Leadership
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Amanda Ashley
Director of the School of the Arts, Professor in the School of the Arts, Professor in the School of Public Service
Amanda Ashley is a professor of Urban Studies and Community Development at Boise State University with appointments in the School of Public Service and the School of the Arts in the College of Arts and Sciences. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on the role of placemaking and place belonging in cities and communities. Her recent work focuses on arts and cultural planning, on the role of higher education institutions as arts and cultural anchors and on the emergence of creative city policies and governance. Her work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and she has received the Larry Gould Best Article award and New Scholar Award from the Western Social Science Association. She is a Boise Department of Arts and History Commissioner and she sits on the Garden City Placemaking Planning Group.
Ph.D. — City and Regional Planning from the Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania
MURP — Urban and Regional Planning from the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota
Amanda Ashley is a professor of Urban Studies and Community Development at Boise State University with appointments in the School of Public Service and the School of the Arts in the College of Arts and Sciences. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on the role of placemaking and place belonging in cities and communities. Her recent work focuses on arts and cultural planning, on the role of higher education institutions as arts and cultural anchors and on the emergence of creative city policies and governance. Her work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and she has received the Larry Gould Best Article award and New Scholar Award from the Western Social Science Association. She is a Boise Department of Arts and History Commissioner and she sits on the Garden City Placemaking Planning Group.
Ph.D. — City and Regional Planning from the Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania
MURP — Urban and Regional Planning from the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota
Department leadership
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Lori Gray
Department Chair, Music; Associate Professor; Director of Music Education
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Raquel Davis
Chair, Department of Theatre, Film and Creative Writing and Associate Professor of Lighting Design
MFA — Design for Stage and Film, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
BA — Theatre Design and Art History, Middlebury CollegeMFA — Design for Stage and Film, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
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Anthony Ellertson
Director and Clinical Professor for the GIMM program
Anthony has been working with interactive media, games and mobile devices for the majority of the last 20 years. His dissertation centered on an eportfolio project using the Rich Internet Application model long before that term was widely used.
Anthony has been working with interactive media, games and mobile devices for the majority of the last 20 years. His dissertation centered on an eportfolio project using the Rich Internet Application model long before that term was widely used.
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Dan Scott
Chair, Department of Art, Design and Visual Studies
MFA — Painting, New York Academy of Art
BFA — Drawing and Ceramics, Boise State UniversityMFA — Painting, New York Academy of Art
BFA — Drawing and Ceramics, Boise State University
Directors, Leads and Staff
Department faculty and staff
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