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MOA Book of Hours Project
The BYU Museum of Art is excited to announce our new 'Book of Hours' project! Starting June 1, 2016 the MOA will be posting an artwork from our permanent collection as well as some background information about the piece and the date, if significant. This project aims to showcase works that are not often featured in exhibitions, introduce new pieces, and allow for rediscovery of old favorites. We are calling this our Book of Hour Project, as we hope that viewing these posts will become a daily ritual in your life to bring positivity, joy, and inspiration into your life. A Book of Hours was a meditative book in the Middle Ages, often an illuminated manuscript (though some were just manuscripts), which were reusable year after year, and commemorated religious holidays, persons, and events through art and word. These mini-books were calendars and meditative booklets to inspire and educate their readers. Often women would receive a Book of Hours as wedding gift from her husband, sometimes featuring the family's coat of arms. Often, royalty would commission special and highly illustrated Books of Hours that would be passed on from generation to generation, or even given to new owners when monarchs were overthrown. In our new MOA Book of Hours Project, we will be posting every day, but also linking to the previous' years' posts (starting next year of course), so that you can easily go back and see what entries were featured on this day a year ago, and so on. To access the Book of Hours Project, simply click the tab under Collections from the MOA home page, or click here. We hope to soon be able to provide an email subscription link, where you can sign up to receive the daily artworks right into your inbox, so look for that to be coming soon. For now, we hope you will enjoy and subscribe via RSS feed and share your favorites on your own social media channels. Please email any feedback about the Book of Hours project to kylie_brooks@byu.edu.
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Play "I Spy" in Reality Reorganized
Guest Post by Kaitlyn Hirst Stop. Look. Tilt your head. Squint. Tilt the other way. Shift the legs. Look again. This is the typical order of body movements of viewers as they look at the images in the Reality Reorganized show. The absurd and dreamlike lithographs and paintings by Wayne Kimball and Walter Askin twist the viewers mind through a healthy dose of perplexing images and humorous games. Walter Askin paints in bright cheery colors with dark unidentifiable objects looming throughout them. As the eye separates the cheery reds from the dark deep indigos one cannot help but notice the intimidating dark figures. It could be a pile of rocks, a man, or both! His totems of dark objects grace almost every canvas and add not only curiosity and whimsy, but also the perfect vertical element to his untamed canvas. Askin
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Meet the MOA: Clyda Ludlow
Every so often we highlight one of the amazing staff members here at the MOA, so you can get a look at the wonderful work that so many talented people do to make the MOA great! This week we chat with Clyda Ludlow, the Collections Manager, which is part of the Registration Department. She knows the MOA's collection better than anyone and gets to handle the artworks up close and personal.
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The Film that "Promoted International Understanding": "Broken Arrow"
The BYU MOA is screening the 1950 Western drama film
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Visit the MOA, Post a Selfie!
By now you've heard and maybe even visited the MOA's new exhibition,
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Highlights at the MOA - Spring and Summer 2016
Coming to visit the BYU Museum of Art this Spring or Summer? Here's our handy guide of your must-sees during your visit! Learn about lithography from the educational display in the
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Curator Marian Wardle Retiring
With regret and gratitude, we say farewell to Curator Marian Eastwood Wardle, who is retiring from the Brigham Young University Museum of Art (MOA). The granddaughter of American artist Minerva Teichert, Wardle has continued this art-historical legacy as Curator of American Art since 2000; her numerous accolades, exhibitions, and publications attest to the remarkable career of this dedicated scholar. Wardle has worked extensively with the MOA
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Capturing the Canyons: Zion National Park
Almost an oasis in a harsh surrounding landscape, Zion National Park has seen ancient and modern peoples pass through and occupy the area, always proving to be the unpredictable and wondrous wilderness that has awed for generations. Occupied by Anasazi peoples 800 years ago, the Zion area proved to harsh and they moved south. Afterwards, the Paiute peoples found great success as they lived in the area. In the 1860s, Mormon pioneers settled the area, planting crops and orchards and otherwise adapting to desert life. Explorers passed through the area, including John Wesley Powell during his expedition to the Grand Canyon. The waterfalls, the slot canyons, and the majestic (and sometimes terrifying) overlooks define Zion National Park. Visitors today picnic, hike, and explore this area, different from the other parks in the state of Utah, simply because of the ever-present Virgin River continually carving its way through the middle of the park.
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Capturing the Canyons: Yosemite National Park
Located in the Sierra-Nevadas in Northern California, Yosemite National Park is known for its impressive waterfalls, glacier-made canyons, and towering monoliths of granite. Most visitors stay in the Yosemite Valley, a seven-square mile area, which is only 1% of the area of the park. Today, seven tribes who have descended from the first ancient peoples reside in the area of Yosemite. The main tribe before the arrival of explorers and settlers in the mid-1800s were the Ahwahneechee tribe. Violent skirmishes between the Ahwahneechee and the European explorers caused the Ahwahneechee to be driven out of the area. European and American settlers, surveyors, artists, and writers soon populated the area, bringing it to national attention. Of course, Half Dome is perhaps the most famous landmark in the park, which climb thrills extreme mountaineers. Other famous sites include Yosemite Falls and El Capitan. Activities in Yosemite include biking, hiking, driving designated scenic routes, and water sports such as swimming, kayaking, and rafting. This wilderness and terrain of Yosemite truly is unique, diverse, and wonderful.
