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Department of Design Faculty Member Justin Kunz Shares His Experience Designing for the U.S. Mint and Offers Advice For Design Students in This Q&A

Audrey White Day (BFA ’22) Is Returning to BYU as an Adjunct Professor and Has Spent Her Post-Grad Career Illustrating Children’s Literature

BYU + UVU Illustration Gallery Showcases Student Works, Fosters Connection Between Campuses

BYU Design Professors Reveal The Motivations And Inspirations Behind Their Esteemed Work

Sarah Hawkes Bypasses Cultural Barriers Through Her Portraits of Farm Workers in Southern California

Married Artists Ashley and Evan West Combined Their Skills to Create an Animation for LG Electronics That Was Featured in Times Square

Ashley Johnson West will graduate in April 2023 with a BFA in Illustration

Five BYU Illustration Students Were Accepted into the Society of Illustrators’ 2022 Student Scholarship Competition

Wright hopes to open up the conversation about the difficult experiences that missionaries have while serving through her graphic novel

Everett — a native of Mapleton, Utah — will graduate with a BFA in illustration in April

BYU artist Rachel Christensen received distinguished attention for her color analysis of eggs and human skin tones

Hansen’s winning piece “Scale the Globe with Help from the Gilman Scholarship” was chosen as one of 300 winners from 8,700 submissions

From a young age Shawna Calder Tenney (BFA ’04) has given life to her imagination through art—be it drawing, ballet, or music. Ample library time, her mother reading to her, and a love of fairy tales turned her interest particularly toward picture-book illustration. Today, as a BYU illustration grad, Tenney is telling stories of her own, like Brunhilda’s Backwards Day. a children’s book published by Sky Pony Press in 2016. The story, about a witch who learns that being kind can be more fun than being mean, “came from a game called Opposite Witches I’d play with my friend , where everything we did was opposite,” says Tenney. Read more at magazine.byu.edu

Department of Design graduate Andy Erekson released short film “Marooned” last summer

What do legendary BYU basketball coach Stanley Watts, BYU All-American center Kresimir Cosic and current BYU illustration professor Justin Kunz have in common? All three have been part of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame enshrinement ceremonies. Well, sort of. Watts and Cosic have been inducted as members. This past weekend, Kunz was honored as one of the two artists whose designs for a set of commemorative coins were unveiled during the event on September 6, which was broadcast on NBA TV. The 2020 Basketball Hall of Fame Commemorative Coin pays tribute to the game of basketball and the coaches, players, referees and contributors who make it an exciting game to play and watch. Kunz’s design for the obverse (heads) side features three players reaching for the ball in unison, reflecting how the sport of basketball has brought together diverse people around the world through a simple, universal and unifying athletic experience. It also includes a hoop rimming the edge, a net in the background and the inscriptions: LIBERTY, IN GOD WE TRUST and 2020. Read the full story at news.byu.edu.

Justin Kunz, an illustration professor at BYU and medallic artist for the U.S. Mint, has previously designed more than 10 coins for the U.S. Mint as a member of the Artistic Fusion Program. Recently, Kunz designed a new commemorative coin for BYU to celebrate the motto Inspiring Learning. The legacy of inspiring learning at BYU has been passed from mentor to student since the days of its first graduate, James E. Talmage. On the front of the coin are portraits drawn by Kunz of Talmage, Karl G. Maeser and Brigham Young. Together, the three are symbolic of the mentoring that has taken place as part of the campus since the early days of Brigham Young Academy. “Embracing the dynamic of the relationship between a teacher mentoring a student is what makes this coin special,” Kunz said. The reverse side features the original Brigham Young Academy Building, which now serves as the Provo City Library, and the Y Mountain in the background. Read the full article at news.byu.edu.

Kamba will speak at the Department of Art and Department of Design Convocation at 12 p.m. on April 26

R. Gregory Christie, an award-winning illustrator, gave students a glimpse into his career