River Arts Kamiah

CIAA Paint Day
2025-09-25 10:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | River Arts, 416 Main Street, Suite E, Kamiah, 83536, United States
Come paint with members of the Central Idaho Art Association. Bring your own project. This is an independent painting time with shared community. No instruction provided.

Contemporary Beadwork
2025-09-27 10:00 - 14:00 | River Arts, 416 Main Street, Suite E, Kamiah, 83536, United States
This beginning contemporary beadwork class will teach you the basics of one off-loom beadweaving stitch using needle, thread, and seed beads. The class is project-based and will include instructions and graphs to make an even-count peyote stitch ring with daisy motif. A second take-home instruction and graph will be shared if you want to use the same technique to explore even-count flat peyote stitch further on your own time to make a beadwoven bracelet. Previous beadweaving experience is not required and any experience with hand sewing, cross stitch, or embroidery will be beneficial. All supplies will be provided.
We will have a 30 minute break for lunch.
Ages 12 and over.

Teresa Shelton Bio
By integrating mathematics and physics principles with tiny seed beads, I create sculptural and wearable art. With every stitched bead, I incorporate structure, form, movement, and color into my artwork to achieve bold statement pieces with unexpected surprises.
In the 90’s, I wandered into a bead shop and bought a book on Native American beadweaving techniques and a few tubes of mixed seed beads. That was enough to start my love of beadweaving. Over the past ten years, I have become passionate about geometric beadweaving, and my occupation as a printed circuit board manufacturability engineer inspires the geometric style in my art and allows me to easily merge the technical with the creative. I currently live in Orofino with my husband, some crazy chickens, and a demanding feline overlord. Learn more at www.teresashelton.com

Learning Acrylic Painting ~ Ongoing
2025-10-01 10:00 - 13:00, 2025-10-08 10:00 - 13:00, 2025-10-15 10:00 - 13:00, 2025-10-22 10:00 - 13:00 | River Arts, 416 Main Street, Suite E, Kamiah, 83536, United States
This class is part of a six-part series that began on Sept. 17. Check back for more series classes!

Nature Journaling
2025-10-01 18:00 - 19:30, 2025-10-29 18:00 - 19:30, 2025-11-12 18:00 - 19:30, 2025-11-26 18:00 - 19:30 | River Arts, 416 Main Street, Suite E, Kamiah, 83536, United States
This is an ongoing gathering that happens every two weeks. Naturalist, artist, and birder Lee Hamilton Lee will lead explorations of how to journal and draw what we experience in nature. Lee has presented, instructed and shared his interest and passions in outdoor schools, tour groups, and many and varied venues for three decades.
Ages: 10 and up (kids must be accompanied by a parent)
Materials: Bring your journal. Other materials are provided.
FREE ~ no RSVP required

Ceramics Open Studio
2025-10-03 10:00 - 16:00 | River Arts, 416 Main Street, Suite E, Kamiah, 83536, United States
We will have all the supplies to work on a variety of hand building clay projects. Theresa will provide basic hand-building techniques and all projects will include follow-up glazing and firing.
Ages: 5 and up, kids must be accompanied by a supervising adult.
FREE

Drawing Portraits ~ 4 Class Series
2025-10-04 10:00 - 12:00 | River Arts, 416 Main Street, Suite E, Kamiah, 83536, United States
Local artist Veronica Hattrup will guide in this four-class exploration of drawing portraits. This class takes place 10 a.m. to noon October 4, 11, 18, and 25.
In this class you will learn how to construct a face in relationship to features and then move to shading, taking the technical and shading it into three-dimensions. You will learn how to bring as much realism to the human face as possible.
All levels welcome. Ages 12 and up.
Veronica Hattrup is a local artist and member of the Central Idaho Art Association (CIAA). She recently showed her work at the CIAA BBQ Days Show at River Arts, including the portrait above of her niece. She is inspired by her family and the grace of daily life.
FREE

