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Wednesday March 11, 2026

Music alum wins Platinum Prize at prestigious European piano competition

Anna Kijanowska, a performer, teacher and recording artist whose career has taken her from Carnegie…

Tuesday March 10, 2026

The Jazz Ambassadors of The United States Army Field Band hit the stage at Boise State

Boise audiences are invited to a rare, free performance by the celebrated Jazz Ambassadors of The…

Monday March 9, 2026

Call for participation: 2026 AI Institute for Teaching and Learning

The School for the Digital Future invites faculty to apply for the 2026 AI Institute…

Friday February 13, 2026

Idaho Film Collection grant proposals due March 15

The Idaho Film Collection supports scholarly research and creative activities in film, photography and media…

Wednesday February 4, 2026

Singer/songwriter competition seeks student submissions

The School of the Arts and Department of Music are offering a two-day songwriting workshop…

Monday February 2, 2026

10 questions: Meet artist Roland Becerra

Roland Becerra grew up in Miami, Florida. He studied art at The School of the…

Friday January 30, 2026

School of the Arts faculty win Innovation Lab grants

Boise State’s College of Arts and Sciences awards Innovation Lab grants to faculty developing new…

Friday January 30, 2026

School of the Arts students thriving at Boise State

In March 2025, the School of the Arts welcomed its first Student Advisory Council. This…

Friday January 30, 2026

School of the Arts students and faculty perform at Treefort Music Fest

Every year around the end of March, Boise comes alive during Treefort. In 2025, Boise…

Friday January 30, 2026

Dr. Thomas and Marilyn Beck Scholars Program gives arts students hands-on experience in creative careers

2025 marked the inaugural year of the Dr. Thomas and Marilyn Beck Scholars Program, a…

Friday January 30, 2026

School of the Arts grants support faculty across disciplines

This year, the School of the Arts distributed $44,000 in grants to faculty across the…

Friday January 30, 2026

Faculty fellows explore creative opportunities for generative AI

In spring 2025, the School of the Arts and the College of Arts and Sciences…

Friday January 30, 2026

Keith And Catherine Stein Luminary supports collaboration on campus

The Luminary is an all-digital museum space, producing a range of immersive, interactive and sensory…

Friday January 30, 2026

Department and program updates: Theatre, Film and Creative Writing

Theatre This fall, the Theatre Arts Program once again collaborated with the Sun Valley Playwright’s…

Friday January 30, 2026

Department and program updates: Music

In August 2024, faculty members Matt Castner and Derek Ganong led a complete redesign of…

Friday January 30, 2026

Department and program updates: Games, Interactive Media and Mobile Technology

Games, Interactive Media and Mobile Technology (GIMM), now in its tenth year at Boise State…

Friday January 30, 2026

Department and program updates: Art, Design and Visual Studies

Department of Art, Design and Visual Studies student Grace Ott was selected for the City…

Friday January 30, 2026

Department and program updates: Arts Entrepreneurship

The Arts Entrepreneurship (AE) program continues to grow as a cornerstone of career readiness within…

Tuesday January 27, 2026

Theatre and physics departments collaborate for staged reading of ‘The Life of Galileo’

Boise State University’s Department of Theatre, Film and Creative Writing and Department of Physics have…

Friday January 23, 2026

New exhibitions premiere at the Blue Galleries

Two new exhibitions are opening at the Blue Galleries on Jan. 23, 2026. The shows…

Friday January 9, 2026

Wieland’s forthcoming novel receives prestigious Kirkus Star

Mitch Wieland, professor of creative writing and co-founder of the Boise State MFA creative writing…

Friday January 9, 2026

Call for submissions: Treefort poster competition

Boise State University School of the Arts invites all Boise State students to participate in…

Friday January 2, 2026

Ten questions: Meet professor and literary translator Clyde Moneyhun

Clyde Moneyhun, a professor in the Department of Theater, Film and Creative Writing, holds four…

Monday December 15, 2025

Reflection to protection: Good design can save birds

A collaboration among Boise State’s School of the Arts, the Intermountain Bird Observatory and the…

Wednesday December 10, 2025

The Conductor’s path: From Blue Thunder to the national stage

Daniel Wiley (BA, music education, 2013) is a commanding presence on the podium, demonstrating all…

Wednesday December 10, 2025

When the van pulls up, kids know it’s something good: An alum goes on the road for art

