Buckle up, there’s a lot coming up.

Our latest art show is up for a minimum of 2 more events at the new FOUR ONE ONE SPACE at 411 W. Sullivan Street in downtown Miami Arizona, off highway 60, west of Globe and east of Superior.  Another opening will be for the 2nd Saturday Art Walk and Car Show, April 13th, 2024.  We were planning the Poetry Procession for Loco today and Jules mentioned dressing as a clown and my memory was thrust back to Michael Twenty-Three who dressed as a clown last year with multiple planned scenarios up his sleeve. Now we are entering the first Miami Loco Arts Festival without him since we started it in 2009. So there is a quiet to this one, and a hilarity.

Featured will be my Blackhole Collage Player-Piano-Paper-Pieces; sculpture and chapbooks by Libby Rooney; a piece by international artist ShaiLee; skate world paintings and prints by Shane Long; Hieronymous Bogs poems, music and art; Britta Garbo’s “Calling Cards” as well as printed and framed poetry by Trinity Murchie.

 

Four One One Space open 10am-pm, or even later for special shows during Miami Loco. 411 W. Sullivan St. Miami AZ

FRIDAY EVENING CONCERTS AT FOUR ONE ONE SPACE 
Live Experimental Music To Be Announced.

Current Literary Line Up at FOUR ONE ONE SPACE for Saturday, April 20th:
– 11am-12:45: Tellers Of Tales and Poets Inc. (Open to all to read, recite or just listen.)
– 1pm-1:45  GARRETT SMITH (poet) 
– 2pm-2:45: LEA MUELLER (poet and novelist) 
– 3pm-4:45 – Liz Warren’s Storyteller’s Stage
– 5pm-6pm ORGANIC POETRY PART ONE with Jules Dinehdeal (Cleopache) 
– 6pm: Poetry Procession, beginning at 411 and then going from place to place around town, people reading poems at their chosen spaces, ending at Miami Art Work’s Courtyard Poetry Slam.

SATURDAY EVENING CONCERTS AT FOUR ONE ONE SPACE 
Live Experimental Music To Be Announced.

Sunday, April 21st:
2pm Ken Boe’s DANCING THE SHOVEL with some of his greatest poems read to sound performance at Four One One Space with guided experimental and improvisational sound work, butoh dance by Eric Hodgins, and select other troubadours from the Phoenix Experimental Music Scene.
Organic Poetry, Part Two: 3PM – come gather around, relax, and complete the weekend with your most grounded and connected poetry to share with the others you have bonded with over this warm and wondrous weekend. This much has always been true.

PREQUIL: April 13th, 2024

Warming up for Loco is the next art walk:
April 13th, 10AM – 5PM at FOUR ONE ONE SPACE

Open for the next 2nd Saturday Art Walk in Miami Arizona which takes over the town with fun vendors, live music on installed stages, art shows, and closing with the best open mic in Arizona at Miami Art Works 509 W. Sullivan. Then comes Arizona’s most underground arts festival: The MIAMI LOCO ARTS FESTIVAL that we’ll be open for April 19th-21st 2024,
Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Story, poetry and music performances will be held in Four One One Space throughout the weekend.

Special thanks to our sponsor Miami Rose Trading Company. Antiques which inspire, and just down the street on the corner: A SOURCE OF MUCH OF MY WORK’S PIANO SCROLL!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PPPP at Four One One Space in Miami AZ

March 9th, 10AM -5PM
Open Mic 5PM down the street.
April 13th, 10AM – 5PM
Open Mic 5PM down the street.
Miami Loco Arts Festival April 19th-21st 2024,
The whole weekend.

The Blackhole Collage show of my Player-Piano-Paper-Pieces is up for a minimum of three events at the Four One One Space at 411 W. Sullivan Street in downtown Miami Arizona off highway 60 west of Globe. These are automatic drawing and painting pieces collaged over with 100+ year old Player Piano Scroll, with its texture of holes for notes, and fragment of lyrics and symbols in unique old fonts.

Also are layers of 1940’s catalog images and text, cancelling each other out into blackholes of abstraction. These papers I make transparent with my archival mediums, creating a distorted window to the surreal imagery beneath the papers. My hope is that these anomalous ways of seeing open a portal to the imagination.

Also featured will be poetry and story reading events, sculpture by Libby Rooney, a piece by international artist ShaiLee, paintings by Shane Long, Britta Garbo’s “Calling Cards” as well as printed and framed poetry by Trinity.

