On January 1, 2015, the Department of Visual Arts split into the Department of Art and Department of Design. For earlier publications see the Visual Arts page.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2024

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Validating Boyness: How Art Education Allows Male Adolescent Students a Space for Authenticity, Vulnerability, Empathy, and Connection, Stephanie Behlke-McFarland

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A Study of Art Education Strategies for Remote Learning During the Pandemic, Stephanie Cook

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Still Life Happens, Mary Ann Crabtree

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Studio as Laboratory: Prioritizing Artistic Fluency Through the Morphogenesis of Paper, Jeannette Lina Neal

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Developing an Artistic Self in Preservice Elementary Teachers: A Studio Art Curriculum to Promote Art Integration, Karilee D. Park

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Sometimes Windows Break, Samantha Snyder

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As If It Were One Day, Megan Rowley Stern

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Hózhó + Art Heals, Eugene Tapahe

Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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Your Mission, Should You Choose to Attempt it, is to Save the Mona Lisa! Gamification as a Method for Teaching Art, Caleb Ovard

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Harnessing the Power of Student Voice: A Case Study of Hybrid Proficiency-Based and Co-Created Curriculum and Assessment, Kaitlyn A. Seamons

Theses/Dissertations from 2022

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Return, Leilani Bascom

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Is This a Line? Visual Literacy, Visual Inquiry, and Visual Communication in the Elementary School Years, Connie J. Broadbent

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The Materials of Traditions, Victoria Jensen

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Between the Garden and the Gardener, Sara Lynne Lindsay

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Always Running at Sunset, Amelia O'Neill

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Mindfulness and Observational Drawing, Corinne Christopherson Sonderegger

Theses/Dissertations from 2021

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Beauty and Decay, Chiung-Ling Jyan Siebert

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Yo, Mi Persona y México, Jaime Trinidad

Theses/Dissertations from 2020

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Pedestrian, Marissa Albrecht

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Entropy's Child, Brandon Reed Boulton

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A Mindfulness and Contemplative Inquiry Coursefor Pre-Service Art Educators, Rebecca Sue Lewis

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The Artist Teacher as a Reflective Teacher, Amber Logan

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Considerations of Implementing Student-Directed Teacher-Supported Strategies in a Public Middle School Setting, Kaleb Joseph Ostraff

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A Pedagogy of Constraints: How Self-Imposed Limitations Influence Art-Making and Teaching, Emmalee Glauser Powell

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How Can Students Use Art to Learn Problem Solving?, Fei-Ya Su

Theses/Dissertations from 2019

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Cross-Culture Research: Comparison between Chinese and American Art Education, Ye Liang

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So . . . We're Going for a Walk: A Placed-Based Outdoor Art Experiential Learning Experience, Priscilla Anne Stewart

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Aviary of the Reverend William J. Long, Shae Lewis Warnick

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Evolving Collections, Nathan Thomas Williams

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How Does the Artist Teacher Successfully Negotiate Being Both Artist and Teacher?, Marie Withers

Theses/Dissertations from 2018

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An Artful Habitat:Creating an Environment for Divergent Expression, Marilyn Edna Bambrough

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Un/Doing Spirituality: Contemporary Art, Cosmology, and the Curriculum as Theological Text, Clark Adam Goldsberry

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Un/Doing Spirituality: Contemporary Art, Cosmology, and the Curriculum as Theological Text, Clark Adam Goldsberry

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Facilitating Student Autonomy: An Exploration of Student-Driven Curriculum Development and Implementation, Edwin James Keyes

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Out With The Old: Reinventing Space in the Classroom, Amandine Annie Loveland

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Personal Puzzles: Exploring Meaning in a Printmaking Workshop, Sally Jayne Rydalch

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You Can't Teach What You Don't Know and You Can't Lead Where You Won't Go: Professional Development as Artists for Elementary Educators, Katharina Joyce Watson

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Glaze Exploration via Nostalgic Locations, Robert A. Williams

Theses/Dissertations from 2017

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A Case Study of the Springville Museum of Art Pre-Exhibition Workshop, Tammara L. Ballard

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Cozy Mart: Convenient Aesthetics, Eric John Edvalson

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You Can Teach Design: A Survival Guide for Studio Art Professors, Katharine Anne Grierson-Merryweather

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The Status Is Not Quo: Unraveling Music Videos, Gary T. Hanby

