The Visiting Artist and Scholar Program (VASP), established in 1994, welcomes nationally and internationally renowned artists and scholars to the Boise State campus.
VASP offers a wide range of programming, from invited lectures to workshops and masterclasses, as well as short-term residencies. It provides students and faculty with an opportunity to engage with fresh ideas, fostering intellectual and creative exchange and enriching the academic environment with a variety of diverse perspectives and voices.
2024-2025 Visiting Artists and Scholars
The Visiting Artist and Scholar Program hosts an array of events for students and the public, offering a unique opportunity to engage with today’s most influential artists and thinkers.
Art History Speaker Series: "Hunting, Ecology, and the Arts"
The 2025-2026 series explores the intersections of hunting, ecology, and the arts. Hunting has long occupied a central place in art history—not only in natural history illustrations, grand paintings of human–animal combat, popular prints, and other visual media, but also as the impetus for a wide range of material culture. It produced artifacts as varied as hunting horns, trophies, horse tack, taxidermy, furniture, and fashion. As both a subject of artistic representation and a material practice, hunting offers a compelling lens through which to consider how human intervention shaped attitudes toward the environment, constructed gender roles, and reinforced social hierarchies. Images of the hunt—often defined by direct and violent incursions into nature—came to embody humanity’s presumed dominion over the natural world. To examine these works critically is to gain insight into the historical entanglement of humans and their environment, and into the role of that relationship in shaping cultural and historical identities.
Past Art History Speaker Series Events
The Visiting Artist and Scholar Program and the Art History Speaker Series provide students with further opportunities to engage with the latest methodologies and perspectives in the study of art and visual culture.
To check out some of the past participants in the VASP Art History Speaker Series, please visit the following link.
Past Visiting Artists and Scholars
The Visiting Artist and Scholar Program and the Art History Speaker Series provide students with further opportunities to engage with the latest methodologies and perspectives in the study of art and visual culture.
Please visit the following link to see some of the past participants in the VASP Art History Speaker Series.