Education in Zion Gallery uplifts students and workers during weekly event

BYU's Education in Zion officially began the gallery's Monday tradition of hosting students and families on Sept. 21.

At the Education in Zion Gallery, students can find exhibits focusing on the key tenets of Brigham Young University as well as a wide variety of additional researched topics.

Ella Johnson, a gallery worker, expressed what students can expect to take from this gallery and apply to their education.

This gallery is the foundation of BYU, Johnson said. We learn about the four aims, the study experience revelation cycle and we teach it to students.

Johnson also says she sees this work as self-fulfilling because she can share the importance of gaining an education while being a student herself.

For student workers at the gallery, the cycle of teaching others about education while receiving their own doesnt come from tours alone. In fact, workers can often help create some of the gallery's exhibits.

Heather Seferovich, the gallery's director, offered further insight into how much student workers help with these exhibits.

Almost all of them are done by students," Seferovich said.

In the gallery, the exhibits in the second- and third-floor alcoves, as well as the conference room, rotate out bi-monthly.

While the gallery may host events frequently, event-goers can expect something unique every time.

Every one of them is special, Seferovich said. Theyre on different things, and theyre fun.

In her time as director, Seferovich has seen the gallery provide wonderful experiences for attendees.

Theres a lot of information here. And people come, and something will strike them at just the right time, Seferovich said. Other times, they just realize that their education is eternal as well as temporal, and that puts a whole new perspective on things."

She explained that viewers realize that learning is not just a grade in class; it encompasses so much more.

The Education in Zion Gallery is open for tours from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Mondays and Wednesdays, and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.