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Border Crossing: One Teacher's Journey Toward Becoming a Culturally Competent Art Educator, Lindsay Renea Ruiz

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Ghost Water Exhibition, Michael G. Sharp

Theses/Dissertations from 2016

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Between, Kendal Nisson Bryan

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Pattern, Ritual and Thresholds, Jessica Amber Egbert

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Creativity & Religion: A Self-Study of Mormon Mindset in the Art Classroom, Shon Scot Feller

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Paradise Lost, Peggy Janeane Hughes

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Searching for the Sublime, Kheng Saik Lim

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Discovering Self Together: An Art Teacher Exploring Her Role in Helping Adolescent Students on Their Journey to Self-Awareness, Rachel Jayne Romney

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Exploring Family Heritage and Personal Space to Find Meaning and Content in Student Art, Rebecca Link Wilhelm

Theses/Dissertations from 2015

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Tailoring Student Learning: Inquiry-Based Learning in the Elementary Art Classroom, Jeffrey Melvin Cornwall

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Curating the Abandoned School: Voices of Youth in an Alternative High School Art Class, Kellie Marie Fay

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A Theory of Presence: Bringing Students and Art Closer Together, Joshua T. Hobbs

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Including the Arts in the Generalist Classroom, Camille Hone

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New Genres in the Art Classroom: Shifting Ideas and Identities, Alyssa Grant Ridge

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New Genres in the Art Classroom: Shifting Ideas and Identities, Alyssa Grant Ridge

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A Space for the Contemplation of a Sacred Subject, Katie West

Theses/Dissertations from 2000

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Dorothea Lange in Utah, 1936-1938: A Portrait of Utah's Great Depression, James R. Swensen

Theses/Dissertations from 1991

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The Effect of the Rivalry Between Jesse Knight and Thomas Nicholls Taylor on Architecture in Provo, Utah: 1896-1915, Stephen A. Hales

Theses/Dissertations from 1988

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Minerva Teichert's Murals: The Motivation for her Large-Scale Production, Marian Eastwood Wardle

Theses/Dissertations from 1982

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Four Utah Mormon Artists as Authors, Roxie Dale Trimble

Theses/Dissertations from 1974

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An Analysis of Visual Religious Symbols Appearing in the Improvement Era, Ensign, and New Era Published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints From 1952-1972, Carl Landus Christensen

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A Study of Early Utah Water Color Painting, James Harvey Taylor

Theses/Dissertations from 1973

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Publication Design for the Youth of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Peggy H. Proctor

Theses/Dissertations from 1971

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Kitsch in the Visual Arts and Advertisement of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Lori Schlinker

Theses/Dissertations from 1969

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A Study of the Life of John Hafen: Artist With an Analysis and Critical Review of His Work, William Lee Roy Conant Jr.

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A Survey to Determine the Public Responses and Attitudes Toward the First Festival of Mormon Art at Brigham Young University, Trevor Southey

Theses/Dissertations from 1968

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A Study of the Effect of Color in the Utah Temple Murals, Terry John O'Brien

Theses/Dissertations from 1967

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The Beehive House: Its Design, Restoration and Furnishings, Judy Butler Anderson

Theses/Dissertations from 1966

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A Visual Interpretation of Events and Personalities from the Book of Mormon, Larry Berg Prestwich

Theses/Dissertations from 1963

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A Critical Analysis of the Management of Springville High School Museum of Art, Rell G. Francis

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Mahonri Mackintosh Young, Printmaker, Shirley Kazuko Yonemori

Theses/Dissertations from 1962

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Four Oil Paintings Illustrating Book of Mormon Events, Ernel LeRoy Anderson

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The Visual Image of Joseph Smith, William B. McCarl

Theses/Dissertations from 1961

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A Circumspection of Ten Formulators of Early Utah Art History, Tom Leek

Theses/Dissertations from 1959

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A Study of Representative Examples of Art Works Fostered by the Mormon Church With an Analysis of the Aesthetic Value of these Works, Monte B. DeGraw

Theses/Dissertations from 1954

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Model for a Proposed Statue of Joseph Smith Suitable for Placement Near the Entrance of the Joseph Smith Building, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, Evelyn Horrocks Meiners

Theses/Dissertations from 1943

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Mural of the Ground Breaking Ceremony for the St. George Latter-Day Saint Temple, J. Roman Andrus