Family Gathering
until December 21, 2025
Student Union Fine Arts Gallery
In Family Gathering, artist Jacob Wilson creates a variety of work across video, sculpture, and photography that reflects on memory, personal history, and the fluidity of familial narratives. Through visual and narrative abstraction, the work explores how stories evolve across generations. Shaped by time, emotion, and the tension between subjective memory and objective truth, their work brings voice to personal uncertainty and contemplation. Drawing on their personal life and the familial narratives they’ve heard since youth, Jacob navigates the blurred lines between what is remembered and what is true.
Idaho Lands
By Kayla Hanson
October 30th – December 21
Reception November 4th, 4:30 – 6:30 pm
Student Union Trueblood Pop Up Gallery
The work in Idaho Lands is deeply rooted in Kayla Hanson’s personal experience as an Idaho-born artist. It simultaneously reflects the beauty of the state’s landscapes and the consequences of overdevelopment in these sacred spaces. Painted in plein air, some capture the immediacy of the Idaho wilderness and local scenery while others reimagine places already erased by development or envision an abstracted future—one where the views from residential windows no longer open to foothills and open land, but instead to the too-close walls of neighbors. Hanson, with conservation intended, writes: Will these Idaho landscapes be protected? My hope is that they will endure.
INTERESTED IN DONATING?
The University Permanent Art Collection is primarily built through the generous gifts of individuals who donate artworks as non-cash charitable contributions. If you are interested in gifting artworks from your personal collections, please contact Fonda Portales, Director of University Arts and University Art Curator and Collections Manager at fondaportales@boisestate.edu
Upcoming 2025-26 Exhibitions
- Bellwether, by Flint Weisser
- Embracing Imperfections, by Gina Cole
Virtual Tours Give You Access
In case you missed the 2020-2022 Exhibition Seasons, you can still access them through virtual tours via the following links:
- New Narratives: 2022 CWI Student Capstone Collection: CWI Capstone
- Lo Que Ha De Venir/What is About to Come: Works by Veiko Valencia: Veiko Valencia Virtual Tour
- The Art and Legacy of Dr. Louis A. Peck, Jr.: Louis Peck Virtual Tour
- Passengers: Works by Ann Porter: Ann Porter’s Passengers
- From the Collections: Portraits: University Portraits
- Long Term Vision: Works by Luma Jasim: Luma Jasim Virtual Tour.
- Emerging: CWI Capstone Collection: CWI Capstone
- Drive to Town: Tricia Florence Virtual Tour
- Postal Outliers: Postal Outliers Virtual Tour
- Character Development, paintings by Michael Chambers: Michael Chambers Virtual Tour
- Hostile Terrain 94: Hostile Terrain 94 at Boise State
- Things We Do, photography of Colin Hicks: Colin Hicks Virtual Tour
- Objects of Resilience, quarantine works by Boise State Drawing 1 students: Objects of Resilience Virtual Tour
Exhibiting in the Student Union Building
Student Union Fine Arts Gallery
Located on the second floor of the SUB above the main staircase
Student Union Fine Arts Gallery, Boise State University, is located at 1700 University Drive on the second floor of the Student Union Building. Admission is free to all students, staff, and community members. Parking is available for an hourly fee in metered spaces and in the Lincoln and Brady Garages.
Do You Want to Exhibit in the SUB?
Each year, the University Art Curator opens a call for proposals to exhibit in Student Union Galleries. If you are an artist, maker, or think you would like to be one, please consider the Student Union Building Fine Art Galleries and seek out our current calls for proposals.