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Boise City Department of Arts and History is kicking off the 2013 Sesquicentennial Season with the opening of the Sesqui-Shop in Boise’s Gem Building on December 13th. It will serve as an interpretive center, gallery, and storefront for Boise history … Continue reading
Tim Woodward Awarded 2011 Mayor’s Award For Lifetime Achievement
Tim Woodward was born in Boise and attended Boise schools. He was a communications technician in the Navy and graduated from the University of Idaho in 1971 with a degree in journalism. He went to work at The Idaho … Continue reading
Doug StanWiens Awarded 2011 Mayor’s Award For Excellence in History Education
As a high school history teacher in the Boise Public Schools, Doug StanWiens created the Boise Architecture Project (BAP), engaging students to document Boise’s historic and contemporary architecture. He started the program when he taught at Timberline; he now teaches … Continue reading
Leah Clark Awarded 2011 Mayor’s Award For Excellence in Art Education
Leah Stephens Clark founded Balance Dance Company in 1997. This contemporary youth company has trained hundreds of young women in modern dance. Balance works with several choreographers every season, both local and national. Balance presents several performances including two fully … Continue reading
Idaho Shakespeare Festival Awarded 2011 Mayor’s Awards For Excellence in Art Education
The Idaho Shakespeare Festival provides theater arts programming that is integrated into the curricula of approximately 73% of the school districts in Idaho, as well as parts of Oregon and Nevada. Through its school tours, Shakespearience and Idaho Theater for … Continue reading
Planmakers Awarded 2011 Mayor’s Awards For Business Support for History
John Bertram, owner of Planmakers, has dedicated his professional planning practice to developing cultural plans and preserving Boise’s architectural history. Past projects include the renewal of the 8th Street Marketplace in the 1970s, development of C.W. Moore Park, and documentation … Continue reading
Artists in Cells Exhibition – A Celebration of 10 Years of Percent for Art
I’m Glad You’re Here, Grant Olsen, 2006, Charles F. McDevitt Youth Sports Complex In celebrating 10 years of Boise’s Percent for Art program, 8 artists have been chosen to exhibit at the 2011 Mayor’s Awards for Excellence in Art & … Continue reading
A&H Photo Challenge
YOUR CHALLENGE: Photograph Boise’s Art & History (with a digital camera or phone app). Capture what inspires you in the City of Trees. All photos must include a historic landmark or publicly viewed artwork. Top 3 staff picks will be included … Continue reading
Saint Alphonsus Awarded 2011 Mayor’s Awards For Business Support for the Arts
In 2001 Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center initiated the design of a new building to house updated and technologically sophisticated critical care areas and surgery suites. Early in the design process they became members of The Center for Healthcare Design’s … Continue reading
Boise Historic Streetcar Souvenir Booklets: Then and Now
In 1906, the Joseph Collins Company published a souvenir booklet for the Boise and Interurban Railway Company (pictured above). Titled ‘Souvenir Edition: Showing Scenery along the Route of Boise and Interurban Railway, Boise and Caldwell’, this publication aimed to educate … Continue reading
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