BY KAREN BOSSICK

Those who venture out on tonight’s Labor Day Gallery Walk will be able to see the exquisite works of William Morris, an internationally known glassblower.

 His work is part of a group exhibition opening tonight at Friesen Gallery that includes works by Nicole Chesney, Tom Lieber and Barbara Vaughn.

You can catch them from 5 to 8 tonight—Friday, Aug. 31—at Friesen Gallery, 320 First Avenue North.

Other highlights of tonight’s walk:

• Gail Severn Gallery, 400 First Avenue North, will have three solo exhibitions of female painters, all of which will take part in a free Artist Chats at 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 1, at the gallery.

  Kathy Moss’ work has evolved over the past 20 years into a personal iconography with floating objects employed as signs. She turns flowers, seed pods, skeletons of pine cones and thistles into icons. She also addresses issues of power by presenting imaginary arrangements that would not occur in the natural world.

  Anne Siems, who is internationally known, paints figures and animals inspired by early European and American landscapes. The settings of her narrative paintings are based in part from her childhood memories in the woodlands and forests of Germany. But her work is contemporary, as well.

  Always before, Siems paired animals with humans. This new line of work makes animals the sole focus. Siems says the bear resembles a guardian and guide spirit animal that accompanies her, often carrying a specific message, as she’s faced with new task.

  Linda Christensen’s work is inspired by her sensitive observation of friends and strangers—as a child, she was always in tune with the shifts in mood of those around her. As an artist, she catches people who are in a private place and are turned inwards.

• SUN VALLEY CENTER FOR THE ARTS, Fifth and Washington streets, is showcasing an exhibition titled “Burchfield’s Influence: Hayley Barker, Anna Fidler, Katey Stone.”

  The tour features the work of 20^th century artist Charles E. Burchfield who transformed his belief in a spiritualized natural world into radiant landscape paintings inspired by pilgrimage sites, divine experiences and landscape. The other three artist are contemporary artists who have been inspired by Burchfield’s work. The exhibition includes works that Fidler made during a residency at the Sun Valley Center in Hailey, which was the birthplace of the poet Ezra Pound.

• GILMAN CONTEMPORARY, 661 Sun Valley Road, is showcasing a selection of gallery artists. Included are Wendel Wirth’s landscapes of Idaho farms in winter, Laurie Victor Kay’s metro series, James Austin Murray’s black oil paintings and Jane Maxwell’s mixed media and resin images of runway models.
• BROSCHOFSKY GALLERIES, 360 East Avenue, is shining the spotlight on its collection of historic photographs taken by Edward Curtis, who is regarded as one of history’s finest photographers and ethnologists. He spent 30 years documenting the North American Indian from 1893 to 1928. It wasn’t easy—he had to carry all his camera equipment via pack horse but he was able to shoot more than 40,000 photographs of every major Native American tribe west of the Mississippi before their old ways of life disappeared.
• KNEELAND GALLERY, 271 First Ave. N., is featuring works by Andrzej Skorut, a Polish artist who now finds inspiration in the landscapes of his adopted home in Utah.

  Also on display are works by Seth Winegar, who overcame a double lung and liver transplant in his youth to become a landscape painter whose work is featured in many museum collections.

  Both artists will be in attendance.

• MESH GALLERY, 4^th Street and Leadville Avenue, will feature new works by Sawtooth Wilderness ranger Ed Cannady, who has captured images of Glacier National Park, Teton National Park and the Wind River area.
• WOOD RIVER FINE ARTS, 360 East Avenue, will spotlight images of the Old West by Terri Moyers, who was inducted into the Cowgirl Hall of Fame. Her work will hang alongside that of her husband John Moyers whose work has won the museum purchase award at the Masters of the American West show at the Autry Museum in Los Angeles in 2017.
• FREDERIC BOLOIX FINE ARTS, 351 Leadville Ave., will feature the multi-layered expressionistic works of German American artist Rainer Gross
• HARVEY ART PROJECT, 659 Sun Valley Road, is featuring works by Australian women artists of Mimili Maku Arts, including Milatjari Pumani and Kunmanara Injiki Tjapalyi. They were inspired by stories of Antara, an important ceremonial site, that have been passed down through song and dance. The area, for awhile a cattle station, has been returned to aboriginal ownership through the 1981 AP Lands Act.