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Full-Text Articles in Fine Arts
Small Utah Towns, Christine Armbruster, Dr. James Swensen
Small Utah Towns, Christine Armbruster, Dr. James Swensen
Journal of Undergraduate Research
While obtaining my Bachelor of Fine Art, I spent a lot of my time during those six years of school running away. First finding the need to get out of Provo, then Utah, and eventually America. It resulted in a lot of adventures, stories, and long drives. It was during these long drives that I consistently ran into each one of these small Utah towns, classically consisting of a corner store, a post office, and a child being pulled on a radio flyer. One after another after another. Slow down to 30 and watch the old signs from shops past …
Portrait Of A Tree: Exhibit A, Hannah Wertz, Sunny Taylor
Portrait Of A Tree: Exhibit A, Hannah Wertz, Sunny Taylor
Journal of Undergraduate Research
Exhibit A is an explanation in four parts, of my attempt at knowing more about the Populus Tremulus (Aspen Tree). Eighteen months ago my experiments started shallow by painting portraits of the tree as seen in “Level One”. After six months the results were not leading my beyond surface physicality so I decided to try science. I represented this period by a white board, “Level Two”, covered in with written information about the tree collected over the last year from books, lectures, articles, professionals, botany, and environmental literature classes.
The Provost Elementary Project: Organizing And Administering Art Education In A Local Low-Income Elementary School, Katie Jahner, Daniel Barney
The Provost Elementary Project: Organizing And Administering Art Education In A Local Low-Income Elementary School, Katie Jahner, Daniel Barney
Journal of Undergraduate Research
The purpose of this ORCA project was to give students in a local low-income elementary school the opportunity to experience a quality and interdisciplinary art education program for six weeks. Through the McKay School of Education, I was able to organize my elementary school student teaching at Provost Elementary as their sole art teacher. ORCA grant funds were used to purchase art materials that were donated to the school at the conclusion of the project.
Modern Cartoons, John Herzog, Kelly Loosli
Modern Cartoons, John Herzog, Kelly Loosli
Journal of Undergraduate Research
My grant from the BYU Office of Research & Creative Activities afforded me the opportunity to study and research the limited animation style pioneered by UPA in the 1940s and 1950s, and to use my research to design a UPA-style character.
The Cultural Preservation Of Ecuador Through Art, Jason Harmon, Mark Graham
The Cultural Preservation Of Ecuador Through Art, Jason Harmon, Mark Graham
Journal of Undergraduate Research
The purpose of my project was to research the indigenous cultures of Ecuador through art (painting, drawing, and photography). My hope was to bring a lot of visual reference home, and to create an art show that would inform its viewer of the rich cultural diversity of some of the many indigenous cultures found in the diverse climates and regions of Ecuador. I started out hoping to help others understand these different cultures, their ways of life, and how they live, but after a two and a half week journey through the jungles, mountains, and rain forests of Ecuador, I …
An Artistic Investigation Of Coming Of Age: Inspired By Jugendweihe, Alyssa Grant, Daniel Barney
An Artistic Investigation Of Coming Of Age: Inspired By Jugendweihe, Alyssa Grant, Daniel Barney
Journal of Undergraduate Research
I am profoundly grateful for the opportunities opened to me through the funding of this ORCA grant. With my grant I was able to travel to Germany to gather source material and experience relevant to my artistic investigation of personal identity and notions of coming of age.
Make Me Cinderella, Ashleigh Braithwaite, Fidalis Buehler
Make Me Cinderella, Ashleigh Braithwaite, Fidalis Buehler
Journal of Undergraduate Research
My show is planned for August 2012. The work I show will be used for graduate school opportunities, as well as submissions to juried shows. All this will benefit me in my endeavors to ultimately have my work represented in a gallery setting.
The Garifuna: A Nation Within Nations, Benjamin Petersen, Dr. Jared Johnson
The Garifuna: A Nation Within Nations, Benjamin Petersen, Dr. Jared Johnson
Journal of Undergraduate Research
The Garifuna are the descendents of West Africans brought to the Americas in the 1600s aboard slave ships. After a shipwreck in the Caribbean, they settled on the island of St. Vincent and mixed with the Carib Indians, creating a unique people and culture that thrived on spirituality, dance, music, language and tradition. Eventual land disputes with the British led to fierce battles, defeat and finally, deportation to the coast of Honduras. There, the Garifuna reestablished and adapted, eventually spreading along the coasts of present-day of Honduras, Belize, Guatemala and Nicaragua. Today, an estimated 300,000 Garifuna live in Central America …
Silet Signals: Non-Verbal Communication Through Digital Media, Sarah Theurer, Joseph Ostraff
Silet Signals: Non-Verbal Communication Through Digital Media, Sarah Theurer, Joseph Ostraff
Journal of Undergraduate Research
Through video interviews with students across the US as well as in Great Britain, the Silent Signals project intended to create a portrait of the current university generation through documention their non-verbal communication and signals. We set out to do this through video taping, breaking down, and comparing their gestural responses to 25 questions about society, love, family, money, and education.
