Visit the Fine Arts Gallery to experience the work of April VanDeGrift and Erin Cunningham. A closing reception will be held on Friday, September 29, 2023 from 5:00pm-7:00pm.
Visit the Trueblood Pop Up Gallery to view the Permanent Art Collection’s newest additions. A reception will be held on Friday, September 29, 2023 from 5:00pm-7:00pm.
Covid kept us apart for a couple of years, and we missed you during that time. In case you missed the 2020-2022 Exhibition Seasons, you can still access them through virtual tours. If you would like to visit exhibitions from these seasons, please follow the links below:
New Narratives: 2022 CWI Student Capstone Collection:Â CWI Capstone
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.
Trueblood Pop Up Gallery
Located on the second floor of the SUB adjacent to the Trueblood Room
The Trueblood Pop Up Gallery 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.
Sustainability Center Student Art Gallery
Located on the first floor of the SUB at the entrance between the Atrium and the food court
The Sustainability Center Student Art Gallery 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.
The Student Union Permanent Art Collection was established to introduce students, faculty, staff and community members to a wide range of artwork from multiple traditions and periods in art history. Encompassing work from various artists with unique backgrounds and cultures, and employing numerous media, the collection creates a diverse mixture of style, content and subject matter. Read more about these collections.
Our mission is to create a sense of home for students to study, to meet friends, to make connections, and we believe that art should be an integral part of that shared experience. So we have made available several collections–through commissions, through generous gifts–in the Student Union Building.
We do this through several avenues–commissioning work, buying work, and accepting gifts of work.
When you purchase work from the Student Union Fine Art Gallery or the Trueblood Pop Up Gallery, you support the fund to buy new art for the Student Union. Artists agree to a 40% commission; this commission is directed to a Foundational account that serves as a savings account from which we can purchase works of art.
If you would like to add to the student experience at the Student Union Building through a gift of artwork from your own collection, please contact Fonda Portales, University Art Curator and Collections Manager, at fondaportales@boisestate.edu.
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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.
Each year, the Student Union Building exhibits 12 shows between the Fine Arts Gallery and the Trueblood Pop Up Gallery. We understand that in this wonderfully creative city, you have many opportunities to visit exhibitions throughout town. If you have needed to skip some of the exhibits at the Student Union Building, we have a list of artists who have shown in the recent past.