ARTS NEWS

BAM GETS A BUMP

Last year, BW spoke with Susan Coliton, senior director of the Seattle-based Paul G. Allen Foundation (Allen is the co-founder of Microsoft) about a $10,000 grant the foundation awarded to Boise Contemporary Theater for its upcoming production of Maria Dahvana Headley's Last of the Breed (BW, Arts News, Oct. 24, 2007). This year, they added some zeroes to their check to Boise, providing Boise Art Museum with a $150,000 grant to support a series of four exhibits titled "Threads of Perception" for the museum's sculpture court over three years.

According to a BAM press release, the artists involved in the series include Lead Pencil Studio, the Seattle team of …