*Postponed* Poetry Workshop With CMarie Fuhrman
2025-10-07 18:00 - 20:00 | River Arts, 416 Main Street, Suite E, Kamiah, 83536, United States
Due to a family emergency the poetry workshop with CMarie Fuhrman is postponed and will be rescheduled at a later date.
The Power of Articles: How A, An, and The Can Shape Our Perceptions

What’s the difference between a crisis and the crisis? Or simply stating, “Crisis is here”? Everything. In our writing and speech, the smallest words—and their deliberate omission—do the heaviest lifting as powerful, nearly invisible tools of persuasion.
This nuts-and-bolts session investigates how ‘a,’ ‘an,’ ‘the,’ and/or their absence shape our world. We’ll move beyond grammar to see how this choice can include or exclude people and establish authority. We’ll see how it can grant legitimacy, challenge authority, and fundamentally alter our relationship with our reader, each other, and the more-than-human world, turning a river into the river that sustains a community, or simply river which has agency, or positioning nature as a resource to be used or as the Earth to which we belong. This single decision shifts the entire emotional, political, and ecological landscape of a statement.

You will leave with the ability to spot this influence everywhere and to use it with intention—crafting sentences and poetic lines that are more persuasive, prose that is more powerful, and arguments that are impossible to ignore.
Note: All curious minds are welcome. The only prerequisite is a fascination with how language truly works.

Bio:
CMarie Fuhrman is a writer, teacher, and part-time fire lookout whose work is inspired by the Western landscape. She is the author of Salmon Weather: Writing from the Land of No Return, the poetry chapbook Camped Beneath the Dam, as well as the co-editor of two significant anthologies, Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, and Poetry and Native Voices: Indigenous Poetry, Craft, and Conversations. She has poetry and nonfiction published or forthcoming in a variety of publications, including Terrain.org, Emergence Magazine, Alta Magazine, Northwest Review, Yellow Medicine Review, Poetry Northwest, Big Sky Journal, and various anthologies. CMarie is the director of the Elk River Writers Workshop and an award-winning columnist for The Inlander. She is the Associate Director of Western Colorado University’s Graduate Program in Creative Writing, and founder of Confluence Writing Community. CMarie is the host of Terra Firma, a Colorado Public Radio program. She is a former Idaho Writer in Residence and lives in the Salmon River Mountains of Idaho.
www.cmariefuhrman.com
FREE
RSVP with the link below.

Drawing Portraits
2025-10-11 10:00 - 12:00, 2025-10-18 10:00 - 12:00, 2025-10-25 10:00 - 12:00 | River Arts, 416 Main Street, Suite E, Kamiah, 83536, United States
This class is part of a four-part series that began on October 4. Check back for more series classes!

Beginning Needle Felting: Pumpkin
2025-10-11 13:00 - 15:00 | River Arts, 416 Main Street, Suite E, Kamiah, 83536, United States
In this beginning needle felting class, local artist Saragrace Knauf will guide in making a pumpkin approximately 4″ x 4″. Needle felting is a fun and relaxing craft that can be enjoyed by anyone, regardless of their experience with other kinds of art. Needle felting uses unspun wool to create small animals and objects, or flat pictures that can be framed. Using high-quality Romney wool, this project is a great way to learn the basics of needle felting and to create a beautiful, handmade work of art.
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Class Details
Age restrictions: No younger than eleven. Anyone under thirteen must be accompanied by an adult.
Class supplies fee (please bring to class): $30 — or $20 if you already have needles, finger protection, and a felting surface.
PLEASE RSVP WITH THE LINK BELOW ~ ONLY RSVP IF YOU ARE SURE YOU CAN COME AS WE HAVE LIMITED KITS AVAILABLE
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About the Saragrace Knauf:
I was born, second of three children, to a family of modest means. Both my parents worked in the theatrical arts. My father was a director, dramaturg, and actor. My mother was both an actor and director. I, wanting to avoid academic life and poverty, steered as far from the theater as I could.
My first bout with college had me headed towards a major in marine biology and philosophy. As I was working my way through college, I quickly became aware that I was unable to handle both school and work.
So, the short story is I quit and joined the US navy. I went into their nuclear power program back in 1979. I was one of 500 women who went into the program and also one of 50 who made it through. (Lest you think something great of me, this was the same attrition rate as for men).
After six years of that, I went back to school and got a mechanical engineering degree and a minor in philosophy. I worked for 13 years in the commercial nuclear power field and spent some time back in grad school pursuing a masters in computational biology and a certificate in scholarly publishing and medieval and renaissance studies.
I married my second husband when I was thirty-four. No kids, lots of animals.
My hobbies include historic costuming, gardening (horseback riding-not anymore!), an’ dollin’ (soft sculpture).

