North End
The North End is Boise's most walkable and architecturally coherent neighborhood — a grid of early-20th-century Craftsman bungalows and commercial buildings north of downtown where the foothills begin to rise toward the Boise Front. The neighborhood's mural program clusters along Bogus Basin Road and the 13th Street corridor, with a concentration of quieter, intimate-scale pieces that respond to the residential character and the proximity to the Boise River Greenbelt that runs along the neighborhood's southern edge.
Featured Artists
All artists →Gaia
"Foothills" maps the ecological transition zone visible from the North End's northern streets — where Boise's urban tree canopy gives way to the sagebrush steppe and bitterbrush of the Boise Foothills — documenting the mule deer, coyote, and golden eagle that move through this gradient daily, in Gaia's natural history documentation style.
CASES
"North End Craftsman" fills a building face with the native plants of the North End's residential gardens — the mock orange, ninebark, and serviceberry that Boise gardeners use to bridge the gap between cultivated yards and the surrounding sagebrush landscape — in CASES's scientific illustration style scaled to building size, a work that reads as both botanical documentation and neighborhood pride.
DAAS
"Greenbelt" renders the Boise River Greenbelt as seen from the North End's southern streets — the cottonwood canopy in late October when the leaves turn gold against the Foothills' rust — in DAAS's atmospheric loose technique, a piece that has become a seasonal landmark for North End residents who recognize the specific light of their stretch of the river.