Boise Renewed
Boise Renewed
- Creator: Josephine Jones & Kathy Wren
- Date: 1996
- Location: City Hall
- Types: Mixed Media
- Collection: Boise Visual Chronicle
Boise Renewed is a 1996 collaboration between visual artist Kathy Wren and poet Josephine Jones. Originally conceived as a piece of performance art incorporating broadsides of Jones's poems superimposed onto slides of Wren's art, the work first appeared as a 20-minute continuous videotape. Boise Renewed is one slide from their performance, touching on themes of place, environment, and history in the Boise area.
The Boise Visual Chronicle (BVC) is a city-owned collection of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs and other works depicting life in Boise. The collection provides a rich visual document of Boise’s changing landscape, people and perspectives. The BVC also forms a unique portrait of the artistic vitality and evolving perceptions of artists in the region. With original funding from the Greater Boise Auditorium District, additional works are acquired or commissioned and funded by Boise City and Capital City Development Corporation (CCDC). Works from the collection are exhibited at the Boise Centre on the Grove, Boise City Hall, CCDC’s offices and the Boise Airport.
