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Faith Ringgold Story Quilt

The Museum of Art recently acquired a contemporary artwork by Faith Ringgold. The work, Subway Graffiti #3, represents a unique style developed by the artist known as a story quilt, which consists of acrylic on canvas surrounded by a pieced fabric border. Ringgold completed the work after a 1986 trip to Tokyo, Japan, where she was inspired by the crowded subway stations and unfamiliar writing which looked like “graffiti.” Ringgold created this story quilt upon her return to the United States. Subway Graffiti #3 depicts the names and faces of many of Ringgold’s friends and family, and is a special tribute to the artist’s sister, Barbara, who always called herself “the princess.”

This work is currently on view in the Lied Gallery on the museum's main level.

Minerva Teichert: Pageants in Paint

Minerva Teichert: Pageants in Paint is a new exhibition at the Brigham Young University Museum of Art presented by Zions Bank that examineshow the American mural and pageantry movements influenced Teichert’s artistic production through 47 of her large-scale narrative murals. Some of the works in the exhibition come from private collections and have not been seen publicly for many years.

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Masterworks of Victorian Art from the Collection of John H. Schaeffer

Throughout much of the nineteenth century, British artists created impressive paintings that depicted stories from both ancient history and contemporary life with a richness of color and wealth of detail that captured the admiration of the age. "Masterworks of Victorian Art from the Collection of John H. Schaeffer" includes paintings, drawings and sculpture by some of the most widely acclaimed artists of the era and provides a rare opportunity to view some of the most beautiful and well-crafted works of this period.

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Dismantling Geneva Steel: Photographs by Chris Dunker

In November 2004, Chris Dunker began to photograph the Geneva Steel Works in Vineyard, Utah at the onset of its demolition. Within three years the largest steel production facility located west of the Mississippi ceased to exist. Dunker documented the vacated spaces, silenced machinery, and advancing destruction of this once productive facility. His expressive photographs compose an evocative visual elegy of an industry that profoundly shaped the life of Utah County throughout the twentieth century.

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American Dreams

American Dreams: Selected Works from the Museum's Permanent Collection of American Art examines artworks created by 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-century American artists as ideas or visions of America. This new and expanded exhibition of the Museum's permanent American art collection is presented on both levels of the Museum and includes prints, sculpture, photography, and painting.

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