Mario has traveled back in time to the 19th century in a new artistic project, “Ukiyo-e Heroes.” Jed Henry, a recent graduate of BYU, and David Bull, an artist specializing in Japanese woodblocks, recently raised over $300,000 on the website Kickstarter for “Ukiyo-e Heroes.” For the project, Henry took three of his loves — Japan,…
BYU professors and alumni, along with other artists, lend their skills to a special exhibit allowing students to explore little-understood symbols and images found in both Islamic and Christian art. “Treasured Truths,” an exhibit of paintings, sculptures, photographs and more found in the B.F. Larsen gallery of the HFAC on BYU campus until Oct. 15, lets…
Is chivalry dead? Two hundred knights in shining armor don’t think so, and that’s what brought them to the Mastering Knighthood annual two-day summit in South Jordan. “Chivalry is about living knightly virtues, and chivalry is not dead,” said Gregory Downey, the herald. Mastering knighthood brings youth and young adults together to a simpler time…
Julie Kirk Purcell, chalk artist, kneels down on the warm sidewalk, her canvas. All she has is a small bucket of chalk and a duster. She swings her baseball cap backwards and starts to work. Color by color, layer by layer, the sidewalk is transformed; a masterpiece is born. Her now-dusty, dirty hands contrast with…
The BYU Musem of Art’s new exhibit “Think Flat,” featuring original art from Andy Warhol and Takashi Murakami, explores the relationships between the influence of fame and the power of an image. Jeff Lambson, curator of contemporary art at the museum, describes the link between the pop culture art of Warhol and the abstract cartoons of…
Fred Howard sat quietly in the back of the old Tabernacle one evening, listening to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir practice. On that night, he listened intently to the organ towering powerfully behind the choir. What a challenge it would be to paint the rich wood and the brass pipes, he thought to himself. In that…
Provo’s 4th District Judge Fred Howard may hold a gavel by day, but in his off time, it’s a paintbrush. Howard’s oil paintings are currently hanging in the Springville Museum of Art, in their new exhibit, “The Great Organ: Paintings of the Tabernacle Organ by Fred Howard.” There are 33 paintings total, and all of…
Knowledge bombs are being dropped at the Park City Museum from now until October. “Alert Today, Alive Tomorrow: Living With The Atomic Bomb” is a new exhibit on display now at the Park City Museum. The exhibit focuses on a twenty-year history following World War II that is known as the Atomic Age. [media-credit id=304…
Marian Wardle, a BYU alumnus and curator of American Art for the BYU Museum of Art, recently received the W.E. Fischelis Award from the Victorian Society in America for her work as an editor and co-author of the book, ”The Weir Family, 1820-1920: Expanding the Traditions of American Art.” The W.E. Fischelis Award is awarded to a book…
The 75th annual Lehi Round Up Week celebration starts next week with the Lehi Round-up Art Show. Round Up Week commemorates the pioneers who first put down roots in Lehi, and the people have celebrated every year since the city was settled. A rodeo was added to the festivities 75 years ago and has been…