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Tiffany Wixom has joined the BYU Museum of Art as the Assistant Registrar in the Collections Department. Tiffany earned a Bachelor’s Degree at BYU in Art History and Curatorial Studies, graduating in 2013. Following graduation, she worked at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts in Salt Lake City as a Collection’s Intern, which internship later turned into a job as the Objects Preparator.

Have you been to the sculpture garden lately, wondering where a particular orange deer might have gone?

'No chapter of fictional adventure can rival a chapter in the real life of Mr. Millet. Soldier of fortune, adventurer, war correspondent, art student, and artist, he seems to have been constituted of stuff which makes dramatic events possible.' - Washington Times, April 16, 1912

Photographers record the defining moments of our world and our time, capturing history through timeless images of fleeting moments. With the click of a button, vivid imagery documents the pain of poverty, the ecstasy of victory, and the triumph of redemption. The MOA is excited to present an exhibition from the Newseum in Washington, D.C. entitled Pulitzer Prize Photographs, opening at the MOA on July 23, 2018. This exhibition features the most comprehensive collection of Pulitzer Prize-winning photographs ever assembled, including photographs from every Pulitzer Prize-winning entry since 1942, when the award was first presented.

'I've spent a lot of time around maps. An enormous world map, about eight feet wide and six feet tall, hand pride of place in my childhood home. Finland has tens of thousands of islands scattered along its southern coast and stretching west toward Sweden, and tens of thousands of lakes in its interior.

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Guest Post by Megan Mayfield, MOA Marketing Intern

2019

Guest Post by Megan Mayfield, MOA Marketing Intern

September 22, 2018 – January 12, 2019

Guest Post by Dallin R. Adams, MOA Marketing Intern At a recent TEDxBYU event contemporary artist, Aundrea Frahm explained how we can better understand and appreciate contemporary art. You can view the talk here. Frahm is both a former student and teacher at Brigham Young University. Beyond studying and teaching art, Frahm is a practitioner as well. Her work,

Guest Post by Megan Mayfield, MOA Marketing Intern

Guest Post by MOA Marketing Intern, Dallin Adams Maurits Cornelis Escher was often inspired not by his own surroundings, but rather by the many ideas swirling within his own mind. He drew inspiration from the ideas of duality, mirror images, multiple dimensions, relatives, infinity, impossible constructions, and many other complex ideas.

Guest Post by Megan Mayfield, MOA Marketing Intern

August 10, 2018 – January 5, 2019

From the artist, Nina Katchadourian: 'Talking Popcorn is a commercial popcorn machine hooked up to a hidden computer that uses Morse code to translate the sounds of the popping popcorn and then speaks out the resulting words. As you hear Talking Popcorn talk, you listen the way you might when conversing in a language you don't know very well. Although much of the machine's speech is nonsense, your desire for comprehension may begin to extract meaning from even the most broken phrases.'