LEWISTON, Idaho – Landscape architecture graduate students from WSU and the University of Idaho will present their visions for the Lewiston waterfront Dec. 10-31 at the Sage Baking Company in Lewiston.
Called “Water Views,” the show features design work produced in the course “Cultural Interpretations of the Regional Landscape.”
Image produced by University of Idaho students Katie Bisett, Heather Pung and Sean Connor.
“The students’ projects address and reveal the complex relationships among biological organisms, including people, the locale and the built environment,” said Jolie Kaytes, the course instructor and associate professor of landscape architecture at WSU. “The students’ designs required them to contemplate Lewiston’s links to the rivers and to rethink recreation, transport, power, plants, animals, agriculture, access and settlement.”
During the course, students explored the connections between people and place in the Lower Snake River Basin, and how those connections are affected by and affect the Lower Snake River dams, Kaytes said.
Image produced by University of Idaho students Katie Bisett, Heather Pung and Sean Connor.
“Ultimately, the students’ projects challenge us to examine how we see and understand the rivers,” she said.
“We’re putting the show up at the Sage Baking Company because it’s downtown and is an informal setting where people talk,” Kaytes said. “Students and I hope that having the work in this setting will facilitate conversations and get people talking — the citizens of Lewiston in particular — about Lewiston’s future, especially as it relates to the rivers.”
Image produced by University of Idaho students Katie Bisett, Heather Pung and Sean Connor.
The show, including the opening reception, is free and open to the public. The Sage Baking Company is located at 1303 Main St. in Lewiston.
