Annually, college students from throughout the UVU Department of Art & Design collaborate on the creation of the following installment within the division’s Fine Art Book series, a student-led publication that serves as a defining mission of their commencement 12 months.
This summer season, the division proudly obtained three separate publishing awards, highlighting
two of those student-led works:UTopia: State of Abstraction and Ever Arriving: Highlands to Islands.
The winner of Greatest Artwork Ebook within the 2025 International Book Awards, UTopia represents common questions college students discover within the e-book in addition to the only focus
and site for the art work: the attractive state of Utah.
“I had an awesome expertise engaged on UTopia,” stated Kenya Heiner, who earned a Bachelor of Fine Art in Sculpture from UVU throughout her time engaged on the e-book. “My mission, the Colorado River Plateau
collection, was impressed by the best way Utah residents use water to alter the face of the
Utah panorama. It was a particular mission, and I’m so glad I had the chance to
work on it.”
Ever Arriving, essentially the most not too long ago revealed e-book within the collection, gained a silver medal within the Greatest Espresso
Desk Ebook class of the International Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) and Scholar Second Place for Ebook Covers + Jackets within the 2025 PRINT Awards. The journey to from ideation to publication of this e-book advanced over time, starting
as an exploration of Scottish creator and poet Robert Louis Stevenson’s life in Scotland
and Samoa, then morphing right into a broader theme: the transformative expertise of journey.
Racheal LeSueur is an interdisciplinary artist and now a College of the Arts graduate
with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting, Drawing, and Printmaking. As a contributor to Ever Arriving, she discovered herself resonating with the e-book’s metamorphic theme. “Touring to realize inspiration is one thing that each one artists hopefully
get the prospect to do,” LeSueur stated. “I’ve been lucky in my life to journey to
many locations, and every place has molded me into the artist and individual I’m immediately. All
these experiences will proceed to encourage me for the remainder of my life.”
Cross-campus partnerships have additionally been a staple characteristic of the collection, with work
from the Division of English, the Division of Music, and the Culinary Arts Institute
highlighting the power of UVU’s dedication to interdisciplinary training. “Not
many arts applications present alternatives for collaborative print publications like
this,” defined Melissa Barrett, Co-Director for the e-book collection and the teacher
over the Fantastic Artwork Ebook collection course. “This distinctive mission actually permits the scholars
to realize a wider vary of data and ability that they may not get from different faculties.”
The upcoming set up within the Fantastic Artwork Ebook collection will deal with the historical past and
invention of images. College students travelled throughout historic websites in Spain and France
earlier this summer season to study extra in regards to the origins of this foundational artwork medium,
gathering inspiration for his or her subsequent e-book which might be revealed in 2026. For extra
data or to buy one of many present publications, please go to https://www.uvu.edu/arts/books/.
