Recipients for 2013 Mayor’s Awards for Excellence in Art & History Announced

Boise -- Mayor David Bieter today announced the recipients of the 2013 Mayor's Awards for Excellence in Art & History, which this year includes two Lifetime Achievement awards and three one-time BOISE 150 awards.  Presented every two years, the Mayor's Awards for Excellence in Art & History celebrate people, organizations, and businesses that have contributed to Boise's artistic and cultural community.
 
"Boise's livability depends on its rich arts and cultural enterprises. This type of environment doesn't just happen - it takes tremendous talent and efforts by dedicated individuals and groups to create the many amenities our city enjoys," Mayor Bieter said. "These awards are an opportunity to thank some of our community's contributors and to recognize their accomplishments. In addition, this year we present three BOISE 150 awards based on the sesquicentennial themes of Community, Enterprise, and Environment."
 
Award recipients must have demonstrated distinguished service, creative accomplishment, and a record of performance, publication, presentation, or research that enhances the artistic, historic, and broader cultural life of Boise. The awards began in 1986 to honor the arts, since which time more than 90 people and organizations have been recognized.
 

Mayor's Awards for Excellence in Art & History Recipients for 2013

Excellence in the Arts - Artistic Excellence 
Organization: Boise Contemporary Theater
Individual: Kerry Moosman

Excellence in Art Education
Organization: Boise Rock School
Individual: Rick Jenkins

Excellence in the Arts - Support of the Arts
Organization: Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation
Individual: Susan Smith

Excellence in the Arts - Emerging Organization
Treefort Music Fest

Business Support for the Arts
US Bank

Excellence in History
Friends of Jesus Urquides

Excellence in History Education
Kurt Zwolfer
 
Lifetime Achievement
Esther Simplot
Pug Ostling
 
BOISE 150 Awards
Community - Phil Kushlan
Enterprise - Idaho Statesman
Environment - Don Belts and Eric Jensen

The event honoring the award recipients will be Thursday, September 12, at the Boise Plaza building (1111 W. Jefferson Street, Boise), with live music, a buffet dinner and no host bar.

Ticket are available at mayorsawards.eventbrite.com. Please watch for information at www.boiseartsandhistory.org


ABOUT US
The Department of Arts & History was established by City Ordinance in March 2008 to enhance the Boise community by providing leadership, advocacy, education, services, and support for arts and history. The new Department emerged from the former Boise City Arts Commission, which was established by City Ordinance in 1978 as a nonprofit city agency to advise and assist the City Council in development, coordination, promotion and support of the arts.