BYU student showcases 7 years of work in abstract art exhibit
Imagine a man jamming out to trap music in his studio as he rhythmically goes to town on a canvas. This is how Stephen Clawson, a senior art major at Brigham Young University, does his paintings [...]
Alumni Arts: The Spirit of the Land
Growing up on a small farm in Highland, Utah, Michael R. Workman (BFA ’86, MFA ’92) knew just what he wanted to do with his life: “Move to a rural area and paint the land. And I’ve been able to [...]
Alumni Feature: Rachel Stallings Thomander
As Thomander’s view of success expands and the lines between art and non-art blur, new creative possibilities emerge Seven-year-old Rachel Stallings Thomander walked into a university classroom [...]
BYU Magazine: Minuscule Masterpieces
The Harold B. Lee Library had some unusual visitors in October. Just inside the east doorways, miniature patrons admired postage stamp–sized art in one of alumna McKay Lenker Bayer’s (BA ’18) [...]
BFA Student Featured In A Solo Exhibition At The Utah Museum Of Contemporary Art
Rachel Henriksen’s show “knew/new” will be on display in the Projects Gallery at UMOCA November 1—January 18 BFA senior Rachel Henriksen first heard from the curator at the Utah [...]
Seeing with the Eyes of an Artist
Greg S. (BFA ’17) and Jean Mcfarland Bean (BA ’17) were BYU dropouts. After a baby and an illness derailed their studies in the 1980s, they decided to leave BYU and head to Washington state. [...]
Artists from BYU and Across the US and Europe Meet in Iceland to Collaborate on a Show in Santa Fe
Diverse artists establish an on-going relationship of community and unity For the past 10+ years, a group of BYU professors — including Claudine Bigelow (Music), Gary Barton (Art), Jen Orton [...]
Leslie Whyte Graff on Finding Meaning Through Art
“When art does a good job, . . . it makes the world less lonely,” says Leslie Whyte Graff (BS ’96, MS ’01). “It makes it more meaningful.” Many of her generation-spanning images depict women [...]
