Cleave Eimers featured
By Marlene O’Neill
In anticipation of Central Idaho Art Association’s (CIAA) 50th Spring Show, May 4, 5, and 6, CIAA celebrates Founding Member, Cleave Eimers. The 50th Show remains at the Bicentennial Historical Museum and will feature the art of founding members.
Mrs. Eimers was indispensable to the founding of the CIAA by serving as the major author of the first ByLaws and developer of club administration. She was the third president of the club as well as holding other offices during the first years. In 1980 she was featured artist of month at First Security Bank and was Featured Artist at the club’s 1981 Spring Art Show.
Mrs. Eimers majored in art in the New Jersey high school she attended. Free Press interview of October 8, 1980, noted that her home environment always included art materials and encouraged creative endeavors.  Her energy and enthusiasm were nurtured toward a creative nature:  enjoying rather than learning. She considered art her first love. Her mother traditionally introduced the family to some new art tool at Christmas time--finger paints one year, an easel another year.
Mrs. Eimers has shown her work in Central Idaho Art Association shows and in Lewiston. She habitually won ribbons in the shows she entered. She believed that she could share beauty and goodness through her art.
After many art classes, Mrs. Eimers changed her course of work to scientific study focusing on developing a work skill. She later went on to advanced study and became a registered nurse. However, with a variety of art courses offered throughout her high school years, Mrs. Eimers continued her enjoyment of art.
She has taken lessons wherever and whenever she could, the University of Idaho, Boise, LCSC, Spokane, and Grangeville, realizing that growing and learning comes with the new approaches, new techniques offered by different instructors. She considered herself an impressionist. 
Her repertoire in art forms included painting—oil and water color; sculpting with both clay and bronze; basketry molding; ink; pastel; weaving and tapestry. She had a studio in Grangeville that provided her great joy. Mrs. Eimers preferred working from life, using photos only on occasion, usually in a class. 

Cleave Eimers with some of her artwork.

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