Gestural Painting
2025-10-16 12:00 - 13:00 | River Arts, 416 Main Street, Suite E, Kamiah, 83536, United States
Tap into the rhythm of gestural painting!
At River Arts, we’re moving with the flow. This course invites you to explore gestural painting, a fast and expressive style focused on movement and feeling rather than fine details. It’s perfect for all levels of artists who want to break free from rigidity and get into the creative groove.
For ages 12 and older. Supplies included.
Cynthia Valle, an artist with a deep love for all mediums, guides you through this energizing process, helping you unlock spontaneous expression and creative momentum.
FREE
Please RSVP for this class with the form below. This class is free. We look forward to seeing you in the studio!

Nature Journaling Field Trip
2025-10-18 13:00 - 15:00
River Arts and the Clearwater Valley Nature Journal Society invite you to a nature journaling field trip, followed by a finger food potluck and sharing our journals and discoveries. Come join us where our creativity and nature become one!No Experience necessary. Journals provided.When: Oct. 18th meet at the back of Kamiah park 1:00 pm.(Check River Arts events schedule for weather changes)

Drawing Portraits
2025-11-01 10:00 - 12:00, 2025-11-08 10:00 - 12:00 | River Arts, 416 Main Street, Suite E, Kamiah, 83536, United States
This class is part of a six-part series that began on October 4. Check back for more series classes!

Ceramics Open Studio
2025-11-07 10:00 - 16:00, 2025-11-14 10:00 - 16:00 | River Arts, 416 Main Street, Suite E, Kamiah, 83536, United States
We will have all the supplies to work on a variety of hand building clay projects. Theresa will provide basic hand-building techniques and all projects will include follow-up glazing and firing.
Kids must be accompanied by a supervising adult.
FREE

Ceramic Christmas Ornaments with Visiting Artist Beth Rimmelspacher
2025-11-08 13:00 - 16:00 | River Arts, 416 Main Street, Suite E, Kamiah, 83536, United States
Clarkston artist Beth Rimmelspacher will share her inspirations for this season’s hand-crafted ornaments — followed by open studio time for making your own ceramic Christmas ornaments.
Ages: 5 and up; kids must be accompanied by a supervising adult
FREE

Watercolor With Pearl Beginner
2025-11-11 10:00 - 12:00 | River Arts, 416 Main Street, Suite E, Kamiah, 83536, United States
Artist Pearl Maxner will teach this five-class watercolor series 10 a.m. to noon Tuesdays, November 11, 18 and Dec 2, 9, and 16.
Explore watercolor painting with step-by-step instructions on the use of color and light and capturing mood and emotion. Paint with confidence and trust in the flow of color in your life. All supplies provided.
Ages 15 and up. All supplies provided.
FREE
Pearl Maxner grew up knee-deep in a creek behind her childhood home in California in the foothills of Sequoia National Park and is delighted to have come full circle, finding herself once more living on the banks of a creek in Idaho County. This amazing creation never ceases to astound her and she spends time photographing, sketching, and painting the beauty.
She has worked as a fire lookout in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California, a lifeguard, a trail guide for a state park, a folk singer in a restaurant, motel maid, swim instructor, elementary school teacher in Hawaii and Oregon, organic farmer in Hawaii, and as a writer and illustrator of children’s books and other publications. She currently gives watercolor seminars at the Monastery of St. Gertrude in Cottonwood. Friends and family are paramount in her life. Still an avid gardener, she would rather have her hands in the dirt than just about anywhere else. She feels very blessed indeed to have experienced so much of the good this life has to offer.
You can see more of her work at www.TheArtofPearl.gallery
Please RSVP for this class with the form below. This class is free. We look forward to seeing you in the studio!

