarden.org.

Win Tix through the Boise Weekly

The Costume Shop: masks, glitter, gloves, & more!

OMG: I stopped in at the Costume Shop today for the 1st time ever (I know, huh?) Wow: they have a lot of cool stuff! 

Was looking for top-hats & masks for Carnevale, & ended up leaving with 3 hats, some fairy wings, this amazing glitter make-up stuff, some cool striped knee-high socks, & some feathers!  And, I think another trip is going to be necessary too, lol :)  

Wow: if you are in need of any costume-ish accessory or costume to rent, this is the place to go--I must have spent over an hour wandering about & chatting with the staff; who were soooooo friendly & fun!

If you are in need of a beautiful Venetian style mask for Friday, or makeup, or accessories, definitely stop in next week....

The Costume Shop

3777 Chinden Blvd.

Boise, ID 83714

208.343.9399
 208.343.9399
Toll Free: 1.877.992.67881.877.992.6788
Email: fun@thecostumeshopboise.com

Directions: The Costume Shop is located on Chinden Blvd. between Orchard and Curtis Road/Veteran's Parkway.

Amber

Win Free Tickets to Carnevale-

The Boise Weekly is giving away tickets to Carnevale :)

Enter to win by clicking below to visit BoiseWeekly.com

Thanks so much to the Weekly for sponsoring this event!

Look for the Carnevale add in the next weeks paper... 

I'm getting super excited about the event; can't wait to see everyone there...omg, I don't even know what I'm going to wear yet!  Yikes, where can I get a cute top-hat next week?  Shopping tomorrow after the Sat Market...lol

Amber



Kleiner Park Fabrication-Bolts

All three sculptures are put together now, & the bolts are going in!  So excited; they add so much to the look of the structure; very happy with the choice to use tension control bolts; they really do have the look of old-school rivets (on one side anyway)

Amazing how such a seemingly small detail can make such a difference!  Luv how they have the look of an old bridge....

s'more cool welding shots....

Next week will be the details; lighting brackets, wiring, wind turbine mounts, & white curvy things; more updates to come....

Thanks so much to everyone at Blake Trailers for all your hard work; it's coming together even better than I expected!  I'm excited for the next phase :)

Looks like we will be installing the sculptures sometime in June; I can't wait to see them in place...

The install should be interesting, lol: big trucks & trailers & big cranes: can't wait!

more to come...

Amber

Carnevale

Tickets available now at : TixxFixx

Hope to see you there; it's going to be a fun evening!!

Amber

Kleiner Park---Fabrication pics

Fabrication on the three sculptures for Kleiner Park is coming along; things are progressing quickly now out at Blake Trailers.  All the pieces are cut & ready, 2 of the 3 sculptures are almost completely assembled....

They take up a good portion of the shop: & this is just the top half of the sculpture; it will be bolted to the big beam to the right.  When completely assembled on site, each piece will stand 45' tall.

Each section of I-beam is held together with gusset-plates that are welded on & then bolted together with tension control bolts: both structural & aesthetic; tension control bolts have the look of rivets on the outside face of the sculpture; I chose them because they match the look of the old rivets on the recycled beams that came off the old farm property.

Each gusset plate must be placed, clamped, welded, & then the beam below is drilled out with the mag-drill for the bolts.

It takes a lot of clamps, measuring, & precision...

Welding the end-mounting plate in place.

cool, huh?

Tomorrow will be another day of welding & assembly, hopefully all three sculptures will be together (sort of).  They will remain in 3 pieces for delivery & then will be assembled on-site with the help of a big crane....

Installation is planned for mid-June; foundations will be poured next week : )

Next, we will be working on the white curves; that should be fun : ) Then, the lighting will be added, wiring, wind turbine mounts, & they will be ready to go! 

Thanks so much to all the guys out at Blake Trailers in Star for your work; it is looking amazing!

Amber

When Woolwich stopped off in Woolwich

Two pictures of this mornings brief stop off for Woolwich in her journey between Waltham Abbey and Crossness.

Woolwich was one of the locomotives which ran on the internal railways of the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich (when the Arsenal was the Arsenal). She was later run as part of a preservation scheme in Devon and then acquired by the Royal Gunpowder Museum at Waltham Abbey. She is now to be exhibited and used as Crossness Engines.