Museum of Art

BYU Museum of Art Provides Enriching and Engaging Experiences for Local Children and Families at Annual Festival

Visit This Month’s Exhibitions in the Weight Room, MOA and 1313 Galleries

Two Y Magazine Articles, “Visions of Desert Beauty” and “Wit and Vision,” Highlight the Work of BYU Artists

Visit This Month’s Exhibitions in the Weight Room, MOA and 1313 Galleries

Visit This Month’s Exhibitions in the Weight Room, MOA and 1313 Galleries

Visit This Month’s Exhibitions in the Weight Room, MOA and 1313 Galleries

Visit Weight Room, MOA and 1313 Galleries This Month Before They Close

Panelists Discussed Finding One’s Authentic Voice, How Caregiving Experiences Shape Their Art and Advice on Finding Success as a Woman in the Art World

Take Some Time Before Finals to Look at Art by Students and Masters

Former Poet Laureate and BYU Professor Shared His Love of Dixon’s Art Through Poetry 

Art History and Curatorial Studies Student Candace Brown Writes About her Experiences Working in the BYU Museum of Art

The exhibit was inspired by the 200th anniversary of Joseph Smith’s First Vision in 2020

This new photography exhibit showcases the work of both Norwegian and American photographers—Rowley shares the surprising connection between the two

Take a walk back in time to turn-of-the-century France with this new MOA exhibi

After a year of social distancing, families can once again participate in the Museum of Art’s annual Family Art Festival

Vik Muniz’s eclectic collection features unique perspectives on life through unconventional materials

After years of helping students achieve their goals, Heelis looks forward to continuing her own education Department Secretary Sharon Heelis will retire this year after working for the Art Department for nearly 40 years — longer, if you count her time as a student employee. She remembers such momentous milestones as the first computer in the office (“My typewriter was the printer, so when I printed it sounded like a machine gun”), the first fax machine (“We stood and watched as the message printed out from a roll of paper”) and the first copy machine (“It gave us oily paper, it was expensive and the copies weren’t very good”). Fortunately, Heelis said, technology has come a long way since then. Heelis began her decades-long career in the department in December of 1979, after the Barbizon Manufacturing Company — where she had worked for several years before and after serving a mission in Chile for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — announced they were closing. She had been an on-again, off-again student for seven years as she worked and saved money to put herself through school, though she had not yet settled on a major. At first, Heelis worked part-time as a student secretary — typing, preparing syllabi and making copies for faculty with a mimeograph machine. Just six months later, Heelis applied for and was accepted to the full-time gallery secretary position, where she helped care for the university’s art collection prior to the opening of the Museum of Art (MOA) in 1993. The timing was fortunate for Heelis, whose father died suddenly one year into her new job. The oldest of six children, Heelis was able to support herself and ease the pressure on her mother, who was still caring for three children at their home in Payson. Read the full article by Abby Weidmer at art.byu.edu.

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