About Us

Lisa Hunt has twenty years of experience teaching the history of art in higher education, with emphases in Medieval, Renaissance, and Islamic arts and architecture, as well as museum studies. Her research and publications on medieval illuminated manuscript books took her into the collections of monasteries, municipal libraries, and national museums of northern Europe where she worked with the latest digital photographic technologies and archival databases. Her current work explores the pedagogical power of immersive, digital, and experiential learning, through mining museum and archival collections and rethinking curatorial narratives for new museum audiences.

Hunt earned a B.A. in Art History and Museum Studies from Rhodes College in Memphis,Tennessee, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Art History and Archaeology from University of Missouri-Columbia. Her dissertation and subsequent publications were supported by a Fulbright grant to Belgium and awards from the Samuel H. Kress and the Belgian American Educational Foundations, among others. Hunt founded and directed the Museum Studies minor and Art History major at University of Wyoming before moving to Idaho to teach in the University Foundations and Art, Design, and Visual Studies programs at Boise State.

As the software architect of the Stein Luminary, Steve Cutchin brings to Boise State his leadership experience in visualization and supercomputer facilities at King Abdullah’s University of Science and Technology, University of California-San Diego, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, and Walt Disney Feature Animation.

Cutchin has published articles on computer graphics and visualization, created animations for Discovery Channel, and produced images for SIGGRAPH and supercomputing conferences and journals. He received his doctorate from Purdue University in Computer Science.