BSU Art Professor Lily Lee Weaves Shrouds for the Forgotten

As an art professor at Boise State University, Lily Lee teaches sculpture classes, skills like metal fabrication, carving, and mold-making. The Pullman, Washington, native is also a practicing artist whose resume is filled with exhibitions, grants and residencies. But Lee has a calling that connects her to the community in sometimes surprising ways: She uses her skills as a maker of exquisite objects to memorialize unknown crime victims who died without advocates. Two years ago, she became the Idaho and Oregon director for The Doe Network: International Center for Missing and Unidentified Persons, a nonprofit group of volunteers who work with law enforcement to match missing persons cases with John and Jane Doe cases from across the country.