First Friday Art Walk featuring Sandra Thoen

Please join us in celebrating our featured artist, Sandra Thoen. Her opening reception is Friday April 3, 2026, from 5-8 pm.

Sandra Thoen is a self-taught, multi-medium, multi-genre artist based in Southeast Idaho. Over the years, Sandra has enjoyed creating representational, pen and ink art for t-shirts for her son’s t-ball teams, and for Idaho State University groups. Further, Sandra has created dozens of full-wall murals for children’s bedrooms, always taking the child’s ideas for the mural into consideration. It’s amazing to watch a child’s eyes light up when their ideas come to fruition on their bedroom wall. The aging process has taken Sandra’s ability to paint murals away, but her desire to create other art endures.

Sandra describes her current works as “emotive pours, pushes, and pulls of colorful acrylic paint across the canvas. I never know which emotions or images may materialize. I may produce mandalas, seashells, flowers, mountains, an arid desert, or a melody on the canvas. It’s always a surprise to see what materializes.”