YOU'VE
YOU'VE LIKELY SPENT SOME TIME IN IDAHO'S CAPITAL CITY... BOISE!
THAT MEANS YOU'RE
ALSO LIKELY TO HAVE
PASSED BY A NUMBER OF
PIECES OF PUBLIC ART
THAT LEFT YOU
WONDERING... WHAT IS
THAT?
EARLIER THIS YEAR... WE
CAUGHT UP WITH BOISE'S
PUBLIC
PUBLIC ART PROGRAM MANAGER TO GET THE ANSWER TO THAT
QUESTION.
STANDING ON CITY HALL
PLAZA, WHICH WAS
COMPLETED IN 2017. AND
THIS IS A NEW PROJECT
THAT WAS DEVELOPED
SPECIFICALLY FOR THE
NEW PLAZA AND
BETWEEN CARVER AND
ZACH HILL CAME
TOGETHER IT'S REALLY
INTERESTING FAIR
PROJECTS. AND SO THEY
COLLABORATE WITH
ENGINEERS THE
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS
CITY STAFF. AND SO THE
PROJECT
PROJECT TODAY IS TITLED COTTONWOODS, WHEN YOU'RE STANDING IN THE
MIDST OF THE
SCULPTURES YOU GET
THAT SENSE OF, SORT OF
AN ENCLOSED SPACE A
MORE QUIET SPACE, AS IF
YOU'RE STANDING
AMONGST THE TREES
ALONGSIDE THE RIVER.
WE'RE GONNA HEAD OUT
OF CITY HALL PLAZA HERE
AND HEAD TO SOUTH
DOWN CAPITOL
BOULEVARD. LOOKING AT
A DEPICTION OF THE
BASQUE COUNTRY, AND
YOU SEE THE
BACKGROUND, THE ONE
THING THAT
DIFFERENTIATES THE
LANDSCAPE, COMPARED
TO IDAHO IS THE ACCESS
TO THE SEA. WE THEN
ENCOUNTER THIS
ABSTRACT FIGURE, AND
THIS FIGURE IS OLD FROM
PICASSO PAINTING ONE
OF HIS MOST FAMOUS HIS
DEPICTION OF GUERNICA,
YOU'LL SEE OFTENTIMES
THE OAK TREE OR OAKLEY
ASSOCIATED WITH
BASQUE CULTURE THAT
HAS THE DEPICTION OF
THE TRADITIONAL
DANCERS, AND IN THIS
PARTICULAR DEPICTIONS
ARE DOING THE HOOP
DANCE, AND THE CENTER
HERE, WE HAVE TWO
FIGURES THAT ARE
REPRESENTED ONE IS A
VERY PROMINENT BASS
MUSICIAN ACCORDION
PLAYER, AND THEN A
LOCAL STRONG MAN SO
THE PAST TWO
STRONGMAN
COMPETITION. AND ONE
OF THE SEEDS IS TO WORK
ON THIS VERY LARGE
BLOCK OF STONE. AND
THEN FINALLY WE ROUND
OUT WITH THE DEPICTION
OF IDAHO AGAIN THAT
THROUGH THREAT OF THE
LANDSCAPE, TYING THESE
TWO DISPARATE PLACES
TOGETHER.
WE HAD JUST ACROSS THE
STREET TO CHECK OUT
THE RIVER SMELTER.
THICOMMISSIONENAMED ALISON SKY.
STREET TO CHECK OUT THE RIVER SMELTER. THICOMMISSIONENAMED ALISON SKY.C
SITE
SITE SPECIFIC LOCATIONS, WHICH TAKES THE VIEWER BACK FOR TIME TO LOOK
AT A HISTORIC LOCATION.
AND SO, WHERE WE'RE
STANDING
STANDING RIGHT NOW WOULD HAVE BEEN BOISE'S CHINATOWN, IF
YOU
YOU APPROACH IT, YOU CAN LOOK THROUGH THE VIEWERS, THERE'S AN
ILLUMINATED HISTORIC
PHOTOGRAPH. THIS ONE
IS OF A RESTAURANT THAT
USED TO BE ACROSS THE
STREET FROM THIS EXACT
LOCATION. IN TOTAL WE
HAVE ALMOST 900 WORKS
OF ART IN THE CITY'S
PUBLIC ART COLLECTION.
ONE
ONE IN
ONE IN A
ONE IN A SERIES OF THREE, AND IT'S CALLED HISTORIC SITE BOISE
CHINATOWN. THAT'S BY
LOCAL ARTIST DWAYNE
CARVER. AND SO, OF THE
THREE VIEWERS THEY'RE
ALL POSITIONS AND VERY
SITE SPECIFIC LOCATIONS,
WHICH TAKES THE VIEWER
BACK FOR TIME TO LOOK
AT A HISTORIC LOCATION.
AND SO, WHERE WE'RE
STANDING RIGHT NOW
WOULD HAVE BEEN
BOISE'S CHINATOWN, IF
YOU APPROACH IT, YOU
CAN LOOK THROUGH THE
VIEWERS, THERE'S AN
ILLUMINATED HISTORIC
PHOTOGRAPH. THIS ONE
IS OF A RESTAURANT THAT
USED TO BE ACROSS THE
STREET FROM THIS EXACT
LOCATION. IN TOTAL WE
HAVE ALMOST 900 WORKS
OF ART IN THE CITY'S
PUBLIC ART COLLECTION.
KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN
BECAUSE THERE'S PUBLIC
ART AS WE SAW,
INTEGRATED INTO THE
SURFACES THAT WE WALK
ON INTEGRATE INTO THE
SPACE AND WE WALK
THROUGH WE PASS BY WE
TRY
TRY BY
TRY BY ALL THE TIME.
YOU
YOU PROBABLY NOTICED... KARL WAS WEARING A COAT WHEN HE GAVE US
THE TOUR!
WE SHOT THIS PIECE IN
THE EARLY MONTHS OF
THIS YEAR... BUT OF
COURSE, NO MATTER
WHAT TIME OF YEAR IT IS...
TAKING A LOOK AT BOISE'S
PUBLIC ART IS A GREAT
WAY TO ENJOY THE
CREATIVITY AND BEAUTY
OF THE CITY.
IDAHO TODAY