What's the BIG IDEA?

The Arts Bring Us Together in Conversation.

SVMoA takes a unique multidisciplinary approach to programming. Three or four times annually BIG IDEA projects ask timely questions and investigate them through art, music, conversation, and workshops. We believe that by engaging with art through a variety of mediums, we can transform our understanding not only of the arts, but also of history, culture, place, and even ourselves. You can participate in a single event or go deeper, exploring the idea through different lenses.

Part of a Sun Valley Museum of Art BIG IDEA project

About BIG IDEAS

The arts create dialogue, build connections and help us define our place in the world. Much of SVMoA’s programming is built around themes, or BIG IDEAS, that are relevant to the world today. Topics can be serious or playful but are designed to engage the entire community and get everyone talking. BIG IDEA projects are multidisciplinary in nature—connecting visual art exhibitions, film, lectures, music and classes. BIG IDEAS are often developed in collaboration with other local non-profit organizations and businesses, using expertise from all avenues to explore a subject in depth.

Current BIG IDEA Project

Past Big Ideas

Dams: Reservoirs, Reclamation, Renewal

Aug 26, 2022 - Dec 30, 2022

Gardens: Collaborations with Nature

Jun 16, 2022 - Aug 20, 2022

The Mexican Graphic Tradition

Printmaking and the Political

Apr 1, 2022 - Jun 8, 2022

Untrammeled: At Wilderness' Edge

Aug 6, 2021 - Oct 22, 2021

Angela Elsworth Pantaloncini (Hilma) detail

Deeds Not Words: Women Working for Change

Jan 8, 2021 - Apr 16, 2021

Gem State

Sep 23, 2020 - Dec 31, 2020

Daniel Gordon - Camas with Onions and Potato

From the Colour of Its Bloom: Camas Prairie

Jul 10, 2020 - Sep 10, 2020

Gonzalo Fonseca, Black & White Bodegon, 1959

Free Play

Mar 20, 2020 - Jun 30, 2020

The Bottomlessness of a Pond

Transcendentalism, Nature and Spirit

Jan 17, 2020 - Mar 11, 2020

Marketplaces

From Open Air to Online

Aug 30, 2019 - Nov 8, 2019

Unraveling

Reimagining Colonization in the Americas

Mar 8, 2019 - May 22, 2019

At the Table

Kitchen as Home

Dec 21, 2018 - Mar 1, 2019

We the People

Protest and Patriotism

Sep 28, 2018 - Dec 14, 2018

Bees

Apr 13, 2018 - Jun 22, 2018

This Land Is Whose Land?

Jan 26, 2018 - Mar 31, 2018

The Unreliable Narrator

Sep 1, 2017 - Nov 14, 2017

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