Honoring Healthcare Heroes - Cheyenne, WY
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These Boots are a joint fundraising project of the Cheyenne Depot Museum Foundation and the Downtown Development Authority, and was produced by local artists. Several of these eight-foot-tall cowboy boots were placed in and around downtown Cheyenne.
Waymark Code: WM18RQZ
Location: Wyoming, United States
Date Posted: 09/19/2023
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Regarding the artwork itself, the hospital had a vision for Blakely to bring to life.
“Cheyenne Regional Foundation had an idea of the one that represents all different facets of health care. And they have so many departments there with so many different colors and scrubs and stuff and so they wanted to be inclusive and make sure that everyone was represented on the boot,” he said.
The shaft of the boot with the different medical staff represented.
Blakely also wanted to focus on the history of the hospital, so he added the different hospital buildings throughout history on the toe of the boot.
The hospital also wanted the boot to represent health care itself.
“They wanted to also have something that represents like health care, the actual caregiving part of it, which is kind of an abstract thought,” Blakely said. “And I came up with this idea of having a doctor and then the little kid listen to her heartbeat through the stethoscope.”
The "big boot" painted by local artist and high school art teacher Chad Blakely is pictured outside of Cheyenne Regional Medical Center's west building.
Title: Honoring Healthcare Heroes
Artist: Chad Blakely
Placement Date: 2015
Type of Object: Cowboy Boot
Location: 214 E 23rd St (in lobby)
Material: Fiberglass
Website: Not listed
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