Boise artist interprets 'air' in unique public art piece

'Aero Agoseries' will be dedicated at the Foothills Learning Center during a celebration Saturday. GO SEE IT WHAT: "The Foothills As Art" Foothills Learning Center open house WHERE: 3188 Sunset Peak Road, Boise Air is all around us, powerful, ever present and invisible. So how do you capture it in a sculpture? That was the challenge Mark Baltes undertook in his latest public art piece, "Aero Agoseries," a 15-foot kinetic dandelion sculpture at the Foothills Learning Center in the Boise Foothills. The sculpture will be dedicated Saturday during "The Foothills As Art" celebration, with hands-on arts for kids, and the work of local artists Diane Ronayne, Carl Rowe, Brian Schreiner and Ward Hooper. This is the first of four public art pieces planned for center that will each be inspired by one of the four elements. "They said,... [read full story]