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Public art venue in Boise, Idaho
The Freak Alley parking lot, looking south from W. Bannock St.

Freak Alley is a venue for public art in the form of murals and graffiti located in and adjacent to a service alley in downtown Boise, Idaho. The largest outdoor gallery in the Northwest, and a Boise institution since 2002, it began with a painting of a single alley doorway and now extends from the alley itself to a gravel parking lot. Extant murals painted over and replaced by new murals (or incorporated into them) every two years; collectively it is the work of more than 200 artists. It has featured prominently in a survey of ten mid-sized American cities with thriving artistic communities in which Boise ranked second. The site, along with the back of the Union Block, received a $500,000 renovation in 2018 from the city.

Gallery

  • Spirit of Healing Waters Spirit of Healing Waters
  • Chinese Ideograms Chinese Ideograms
  • Several murals are painted over Several murals are painted over

See also

References

  1. "Boise 'Freaks' paint the town – Arbiter Online". Archived from the original on 2016-01-31. Retrieved 2016-01-25.
  2. "Freak Alley and Boise's Public Art | For 91 Days in Idaho – Travel Blog". Idaho.for91days.com. 2013-01-07. Retrieved 2014-02-27.
  3. Hagadone, Zack (2013). "Freaks and Fish". Boise Weekly. 22 (7): 39.
  4. "Freak Alley Gallery Breathes Life Into Boise's Art Scene". Boise State Public Radio. 2012-08-14. Retrieved 2014-02-27.
  5. Gross, Josh (2012-08-12). "Slideshow: Freak Alley Gallery Debuts 76 New Murals | Cobweb". Boiseweekly.com. Retrieved 2014-02-27.
  6. Ross, Winston (2018-03-25). "Freak Alley". Newsweek. Retrieved 2018-03-26.
  7. "The 10 Most Artistic Mid-Sized Cities in America". GogoBot. 2015-11-17. Archived from the original on 2015-11-21.
  8. Webb, Anna (2017-09-13). "Will half a million dollars improve these 2 Downtown alleys, or wreck their cool factor?". Idaho Statesman. Retrieved 2017-09-13.

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