For five decades, art educator, alum and former faculty member Jennifer de Grassi Williams (MA,…

Monday December 8, 2025

Open casting call for Department of Theatre, Film and Creative Writing’s Spring 2026 productions

The Department of Theatre, Film and Creative Writing is holding open auditions for all Boise…

Monday November 24, 2025

Using printmaking to explore the impact of nuclear waste

Boise State’s cutting-edge Center for the Visual Arts was one of the first things Choe…

Tuesday November 18, 2025

A creative’s path to policy: PhD student shapes Idaho’s creative economy

The words “creative” and “policy” might seem like an unlikely pair. But Matt Wordell, a…

Tuesday November 11, 2025

Erpelding shares work at solo exhibition

Chad Erpelding, professor of drawing and painting in the Department of Art, Design and Visual…

Monday November 10, 2025

Call for applications: School of the Arts grants 2025-2026

The School of the Arts in collaboration with the College of Arts and Sciences Research…

Friday November 7, 2025

Boise State students recognized at national gathering

Representatives from Boise State University attended the REP4 Alliance-Wide Gathering, where the student team participated…

Friday November 7, 2025

Annual holiday concert is Nov. 14

Celebrate the season with the Boise State Department of Music at their annual holiday concert –…

Friday November 7, 2025

The Idaho Review announces inaugural Mitch Wieland Editor’s Prize

The Idaho Review, the award-winning literary journal published by the Boise State Creative Writing MFA…

Thursday November 6, 2025

Student wins City of Boise public art commission

When art student Grace Ott opened the email announcing she’d been selected for the City…

Tuesday October 28, 2025

Theatre Program announces open auditions for spring productions

The Boise State Theatre Arts Program announced open auditions for its Spring 2026 productions: Bertolt…

Thursday October 23, 2025

Painting with data: graphic designer Mahshad Faridfar joins wildfire research project

After arriving in Boise in the summer of 2024 to teach graphic design, Assistant Professor…

Wednesday October 15, 2025

Denton-Edmundson’s essay selected for Best American Essays anthology

Matthew Denton-Edmundson, a visiting assistant professor in the Creative Writing Program, will feature in the…

Friday October 10, 2025

Idaho Film Collection grant proposals due Oct. 15, 2025

The Idaho Film Collection supports scholarly research and creative activities in film, photography and media…

Wednesday October 8, 2025

Wieland named Idaho Writer in Residence

The Idaho Commission on the Arts (Arts Idaho) appointedProfessor Mitch Wieland as the 2026–2027 Idaho…

Thursday October 2, 2025

Beck Scholars Program gives arts students hands-on experience in creative careers

2025 marked the inaugural year of the Dr. Thomas and Marilyn Beck Scholars Program, a 10-week…

Wednesday September 10, 2025

Smulovitz to speak at Yuma Art Symposium

Art Jewelry and Metalsmithing Professor Anika Smulovitz will speak at the Yuma Art Symposium, taking…

Wednesday September 10, 2025

Furlong featured in Erma Hayman House exhibition

Kirsten Furlong, a lecturer in the Department of Art, Design and Visual Studies and director…

Wednesday September 10, 2025

Graduate student featured on the MFA Writers Podcast

Lewis Millholland, a third-year MFA student in fiction at Boise State University, appeared on the…

Wednesday September 3, 2025

Blue Galleries to feature student artwork from Berlin and Venice programs

On Friday, Sept. 5, the Blue Galleries in Boise State’s Center for the Visual Arts…

Friday August 29, 2025

Budde’s ‘All Aboard’ to join Baker Museum’s permanent collection

A piece by James Budde, professor of ceramics in the Department of Art, Design and…

Monday August 25, 2025

BSU professors and graduate students featured in The Hemingway Seminar

The annual Hemingway Seminar, hosted by the The Community Library in Ketchum, Idaho, will again…

Monday August 11, 2025

Hemingway Center Reading Series announces Fall 2025 visiting writers

The Hemingway Center Reading Series announced their line-up of visiting writers for Fall 2025. Each…

Tuesday August 5, 2025

Keys serves as guest curator Boise Art Museum exhibit

Kathleen Keys, professor of art education in the Department of Art, Design and Visual Studies,…

Monday August 4, 2025

Gene Harris All Star program wins City of Boise award

The Gene Harris All Stars program has won the City of Boise’s 2025 Mayor’s Award…

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