Boise Arts And History

Each Monday on Idaho Matters, we’ll bring you a snapshot of a small corner of our Capital City and its unique past and today we head to the Boise Bench!

African weaving workshops in Idaho are spinning tradition into community, culture and connection.

Preservation Idaho is bringing back its ArchWalks series, providing a lineup of guided tours to explore the rich history of Boise’s architecture.

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…