Our local merchants plan exciting, engaging in-store events including food and beverage tastings, local art exhibits, retail trunk shows, live music, family activities, and entertainment in a special and unique way you'll only find in Downtown Boise. Stop into your favorite establishment or check out someplace new!
Events typically run from 5–9pm, but each merchant creatively plans their own event so check each listing below for individual hours and details.
Art Source Gallery
1516 Grove St • 208-331-3374
Art Shop Music Food & Beverage Kid-Friendly Activity
The 22nd Annual Juried Art Exhibition will be on display throughout July at Art Source Gallery. Featuring artists from Idaho, Washington and Oregon, the show presents a diverse selection of 2D and 3D works chosen by juror Katy Shanafelt. An opening reception will be held July 2 from 5–9 p.m., with live music, refreshments, cash prizes and a People’s Choice Award.
Re-POP Gifts
210 N 10th St • 208-991-6112
Art Shop Kid-Friendly
Join us this first Thursday to hang out with our featured artist Lauryl, or The Nubbiest Place! She will be here 4-8pm and will be available to sign prints!
P.S. - If it's your birthday this month don't forget to mention that to us for a 15% discount!
Studio Blue
212 N Ninth St •
Art
Join me, Kristen Edwards in my studio space for First Thursday to view a collection of finished works and an inside look at what’s currently in progress. My paintings are modern, contemporary, and industrial in feel, with a strong focus on texture. Originals, prints, and commissions available.
Studio Blue is located inside Boise Boba and up the stairs.
The Art Room Inc.
508 South 5th Street •
Art Food & Beverage
The Art Room features a new local artist every month. That means new art on the walls of the coffee shop, classes available to the public taught by the featured artist, and a free artist showcase every First Thursday. Join us each month in encouraging local artists and building the Art Room.
Our vision is to see a generation consumed by consumption experience revival in creation. Our mission is to serve Boise with art, coffee, and community and shine the light of Jesus.
Capitol Contemporary Gallery
451 S Capitol Blvd • 208-384-9159
Art
Opening Reception, Thursday, July 2nd, 5:00 -9:00 pm
Capitol Contemporary Gallery is pleased to present its July exhibition, An Artist's Journey: Archie Boyd Teater, featuring the work of renowned Idaho artist Archie Boyd Teater. The gallery is honored to partner with the Hagerman Valley Historical Society & Museum to bring this special exhibition to the community.
Born in Boise in 1901, Archie Teater became a prolific impressionist painter. With a popular studio in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Teater found success painting western scenes, commissioned portraits, and the Teton Range. His art funded trips around the world, and in the 1950s, a studio/home in Idaho designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. The only Frank Lloyd Wright designed structure in Idaho, Teater's Knoll still overlooks the Snake River.
The public is invited to celebrate the exhibition's opening at a free reception on Thursday, July 2, from 5:00–9:00 PM. Guests are invited to enjoy an evening of art and conversation, with complimentary wine from Vizcaya.
In conjunction with the exhibition, scholar and author Lester D. Taylor, whose extensive research culminated in The Life and Art of Archie Boyd Teater, will present a special gallery talk on July 17 at 5:00 PM. Taylor will share insights into Teater's life, artistic legacy, and enduring impact on Idaho's cultural landscape.
We look forward to sharing the remarkable work and story of Archie Boyd Teater with our visitors this summer.
Liquid Lounge
405 S 8th St • (208) 287-5379
Art Shop Music Food & Beverage Activity
First Thursday at Liquid Laughs Undergound!
~ Two Free Comedy Shows! Just the Tips comedy show at 7pm! National touring comedians stop in Boise to perform at Liquid Laughs Underground! Free to attend!
Followed by the Treasure Valley's funniest comedians and some first timers! Free Comedy! Free Laughs! Sign ups at 9pm Show starts at 9:30pm. Ever want to try stand up comedy? This is your chance!
The best deal you will find on First Thursday!
Idaho Art Gallery
702 W Idaho St • (208) 733-4134
Art
Opening Reception: Live Forever and Never Die, Solo Exhibition by Grace Page
Thursday, July 02, 2026 | 5PM-9PM
Idaho Art Gallery | 702 W Idaho St #105 | Downtown Boise
Join us for the opening reception of Live Forever and Never Die, a solo exhibition by Grace Page. This evocative body of work explores the enduring symbolism of fruit trees as vessels of memory, inheritance, and personal history. Through abstraction, the artist examines the space where lived experience and collective meaning intersect, allowing familiar forms to dissolve and reassemble into layered reflections on family, labor, temptation, and belonging.
Based in Boise, Idaho, Grace Page is a contemporary painter whose work explores themes of memory, time, and perception through abstraction and fragmentation. Drawing from personal experience and everyday observation, she creates layered compositions that reflect the fluid nature of memory and the stories we carry forward. Her work has been exhibited throughout Idaho and Utah, inviting viewers to consider how meaning evolves through experience and recollection. Experience this new exhibition, meet the artist, and spend the evening immersed in thoughtful conversation and contemplation.
Boise Art Museum
670 Julia Davis Drive • (208) 345-8330
Art Shop Kid-Friendly Activity
Find inspiration and get creative at BAM during First Thursday! Admission is “pay what you can,” and the Museum is open late, until 7 p.m., to encourage Access for All. Experience BAM’s current exhibitions, including “Jeffrey Gibson: They Teach Love | from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation,” which closes later this month on July 26th.
🎨 Drop in from 4:30 – 6:30 p.m. and get creative in our FREE Studio Art Exploration program in BAM’s Education Studios. Make an abstract painting, inspired by “Visual Language: The Art of Abstraction.”
Generous support provided by Art Bridges Foundation’s Access for All program.
🎁Stop by the BAM STORE to find unique and creative gifts for all ages.
Solid Grill & Bar
405 S 8th St • (208) 345-6620
Art Shop Music Food & Beverage Activity
½ Off Draft Beers, Well Drinks, $2 off all wines and $1 off appetizers from 4pm-6pm & 10pm-Midnight.
Also Liquid Laughs underground in the Solid Cellar we have:
~ Two Free Comedy Shows! Just the Tips comedy show at 7pm! National touring comedians stop in Boise to perform at Liquid Laughs Underground! Free to attend!
Followed by the Treasure Valley's funniest comedians and some first timers! Free Comedy! Free Laughs! Sign ups at 9pm Show starts at 9:30pm. Ever want to try stand up comedy? This is your chance!
The best deal you will find on First Thursday!