Have you noticed?  There is new public art on Railroad Avenue!  Check out the story of how three local high school students were able to display their wonderful photography to the public below:

When then-junior Ellie Cramblet was asked by McCall-Donnelly High School art teacher Cynthia
Dittmer if she would be interested in helping coordinate the newest edition of the Railroad
Avenue public art project last April as part of her senior project, she was thrilled.
“It felt super special that I was selected,” Cramblet said. “She told me that she was a member of
the Public Art Advisory Committee,” Cramblet said, and “there was an idea of updating the
artwork on Railroad Avenue.” As Dittmer explained, the City of McCall Public Art Advisory
Committee had realized a photography project specifically focusing on outdoor recreation
around McCall could be a nice change—and as a budding photographer, Cramblet was a
perfect fit.
Working in conjunction with Dittmer, Cramblet identified a few other students who could
contribute photography to the project. With the project’s focus in mind, they wanted other
students who were active in outdoor sports and recreation and who were also photographers.
Eventually, they settled on Lucas Clouser and Lee Kindall.
The three photographers—Cramblet, Clouser, and Kindall—each took a number of shots in
different outdoor settings, trying to find a selection of photos representative of McCall.
Eventually, Cramblet narrowed the photos down to the five or six best from each photographer
before considering the constraints of the project more closely. “I mostly felt excited,” Cramblet
said of the challenge, but because of how the photographs are viewed as drivers pass by on
Railroad Avenue, “I was strategic in the way I selected them.”
“I do wish more photos could have gone up on the wall,” she said, but “I’m happy with my
selection.”
After the images were printed on aluminum composite by Rocky Mountain Signs, the McCall
Parks Department installed them. Cramblet took the climber and kayaker photos on a Canon
EOS Rebel T8i, Kindall took the fish photo on a Canon EOS Rebel T6i, and the skier photo
taken by Clouser was shot on an Android Galaxy phone. The Railroad Avenue public art project
is funded and maintained by the City of McCall.

To learn more about the City of McCall's public art, please visit: www.mccall.id.us/public-art