“Light Athletics” Socio-Economic Dissonance in Post-Revolution Ukraine

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John Ballif and Faculty Mentor: Daniel Barney, Art Education INTRODUCTION: In the wake of Ukraine’s Euromaidan revolution in 2014, Ukraine has struggled to reconcile its deep-rooted sense of tradition with increasingly westernized aims. After deposing authoritarian president, Viktor Yanokovich, the Ukrainian people now experience a cultural identity crisis paralleled only by the aftermath of the […]

The Women of Guernica: A Compilation of Interpretations

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Heidi Herrera and Faculty Mentor: Dr. Heather Belnap-Jensen, Art History and Curatorial Studies Introduction Although there is a wealth of scholarship on Picasso’s Guernica (1937) (Fig. 1), until recently there has been a distinct lack of analyses completed through feminist methods, an approach essential to a holistic understanding of Guernica. Conducting on-site research at the […]

NCECA Presentation

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Lindsey Jensen and Faculty Mentor: Tara Carpenter, Art Education Tara Carpenter and I traveled to Portland and led a discussion with about 50 people at the National Ceramic Education Association. We researched the trend of unskilled ceramic artwork that has been happening in the art world lately. Conceptual work that is done by someone who […]

String Instrument Maintenance and Repair: Fundamental Skills for the Classroom Teacher

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Madison K. Moline and Faculty Mentor: Dr. Samuel Tsugawa, School of Music Introduction My ORCA project was to study, practice, and teach string instrument maintenance and repair. The repairs that I learned were: closing and opening seams;; closing cracks in various parts of the instrument;; bridge and sound post alignment and placement;; neck and fingerboard […]

Henriette Renié An Enriched Perspective from Primary Sources

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Clarissa Cashmore and David Day, HBLL Music Special Collections Introduction My ORCA project was a study of the French virtuoso harpist, composer, and pedagogue Henriette Renié. Renié’s archive collection is housed at BYU. There are over 9,000 items in her collection, including but not limited to spiritual diaries, letters from family and colleagues, concert programs, […]

The Relationship of Music and [Emotion]: An Experiment in Areas of Brain Activity

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Caleb Cuzner Faculty Mentors: Steve ricks, school of Music; Neal Bangerter, Electrical and Computer Engineering Introduction In order to study the relationship between music and color in areas of brain activity, I proposed to have participants’ brains scanned by an MRI machine while seeing different colors and listening to contrasting music samples. After learning that […]

Photo Reference Library The Creation of a Desperately Needed Figure Drawing Reference Library for Design and Art Students

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Gregory Bean and Faculty Mentor: Robert Barrett, Illustration Department The idea for this project arose from the need to provide BYU Design and Art Students with an appropriate photo reference for life drawing. Solid drawing skills have always been the foundation for most visual arts. For hundreds of years, artists have learned those skills by […]

Engraving the J.D. Morsch collection at BYU

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Bringing J.D. Morsch Band Transcriptions Back Into Publication Standards for the Availability of BYU Ensembles Nicolas Mauricio Ayala Ceron and Faculty Mentor: Dr. Donald Peterson, School of Music The Brigham Young University Music Performance Library houses a very special collection of hand-written music unique in the world. This collection, known as the J.D. Marsch Collection, […]