MOSCOW, Idaho — The City of Moscow and the Moscow Arts Commission will host the 16th Annual Palouse Plein Air Exhibition, opening Thursday, September 18, at the Third Street Gallery inside Moscow City Hall.
Seventy-one artists from across the region registered to take part in this year’s event, creating outdoor paintings across Latah, Nez Perce, Whitman, and Benewah counties between September 8 and 16. Their finished works will be reviewed by exhibition juror George Scribner ahead of the opening reception, where awards will be announced.
The public is invited to attend the artist reception on September 18 from 5 to 7 p.m., with refreshments provided by Wilder Catering and Sisters Cookies. The exhibition will remain on display through October 3 during regular gallery hours, Monday through Friday, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., excluding federal holidays.
Now in its sixteenth year, Palouse Plein Air continues to connect artists with the region’s unique landscape and cultural history. “Plein air,” a French phrase meaning “open air,” refers to painting outdoors and has become a celebrated practice on the Palouse, where rolling hills, rivers, mountains, fields, and farms provide inspiration.
The event, founded in 2010 by the Moscow Arts Commission and University of Idaho art professor Aaron Cordell Johnson, is a collaboration between the City of Moscow Arts Department and the University of Idaho College of Art + Architecture, with support from the Idaho Commission on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
More information about Palouse Plein Air can be found on the City of Moscow’s website: ci.moscow.id.us/216/Palouse-Plein-Air.
