The Hemingway Western Studies Center supports research, publication, and activities and events within a broad Western context. Primary attention is directed toward the Inter-Mountain West.

The Hemingway family has graciously allowed use of their name to designate the center; however, our focus is on Rocky Mountain cultures and environments, not Ernest Hemingway, although we have published one play about Hemingway (see Papa! in Publications) and we do have a small exhibition of Hemingwayiana on display at the center.

Check out the Gallery for past, present, and upcoming exhibits. 

Our Publications listings include books, postcards, and videos.

The center sponsors a national  Artists' Book Competition annually, while the Idaho Center for the Book encourages and promotes reading, writing, making, disseminating, and collecting books.  The ICB also sponsors a biennial Idaho artists' book competition/exhibition, Booker's Dozen.

The Idaho Film Collection is a unique archive housing feature films made in the Gem state, over twenty-five silent and talkie films, including complete holdings of films by Nell Shipman.

Shipman's archive is one of many found in the Idaho Writers Archive, a diverse body of materials by authors who have helped shape the state's literary identity.