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Our Work

Our research and creative activity in the School of the Arts illustrates how artistic practice creates knowledge, transforms communities and shapes the future.

Our work in the School of the Arts

From composing, designing and prototyping digital experiences to co-creating with communities and developing creative solutions for global challenges, our work in the School of the Arts proves that art is essential research infrastructure for the 21st century.


Artful solutions

We bring artistic insight and creative solution to complex challenges for a better world.

Air apparent: ArtSci interactive showcase reveals the hidden life of the air we breathe

Discover ArtSci and their work on air

Place, Arts and Cultural Systems Lab

Learn more about the PACS Lab

Creative discovery

We compose, design, perform and craft new ideas, forms, processes and practices that expand what art can be and do.

Wieland named Idaho Writer in Residence

Learn more about Idaho's highest literary honor

Furlong awarded prestigious 2025 Alexa Rose Foundation Fellowship

Meet Kirsten Furlong

Heidi Kraay and Natalie Disney named as inaugural Boise City Writers-in-Residence

Learn more about Writers-in-Residence

Community engagement

We co-create, stage, exhibit and activate art in collaboration with people and places to strengthen belonging, cultural vitality and shared meaning.

Professor is cataloging decades of religious fashion history: His research landed him on Broadway

Learn more about Darrin Pufall Purdy's work

Idaho Film Collection

Discover the Idaho Film Collection

Keys serves as guest curator Boise Art Museum exhibit

Read more about Keys's exhibition

Gene Harris All Star program wins City of Boise award

Learn more about the City of Boise award

Human well-being and connection

We paint, write, choreograph, play and share art that uplifts, heals and fosters empathy, joy and resilience.

He signs his paintings with ‘Amor’: Film program documents alum’s life and work

Learn more about the documentary

Wood inspires civic engagement through service-learning in film production course

Discover how film students gave back

The Washington Post names Boise State professor’s collection one of the best books of poetry of 2023

Meet Sara and read her poetry

Technological exploration

We prototype, animate, code and remix emerging tools, media and digital environments to shape the future of creativity.

Apel selected for artist residency at leading electronic music studio

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Video games or wisdom machines? A new partnership in the College of Arts and Sciences asks why not both?

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