Create Yourself in the CCA Department of Art and Blueprint

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The Film Studies Small-scale offers a wide experience of the critical, historical, and formal assay of film. Students volition gain an understanding of cinema aesthetics, history, genres, and various theoretical approaches. Information technology requires the completion of a total of 12 credit hours. All those taking the minor are required to successfully consummate ARTH 3850: Foundations in Film Studies. All other courses are electives and may exist called from accordingly approved courses offered both inside and outside of the Department of Art & Design. Independent Study options are also available. All students planning to complete the requirements of the minor should consult Dr. David Wall, Acquaintance Professor of Film and Visual Studies, in the Department of Fine art & Design.

Highlights

Interior Architecture & Pattern Senior Exhibition

COMPOSITION, Thursday, May 5 from 4:30pm to 7pm at Henrickson Butler 249 S. 400 E., Salt Lake City

Graphic Design BFA Exhibition

THIS IS NOT THE Aforementioned, Fri, April 29 from 5pm to 7pm at Brand Assistance 933 Due south Edison St. Suite 100, Salt Lake Urban center

Spring Ceramics Sale

Join us for the Spring Ceramics Auction on April 28 from 5 pm to 9 pm and April 29 & thirty from ix am to viii pm in the Fine Arts Buildling (FAV) 121.

Leap Print Sale

Join the states for the Spring Print Sale on April 20 from 10 am to 5 pm and April 21 from 10 am to 7 pm in the Fine Arts Buildling (FAV) 106.

Local Artist Exhibition Seeks Submissions

Calling all artists from Cache, Rich, Weber, and Box Elder counties in Utah. Application deadline is April 25, 2022. Exhibition dates are slated for June 20-July 29, 2022.

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5th Annual Paper & Dirt Winners

1st Place Juan Carrea, University of Iowa | Los Cariñositos, Lithograph

2nd Place Ashton Keen, USU | Pourer, Clay

third Identify Kristin Boyer, University of North Texas |  Fortifying Vocabulary, Screen Impress

Honorable Mention Casey Brook, University of Nebraska | Ewer, Stoneware

Honorable Mention Anne Klein, University of Iowa | Corpse Pose, Lithograph

Newspaper & Dirt exhibition was also featured in our local Herald Journal HJNews.

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Congratulations to Mitchell Keck, Pupil ASID, winner of 2021 ASID Foundation David Barrett Memorial Scholarship!

The David Barrett Memorial Scholarship is awarded biennially to recognize the work of an outstanding undergraduate or graduate educatee who demonstrates an involvement and power in utilizing classical design elements and traditional materials in their work. Classical design is aligned with Greek and Roman design principals.

Classical pattern elements are consistently influential in his pattern procedure. Mitchell impressed this year'southward jury with his detailed portfolio and commitment to an understanding of classical design. As this yr's recipient, he will receive a $12,000 scholarship! You tin can view Mitchell's winning portfolio.

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USU Honors Class Helps Cache Humane Club Find Dogs Homes Through Media Representation

During the fall 2021 semester, students in Dr. Laura Gelfand's USU 1330 course "Civilization: Creative Arts" took up the cause of man's best friend. Working with the Cache Humane Society, these students, who were enrolled in a Community-Engaged Learning Honors course, experimented with ways in which media representations could help dogs, and a few cats, find forever homes. Read more about the project in  Utah State Today.

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Byzantium: Trade, Treasure, Tradition

This virtual exhibition explores the fine art of Byzantium as an expression of this interconnectedness. By viewing Byzantine art and objects through the lens of five different themes -- fine art making and materials, liturgy and ritual, luxury, power, and textiles -- we are able to examine the ways in which Byzantines manifested their values, statuses, traditions, and global connections through visual culture. You can view the virtual exhibition in Digital Commons.

interior architecture design students

USU Interior Architecture & Design is currently ranked 8th in the top twenty Interior Design Schools

A career in interior blueprint can be a fruitful one. Fulfilling those goals, however, will mean getting an education that tin can make that happen. Among the many considerations that should be considered when choosing a school for interior design, 2 are among the most important. Ane of those factors, tuition, is essentially universal for nearly everyone. Some other important gene is the graduation rate considering accomplishing those goals begins with finishing your caste. You can learn more at www.bestvalueschools.org.

AIGA Awards

USU Graphic Design students collect AIGA Awards

Each yr the Salt Lake City chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) host the AIGA 100 Bear witness, an awards exhibition of the peak 100 pieces of graphic design created across the state of Utah. This yr, iii USU graphic design students received AIGA merit awards and were featured in the exhibition. Kate Griffin won 1 of the three Student Copper Ingot Awards, which is considered the elevation graphic design laurels for student work in the state. Congratulations USU Students!

AIGA Student Copper Ingot Honor

Katie Griffin ('21)

AIGA Student Merit Awards

Brooke Nielson ('22)
Elle Mortneson ('22)
Ryker Marble ('21)

2021 Student to Watch by GDUSA Mag

Kate Auman ('15) was named as the 2021 Educatee to Lookout man while finishing up her MFA at Cranbrook University of Art last bound!

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Congratulations to David C. Wall on his recent publication!

From Street to Screen: Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep

Charles Burnett'due south 1977 film Killer of Sheep is one of the towering classics of African American movie theater. From Street to Screen: Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep is the beginning book-length collection dedicated to the film and designed to introduce viewers to this still relatively unknown masterpiece. Beginning life as Burnett'due south principal'southward thesis project in 1973, and shot on a budget of $10,000, Killer of sheep immediately became a cornerstone of the burgeoning movement in African American film that came to be known variously equally the LA Schoolhouse or LA Rebellion. By bringing together a broad variety of material, this volume covers both the politics and aesthetics of the moving picture equally well every bit its deeper social and contextual histories.