Intermediate Needle Felting: Lamb
2025-11-15 10:00 - 12:00 | River Arts, 416 Main Street, Suite E, Kamiah, 83536, United States
In this intermediate needle felting class, local artist Saragrace Knauf will guide in making a lamb approximately 4″ x 4″. Needle felting is a fun and relaxing craft that can be enjoyed by anyone, regardless of their experience with other kinds of art. Needle felting uses unspun wool to create small animals and objects, or flat pictures that can be framed. Using high-quality Romney wool, this project is a great way to develop your needle felting skills and to create a beautiful, handmade work of art. Prior needle felting experience is highly recommended.
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Class Details
Age restrictions: No younger than eleven. Anyone under thirteen must be accompanied by an adult.
Class supplies fee (please bring to class): $30 — or $20 if you already have needles, finger protection, and a felting surface.
PLEASE RSVP WITH THE LINK BELOW
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About the Saragrace Knauf:
I was born, second of three children, to a family of modest means. Both my parents worked in the theatrical arts. My father was a director, dramaturg, and actor. My mother was both an actor and director. I, wanting to avoid academic life and poverty, steered as far from the theater as I could.
My first bout with college had me headed towards a major in marine biology and philosophy. As I was working my way through college, I quickly became aware that I was unable to handle both school and work.
So, the short story is I quit and joined the US navy. I went into their nuclear power program back in 1979. I was one of 500 women who went into the program and also one of 50 who made it through. (Lest you think something great of me, this was the same attrition rate as for men).
After six years of that, I went back to school and got a mechanical engineering degree and a minor in philosophy. I worked for 13 years in the commercial nuclear power field and spent some time back in grad school pursuing a masters in computational biology and a certificate in scholarly publishing and medieval and renaissance studies.
I married my second husband when I was thirty-four. No kids, lots of animals.
My hobbies include historic costuming, gardening (horseback riding-not anymore!), an’ dollin’ (soft sculpture).

Watercolor With Pearl Beginner ~ Ongoing
2025-11-18 10:00 - 12:00 | River Arts, 416 Main Street, Suite E, Kamiah, 83536, United States
This class is part of a five-part series with Pearl Maxner that began on Nov. 11. Check back for more series classes!
See original class description.

Watercolor With Pearl Advanced ~ Ongoing
2025-11-18 12:30 - 14:30 | River Arts, 416 Main Street, Suite E, Kamiah, 83536, United States

CIAA Paint Day
2025-11-20 10:00 - 16:00 | River Arts, 416 Main Street, Suite E, Kamiah, 83536, United States
Come paint with members of the Central Idaho Art Association! Bring your own project or use supplies in the studio.

Mosaic Coaster
2025-11-22 10:00 - 13:00 | River Arts, 416 Main Street, Suite E, Kamiah, 83536, United States
Discover the art of mosaic-making in this hands-on class, where creativity meets craftsmanship! Participants will learn how to design and create stunning mosaic pieces using colorful glass, ceramic, and stone tiles. Guided by an experienced instructor, you’ll explore techniques for cutting, arranging, and grouting to bring your own unique design to life. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced artist, this class offers a relaxing, inspiring experience—and you’ll leave with a beautiful handmade work of art to take home.

All supplies and tools will be provided. Parents must be present for any child under 14.

Time – 3-4 hours
Cost – $15 (payable to instructor at the class)
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Moriah Hale is a local artist and business owner of Hale Flooring. She grew up in the Kooskia/Kamiah area and moved back three years ago to help out with the family business. She is an avid painter, does historical reenactment on most weekends, and loves to camp whenever she can. She has been using Fusion Mineral Paint for a few years now and recently became a retailer to make it more readily available to the community.
