Boise Arts And History

September 22, 2022 – quite a day at 617 Ash Street. On the day the City of Boise swings the doors open to the Erma Hayman House, Morning Edition host George Prentice previews the restoration and art installations and talks about Mrs. Hayman's life-long (she lived to be 102) legacy of love.

Odds are, you’ve driven by it a hundred times – a modest one bedroom, one bathroom house in Boise’s River Street neighborhood. Built in sandstone about the same time as the Idaho Statehouse (built of the same material), most people called 617 Ash Street “Erma’s place, " or the "Hayman house.”

Boise Art and History commissions artwork from local artists to change traffic boxes into vibrant art pieces.

Idaho Matters takes a look inside of Erma Hayman House, a 115 year old single family home that is being preserved as a cultural site in Downtown Boise.

Tania Alvarez, Artist in Residence at Boise’s James Castle House, believes in ghosts… or at least the spiritual presence of the late enigmatic genius James Castle.

This interview originally aired July 22, 2020.Have you heard of Erma Hayman? The Boisean lived a long and influential life, much of it spent in the…

Have you heard of Erma Hayman? The Boisean lived a long and influential life, much of it spent in the historic River Street Neighborhood. Hayman, who was…

For more than 20 years, the City of Boise’s Arts and History Department has offered grants to individuals and organizations big and small to fund projects…

This interview originally aired Apr. 24, 2020. Boiseans might recognize her from her 2019 art installation “Open Air Archive” which pasted portraits of…

We all know that the show must go on! But how does that show go on when no one is allowed into the performance hall - not even the performers? We hear…