From quilts to digital prints, the city s COVID Community Collection captures the feelings of the pandemic. Author: Brian Holmes Updated: 5:29 PM MDT April 23, 2021
BOISE, Idaho Last summer, during the first COVID-19 surge, the Boise City Department of Arts and History set out to make sure to capture the moment in history through the help of local artists.
The department sent a call-out for artists to create something that would grasp the difficulties and the determination of coping with a global health crisis.
By August, more than two dozen pieces of work, ranging from quilts to poems and digital prints, were submitted to what would become Boise s Community Collection. The department hopes it will explain what happened to future generations.
School of Public Service co-hosts the Minidoka Civil Liberties Symposium January 12, 2021
Children held at Minidoka during World War II.
The Minidoka National Historic site will mark its 20th anniversary as a unit of the National Park Service on Sunday, Jan. 17 with the Minidoka Civil Liberties Symposium, a series of virtual programs.
Program hosts include Friends of Minidoka, Minidoka Pilgrimage Planning Committee, and the Japanese American Memorial Pilgrimages with support from Boise State School of Public Service, ACLU Idaho, the Community Library (Ketchum), and Boise City Department of Arts and History.
The Minidoka War Relocation Center near Jerome, Idaho operated from 1942 to 1945, one of 10 camps where Japanese Americans, both citizens and resident “aliens,” were held during World War II. Minidoka housed 9,397 Japanese Americans, predominantly from Oregon, Washington, and Alaska. Read more in the latest Blue Review.