BY KAREN BOSSICK

A Pakistani artist who created a colorful drone for Company of Fools recent production of “Grounded,” will talk about her work on Thursday, Feb. 23, at the Sun Valley Center for the Arts in Ketchum.

Mahwish Chisty, who was born in Pakistan but has enjoyed several residences in the United States, will be present for the free exhibition tour of “Rayguns, Robots, Drones,” which begins at 5:30 p.m.

Following the tour she will present a slide show explaining how she has incorporated her training as a miniature painter into her work on drones, using traditional techniques to tackle issues with contemporary political and social relevance.

Chishty will also discuss the impact of her 2011 visit to Pakistan, during which she was overwhelmed by the pervasive presence of drones. She began a series of paintings of drones covered with imagery drawn from Pakistani folk art traditions—the kind you see on the colorful trucks that ply Pakistan’s streets.

Chisty says she paints truck art imagery on the war machines, hoping to open a dialogue about Pakistani culture.

Her model Predator drone fills the ceiling of The Center’s Project Room.

Chisty was initially trained as a miniature painter at the National College of Arts in Lahore, Pakistan, before getting a Masters of Fine Arts at the University of Maryland. She has exhibited her work internationally in such far-flung places as Sydney, Australia; Brooklyn, N.Y., London, United Kingdom, and Fukuoka Shi, Japan.

The “Rayguns, Robots, Drones” will run through March 25.

Members of the Wood River High School Robotics Team (BCB Bots) will be on hand to discuss the technologies they created for the 2016-2017 VEX Robotics Competition during the final tour for the exhibition on March 16.