Bridging the Gap

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Rachelle M. Hulme and Professor Lawrence Vincent, Music Many students of music struggle once they have reached the critical point in their training where they are expected to make their way in the professional world. They find a substantial gap between their opportunities as university students and the seemingly unattainable status of professional musicians. I proposed […]

Viola Project Report

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Tyler Hokanson and Dr. Claudine Bigelow, Music William Primrose, eminent performer, pedagogue, and proponent of the viola, spent his last few years at Brigham Young University. Mr. Primrose was a colleague and former teacher of David Dalton, who was at that time professor of viola at the university. Because of Primrose’s close connection to Dalton, […]

Pursuing New Audiences for Visual Health Care in El Salvador

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Joshua S. Gildea and Professor Richard K. Long, Communications El Salvador is a third-world country in Central America that suffers from extreme poverty and a lack of quality medical attention. The country has experienced great natural disasters in the past few years including Hurricane Mitch in October 1998 and two major earthquakes in January and February […]

Elizabeth Baumann Jerichau and Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid”

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Elizabeth Cramer and Dr. Mark Magleby, Visual Arts Denmark was not immune to the Orientalist trend which swept Europe in the nineteenth-century. The famous fairy tale writer, Hans Christian Andersen and his artist friend, Elizabeth Baumann Jerichau, both lived in Copenhagen, and were heavily involved in the current interest in the art, people, and culture […]

Terry Nails the Sale: Senior Narrative Film Project

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Dustin Condren and Professor Stan Ferguson, Theatre and Media Arts After filming my third-year narrative film project, I felt ready for a significant change. Everything that I had done up until that point had consisted of stories of college-age men struggling to come to terms with their own weaknesses and desires. Essentially they were all […]

Post-Colonial Interpretations of Role Reversal as Illustrated in Le Radeau de la Meduse by Theodore Gericault

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Megan Kramer Collins and Dr. Martha Peacock, Visual Arts Art historians employ various methodologies in analyzing works of art. Most commonly scholars take a socio-cultural/historical approach to understand the works. We all admit that no work of art was created in a vacuum. In studying the circumstances surrounding the culture and history of the artist, […]

The Development of Musical Thought

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Melissa J. Clayton and Professor Jerry L. Jaccard The question that drives this research is: What is the process of musical thought development in children? In sorting through possible answers to this question I have studied the work of Piaget (1, 5 and 6) and Moog (4). Moog’s studies of the musical experience of pre-school age […]

The Specific Object

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Jared Lindsay Clark and Professor Brian Christensen, Visual Art Studio “The history of painting may be characterized in terms of the gradual withdrawal of painting from the task of representing reality – or of reality from the power of painting to represent it – in favor of an increasing preoccupation with problems intrinsic to painting itself…painting […]

Photographic Processes in Printmaking

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Todd Chilton and Professor Gary Barton, Visual Arts The advent of photography brought about a change in the world of art. Many artists felt that they no longer needed to adhere to academic standards in rendering traditional subjects such as the figure, landscape, or still life. They even felt that it was necessary to separate […]