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National Parks Week Starts Tomorrow

April 15, 2016
In case you haven't heard by now, the MOA is getting ready to open a brand-new exhibition all about the National Parks, specifically, the Utah parks, plus the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, and Yosemite. It's also the centennial anniversary of the National Park Service! The National Park Service is celebrating this milestone anniversary all year, starting this weekend with National Park Week. National Parks Week runs from Saturday, April 16 - Sunday, April 24, 2016, and allows free admission to all U.S. National Parks. So, in perfect preparation for our upcoming exhibition,
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Electronic Gallery: "The Way Things Go"

April 14, 2016
2016-17
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Artist Bio: Wayne Kimball

April 12, 2016
Wayne Kimball, a Utah native who currently resides in Springville, Utah, is quietly one of the world's best and last true lithographers. Lithography is a complicated art medium, as it involves the manual labor of stonecutting plus the artistic know-how of line drawing and the mastery of print-making. It's a labor of love and absolute patience. Kimball began his art career by taking art classes in college, where he soon realized his artistic talent in ceramics, print making, and engraving. He found his true calling in graduate school when he discovered lithography. During his art career, Kimball was also a professor, teaching in various universities, including 25 years in the Visual Arts Department at BYU, until he retired in 2009. Kimball's work is a fun juxtaposition of seemingly serious subject matter turned on its head with unexpected treatment of these subjects. See a collection of Kimball
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Artist Bio: Walter Askin

April 12, 2016
A true Pasadena native, Walter Askin has had a long career as an artist, a curator, and author, and teacher. His primary medium is painting, but he also dabbles in sculpture, printmaking, and other mediums. Askin was born in Pasadena in 1929. From a young age he experimented with different types of artwork. He received both his BA and MA from UC Berkeley. He has had dozens of solo and gorup exhibitions around the world, including his artworks being shown at the Kunslerhaus in Vienna, Austria; the MOMA and the Whitney Museum of Art in New York City; and various others. Since the beginning of his career he has formed collaborative relationships with other artists and forming artists groups wherein the artists can work together, collaborate, and give and receive feedback. Askin spend many decades as a teacher, teaching from junior high level through college, all the while creating artworks and continuing to learn more and refine his own style. Walter Askin is known for his imaginative and humorous pieces that often shift the viewer's expectations of familiar objects and themes. Many of his pieces are also tinged with satire as he uses his artistic expression to bring mankind's perceptions of their greatness back down to reality. See a collection of Askin's work this spring and summer at the BYU Museum of Art in the new exhibition,
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Interview with a MOA Education Student!

April 07, 2016
Erin Kolu is one of our talented students who works in the Education Department. Erin works at the front desk and during events, gives tours, and she is responsible for scheduling group tours for the museum as well. Today we interview Erin about her experience as a student employee at the BYU MOA!
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Behind-the-Scenes at the BYU MOA: Registration

March 31, 2016
In February 2016, our Registration Department was preparing the exhibition
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Women's History Month: Kathe Kollwitz

March 30, 2016
Kathe Kollwitz, born Kathe Schmidt, was a German artist, born in 1867, in what is now Kaliningrad, Russia. Her father enrolled her in art lessons as a teenager when he realized her talent and potential. She then enrolled in an art school for women in Berlin. This is where the themes of social justice began to shine through in her artwork. At the age of 21, she went to study at the Women's Art School in Munich. She became engaged to and then married a young doctor named Karl Kollwitz, which put her in close proximity to the suffering and pains that the lower classes endured. Her two major art cycles,
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Meet the MOA: Maggie Leak

March 25, 2016
Every other week we will be highlighting 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 Maggie Leak, our executive assistant. She's keeps us all on track and provides information to people inquiring about the museum via email and phone.
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Women's History Month: Faith Ringgold

March 21, 2016
Faith Ringgold is an African-American artist whose work is a powerful visual statement against rascism and sexism. Ringgold was born in New York in 1930. A talented visual artist, Ringgold began experimenting in the visual arts from a very young age, inspired to create by the musicians and artists and friends and family in her neighborhood. She received a degree in Art Education from , having been forced against from pursuing a major in Art, since it was considered a profession for men. She went on to earn a Masters Degree from City College. Many of her pieces are influenced with her experiences during the Civil Rights Movement and the Women's Rights Movement. During one of Ringgold's trips to Europe, she was inspired at the Rijksmuseum to start creating quilts, influenced by the 14th-15th century tapestry pieces edges there. Ringgold is also a painter and sculptor. She has also written ten children's books. Her book
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Rebecca Campbell: The Potato Eaters

