Linen District Public Art Installed
March 31, 2010
Four glass tile mosaic panels by Boise artist Reham
A. Aarti will be installed just in time for April's First Thursday.
Her work, titled "Dream Tree" is a colorful, abstracted image of a
tree with branches swirling left and right. The art will be
installed on Grove Street on the black fence between the Linen
Building and Big City Coffee. The mosaic panels will be up from
April 1-July 31st.
This is the first of three
temporary art installations slated for this site. The other two
artists who were selected through a competitive public selection
process are Kate Masterson, whose figurative paintings will be un
from August 5-November 28th, and Matt Bodett, whose paintings will
be up December 1-March 31st.
David Hale installed the black
metal fence, reclaimed from the Modern Hotel renovation, when he
redeveloped the Linen Building in 2006. Panel blanks installed on
the fence were always intended for art; however this is the first
art installation on them.
Capital City Development
Corporation funded this public art project with a $10,000 grant to
Boise City Department of Arts & History, who manages the artist
selection and project maintenance.
For more information contact Karen Bubb