Third Street Gallery Exhibit: ''Life with Linda''
Third Street Gallery’s newest exhibit titled: “Life with Linda” begins March 3, 2017. The exhibit features works from Linda Pall’s personal art collection and autobiographical comments. The exhibit begins March 3, 2017 and runs through April 5, 2017. The opening reception and celebration of Linda’s Birthday will be on March 3, 2017 from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
“I was delighted that the City asked me to exhibit parts of my art collection that I have gathered over the years. I have always thought that it is almost as important to be a patron of the arts as it is to be an artist,” said Pall.
Linda Pall was active in the National League of Cities conferences and programs since 1993. She joined the National Black Caucus of Local Elected Officials in 1994, being elected as a Board member in 1997, serving through 2000. As a Board member, Pall helped to develop a series of Pacific Northwest Regional Training sessions held in Moscow in February, 1999, 2000 and 2001. These events were co-sponsored by the City of Moscow, the Association of Idaho Cities and the University of Idaho. In 2004, the Cities of Moscow and Pullman and the University of Idaho and Washington State University co-sponsored Finding the Center, a human rights conference in which Pall chaired the local government track, bringing in Mayors and City Council members from NLC and NBC-LEO as participants and presenters.
Pall referred to herself as the “unofficial photographer and chronicler” of NBC-LEO people and events, having produced a photographic exhibition documenting NBC-LEO’s 1998 Charleston conference which was exhibited in Kansas City. She also produced a similar exhibit of NBC-LEO’s highly successful and moving exchange visit to Ghana in 1999.
Pall was a member of the University Communities Caucus, joining in 1994. In 1997, she was elected to complete one year of a two-year term on the Board. She was elected to a two year term on the Board in 1998 and named second vice president, to be president in 2000. She chaired a session for UCC on university/police issues at the March, 1998, NLC meeting in Washington, D.C., and a well attended seminar on downtown revitalization in university communities in December, 2001, at the annual Congress of Cities meeting.
During Pall’s 1977-83 tenure as a city council member, she assisted the Association of Idaho Cities (AIC) by providing education and training at regular area meetings and the annual statewide conference.
After returning to the City Council in 1993, Pall was elected four times to the Board of AIC through 2001. As a result of her urging, the AIC Board established a Community Building Taskforce to address issues of community development, neighborhoods, planning and design standards for livable cities and towns and community cohesiveness/diversity issues, among others. She served as an AIC representative on the Idaho Local Government Energy Committee and later as its statewide Chair.
Third Street Gallery is located on the second and third floors of Moscow City Hall at 206 East Third Street Moscow, ID. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