Open for the next two 2nd Saturday Art Walks in Miami which take over the town with fun, live music on stages throughout the town, art shows, and the best open mic in Arizona at Miami Art Works 509 W. Sullivan. Then comes the big arts weekend I helped found in 2009, Arizona’s most underground: The MIAMI LOCO ARTS FESTIVAL. 
Special thanks to our sponsor Miami Rose Trading Company. Antiques which inspire, just down the street on the corner.

Reception at Historic Thamm Gallery

The new show is up at Forty Main Bisbee…Historic Thamm Gallery. “Beloved”  I like what Nohava has done with these four pieces of mine in her curation of it. They’re encaustic gesso-grosso, some assemblage and some oil. I’ll be hybridizing all my different techniques and series over the next few years. Reception 01/20/24, 5pm. The show will run 3 months but I’m doing replacement pieces in case anything sells, and you can take it with you. Plus a couple other bonus pieces of mine to see of advanced Player-Piano-Paper-Pieces.

Blackhole Collage at Artist Abbey

Blackhole Collage: Player-Piano-Paper-Pieces
Dec. 9–Jan.30, 2024 by appointment or during Abbey events

Ken Boe will also be arriving in Truth or Consequences NM on February 23rd by Limousine with the Bisbee Invasion coming from The Hitching Post on one of their journeys spreading Bisbee music (and in my case also poetry.)

The Re-Make Show at Central School Project

My piece titled Approaching Noon, for the Re-Make show at Central School Project. Medium: found deserted plywood, crayons recycled from Yellowstone restaurants, found objects, and oil paints. Fernando Serrano, photo credit. 

The Re-Make Show at Central School Project in old Bisbee, continues through December 3, 2023, weekends only 11am–4pm. 43 Howell Ave, Bisbee, AZ 85603.

 

Experimental Poet and more

W. David Oliphant will be responding to my spoken word inflections, meanings, and cadences with his building sound language where every key on his keyboards are differently constructed phonemes from which he’ll compose live throughout the readings, and in-between the readings. I’ll be reading and vocalizing the full lyric sequence poems from the Tatterdemalion Daydream manuscript as never heard before, plus a series of other works, and many newer poems.

I’m also in a couple group art shows this weekend:
The Re-Make Show at Central School Project in old Bisbee, with my hyper-object abstract landscape painting of found materials, including a pine resin crayon encaustic medium from crayons recycled from the restaurants of Yellowstone National Park, found desert-weathered plywood, old pull-top cans from a local field from years of someone’s consistent habit of beer drinking.
Reception Friday night 11/17/23 6-9pm. 
Open weekends 11-4 through December 3rd.

43 Howell Ave, Bisbee, AZ 85603

(I’ll also have a small piece in the Erotic Art Show at The Bisbee Quarry in Brewery Gulch Saturday the 18th beginning at 7pm. A ticketed burlesque show follows.)

Ken Boe LIVE at The Pythian Castle

The Pythian Castle
29OK Street in Old Bisbee
Wednesday August 30, 2023, at 7pm

Ken Boe live at The Pythian Castle at 29 OK Street In Old Bisbee with music and voice by Carolyn Toronto’s and guest performer Tamela Turtle who will also be doing her own set; paintings by Tucson artist Matt Cotton and Bisbee artist Douglas Weber; singer songwriter Gerry Butterwick, and hosted by fiction writer and poet Leah Mueller. I’ll be doing a reading of poems written or arranged with Carolyn Toronto’s just for this event.

Player-Piano-Paper-Pieces at Changing Hands Bookstore In The Newton

The Player-Piano-Paper-Pieces
Collage paintings by Ken Boe
Closing reception: Sunday, August 13th, 2023, 5–7pm
Changing Hands Bookstore In The Newton
300 W Camelback Rd Ste 1, Phoenix, AZ

Come join me and the crew for the closing reception of my art exhibition at Changing Hands Bookstore In The Newton at the Phoenix Location! These are the Pieces where I turn the paper transparent so that the automatic drawing images come through, while still retaining their text, texture and context — kind of like cut-up poetry meets painting(they used to stand around the piano singing a hundred years ago, which this paper is even older than, mounted on panel.) And I will update everyone on my new art theory project Alien Aesthetics, and do a short reading of some of my best poems.