Public invited to take First Thursday Tours to meet artists
July 01, 2011
Art in 8 Transit Shelters and new Main Street Mural Completed!
Boise-Capital City Development Corporation, in partnership with Valley Regional Transit and Boise City Department of Arts and History, funded art on the roofs of eight new transit shelters in downtown Boise on Idaho and Main streets. Boise City funded a new mural called "Strata" on Main and 8th Street by Boise artist Byron Folwell. The public is invited to take a guided tour to meet the artists on First Thursday. Tours are free and open to the public.
When: Thursday, July 7, 2011
4pm , first tour
5pm, second tour (same tour from 4pm repeated)
Where: Meet on the front steps of City Hall,
on Capitol Boulevard between Main & Idaho streets
Tours will go down Main Street from Capitol to 9th St. and
return on Idaho St.;
tours will stop to visit with artists at the transit shelters and
at the Main Street mural.
Featured Idaho Artists:
• Will Spearman and Melissa "Sasi" Chambers,
transit shelters at 8th and Idaho and Capitol Blvd. and Main
Street
• Shantara Sandberg, transit shelter at 9th and Main Street
• Ben Gin, transit shelter at 8th and Main Street
• Chad Erpelding, transit shelter at Idaho and Capitol Blvd.
• April VanDeGrift, transit shelters at 9th and Main Street and
8th and Idaho Street
• Jennifer Manning-Gilbreath, transit shelter at 8th and Main
Street
• Byron Folwell, mural at 8th and Main Street
The transit art project enhances the experience of pedestrians and downtown bus riders experience by providing colorful, unusual artwork to mark the transit shelters, and to provide shade for anyone using them. The project also helps bring interest and a sense of identity to retail businesses nearby. Trademark Sign Company, a locally-owned Boise firm, did the translation of the artists' designs into a vinyl wrap and installed the resulting artwork.
Boise's public art program engages artists in the design of our built environment, decreases graffiti, and increases the unique character of our city streets.