Melanie Carter and Dr. Geralyn Giovannetti, Music Purposes of the Study My principal goals upon starting this project were first, to prepare myself for graduate level studies, future orchestral playing, and teaching; and second, to help me gain an appreciation and understanding of 20th century music. I based my project on Luciano Berio’s Sequenza VII […]
Tonga
Sunnie Bybee and Professor Joseph Ostraff, Visual Arts To whom it may concern, I’m writing to report on the results of my research and ORCA grant project. As my proposal explained, I was asked to participate in a project involving children’s artwork from Tonga by my professor, Joseph Ostraff. This project involved traveling to Tonga […]
Music Cataloging: The Compositions of Murray Boren
Darrell L. Brown and Dr. Brian Harker, Music Murray Boren is the composer-in-residence at Brigham Young University as well as a professor of musical composition and theory. He studied composition at BYU as an undergraduate and did graduate work at BYU and City University of New York. He is a composer who has generated many […]
la fine del mondo?
Namon D. Bills and Professor Joseph Ostraff, Visual Arts In my proposal for this project I suggested doing a series of paintings which referred both to Michelangelo’s Last Judgement and to contemporary culture in order to raise questions about the end of the world and our view of it. I feel that conceptually my show […]
Humanitarian Art Project for the Orphans of Minsk, Belarus
Julie Bean and Professor Robert Barrett, Visual Arts Through consulting with Brother Dick Ogden at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Humanitarian Center in Salt Lake City, a plan was developed to aid the orphans of Minsk, Belarus. The atmosphere and housing conditions of the Minsk orphanage are grayed by years of neglect. […]
Portrait of a Negress: Post-colonial Studies of a Black Female Subject
Abby Beal and Dr. Martha Peacock, Visual Arts The painting Portrait of a Negress completed in 1800 is a rare piece for its time. The painting is unique because of its isolation of a rare subject for art—the black woman. Not only is the subject rare, but also the painting gains more interest because the […]
Inspire or Damage: a Documentary Film about Travis Eberhard
Brad Barber and Professor Thomas Lefler, Theatre and Media Arts In making this documentary film, my original intent was to document Travis Eberhard’s personality, humor, and goals as a recently BYU-graduated film student. Specifically, I wanted to achieve this by not asking him any questions about what it was like to live with a wheelchair. This […]
Communicating Hope through Music in Ukraine
Alisha Ard and Dr. Daniel Bachelder, Music Recently celebrating the ten-year anniversary of its independence, Ukraine is a country that for those ten years has been plagued with the need for drastic social and economic reform. The people are desperate for the freedoms a word like “independence” promises, but the opportunities just don’t seem to […]
Art and Politics: The Provenance of Phillip Lord Wharton
David Amott and Dr. Mark Magelby, Visual Arts Throughout history, art has often been closely tied to politics, although not all governments and politicians have given art equal consideration. This fact is illustrated through the provenance of Sir Anthony Van Dyck’s portrait of Phillip, Lord Wharton (1632, National Gallery of Art). Since its completion, this […]
Costume Designs for the Play “Plea”
Merrilee Allred and Professor Richard Hull, Visual Arts What seems to ever plague humanity throughout the ages is the plight of man – the classic search of self and truth. It seems that every one of us must go through this individually, manifest in several different ways and at different times. What remains the same […]
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