About

The ArtSci Community

As a multifaceted group, we offer students and faculty diverse opportunities to engage in art/science integration and to broaden their impact. Students are taught skills to visualize scientific data engagingly, explore the relationship between technology and data, and create fascinating experiences.

We have several educational and social opportunities to connect with the broader Art and Science community. These entities include the Boise Art & Science Hub (BASH), Vertical Integrated Programs (VIPs), and Juried Exhibitions. If you’d like to get involved with one of our outreach groups, please email us at Artsci@boisestate.edu.

BASH

The Boise Art and Science Hub, BASH, serves as a meeting place and an innovation hub for faculty and students to explore the interplay between Arts and Science. Here we seek to uncover the ‘who & why’ and the reasoning behind the ‘what & how’ of science, technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematics education (STEAM).

Throughout the year, BASH hosts several collaborative events and exhibitions that engage students and faculty across the Boise community. If you are an individual with a love of learning and a lifelong curiosity this is the place for you. Visit the BASH Google Sheet to find out how to get involved with projects or propose an event.

Thank you to our team of collaborators and partners on campus.

• The Keith and Catherine Stein Luminary
• The Albertsons Library Makerlab
• Student Association of Graphic Arts (SAGA)—Boise State Graphic Design Club

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Vertically Integrated Programs

“Art-Science Integration” is an interdisciplinary Vertically-Integrated Project (VIP) that supports students’ exploration of artistic and scientific ways of understanding this world. Through the intersection of STEAM course material and artistic media, undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty will strengthen science literacy, creative communication, and critical thinking skills.

Each semester will focus on a different theme that unites several campus research labs. The course will culminate with an annual public exhibition, in which students will share their work with diverse audiences in our broader community.

The Art of Scientific Visualization

The ambitious goal of this project is to fill a training gap linked to scientific visualization. Producing graphs, infographics, renderings and videos of scientific concepts that are able to convey the key results of the analysis, without misrepresenting the reality is mandatory for the dissemination of research, for outreach, and for teaching.

Full Course Description for The Art of Scientific Visualization

The Art of Science Integration

Though typically viewed as separate disciplines, art and science share conceptual foundations. Each field requires scholars to observe patterns in the world and communicate them, suggesting that distinct benefits can emerge from leveraging these fields’ shared features.

In the Art-Science Integration VIP, students will bridge the divide between these disciplines by learning artistic techniques (e.g., painting, movement) and participate in research being conducted by faculty, postdoctoral, and graduate-level STEM mentors in order to communicate that research and unite these modes of inquiry.

Full Course Description for The Art of Science Integration

Juried Art Exhibitions

A chance for students to apply their skills!

This exhibition explores new ways of communicating science by integrating visualization strategies from the arts and data collected from scientific processes. Topics are selected based on relevance to the community and the state. Students working in scientific and technological research will have an opportunity to showcase their work, while arts students can experiment with new topics and challenges.

This exhibition is open to all students and researchers at Boise State University and K-12 Boise school districts.

Submission Requirements for Juried Art Exhibitions