Blue Galleries at Boise State University

Second week of classes already!
Our new exhibitions are open for regular gallery hours this week - Tuesday through Friday 10am-5pm. Free admission.

Welcome back Broncos! Boise State University fall semester starts on Monday and we are installing two new exhibitions. Join us for the opening reception on Friday, August 23rd from 5-7pm

Drawing the Sky: Artist as Witness features work by Stephen Aifegha, Goran Fazil, Kiana Honarmand, and Luma Jasim

Strange Landscapes is curated by current MFA Visual Arts candidate Scott Elk and features work by students in MFA programs from the United States and Australia.

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Last chance to visit the Blue Galleries this semester and see the Spring 2024 BFA Exhibition! Gallery hours 10am-5pm through Friday, April 26th. Learn more about the show and the artists in the current issue of The Arbiter.

Boise State’s BFA exhibition showcases the talents of incredible student artists – The Arbiter Boise State’s BFA exhibition the Center for the Visual Arts, provides student artists graduating with the opportunity show their art

Thank you for joining us for the opening reception of the Spring 2024 BFA Exhibition! The exhibition can be visited this week and next Tuesday-Friday 10am-5pm through April 26th, 2024.
https://www.boisestate.edu/art/blue-galleries/
Artists:
Roxy Albig, Jennifer Anderson, Bridget Boly, Mary Brown, Carhys Darrell Davies, Wren Flick, Green, Krista Hamel, Teri Harrison, Wendy Heaton Storks, Sandy Hemenway, Fii Marie Hoynacki, Rudy Lucero, Jazmin Martinez, Haille McMillan, Adam Ruzicka, Alyssa Tamacine Williams, Amy Wood, LiBang Zhang.

The Blue Galleries are closed for exhibition changes. Join us April 12th 6-8pm for the opening of the Spring 2024 BFA Exhibition!

Last two days of our current exhibitions 3/21 and 3/22! 12-5pm - free admission! Stop by before you head across the river to Treefort Music Fest 🧡💙☀️💐

The last three days to see the 2024 Annual Student Juried Exhibition will be during our special Boise State University Spring Break x Treefort Music Fest hours this week Wed., Thurs, Fri. 3/20-3/22 12pm-5pm each day. Find us on the Artfort schedule!

Photograph of juried exhibition installation by Boise State Department of Art, Design and Visual Studies BFA candidate Teri Harrison whose work was also selected for this show! Teri will be graduating in May with a BFA Visual Art with an emphasis in Photography and her work will be featured in the upcoming Spring 2024 BFA Exhibition opening reception April 12th, 2024 6-8pm. 📷

The last three days to see the Alex Wiseman exhibition "Invisible Family (Portraits): Smoke Is a Prayer Transforming the Truth" will be during our special Boise State University Spring Break x Treefort Music Fest hours this week Wed., Thurs, Fri. 3/20-3/22 12pm-5pm each day. Find us on the Artfort schedule!

Photograph of Alex Wiseman installation by Boise State Department of Art, Design and Visual Studies BFA candidate Teri Harrison. Detail photographs of artworks courtesy of the artist.

Please take note of our Spring Break x Treefort Music Fest gallery hours this week! The last three days to see the Emily Somoskey exhibition will be Wed., Thurs, Fri. 3/20-3/22 12pm-5pm each day. Find us on the Artfort schedule!

Photographs of the Emily Somoskey exhibition installation by Boise State Department of Art, Design and Visual Studies BFA candidate Teri Harrison. Photos of individual paintings courtesy of the artist.

Driek Zirinsky writes about our current exhibition Alex Wiseman "Invisible Family (Portraits): Smoke is a Prayer Transforming the Truth" in today's Idaho Press

Final three days to see the exhibition during Boise State University Spring Break this week Wed.-Fri. 3/20-3/22 12pm-5pm each day. Link to article in comments.

Happy Spring Break Boise State University! Please note that the Blue Galleries will have limited hours this week for Spring Break x Treefort Music Fest. Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday 3/20-3/22 12-5pm each day. In the Center for the Visual Arts, you can visit the galleries and see new programming at the Stein Luminary. Find us on the Artfort schedule!

