Michelle Sorensen and Professor Adrian Pulfer, Visual Arts and Graphic Design Pattern design is widely popular and used throughout the world. Patterns have also been used since the beginning of time. They can be seen in blankets, clothing, rugs, and paintings throughout history. For my study of patterns I looked to an unusual resource—ancient Egypt. Egypt […]
Rudolf Laban’s Space Harmony and Sacred Geometry Principles Applied to Ballet Methodology
Chanel Smith and Professor Shani Robison, Dance Sacred Geometry is the study of the symbolic meanings within harmonic shapes found in nature. These shapes can also be called the Platonic Solids which follow the Fibonacci Sequence known as the Golden Ratio (Fig 1). These aspects of Sacred Geometry have been studied for centuries. Civilizations and individuals […]
The Art of Adaptation
Jacob Schwarz and Professor Thomas Russell, Theater and Media Arts I am so glad that I was given an ORCA grant because it gave me an opportunity to create a very original and new piece of film within our film department. The film, which is still finishing in its post-production stage with visual effects, became much […]
“Vanth and Child”: An Investigation of the Mislabeled Etruscan Urn Mother and Child
Cassandra Scheerer and Dr. Mark Johnson, Visual Arts & Communication Since its discovery in Chianciano, Etruria, the identification of the figures in the Etruscan cinerary urn Mother and Child (Fig.1) as a mourning mother holding her deceased child has gone uncontested. Reasons for this include the fact that the inscriptions do not identify the figures […]
New Media Research and Development
Taylor Rose and Professor Jeff Parkin, Media Arts New Media technologies are changing consumer engagement expectations. As media author and researcher Mimi Ito observed in the Transmedia Hollywood forum, the Pokemon audience—who grew up engaging with highly social, customizable forms of media—has now reached adulthood and has very different media expectations than previous generations. In addition, […]
Understanding William Primrose: The Transcription of Technique is Memory
Noelle Rader and Dr. Claudine Bigelow I received my ORCA grant to transpose and transcribe for viola the out-of-print violin method book Technique is Memory, written by the famous violist William Primrose. BYU is home to the largest viola music archive in the world, the William Primrose International Viola Archive (PIVA). William Primrose was the […]
Making Family History
Rebecca Potter This year I was awarded an ORCA grant to make a series of commercials promoting family history. The commercials are targeted to teenagers and young adults in hopes of showing them different ways they can use their skills to take part in the vital work of family history. From film, to blogs, to […]
Community Magazine
Kevin C Pinegar and Professor Adrian Pulfer, Visual Arts When I enrolled in Brigham Young University, I had decided that “for the sake of education” I would give up art and culture for a few years and live in Provo. I was naive back then: I thought that BYU would be a place that discouraged creative […]
From Silver to Bamboo
Nicole Okeson and Dr. Kirt Saville, Music The flute is one of the oldest musical instruments in history. Flutes can be found in civilizations across the globe throughout time. While basic similarities exist between all flutes, including similar fingerings and embouchure, musical style and notation differ widely. China is one of the oldest continuous civilizations […]
Two New Works in the Development of a Playwright and Director
Zach Kempf and Professor George Nelson, Theatre and Media Arts This Project was intended to produce and culminate in two public works of theater, One, written by myself, entitled ‘The Monster of Dr. Frankenstein” and Directed by David Lidell Thorpe; the other, written by Matthew Greene, entitled “for Dear Life” and Directed by myself. The former […]
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