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Capturing the Canyons: Yellowstone National Park
As first National Park in the world, Yellowstone has been astounding tourists and visitors for over a century. People from all over the world come to see the stunning landscape, amazing wildlife, and the famous geysers and hot springs. Native Americans have lived in the Yellowstone area for over 11,000 years. In more modern times, the Shoshone, Crow, Bannock, and other tribes lived in the area. Explorers and trappers began living on and surveying the land in the mid-1800s. From the mid-1870s to 1916, the area was protected and controlled by the U.S. Army, who built a post called Fort Yellowstone, which serves as the park headquarters. Yellowstone is made up of lots of different types of terrains, which provide visitors ample opportunities of things to do during their visits. Geysers and hot springs are some of the most popular attractions in the park, but hiking to waterfalls, lakes, and lookout points are always fantastic as well.
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Capturing the Canyons: Capitol Reef National Park
Despite being one of the largest national park in the state of Utah, Capitol Reef is perhaps the least-known. Though the area is known mostly as beautiful settlement for the early Mormon settlers, the area in Capitol Reef extends into backcountry filled with desert terrain, cliffs and arches, and desert oases. In fact, the park is situated in the Waterpocket Fold, a 100-mile-long wrinkle in the earth's surface, which causes the amazing geological wonders found therein. The earliest people left wall drawings, which are still clearly visible on easy-to-access trails throughout the park. Puebloans and later, Paiute peoples made the area of Capitol Reef their home. In the late 1800s, Mormon pioneers traveled into Central Utah, establishing the towns of Loa, Grover, and Fruita, and other settlements within the Capitol Reef area. Their orchards are still in Capitol Reef and visitors can harvest and eat the fruits by paying a small fee at the visitors center. Capitol Reef is given its name by the unique white cliffs and the white dome that resembles the Capitol Building in Washington D.C. Other cliffs are a rainbow of colors, from the creamy white to deep crimson to sunny yellow. Other sites within the park include the Fremont Petroglyphs referenced above, and the Cathedral Valley. Truly a unique park with many types of terrain, Capitol Reef is not to be missed.
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Capturing the Canyons: Grand Canyon National Park
Grand Canyon National Park was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1971. It is also considered one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World. The sheer enormity of the canyon is dizzying and exhilarating. It has long been a place inhabited with people, and the Navajo, Paiute, Havasupai, Hualapai, and Hopi Native American tribes still live in and around the Grand Canyon today. President Theodore Roosevelt said, upon visiting the Grand Canyon, 'It is beyond comparison - beyond description; absolutely unparalleled through-out the wide world...Let this great wonder of nature remain as it now is. Do nothing to mar its grandeur, sublimity and loveliness. You cannot improve on it. But what you can do is to keep it for your children, your children's children, and all who come after you, as the one great sight which every American should see.' The parks has two main visitor areas - the North Rim and the South Rim. Most everything else in between is only accessible through backcountry roads or pack trails. Hiking along the rim and in designated trails is the most popular activity at the Grand Canyon, as it offers the breathtaking viewpoints and lookouts, though some hikes descent into the canyon. At the North Rim, mule rides down into the canyon are available as well.
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Capturing the Canyons: Canyonlands National Park
The largest National Park in the state, Canyonlands truly is a wonder to behold. This terrain is often what comes to mind when people think of the 'Wild West,' and for good reason! These dramatic red cliffs and the Colorado and Green Rivers still carving out canyons make a scenic backdrop in a place where it is rumored that Butch Cassidy and his gang of outlaws often hid out. Throughout history, groups of people usually just passed through the area instead of actually inhabiting it. Nomadic hunter-gatherer people made their way through the area in ancient times, while more modern Puebloans came in later. Remnants of their dwellings are visible throughout the park today. Around 1300 A.D., Ute, Paiute, and Navajo groups moved into the area. All three groups still live in the area today. Because of the difficult terrain, European explorers mapping the area often circled and avoided it, as it proved an impediment on their journeys through to California. It wasn't until explorer John Wesley Powell led an expedition through the area on his way from Wyoming to the Grand Canyon that the area was mapped and explored. Cowboys brought their herds to the area in the early 1900s, living in the area for months at a time in a very primitive lifestyle. It wasn't until the 1950s that the area began getting more attention. Miners were lured to the area in search of uranium to be used in the government's nuclear arms program. The government built over 100 miles of roads in the area, which made it possible for tourists to start exploring the area as well.
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Capturing the Canyons: Arches National Park
One of the most iconic sights in the United States is Delicate Arch, a huge arch suspended across a vast sandstone desert face. Delicate Arch is just one of over 2,000 arches within Arches National Park, near Moab, Utah. Arches National Park was established in 1971, after first being designated a National Monument in 1929. The area has, for thousands of years, been populated, abandoned, and re-populated. First, ancient hunter-gatherer peoples were in the area, as evidenced by tools found in the area as well as ancient wall drawings. Ancient Puebloan peoples lived in the area for a time before moving to other locations in the Southwest. Nomadic Ute and Paiute tribes moved into the area and met the first European explorers in the late 1700s. The first European peoples to come into the area were Spanish explorers, charting courses to California. The Old Spanish Trail is still visible by Arches National Park Visitors Center today. By the late 1800s, traders and settlers had established a small settlement in the late 1800s where Moab is today. Once pictures and stories of the vast desert landscape and the otherworldly features and formations of the Arches area reached the press in other parts of the country in the early 1900s, tourists began making their way to experience this unique and beautiful landscape for themselves. In the past few decades, thousands of people flood into the park every year, to hike, photograph, and otherwise explore the wonders of this gorgeous National Park.
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