Provo’S Ghost Town, Bryan Hutchison, Peter Everett
Provo’S Ghost Town, Bryan Hutchison, Peter Everett
Journal of Undergraduate Research
Provo’s Ghost Town project has been a constant developing project over the past year. It began with what I had originally proposed for the ORCA Grant—to do research on houses and to use that information to create a body of artwork dealing with buildings that have been torn down in Provo, and hold a show exhibiting the artwork. A body of artwork has been made, but is still in progress. There are 15 finished images to date made, with enough materials gathered to make another 15 the upcoming semester at the same size, and enough photographs collected through research to …
La Photographie De Rue: The Changed Face Of Doisneau’S Paris, Sarah Carrigan, Dr. James Swensen
La Photographie De Rue: The Changed Face Of Doisneau’S Paris, Sarah Carrigan, Dr. James Swensen
Journal of Undergraduate Research
I suppose it all started in a textbook. Perhaps this shouldn’t be surprising, but as one who generally avoids superfluous bouts of academic reading, I’m still in a fair amount of awe that this project ever got dreamt up in the first place. Yet how could I resist the delightfully amiable photograph of an old man whose eyes were filled with light and mischief flirting with me from the introduction of my Art History 379 book? A man whom the author took so much care to mention with a tone of distinct fondness despite the fact that there was no …
The Childrens’ Literacy Project: “Restoring The Love Of Reading”, Melissa Manwill, Robert Barrett
The Childrens’ Literacy Project: “Restoring The Love Of Reading”, Melissa Manwill, Robert Barrett
Journal of Undergraduate Research
This project began as a desire to try my hand at making a graphic novel. I’d never done it before. Neither had my classmates. We had also never made a collaborative art project in the way that the animation program makes a film each year. Those two desires culminated in a 12-person team compiling an anthology of graphic novels to address illiteracy by helping students ages 9-14 get excited and stay excited about reading. The concept is like the children’s TV show Wishbone. You target the reluctant readers who are 9-14 years old, and you give them a teaser of …
Bridging The Classical Literature And Youth, Soljee Lee, Robert Barrett
Bridging The Classical Literature And Youth, Soljee Lee, Robert Barrett
Journal of Undergraduate Research
The purpose of this project was to create a medium that will bridge between the youth and the classical literature in order to address increasing epidemic of child illiteracy in this visual dominant world. The proposed solution was to introduce the classics to youth in the form of graphic novels; therefore, the goal of this project was the execution of the hypothesis and the examination of the result through audience response. It was also intended to serve as a tool to emulate the professional publishing market so that a student illustrator may become familiar with the function/characteristics of the market, …
Curriculum Adaption Highlighting Strengths Of Students With Adhd, Katie Dooley, Daniel Barney
Curriculum Adaption Highlighting Strengths Of Students With Adhd, Katie Dooley, Daniel Barney
Journal of Undergraduate Research
In accepting this research grant my objective was to better understand the characteristics of ADHD and to regard these characteristics as strengths that could be seen as assets in a classroom. When I began this research I was hopeful that I would find many articles discussing the positive traits of students with ADHD; however, disappointingly, I read far more articles explaining how to control or manage the students so that they would better fit into our ideal traditional classroom. For example, in “Treatment of ADHD in School Settings” the authors state, “The goal of school intervention is to contain and …
Restoring The Love Of Reading, Renee Bates, Robert Barrett
Restoring The Love Of Reading, Renee Bates, Robert Barrett
Journal of Undergraduate Research
Over the course of the past 15 months I have begun a project which I’m excited to say has helped me discover a new part of my family history as well as create a piece of art which I hope to share in the homes of many families. As a part of the ORCA, I proposed to write and illustrate a piece of literature based on the folklore tale The Changeling. By creating a tangible book to be held by children and parents together, my ultimate goal was to stray from the overwhelming surge in digital media and to restore …
Recognizing Faces: Women’S Portraits On The Salt Lake City And County Building, Diana Lauritzen, Dr. James Swensen
Recognizing Faces: Women’S Portraits On The Salt Lake City And County Building, Diana Lauritzen, Dr. James Swensen
Journal of Undergraduate Research
Sixteen women’s portraits grace the capitals of four piers at the two main entrances to the Salt Lake City and County Building, a building which though controversial at the time, serves today as the icon of the city’s logo. Much like the details on the sandstone from which they were carved, their names have disappeared with time and only so much can be restored. My paper, which I presented as my senior thesis on April 6, 2012 at the BYU Museum of Art, explored who these women were, why they merited a prominent position on the building, and what their …
Mariachi-Dachi, Kevin Merriman, Ryan Woodward
Mariachi-Dachi, Kevin Merriman, Ryan Woodward
Journal of Undergraduate Research
Besides the fact that this is something I’ve fantasized doing since I was a kid, this was also the perfect project for me to help propel my career forward as an artist. As a student, it’s easy to get caught up in finishing assignments for the sake of getting a good grade – and as an art student, this can become a very dangerous thing. Having more complete thoughts and finished products speak much louder to potential employers, and when art students are too focused on finishing something just for a grade, they risk not having things in their portfolio …
Commercial Theatre Practices In Non-Profit Theatre, Andrew Joy, Jeffrey Martin
Commercial Theatre Practices In Non-Profit Theatre, Andrew Joy, Jeffrey Martin
Journal of Undergraduate Research
This creative project compared two case studies in theatrical producing. Simply put, being a producer is being in charge of finding the material to produce (i.e. a play, musical, dance program etc.), making all arrangements to put that material on stage, and being financially responsible for the project from the beginning to end. Commercial theatre “operates without subsidy and is centered in New York City.1” Other types of theatre that were a part of this project were non-profit, regional, community and educational theatre but will be referred to as non-profit theatre.
The Children’S Literacy Project, Chrisanne Hernandez, Robert Barrett
The Children’S Literacy Project, Chrisanne Hernandez, Robert Barrett
Journal of Undergraduate Research
The purpose of this project was two fold. First, we wanted to create a literacy tool that could be used by educators to help bridge the gap between picture books and novels. Second, we wanted to expand our skills and knowledge through the art form of sequential storytelling. It was interesting because as we began this journey our desire to help others was the main goal. But over the year, I’ve found that I, myself, will be one of the largest beneficiaries of this project.