Boise Art Museum Permanent Collection Rehousing Project

FAIN: PG-271819-20

Boise Art Museum (Boise, ID 83702-7646)
Nicole Herden (Project Director: January 2020 to October 2020)
Alison Foudy (Project Director: October 2020 to January 2023)

The purchase of storage furniture for new collections and for preservation supplies for reorganizing and rehousing portions of the Boise Art Museum’s permanent collection, the initial step in a Collections Storage plan developed in 2019. The permanent collection consists of American, Native American, Asian, and European art, and ethnographic collections. The applicant would use secure storage areas and improve long-term preservation and accessibility of the collection, which has grown substantially since a building expansion in 1997. The proposed work would increase storage space for the museum’s two-dimensional framed works by 270.5 cubic feet and three-dimensional objects by 388.2 cubic feet.

Boise Art Museum requests support for a project to reorganize and rehouse portions of its Permanent Collection. This project is the initial step in the implementation of a new Collection Storage Plan, developed to better utilize secure storage areas, to improve the long-term preservation and accessibility of the collection, and ultimately to facilitate the critical programming BAM provides to the community. A reorganization process and the purchase of storage furniture is needed in order to properly store and protect all artwork. The project specifically addresses the secure storage of recent additions to the collection, the Carley Collection of ceramics and textiles from the American Southwest. BAM regularly organizes and presents exhibitions from the Permanent Collection to reflect our diverse heritage, traditions, and history. The Carley Collection represents an ongoing curatorial thread at BAM, the exploration of contemporary and historic artworks by Native American artists.