Bill Johnson, Poet 
Lewiston
Air date: 9/03/08

Bill Johnson, has published poems in over 30 periodicals, most recently in Poetry. His nonfiction, What Thoreau Said: Walden and the Unsayable, was published in 1991, and he has a collection of poems, Out of the Ruins, from confluence Press. From 1981 until 2008, he was Professor of English at Lewis-Clark State College at Lewiston.   A former Idaho Writer in Residence, he was the recipient of a Fellowship in Literature for Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2007.  
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Dave Alderson, is a resident of Twin Falls and a master silversmith, has been a member of the exclusive Traditional Cowboys Arts Association since 2001. He learned the art of engraving from Bill Wimmer, Tracy White, and Fritch Brothers Silversmiths, traditional masters in California. Now in business for himself, he works alone in his shop, turning out one-of-a-kind fancy buckles and bridles, functional gear endowed with “elegance devoid of distraction."


 
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Claire Davis, was born and raised in Milwaukee, lived on a small farm in Wisconsin, earned a degree from the MFA program at University of Montana, and now teaches at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston. Her shorter fiction has appeared in prestigious literary magazines. She is author of two novels: Winter Range (2001), winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association prize for best first novel; Skin of the Snake (2005); and a collection of short stories, Labors of the Heart (2006). Davis was the recipient of a Literature Fellowship from the Idaho Commission on the Arts in 2004. 
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Garth Claassen, is originally from South Africa, has been a professor of art at the College of Idaho since 1994. Earlier, he earned a Ph.D. in the history of art at the School of Fine Arts, Indiana University. A consummate draftsman, he has had numerous exhibitions, ranging from Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa, to the Herrett Museum in Twin Falls and the Boise Art Museum. In 2003 and 2008, he was the recipient of a Fellowship in Visual Arts from the Idaho Commission on the Arts. 

  

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Peter Vincent, is a resident of Moscow, Idaho, where he earned his M.F.A. in photography at the University in 1990.  As a photographer, he has had workshop experience with Ansel Adams, Brett Weston, and Peter deLory. And taught at ISU, WES, Univ. of Idaho, and Sun Valley Center for Arts & Humanities.  Peter has had work included in over 50 exhibitions, as well as in numerous national magazines. He is the author of two books on “hot rod” photography, and a 2006 recipient of a Visual Arts Fellowship from the Commission.

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Dan Antsotegui, born in Boise, holds a B.A. in education from BSU and was an elementary teacher for seven years. He grew up immersed in Basque music and dance. Dan plays the accordion for the Gaupasa Basque Folk Band, drums for the Txistulari Band, and accompanies the young Basque dancing group, Boise’ko Gasteak. In addition to being an influential member of Idaho’s Basque community and a key figure in preserving its culture, he has worked closely on events regarding the Basque Block in Boise. Dan received a Governor’s Award in the Arts for Excellence in Folk & Traditional Arts in 2004.
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Marilyn Lysohir, born in Pennsylvania, earned her M.F.A. at Washington State University. She has had numerous one-person exhibitions of her ceramic sculpture nationwide and has work in museum collections in cities such as Tacoma, Boise, Los Angeles, and El Paso. Lysohir is the recipient of fellowships for the Kohler Artist Residency, the Archie Bray Foundation, the Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, and the Ringling School of Art and Design. She also received a Visual Arts Fellowship from the Idaho Commission on the Arts.    


                         

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Jim Irons, born in Wendell, Idaho, has been a taxi driver, bookstore clerk, USFS firefighter, and sports writer for The Idaho Statesman. He is a graduate in English from Boise State University and earned his M.A. in English at San Francisco State University. Since 1995, he has been teaching English at the College of Southern Idaho, Twin Falls. He was Idaho Writer in Residence 2001-2004.
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Frank Werner, after serving 20 years in the Marine Corps, moved to Idaho in 1974, attended the University of Idaho, and began to build decoys for hunting. Now a resident of St. Maries, he continues to create hand-carved duck decoys avidly sought by collectors and hunters. He has shared his art work in over 40 exhibitions in western states. Werner has twice been a recipient of a Visual Arts Fellowship from the Idaho Commission on the Arts, and in 2004 received a Governor’s Award in the Arts for “Excellence in the Arts.” 
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Rhonda Bradetich, Flutist
Idaho
Air date: 11/12/08

Rhonda Bradetich, a native of Sandpoint, Idaho, as a flutist won the Northwest Young Artist Competition and the Spokane Music and Arts Festival Young Artist Competition. She has toured throughout the Northwest and in Canada. She is a member of the Sun Valley Summer symphony and has performed with the Spokane Symphony, the Boise Philharmonic, and the North Idaho Symphony. With pianist Stefanie Kowalski and harpists Leslie Stratton Norris and Therese Wunrow, she has released her recording, “Reflections,” on the Goldenflute label.

Anthony Deorr, Writer
Boise
Air Date: 11/19/08

Tony Doerr, is author of a collection of short stories, The Shell Collector; a novel, About Grace; and a memoir, Four Seasons in Rome. He is the recipient of an NEA Fellowship in writing and the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Doerr, who earned his MFA in writing at Bowling Green State University, lives in Boise with his wife and twin sons. He is in the second year of a three-year appointment as Idaho’s Writer in Residence.

Rudy Kovacs,  Master Weaver
Pocatello
Air date: 12/03/08

    
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Charles Gill,  Painter
Boise
Air date: 12/17/08

Lawrence Smart,  Instument Maker
McCall
Air date: 12/24/08

Dale Harwood,  Saddlemaker
Shelley
Air date: 12/31/08

Dale Harwood, ranch-raised at Grace near Soda Springs, Idaho, has been a packer and guide in the Lochsa River drainage and a buckaroo in Nevada and Oregon. He and his wife operated a retail western tack and saddlery shop in Idaho Falls for 21 years, before moving to acreage on the outskirts of Shelley, Idaho in 1982, where he has continued his saddle craft.  He builds 30-some saddles a year, often putting in 60-hour weeks. Harwood is a founding member of the Traditional Cowboy Arts Association and has been called “the saddlemaker’s saddlemaker…who set the standard for measuring quality workmanship.” Many collectors consider him the country’s greatest living saddlemaker.
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Ben Shedd, Filmaker
Boise
Air date: 1/07/09

Mary Mallaney & Ralph Mossman, Glass Blowers
Driggs 
Air date: 1/14/09

Jyl Hoyt's passion for radio goes back three decades when she had her first radio show titled "Jazz with Jyl."  That was at KUFM in Missoula, Montana where Jyl spent 10 years working briefly as news director then as arts and humanities reporter.  In 1988 Jyl earned a graduate degree in journalism at the University of Montana then moved to Idaho to work at Boise State Radio.  She has filed news spots and stories for National Public Radio, produced numerous arts and humanities programs and did a six-part series on Lewis and Clark that aired regionally.                                                                                      

Guy Hand is an award winning independent radio producer whose work has aired on numerous National Public Radio programs. The Society of Environmental Journalists named his two-part series in Alaska's Tongass National Forest the best feature radio piece of 2002. A Nieman Foundation Report called it "a lesson in the art of radio."

Hand has also written for The Los Angeles Times, Audubon, Sierra, Orion, High Country News, The Idaho Statesman and other magazines, newspapers, and anthologies.