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Show LIVE 03.29.2010 Pick of the week l\ From left to right: Jesse Royston "Escatawpa Pecans I", Jenny Elizabeth "Simulacrum", Anna Fulton ~ "Gloaming", Michelle Beck "Purple and Green", Autumn Linsley "Untitled". These and other artists will be featured in the Senior Art Exhibition at the Woodbury Museum. Senior Art Exhibition 2010's graduating class displays work at the Woodbury Art MuJ5MELSUNDQUIST Culture writer all photos Al MITTON/ UVU Review Beginning March 29, UVLTs graduating students from the bachelor of Fine Arts program will exhibit their senior art exhibition at the Woodbury Art Museum. The show will continue through April 30. The exhibit will open with a reception on March 29 from 6-8 p.m. UVU senior BFA students Michelle Beck, Jenny Elizabeth, Anna Fulton, Autumn Linsley and Jesse L. Royston were chosen to present their work at the exhibition this year. The juried pieces in the exhibit include paintings, drawings and illustrations. Each student has brought their own perspective to the exhibit, to cre- ate a collaboration featuring the education and ideas students encountered and internalized while attending UVU. According to a press release, Beck's pieces use layer upon layer of raw materials to create texture similar to geological strata. Elizabeth, an academically trained symbolist, portrays her , ideas on the existence of life and nature through a combination of architecture, landscape and still life. Each of her pieces contains emotional and psychological depth, expressed through attention to her craft. Fulton uses color, mixed media and calligraphic images to bring attention to the small details of life that bring contentment. Linsley focuses on interpreting emotion through color, depth, light and dark, movement and space; using broad brushes and palette knives to create individualized brush strokes. Linsley references atmospheric space as her inspiration for color and composition. In this exhibit, Royston creates "visual verses of sensory experiences with charcoal and pastel on large paper." In 2009 she was chosen by UVU's Scholarly and Creative Opportunities Program for her undergraduate research in synesthesia in art as a catalyst. For more information, contact Marcus Vincent, associate professor at the Woodbury, at 801-8634200. Melissa Auf der Maur:' Out of Our Minds, March ;i; 30 h Angus & Julia Stone: Down the Way, March 30 Amazon.con) • < > . > Slow Club: <$\ Yeah, So, March 310; ma20n.com DVD Pick of the week; • - . • • < ' Where do we go from here? ^JESSICA BURNHAM Culture editor Although the space is minimal, the "4 Only 1" gallery is currently one of the few exhibition venues visual art students have left on campus since their former gallery was converted into music practice rooms. Other potential venues include the Woodbury Museum of Art, the fifth floor of the UVU library and the Student Center art wall. However, there are multiple issues with these exhibition spaces. The opportunity to exhibit at these locations can be costly (it costs money to enter artwork for exhibition at the Woodbury), they often need to be reserved months in advance, they provide little security and spaces such as the Student Center do not provide a professional exhibition experience. "Professors try to emphasize to their students the importance of respecting artwork, and for this we need a professionafexhibition space," said Patrick Wilkey, AVC professor. "We can't just find a wall, nail something to it and call it gallery space. Too often there are tables and booths set up in front of the artwork in the Student Center; it is not remotely close to gallery space." Much of the confusion has stemmed from the fact that no formal explanation Amazon.com has been given to those most affected by the change, who are puzzled that they weren't included in the decision. "The vice presidents deal with space decisions, and while I was interim dean of the Arts and Visual Communication department, they literally walked around the campus trying to come up with some ideas with how to respond to different space needs and requests that had been presented in the Planning Budgeting Accountability (PBA) meeting," said current Vice President of Academic Affairs Kathie Debenham. "They saw the Gallery 401 and decided that would be a place where they would put the music practice 3 Idiots, March 30 ; - r all photos Al MITTON/ UVU Review An Education, March 30 AVC student art is sequestered to small spaces on campus such as this corner of the former Gallery 401 and the Student Center art wall which is often obscured by heavy traffic. Amazon.cqjp^ See GALLERYSPACE* B6 Theatres New dean appointment to decidedly impact school of arts HJESSICABURNHAM Culture editor Backed by extensive credentials and practical experience. Dr. Patrick M. Jones will become the dean of the School of the Arts effective July 1. "He brings considerable experience in departmental leadership and in leading the bands of the Air National Guard to this position," said Elizabeth Hitch, UVU vice president for Academic Affairs. Currently.the chair of the Music Education Department at Boston University, Jones is set to leave this role behind and take the reigns of UVU's everexpanding arts program. With previous experience as assistant director of the School of Music and head of the Music Education division at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and as a music education faculty member at the State University of New York at Fredonia, Jones holds the skills necessary to further progress the arts program, "He is very excited about the achievements and' potential of the departments that form the School of the Arts and is doing all he can to advance their missions. That is a winning combination: enthusiasm for the vision of the School and its departments and the ability to assist the programs in reaching their potential," Hitch said. Jones earned a Incoming Dean of the School of the bachelor of sciArts, Dr. Patrick M. Jones. ence degree in Music Education from newly-appointed position, West Chester University, generate optimistic expeca diploma of fine arts in tations for the School of the Conducting and Wind LitArts. erature from the University "The mission of UVU, of Calgary, a master of arts to be a distinctive teachin Conducting from George ing university focused on Mason University and a serving the community, doctorate of Philosophy resonates with my desire to in Music Education from be part of an institution that Pennsylvania State Uniis connected to rile commuversity. These credentials, nity," Jones said in a recent combined with his excitepress release. "The environment to be involved in his ment of UVU and the Utah Valley is inspirational for artists of all disciplines. I can understand why such wonderful faculty would be drawn to UVU." Formerly, Kathie Debenham was appointed interim dean during the transition phase of the arts program, to which she brought experience and familiarity. "Kathie provided great transition from the 'old' College to the 'new' School as she was familiar with the departments and programs and had administrative experience in a dean's office," Hitch said. Asked to fill the position of vice president of Academic Affairs, Debenham was replaced by the seasoned Bruce Christensen, who came out of retirement to temporarily head the Arts program as UVU searched for a new dean. Jones will be leading the School during this particularly pivotal time for the arts, pivotal due in major- pick of the week ity to the consideration of a new Center for the Arts, which would be intensely beneficial to the flourishing arts program as its limited spacial availability in Gunther Trades seems ready to burst at the seams. The School has been workCHLOE ing to gain donor support for such a facility and all yahoo.com -,'•¥{ involved are hopeful that Chloe, March 26 ;t+ its construction is on the horizon, although the state of the economy is a difficult Hot g hurdle to overcome. Time ~£ "The opportunity to Machine^ garner support for such a facility and actually see March W: it designed and built is of considerable interest to Dr. Jones and is one of the projects at UVU about which he is very excited," Hitch said. Limitless possibilities exist within the School of How to the Arts, but Jones will Train need to mitigate the growYour ing pains while simultaneDragon, ously making decisions which will allow the School March 26 to prosper. Hopefully his efforts on behalf of the School will see it reach their utmost potential. |