Above, picture boards for Barbara Mueller's "Portrait of a Town," which will be unveiled at 2 p.m. Sunday at Sherman Park Square. See here.
In March, Alecia Warren of the Coeur d'Alene Press wrote about photographer Barbara Mueller's project, "Portrait of a Town": We don't spare many calories contemplating the multitude working quietly around us. Take the mailman, zoning board commissioners, volunteers at a homeless shelter. But Barbara Mueller (pictured in Shawn Gust Coeur d'Alene Press file photo) sees a commonality in them all. Each bolsters the community in an incremental way, the Coeur d'Alene artist contends, collectively keeping our system of civilized survival humming. "It's amazing the amount of people and energy that create where you live, where you and I get to walk every day," Mueller said. She would like us to see that, too. So she's going to show us. Mueller is accepting nominations for community members to be featured in her upcoming art piece, "Portrait of a Town." The title is literal: Mueller will shoot photo portraits of more than 200 individuals in Coeur d'Alene and post them for a year on the side of a downtown building. More here.
Question: Anyone out there who is part of the 200-photo "Portrait of a Town"?
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.
"Portrait of a Town": We don't spare many calories contemplating the multitude working quietly around us. Take the mailman, zoning board commissioners, volunteers at a homeless shelter. But Barbara Mueller (pictured in Shawn Gust Coeur d'Alene Press file photo) sees a commonality in them all. Each bolsters the community in an incremental way, the Coeur d'Alene artist contends, collectively keeping our system of civilized survival humming. "It's amazing the amount of people and energy that create where you live, where you and I get to walk every day," Mueller said. She would like us to see that, too. So she's going to show us. Mueller is accepting nominations for community members to be featured in her upcoming art piece, "Portrait of a Town." The title is literal: Mueller will shoot photo portraits of more than 200 individuals in Coeur d'Alene and post them for a year on the side of a downtown building. More here.
