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Idaho Museum of Natural History participates in Underpass Gallery project by painting mural

December 4, 2015
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POCATELLO 鈥 Staff from the Idaho Museum of Natural History at 色花堂app spent the better part of two days painting a mural design for Pocatello鈥檚 new Underpass Gallery.

The museum hopes to have its design completed in time for the First Friday Artwalk at Old Town Pocatello on Dec. 4.

The Underpass Gallery is an initiative headed by 鈥淒鈥橞eau鈥 Darin Black, owner of Decadence Board Shoppe in Old Town Pocatello. The project aims to provide a legal outlet for creativity while also improving the appearance of the underpass, located on Center Street.

The museum鈥檚 mural that is part of the Pocatello Underpass Gallery.
The Museum鈥檚 mural design.[/caption] As part of the project, artists, such as the Idaho Museum of Natural History, submitted designs for a space in the underpass walkways.

The museum submitted a sketch of a buffalo with circles of color throughout its body, along with the museum name. The museum鈥檚 design was one of several that were recently approved by the Mayor鈥檚 Governance Committee, a group charged with reviewing all applications in an effort to ensure art that is offensive or inappropriate does not become part of the gallery.

鈥淭he bison, which sits out front of the museum here, has been sort of the official-unofficial mascot of the museum for the last few years so whatever we designed, we wanted to be sure to incorporate that,鈥 said Nicholas Clement, assistant manager of the Idaho Virtualization Laboratory at the Idaho Museum of Natural History. 鈥淭he design was all done with the use of software we use at the museum on a daily basis and we wanted to use colors and bubbles in an effort to get everybody involved museum-wide with the project.鈥

According to Anthropology Collection Manager Amber Tews, the hope was to have each staff member at the museum complete one or more of the circles on the bison to create a collaborative project.

The Idaho Museum of Natural History鈥檚 design is a 5-foot space, located on the north wall of the south side pedestrian walkway of the underpass. The design is located on the west end of the walkway.

鈥淚t鈥檚 really cool that the museum could get involved in this kind of community project,鈥 Clement said. 鈥淭hese kinds of projects don鈥檛 come around too often, so we鈥檙e glad to be involved.鈥


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