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The Treasure Valley has more workshops, markets, and open studios than you'd ever guess. They just don't all live in one place — until now. Browse free, no login needed.
You've built something real. Now let it be seen. Create a free profile, list your workshops and classes, and connect with the students, venues, and collaborators already looking for someone like you.
There is a ceramicist three miles from you who's been looking for someone to do a skill swap with. A textile artist who wants a co-teacher. BACC is where you find each other — and where creative business owners find the community they didn't know they were missing.
Hi, I'm Kaylee.
I'm a watercolor artist, the founder of Moonstruck Creations Co, and a pretty new mom doing my best to hold all of it at once — the business, the baby, the brushes, and the ever-growing list of things I meant to follow up on.
Watercolor found me in college and it's never really left. Through moving to Hawaii, a divorce, living and traveling in New Zealand and France, flying as a flight attendant, COVID, losing my grandpa, starting a business, becoming a mom — it's been the one constant. My anchor. The thing I always come back to when I need to remember who I am.
Part of what makes it work for my brain is embarrassingly practical: it's portable, the setup takes two minutes, the cleanup takes two more. For someone whose attention can scatter in seventeen directions before breakfast, that accessibility is everything. But watercolor also does something deeper — the water itself teaches you. You can't force it. You have to be intentional, let go, and find the flow. It's been my mindfulness practice long before I ever called it that.
"Watercolor has been with me through every season of life. It's how I practice being intentional, letting go, and finding flow."
It wasn't.
The hard part was everything that surrounds the art — the marketing, the outreach, the scheduling, the emails sitting unread, the DMs I meant to respond to, the opportunities I probably missed because I was deep in a passion rabbit hole and forgot to come up for air. I'm what some people call neurospicy: my brain runs fast, goes deep, and does not naturally love the administrative side of being a human in the world, let alone a business owner.
So I've spent years building systems that support the way I actually work — so I can spend more time in the studio and less time feeling behind. BACC is one of those systems. But it's not just for me.
Because here's what I kept noticing: every creative I talked to was dealing with some version of the same thing.
The painter teaching workshops out of her living room because she can't figure out how to find a venue. The ceramicist who's been in Boise for two years and still doesn't know another ceramicist. The maker doing beautiful work but getting zero traction because she doesn't have time to figure out Instagram algorithms on top of everything else. The creative business owner who's killing it on paper and lonely in practice — because she spends most of her week alone in a studio, and making time for real human connection takes intention she doesn't always have left.
That last one was me. Still is, some weeks. I had to get intentional about surrounding myself with people who are creative, growing, and honest about how hard it is. And I realized: there was no easy way to find those people in the Treasure Valley. Not because they don't exist — they absolutely do — but because nothing had pulled them together in one place yet.
BACC — the Boise Area Creative Collective — is a free, community-powered platform for Treasure Valley creatives. It's a calendar of events. A directory of artists, makers, and teachers who want to be found. A connector between artists who need spaces and venues who want to host. And eventually, a full set of tools and marketing resources for creatives who are ready to grow their reach without having to become a different kind of person to do it.
But the thing underneath all of it — the reason it exists — is community. Real, local, showing-up-for-each-other community. The kind that makes you a better artist, a better business owner, and honestly just a better human.
"You don't have to have it all figured out to belong here.
You just have to be someone who makes things,
loves things, or wants to be part of something."
Come as you are. We've got your BACC.
— Kaylee · Watercolor artist · Mom · Founder, Moonstruck Creations & BACC · Boise, Idaho
There's room for all of us. When one creative rises, she brings others with her. That's the point.
The best thing we can do for each other is be findable. Show up. Put it out there. BACC makes that easier.
The core community is free — always. For artists ready to grow their reach, tools and opportunities are coming.
Join free, list your events, find your people.
Too often, events and opportunities get lost in the noise.
BACC was created to bring it all together — a shared space where the Treasure Valley's creative scene can find each other, show up, and thrive.
Botanical illustrator and watercolour teacher based in Boise. I run workshops out of my East Side studio and love helping people find their loose, expressive mark.
12 years with clay, now based in Boise. Wheel throwing, raku firing, glaze chemistry. I teach workshops out of Clay & Kiln Studio — all levels welcome.
Risograph printer, zine-maker, and lover of lo-fi aesthetics. Based in Garden City near the Surel Mitchell District. Teaching riso workshops monthly.
Natural dye practitioner and textile artist working with plant-based pigments, indigo, and shibori resist. Workshops at The Fiber Loft.
Mixed media sculptor working with found objects, paper, and wire. Boise transplant from Portland. Open to collaborative projects and trade.
Studio and teaching space in the Bench neighborhood. We offer beginner wheel throwing series, open studio hours, and kiln rental for the Boise ceramics community.
Mara Chen didn't plan on staying in Boise. She came for a summer residency at a small studio near the Greenbelt, fell in love with the light and the community, and never left. Now, three years later, she's one of the most sought-after ceramics teachers in the Treasure Valley...
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