Gwyn Hervochon, associate professor and archivist at Albertsons Library, will receive a Mayor’s Award for Excellence in Arts & History in the category of history.
Presented every two years, the Mayor’s Awards for Excellence in Arts and History celebrate people, organizations and businesses that contribute to Boise’s creative and cultural community. Award recipients demonstrate distinguished service, creative accomplishment and a record of publication, presentation, or research that enhances Boise’s artistic, historic and broader cultural life. This year, Hervochon and the Gene Harris All-Stars Jazz Program are among the Boise State recipients.
Hervochon’s contributions to Boise’s creative and cultural communities span a decade, with her work focused on preserving and sharing local and regional history. She has organized and supported exhibitions that engaged thousands of participants with local history and content from world-renowned museums. Her projects include “First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare,” which was on tour from the Folger Shakespeare Library in 2016, and “Americans and the Holocaust” from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2023. Most recently, she helped organize “Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate,” an art exhibit co-hosted by Albertsons Library, the Erma Hayman House, and the Wassmuth Center for Human Rights.
Boise Mayor Lauren McLean and the Boise City Department of Arts & History will recognize award recipients on Thursday, Sept. 18 at 6 p.m. in the Pioneer Room at Jack’s Urban Meeting Place.
Read more about the awards and buy tickets for the event at the Boise Arts and History website.