Join us! Start with Art Treefort Music Fest Kick-Off Mixer at the Center for the Visual Arts hosted by Boise State Alumni and Friends Wed. March 20th 5-7pm
Elevate your Treefort Experience! Meet alumni artists, and immerse yourself in the extraordinary setting of The Stein Luminary and The Blue Galleries. Enjoy music, light appetizers, and a fully stocked bar with complimentary wine, beer, sodas and juices. Cocktails are no-host and will be available for purchase.

Our open house event is free to attend, but space is limited!
Click the link to register by March 15, 2024 as we want to ensure we have enough appetizers and beverages for everyone.
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Start With Art Treefort Kick-Off Mixer Join the Boise State Alumni Association and the School of the Arts at the Keith and Catherine Stein Luminary on March 20 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. for the

The Blue Galleries in partnership with Boise Art Museum invite you to a lecture with visiting artist RYAN! Feddersen on Friday, March 8th, 2024 12 noon-1:30pm at the Center for the Visual Arts (CVA) room 439. Free.

See RYAN! Feddersen's exhibition Coyote Now at the Boise Art Museum now!

RYAN! Elizabeth Feddersen specializes in creating compelling site-specific installations and public artworks which invite people to consider our relationships to history, culture, the land, and our non-human-kin. She completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Cornish College of the Arts in 2009, and is now based in Tacoma, Washington. Feddersen grew up in Wenatchee and is an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, from the Okanogan and Arrow Lakes bands, and of mixed European descent. Her practice focuses on creative problem solving to address social issues through visual allegories that provide opportunities for exploration, introspection, epiphany. She investigates creative strategies to activate engagement through interactive materials, community sourced content, social practice, fun and humor. These approaches enable her work to start conversations about a broad spectrum of subjects and promote collective learning. Feddersen has created large-scale site-specific pieces and interactive installations throughout North America and has a growing body of permanent artworks in the public realm. http://ryanfeddersen.com/

If you missed the awards lunch yesterday, the following awards were announced. Juror's Awards - Scott Elk (Fall Trophy), Amy Abrew (Clotheslined by Grief) and Katelyn Stedtfeld (Repeated Action) along with 2 honorable mentions to Devon Smith (High Exposure) and Jazmin Martinez (What was I made for?). Many thanks to our juror Emily Somoskey and congratulations to all of the selected artists and award winners. The exhibition continues through March 22nd and Blue Galleries hours are Tuesday-Friday 10am-5pm. Image: Scott Elk, Fall Trophy, ceramic

Emily Somoskey, All Encompassing, 72” x 84”, oil and collage on canvas, 2023

Wednesday, January 17 – Friday, March 22, 2024
Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday 10 am-5 pm
Blue Galleries at Center for the Visual Arts, 1110 S Capitol Blvd, Boise, ID

The Blue Galleries presents “All Encompassing” by artist Emily Somoskey. The works in the exhibition utilize paint and collaged photographic imagery as a means to think through the larger questions, curiosities, and areas of subjectivity that make up our world.

Are you attending the Boise State University 2024 Engineering & Science Festival today? Just want to visit the galleries on a snowy Saturday? The Blue Galleries at Boise State University are open today 2/3 from 10am-3pm. Click the link to learn about our current exhibitions or visit this week during regular hours Tuesday-Friday 10am-5pm. Free
Boise State Department of Art, Design and Visual Studies

Blue Galleries The Blue Galleries are an accessible artistic hub on the first floor of the Center for the Visual Arts that host contemporary visual art exhibitions and related programming to engage diverse audiences.

Due to the snow Boise State University had a late start at noon today but our exhibitions are open now if you want to visit the Blue Galleries on your snow day until 5pm.

Alex Wiseman - Invisible Family (Portraits)
Emily Somoskey - All Encompassing
2024 Annual Student Juried Exhibition

The sidewalks and parking structures adjacent to the Center for the Visual Arts were cleared this morning but the weather continues so please use caution. Students check your email and with your faculty on the status of any afternoon or evening classes.

The Blue Galleries at Boise State University will open today at noon.⛄️

BroncoAlert/Urgent: Due to weather conditions, Boise State University is delaying in-person classes until noon today. See email for further details/instructions.