March 17, 2016
September 30, 2016 - February 18, 2017
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A Visual Testimony: Minerva Teichert's Book of Mormon Paintings

March 17, 2016
September 16, 2016 - April 29 2017
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Women's History Month: Ella Peacock

March 16, 2016
Known as the 'Matriarch of Utah Artists,' Ella Peacock truly was a pioneer. Ella Peacock was born in Pennsylvania in 1905. Her childhood was rife with both joys and sorrows. She describes herself as a child as: 'I was a bit of a rebel.' In her 20s, she attended the School of Design in Philadelphia. She lived and painted and created various types of artwork in Pennsylvania with her family through World War II. In 1970, she and her husband Bill moved to Spring City, Utah. Spring City, one of the only places in the West to be included on the list on National Register of Historic Places. It was and still is a small art city in Sanpete County, Utah. Artists have flocked here over the years to collaborate, learn, and create. Peacock lived in a small home in Spring City from 1970 to her death in 1999, at the age of 93. Her style is typical of the 1930s - a greyed out, flattened look, muted tones. She painted the desert landscapes surrounding her, which, despite her East Coast upbringing, was the landscape that most inspired her. She continued to support herself with her artworks, showing in major galleries and museums. Now, the BYU Museum of Art currently displays her artwork in the executive offices and often in exhibition in the public galleries.
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Meet the MOA: Anna Bates

March 08, 2016
Every other week we will be highlighting 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 Anna Bates, a designer whose work visitors might remember as she designed exhibition space for
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YOUR Comments about "American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell"

February 23, 2016
Thank you to all of you who visited
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Eight Reasons to Visit an Art Museum

February 17, 2016
When you visit a museum, you're engaging in learning and education outside a classroom setting. This type of learning allows you to move at your own pace, gather and learn about ideas that are of specific interest to you Looking at and analyzing artwork releases dopamine in the brain - it's the falling in love hormone that makes you giddy and content! When you view art in a museum, studies have shown that it can lead to a decrease in cortisol, the stress hormone. Visiting a museum actually reduces stress! Looking at art gives us greater empathy as we strive to understand the context of the artwork and the events and emotions surrounding the piece. The chocolate at the gift store at the Museum is better quality than the corner drugstore or Walmart (at least in our museum). Having experiences makes us happier than having more possessions. Spend a few hours at a museum for an enriching and memorable experience, rather than spending money to buy something that you won't really get much happiness from in the long run. Plus, if you spend the time at the museums with a friend, you are forging happy memories with that person, which strengthens your relationship with them. Visiting a museum will make you more creative! Ever been working on a problem and had an idea suddenly come to you while you were driving or taking a shower or cooking? The same thing can happen when you're wandering through a museum! Due to the more leisurely pace inherent in most museums, the combination of being faced with creative minds' output + interpreting sometimes abstract ideas + slower pace = light bulb moments! Visiting museums makes you happier! According to a UK study in 2013, 'Museums improve people's happiness and perception of good health, even after other factors that might be influencing them are accounted for.' Sounds good to us!
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Eight Things You Didn't Know About Norman Rockwell

January 21, 2016
Because the Rockwell excitement is alive and well here at the MOA, we're sharing a few things you didn't know about the American artist, Norman Rockwell. Did you know that Norman Rockwell served stateside in the Navy during World War 1. Norman Rockwell's first cover for the Saturday Evening Post was published in 1916, when he was just 22 years old! Norman Rockwell was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977. Steven Spielberg and George Lucas are Rockwell fans and collectors. Rockwell thought his 'Freedom of Speech' painting was the best of all the Freedom series. Rockwell painted portraits of 4 U.S. Presidents: Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon. Rockwell created over 4,000 original works in his lifetime. Much of the film Forrest Gump took visual inspiration from Rockwell's art. See
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Video: Norman Rockwell at the MOA

January 21, 2016
Watch this beautiful video from University Communications all about the exhibition,
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Capturing the Canyons: Artists in the National Parks

December 22, 2015
April 29 - August 20, 2016
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