Blue Galleries at Boise State University

This is the last week to visit the Spring 2025 BFA Exhibition at the Blue Galleries. Our gallery hours are Tuesday-Friday 10am-5pm through May 2nd, 2025.

Artwork image from BFA Exhibition:
Seus Gomez-Esquivel
El Nino Sicario
Oil on canvas
2025

Our final exhibition of the 2024-2025 academic year will be the Air Sense Juried Exhibition organized by the ArtSci Community on May 7th 10am-5pm and May 8th 10am-8pm. This show features works that merge science and art to explore topics like climate change, disease transmission, and patterns of flight and migration

Congratulations to four students from the Boise State Department of Art, Design and Visual Studies who received the Excellence in Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity (EURECA) cord this morning during the Undergraduate Research Conference.
Madison Miller
Katelyn Stedtfeld
Riley Steele
Emagyne Womack
You can see Katelyn, Riley, and Emagyne's work in the current Spring 2025 BFA Exhibition Tuesday-Friday 10am-5pm through May 2nd and Madison's work in the upcoming graphic design portfolio exhibition on Friday, May 9th.

Thank you for joining us for the opening reception of the Spring 2025 BFA Exhibition! You can visit the show Tuesday-Friday 10am-5pm through May 2nd, 2025.
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The last two days of our current exhibitions are today and tomorrow 3/27 and 3/28 which coincides with the Treefort Music Fest x Boise State University School of the Arts showcase in the Center for the Visual Arts. So much visual and performing arts to see all over the building. Gallery hours through 3/28 10am-5pm. Free.

Our current exhibitions are on view through March 28th, 2025 but please note the Blue Galleries will be closed during Boise State University Spring Break March 17th-21st, 2025. Visit us Tuesday-Friday 10am-5pm to see the Biennial Faculty Exhibition, the Annual Student Juried Exhibition, and Janet Biggs: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape (organized by the Barry Lopez Foundation for Art & Environment).

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One of the three exhibitions we will be celebrating at our reception this Thursday, February 13th 5pm-7pm is the 2025 Annual Student Juried Exhibition. This year's artists, selected by juror Carolyn Herrera-Perez are:
Samantha Archide
Heidi Diaz
Citlalli Diaz Garcia
Anya Gepner
Rick Godin
Catherina Htoo
Benjamin Hunt
OJ Johnson
Ashley Larson
Zuzu McKinnon
Ruby McNeal
Chloe Nealon
Nevaeh Monuteaux
Baleigh Santiago
Alexa Turner-Esposito
Bee Taylor
Jacob Wilson

Janet Biggs: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape, an exhibition organized by the Barry Lopez Foundation for Art & Environment, includes an installation of three videos by the artist. Videos will be shown at the Blue Galleries January 21st-March 28th, 2025 during regular gallery hours Tuesday-Friday 10am-5pm.

Traveling to the high Arctic with a group of artists and scientists aboard the Noorderlict, a two-masted schooner build in 1910, Biggs’ compositions are a clarion call for a heroic landscape that will be completely transformed within our lifetimes.

Image: Janet Biggs, Brightness All Around (video still), 2011, single-channel HD video with sound, running time 8:36 minutes

Juror Carolyn Herrera-Perez has made her selections from 134 entries to the Annual Student Juried Exhibition. See the show starting Tuesday, January 21st at 10am. Gallery hours Tuesday-Friday 10am-5pm.

Image of artwork by MFA Visual Arts at Boise State University student Ashley Larson
Boise State Department of Art, Design and Visual Studies
Boise State University School of the Arts

Katrina Kopelhoff is one of the newest faculty in the Boise State Department of Art, Design and Visual Studies currently serving as an Assistant Professor of Illustration. See her work in the 2025 Biennial Faculty Exhibition which opens Tuesday, January 21st at 10am. Gallery hours Tuesday-Friday 10am-5pm

Image: Katrina Kopelhoff, Dreamcatcher, digital print, 2024, photograph courtesy of the artist
Boise State Department of Art, Design and Visual Studies
Boise State University School of the Arts