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Sewing Circle of Saint Paul Baptist Church. Image from Open Air Archive by Angie Smith, an outdoor photography exhibition of the people of Boise, 1800s to today that was part of the public art featured at the 2019 Treefort Music Fest.
Sewing Circle of Saint Paul Baptist Church image at The Idanha (parking lot), Boise, Idaho, September 28, 2019.
This gathering of women was a missionary group called the Sewing Circle of Saint Paul Baptist Church. This photograph was taken at 820 E. Bannock. The woman wearing white on the bottom row, far right is Mrs. Hardy. She was the wife of Reverend William Hardy and together, they built churches in Missouri, Colorado, Boise and Los Angeles. The building that is now the Idaho Black History Museum was the church that Reverend William Hardy built in 1905. The girl standing, on the far right is Mary Cecilia Hardy, the grandmother of Idaho senator Cherie Buckner-Webb and the great grandmother of her son Philip Thompson, who is the Director of the Idaho Black History Museum.
Angie Smith is a photographer and artist living in LA and Boise. She has worked as an editorial and commercial photographer for New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, Time, and Oprah, and her installation, Stronger Shines the Light Inside, was recognized by the Obama Administration as one of the most impactful projects to integrate refugees in America. In March 2019, she returned to Idaho to conduct a portrait workshop with Boise’s refugee and immigrant communities. Using wheat paste, she installed these photographs, along with historic portraits, throughout the downtown area in celebration of the rich intersection of culture that is part of Boise’s past and present identity.
Sewing Circle of Saint Paul Baptist Church image at The Idanha (parking lot), Boise, Idaho, September 28, 2019.
This gathering of women was a missionary group called the Sewing Circle of Saint Paul Baptist Church. This photograph was taken at 820 E. Bannock. The woman wearing white on the bottom row, far right is Mrs. Hardy. She was the wife of Reverend William Hardy and together, they built churches in Missouri, Colorado, Boise and Los Angeles. The building that is now the Idaho Black History Museum was the church that Reverend William Hardy built in 1905. The girl standing, on the far right is Mary Cecilia Hardy, the grandmother of Idaho senator Cherie Buckner-Webb and the great grandmother of her son Philip Thompson, who is the Director of the Idaho Black History Museum.
Angie Smith is a photographer and artist living in LA and Boise. She has worked as an editorial and commercial photographer for New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, Time, and Oprah, and her installation, Stronger Shines the Light Inside, was recognized by the Obama Administration as one of the most impactful projects to integrate refugees in America. In March 2019, she returned to Idaho to conduct a portrait workshop with Boise’s refugee and immigrant communities. Using wheat paste, she installed these photographs, along with historic portraits, throughout the downtown area in celebration of the rich intersection of culture that is part of Boise’s past and present identity.
- Copyright
- (C) 2019 Gregg Mizuta
- Image Size
- 4256x2832 / 9.1MB
- Gregg Mizuta
- Contained in galleries
- Angie Smith - Open Air Archives

