The Garden City Placemaking Fund is:
The Garden City Placemaking Fund is a new partnership between neighbors and leaders and Surel’s Place in the Surel Mitchell Live-Work-Create District designed to ensure paid opportunities for local and emerging artists to create public-facing art and spur creative placemaking efforts that will keep our community vibrant, unique, and vital to the Treasure Valley and beyond.
Unlike the City of Boise, Garden City currently has no established arts department or funding apparatus. Our private-sector/non-profit collaborative aims to fill that gap, to connect with business leaders and developers to create new art-based placemaking opportunities, and lay the groundwork for potential public-sector collaborations with the city, law enforcement, urban renewal districts, federal agencies and more.
Who is involved?
Ashley Dreyfus, local artist
Miguel Almeida, local artist
Julia Green, local artist
James WAR Lloyd, local artist
Matthew Wordell, Visionkit co-founder
Aaron Rodriguez, Visionkit co-founder
Surel's Place
Where is it happening?
The GCPF is taking place primarily in the Surel’s Place Live-Work-Create district but has the potential to expand into surrounding areas.
We currently have several mural locations identified with more to come.
Current locations:
• 33rd & Stockton
• 34th @ Push and Pour
Why does Garden City need this now?
The Surel District is changing rapidly with growth and development. Residents and business leaders are acting to preserve the artistic and creative energy that has shaped the neighborhood over the past several decades. Dozens of artists have lived or kept studios in the district, and their contributions to the culture and economy are significant and worth preserving, protecting and enhancing.
Unlike the City of Boise, Garden City currently has no established arts department or funding apparatus. Our private-sector/non-profit collaborative aims to fill that gap, to connect with business leaders and developers to create new art-based placemaking opportunities, and lay the groundwork for potential public-sector collaborations with the city, law enforcement, urban renewal districts, federal agencies and more.
Additional information on creative placemaking found here.
What do we need?
Our team needs financial sponsors, donors, and partnering organizations to help fund the production and administration of large format public art placemaking projects.
All donations to the fund are tax deductible and go through Surel’s Place, a federally designated 501c3 nonprofit. The money pays for public-facing art, related projects, and the limited costs to run the program.
In addition, we need materials and supplies ranging from paint, lift trucks, power washers, etc.