Idle Hands Creative House offers a platform through which idle hands may be put to good use, in short, by an indulgence in the narrative journey.
Kenny Idleman - Artist and Founder
Kenny Idleman certainly has various credentials. Multiple institutions, notably Pikes Peak Community (now State) College and Colorado State University-Fort Collins, have sent them multiple high quality pieces of paper in very thick envelopes, though one was admittedly lost in the mail. Now leading the jewelry and metalsmithing program at Pikes Peak State College, teaching at Bemis School of Art, and hosting and organizing the weekly “Coyoetry” event through Concrete Couch, Kenny has completed the full-circle long-con, meticulously and advantageously manipulating his way into a career in the arts over his long and colorful life.
When teaching, Kenny constantly questions why so many people keep giving him their money to tell them how they’re doing things wrong, but he will gladly continue doing so! In regard to his artwork, Kenny takes particular interest in the visceral physical movement of metal (i.e. raising vessels, chasing and repousse, synclastic and anticlastic forming, etc…), though he can surely learn you up on a wide range of other super cool techniques with equally impressive names. Kenny also runs a monthly book club (the Book Slutz) and writing club (the Writing Slutz), demonstrative of his dalliance with literary delights!
Beyond that Kenny is passionate about the sweeter things in life, namely baked goods, tiny kisses, pretty much anything with a good story, artiodactyla, coordinating outfits with his partner, and living vicariously through his many, many children. When he isn’t caught in the cacophony of quotidian chaos you’ll surely find Kenny doing something highly sophisticated and cultured and shit.