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Guest Post by Ellen Ford, MOA Marketing Intern

2019

Sunday, November 11, 2018, commemorates 100 years since the armistice that ended World War I. World War I spanned a little over four years and claimed the lives of over 16 million people, including nearly 7 million civilian lives and 10 million military lives.

Guest Post by Isabelle Kramer, MOA Marketing Student Specialist

For Bloch, the seaside was the most alluring of Denmark's natural beauties. He relished his time spent on the coast and longed for its rejuvenation when away. As a young artist living in Rome, but jealously longing for home, Bloch wrote to a friend in Denmark, 'Oh, the sea—the lovely, lovely sea! I love nothing on the earth more than the sea.'

Guest Post by Nicole Moon, MOA Marketing Intern

Guest Post by Nicole Moon, MOA Marketing Intern

We are all familiar with the sight of a poster tacked to a bulletin board or taped to a storefront window, but we may be surprised by the way posters papered the country during World War I. In 1917, right as America entered World War I, President Wilson established the Committee on Public Information —America's first office of propaganda. One historian has estimated that the Committee on Public Information printed twenty million posters, and this massive flood of colorful prints provided a constant stream of pro-war imagery in the public sphere. Though a latecomer to the war, America printed more posters more posters than all the belligerent nations combined, and For Home and Country: Posters and Propaganda from the Great War features many of the most iconic, most compelling, and most colorful examples of government propaganda ever produced.

The engravings displayed in Meditate on the Lord are illustrations from Annotations and Meditations on the Gospels, a devotional text created in 1595 by Jerome Nadal, a Jesuit priest. Nadal's text prompts meditation on the life of Christ through scripture, commentary, and illustrations. His book was intended as a teaching tool for students of the Jesuit Order, training them to carefully read scripture and ponder its meanings. Such contemplative study was an important form of worship in the Jesuit Order, or the Society of Jesus. The Society was founded in 1540 by St. Ignatius of Loyola, a Spanish soldier who felt divinely called to the religious life. After his ordination, he and a group of fellow priests dedicated themselves to a rigorous life of work and prayer. governed by four solemn vows: poverty, chastity, obedience, and a pledge to travel at the bidding of the pope to all corners of the world spreading the Holy Name of Jesus.

Last spring, an upper-level Brigham Young University art history and curatorial studies course consisting of seven undergraduate and graduate students was tasked with spending a semester studying a series of old Jesuit engravings, master their symbolism and meaning and then propose their findings as an exhibition at the BYU Museum of Art.

4.1 Miles is a short documentary film by Daphne Matziaraki, created in 2016. The film follows local coast guard officers stationed off the Greek island of Lesbox, just 4.1 miles from the Turkish coast, where thousands of migrants have braved the Mediterranean to flee conflicts at home. The footage from this film was all shot on a single day, October 28, 2015. The footage is raw, unnerving, and heartbreaking. The film shows crucial moments between life and death, making the refugee crisis more than a distant world problem and highlighting heroic actions by many to save strangers in need.

August 2018

December 7, 2018 – October 19, 2019

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