STORY BY KAREN BOSSICK

PHOTOS BY COOPER MORTON

It was fleeting—a surprise for the commuters who made the crawl along Hailey’s Main Street and even the students behind the pop-up art show.

Students of the 8/9 Band at The Sage School headquartered in Hailey’s Quigley Canyon hosted a pop-up art show in the snow between Carbonate and Bullion streets this past week for one day only. It was the culminating event of the student’s fall trimester.

The outdoor display featured 5-foot-tall interactive sculptures representing literal and figurative interpretations of 21st century social justice changemakers. The students created the sculptures as part of their Human Ecology study on community relationships.

The project asked students to explore the lives and leaderships of contemporary changemakers, examining their leadership styles and evaluating the risks and rewards of putting conviction into action. The students then created physical representations of their changemakers, embodying the person’s stance or actions.

One sculpture, for instance, featured a sculpture of director and musician Donald Glover standing up against police brutality, his upraised arm with two arms growing out of it clenching a Black Lives Matter message. Another represented Sahra Costello and Kayla Kazyca, podcasters-turned aroace activists.

The public part of the project was a surprise to the students so it was kept under wraps, meaning that unfortunately community members who might have liked to have perused them did not know of them in time to see them.