UVU Student Team
Utah Valley University
Faculty Advisor: Brandon Truscott
Screenhead
Heather Avery, Kassidy Benson, Josh Buehner, Rachel Burningham, Carrie Capozzoli, Nathan Daley, Aundrea Donaldson, and Briton Hainsworth
Animated Motion Graphics Short – Runtime: 3 minutes 44 seconds – UVU ART 4440 Motion Studio – Seduced by the screen, a toddler enters a world of Vaporwave style media. As a teen, he escapes the screen's magnetism temporarily only to find himself drawn back down the rabbit hole. The broadcast becomes darker as he becomes converted into a Screenhead. Watch on Vimeo: vimeo.com/416585407
Grimm Gestalt
Heather Avery, Carrie Capozzoli, Kassidy Benson, Rachel Burningham, Nathan Daley, Angelique Cucuk, Jacob Ackerman, Jake Stewart, Quinn Hebertson, Cody Buckner, Gary Hatch, Brandon Carpenter, and Zac Terry
A few years ago, an academic experiment began to conduct a multidisciplinary collaboration between faculty and students in the Art & Design Department at Utah Valley University. The end goal has been to create a fine art coffee table book that showcases the creativity, innovation, and ingenuity of the department. It is a carefully orchestrated performance for visual artists. A year is spent on each book project researching, traveling, creating, designing, and editing. Grimm Gestalt is the fifth publication with all proceeds from book sales directly funding the publication of future engaged learning experiences for the department. The book is 184 pages long and available in both hardcover and softcover. Printmakers, painters, illustrators, sculptors, and photographers were asked to create work inspired by the Brothers Grimm fairy tales. Art historians researched and wrote about the Brothers Grimm. Within each of these artistic genres, the variety in approach was as stark and diverse as the stories themselves. Imagery ranged from playful to disturbing and from literal to poetic. The artists involved were encouraged to explore and play to each of their own strengths and creative processes. The graphic design team were then charged with taking a varied collection of stories and curating a diversified collection from over 2,500 pieces of art and combining them into a new cohesive whole. The designers created six unique styles that were intermittently repeated.
