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Looking Back: Plein Air Experience

Summer 2020 Issue

Art students look at a collection of art pieces leaning against a car at the base of a red-rock landscape. — Photo Courtesy L. Tom Perry Special Collections, UA 869 Series 1 B-6 F-2 6

A field trip to red-rock country for art students in 1958 provided plein air experience amid dramatic landscapes.

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One student pins fabric to a small mannequin while another student watches with a sketchbook in hand.

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Looking Back: Clothing and Textiles Class

Step into this 1950s BYU clothing and textiles class to see what these family-living students found trendy and nifty.

Four petri dishes containing artistic renderings of the Kirtland temple, the portrait of Emma Smith, the first vision, and Van Gogh's “Starry Night.” Images were painted using dark purple, bright pink, turquoise, and yellow bacteria.

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Painting with Bacteria

Who says biologists can’t be artists? BYU MMBio and Art Beat Club students create masterpieces out of colorful bacteria.

A cartoon fire ant with a devilish grin surrounded by gold coins and with a wall of fire behind him runs away from the scene, clutching a black cannon with a skull-and-crossbones design painted on it.

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BYU’s Center for Animation’s video game Avast Ye! wins big at the Intel University Games Showcase.