Campus has been quiet the last few days with all the snow but we are busy preparing for our three new exhibitions opening later this week!
Emily Somoskey All Encompassing
Wednesday, January 17 – Friday, March 22, 2024
Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday 10 am-5 pm
Blue Galleries at Center for the Visual Arts, 1110 S Capitol Blvd, Boise, ID

The Blue Galleries presents “All Encompassing” by artist Emily Somoskey. The works in the exhibition utilize paint and collaged photographic imagery as a means to think through the larger questions, curiosities, and areas of subjectivity that make up our world.

Somoskey’s work depicts the universe as a flexible space that is ever-expanding, collapsing, and colliding, along with our understanding of it. She brings familiar subjects such as swimming pools, bird nests and lawn chairs in conversation with overarching mechanisms that make up our world, such as galaxies, orbital pathways and physics diagrams.

These elements coalesce on the surface of the canvas in a way that straddles representation and abstraction, prompting the viewer to reconsider our relationship to the known world and opening up new ways of seeing and understanding our place within it. At its core, the artist is connecting with the world beyond herself and visualizing what it means to be a human in our current and increasingly complex world.

Admission is free and open to the public.

About the artist: Emily Somoskey is a 2-D mixed media artist originally from Akron, OH. Through large and small-scale works on canvas, she uses paint and collaged imagery as a means to think through the larger questions, curiosities and areas of subjectivity that make up our world. In combining these mediums, Emily weaves together moments of clarity and ambiguity that articulates, disrupts and complicates a singular understanding of the work. She is an Assistant Professor of Art at Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA and has her BA in Education/Painting from The University of Akron and her MFA from Michigan State University. Somoskey also holds a certification in college teaching from Michigan State University.

Questions about the exhibition? Contact Gallery Director Kirsten Furlong [email protected]
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Welcome back to classes Broncos! The Blue Galleries will reopen on January 17th, 2024 with three new exhibitions!

The 2024 Annual Student Juried Exhibition features the work of thirty-four student artists selected by juror Emily Somoskey, Professor of Art at Whitman College. The exhibition will take place 1/17/24-3/22/24 with gallery hours Tuesday-Friday 10am-5pm. Admission is free.

Here is a preview of three of the artworks that will be featured in the show by Jazmin Martinez, Ashley Larson, and Devon Smith. Click on each image for more information.

Each of the 86 artists who entered the 2024 Annual Student Juried Exhibition have been notified of the results. Check your email for information and contact Gallery Director Kirsten Furlong at [email protected] with any questions.

The Blue Galleries will reopen with three new exhibitions on January 17th, 2024. We look forward to welcoming you back!

The Blue Galleries at Boise State University are closed this week but we are busy taking down the Fall 2023 BFA Exhibition and taking entries through this Friday, December 15th for the 2024 Annual Student Juried Exhibition. All Boise State University students are eligible to enter their artwork created in the last calendar year. This year's juror is artist and professor Emily Somoskey. Entry details and form here: https://forms.gle/xyV1UCgTCPLPWHzX9

Attention all Boise State University students! Enter your best visual artwork to the 2024 Annual Student Juried Exhibition for an opportunity to have it shown at the Blue Galleries! Enter at this link through December 15th, 2023. https://forms.gle/JnnRaJgEZstfUqmh9
Sign into your Boise State account to access form. Good Luck!

Last week to see the Fall 2023 BFA Exhibition featuring the work of 13 graduating BFA candidates. Gallery hours Tuesday-Friday 10am-5pm through December 8th, 2023.

The Blue Galleries at Boise State University are located in the Center for the Visual Arts (CVA) 1110 S Capitol Blvd. Pay parking is available in the Brady Garage, just across Earle St. from the CVA. Free admission.

The Blue Galleries are closed this week for Boise State University fall break but will reopen November 28th for regular hours Tuesday-Friday 10am-5pm until the end of the Fall 2023 BFA Exhibition on December 8th, 2023. Enjoy the break 🍂🍁!

See our current exhibition, the Fall 2023 BFA Exhibition, this week open Tuesday-Friday 10am-5pm. Detail of photography installation by Devon Smith. Pay parking is available in the Brady Garage, across Earle St. from the Center for the Visual Arts.