Calling all Students
The 2025 Juried Exhibition will showcase artistic techniques and innovative media to communicate scientific and technological data and concepts. Entries will be evaluated on conceptual rigor, aesthetic criteria, and the work’s ability to communicate a scientific topic effectively. Partner or group work is encouraged, especially teams with complementary skill sets (e.g., art majors paired with science majors).
Goal
We aim to discover alternative ways to communicate science by applying artistic methodologies. We invite students to investigate new ways of visualizing systems and data and interact with scientific content relevant to the broader Idaho community. This is an opportunity to showcase your technical research, skills, and process by experimenting with new mediums, topics, or partnerships. We encourage submissions that are collaborative and increase the synergies between arts and sciences.
Theme
The exhibition theme encourages a diverse range of expertise to encompass various science and technology fields while remaining accessible to non-experts. This year our chosen theme is “Air Sense.” This theme can integrate multiple scientific disciplines, including remote sensing, animal migrations, disease transmission,
climate change, physics, astronomy, and more. This theme hints at non-traditional art mediums to encourage a reflection on the intrinsic qualities of air, its interactions with light, its forms and states, its connection with life, its environmental role, and its function for humans and society.
Entry Types
- Static works (photos, paintings, renderings, etc.)
- Dynamic, motion-based, interactive works (videos, music, app, projection, sonification, etc.)
This juried exhibition is aimed at all the students, researchers/faculty at Boise State University, and students in K-12 grades in nearby school districts.
Submission
Deadline: April 15, 2025
FAQs
Group entries are encouraged, especially if they involve students from different backgrounds (arts and science). If you want to be put in contact with someone to collaborate on an entry, please contact ArtSci at artsci@boisestate.edu or join our Discord server at ArtSci@Discord. The same links should also be used for any additional inquiry or question related to the Juried Exhibition.
Prizes
Prizes will be offered for the first three works of each entry category and age group. A total of 18 prizes will be awarded. For K-12 submissions, prizes will be awarded to the student(s) and their classrooms. The budget for the prizes is provided by The College of Arts and Science at Boise State and the National Science Foundation.
Awards Selection
A judging committee formed by faculty and administrative staff at Boise State, and potentially representatives from the involved school districts, will evaluate all the submitted entries for awards.
Award Ceremony
The award ceremony will take place on May 8, 2025, at the Center for the Visual Arts and feature scientific seminars for the general public and a light reception. The digital entries will be visualized in The Keith and Catherine Stein Luminary where the public is invited to interact, browse, and zoom in on the entries. Following the ceremony, physical entries will be temporarily displayed in a central campus location for the Boise State community and the public to enjoy.