I’ll be performing live this Sunday on July 6th, 2025 from 1-3pm, and I hope you will join us if you are in Bisbee, Arizona. Earl’s Cafe is a really beautiful venue which is the back side of the The Warner Hotel which was recently renovated after sitting vacant for more than half a century. Ben Dale is a sculptor who builds his sound instruments, and you’ll see some of his commissioned figurative copper sculptures right outside Earl’s Cafe off of Subway Street. That’s how you know you’re headed in the right direction. Dylan Morgan is a renowned expressionist painter, and poet, who also plays the cello and simultaneously the keyboards with his feet. This celebration will be a fundraiser for the Bisbee Poetry Normalization Project which I’m bringing out of the mothballs to counter the zombie normalization going on these days. I began it in late 2017. Please support. which you can also do at patreon.com/kenboe where I also have my Poem At Night series, putting up new poems for every night.
Learn more about my Poem-A-Night campaign on Patreon, raising money to re-launch the Bisbee Poetry Normalization Project, and its variations, including a new poem in that vein for Miami, Arizona that came out of a wonderful workshop last night with Logan Philips.
Friday night (next week!) on 4/11 we’re kicking off early for the Miami Loco Arts Festival at the 411 Space with the “Performance Art Reception” for the “Dial 411 For Information” Art Show. It’s to see all weekend, and as a place to relax, including poetry, story telling and a couple of acoustic acts booked on the Loco Band Schedule.
But Friday night until 11 pm will occur a mind altering journey of performance art, projection, experimental beauty and poetics, nonstop.
Be sure to visit the Miami Rose Trading Company on the corner who have hosted us in this cool old space!
Starts early at 4:11pm, what can I say? Here’s the line up:
Visual Artists at the MIAMI LOCO ARTS FESTIVAL Show “Dial 411 For Information”, Curated by Ken Boe
And of course, refreshments will be Served at the “Performance Art Reception” on Friday 4/11 at 4:11 PM at the 411 Space on 411 Sullivan Street Miami AZ.
Next door to the new Meadery Meading Of The Minds LLC with a number of artists, musicians and vendors including Tucson’s breakout artist Tracy Brown.
The Performance Artists Friday night will include:
5pm – Crisis Sisters: Lisa Pirro and Cleopache,
with Vic Void.
6pm – Shai-Lee Horodi, projection.
7pm – Butoh Sonics, sound sculpture and dance.
8pm – Heironymous Bogs, poetry, song and ritual.
9pm – Ken Boe with David Alexander McDonald, poetry to Electronic Music: The Alien Aesthetics Poems.
10 pm – Andrew van Baal on the Kaoscillator, transcending the false dualities of chaos and order.
Performance times vary, but will average around 40 minutes and 11 seconds.
ARRIVING ON THURSDAY? Be sure to attend my new exhibition WIND (video above), of large canvas whip paintings at a freshly painted and stunning The Lyric Soda Fountain in the Miami Art Works Block next to Thee 23 Skidoo. We’ll have an art reception there at 5pm to 7pm on 3/10/25 concurrent to the new Resilient Hub “Lear Garden” party out back. Also at Miami Art Works next door is the Cat Show which I’ll have a brand new whip painting for in addition to these, and one at 411 Space.
My next art show of 20 new pieces and a live performance is Saturday February 1st, has a noon-2pm reception followed by a performance of my Alien Aesthetics poems to electronic music by David Alexander McDonald at 2pm out in The Back Yard.
Up all month at The Warren Peace Cafe: 123 Arizona Street, Bisbee AZ 85603
THREE EVENTS THIS WEEK that I’m preparing for. Tuesday night reading at the Copper Queen Library at 5pm, a line up of really good poets SPEAKING THE UNSPEAKABLE.
Then on Friday The 13th is the Xmas Art party After Dark at The Hitching Post, getting started at 6-7PM, bands and other performances go all night after 8. See poster below.
Sunday the 15th at 6:30 I’ll be performing almost all new and original poems from my ALIEN AESTHETICS series, with original Electronic Music by the one and only David Alexander McDonald. Click through the images to see the posters.
Where:The Gallery at 40 Main Street, Bisbee AZ, where I also have art works both in the front and back.
Thursday and Friday November 7th and 8th. 6:30-7:30 each night, Sidepony Music Festival weekend Bisbee, AZ. Saturday the 9th I’ll be featured poet at Miami Art Works for the best open mic in Arizona. 509 Sullivan Miami AZ. at Miami Art Works for the best open mic in Arizona.
Again, I cannot begin to express my gratitude to Steve Hanson for the opportunity for an artist residency at Art Farm Iowa in June and July 2024. It was productive, rejuvenating, hard work, fun, and so much more. A complete writeup to follow, but for now, some highlights:
Beginning with my June 2024, month-long Iowa artist residency, some of my artwork will be available in the Art Farm Iowa store. Your purchase supports me as an artist, and furthers the mission of this non-profit public charity to develop culture alongside agriculture in northern Iowa.
The 4th of July is a big four-day event in Northwood Iowa, with free events at the Art Farm July 4-7 following a paid dinner on the 3rd. I’ll be performing whip painting and poetry at 5pm on the 4th of July, and then each day the 5th through 7th “High Noon Poetry” as well as poetry and whip painting at 3pm each day.
4953 Olive Avenue Northwood, IA, 50459 United States
Open to the public
I’ve received a significant artist and poet residency at Art Farm Iowa, which I’m arriving early to on June 14th for the big yard sale which I’ll be adding something to. During my time there we’ll be breaking the rules in both subtle and in bold ways, in this artist-as-outlaw themed experiment. I’ll be painting with whips, putting poems around town and on the farm, getting folks to hold my hand as I scribble the wind, and numerous Player-Piano-Paper-Pieces in the gift show gallery. Keep in touch or visit in person to find out more, I’m going to be having a lot of fun on site, as will others, and some Alien Aesthetics…
We’ll be reinventing what we’re doing as a culture, versus idiomatic stagnation. No nihilist trends on the farm with me, folks. I have a lot to share and since this somehow became the Arizona Artist Outlaw residency, we’ll be coloring behind the lines. Stay tuned for more intriguing announcements which will be their own original content, in and of themselves, like this draft poster “No Beauty Without Contradiction.”
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.
Special thanks to our sponsor Miami Rose Trading Company. Antiques which inspire, just down the street on the corner.
