College of Fine Arts and Communications Stories

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“Getting Away With” a Student Academy Award

More than 30 BYU students created Student Accomplice, a fun and action-packed animated short.

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Student Reporters Share Faith-Focused Olympic Coverage

A group of 18 journalism students and 2 professors traveled to Paris to cover the 2024 Summer Olympics.

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BYU's Latest Truman Scholar

Jane Drinkwater exemplifies BYU’s aim to prepare students for “lifelong learning and service.” 

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BYU Senior Named Student Photographer of the Year

BYU Senior Brooklyn Jarvis Kelson was recently named Student Photographer of the Year by the University Photographers’ Association of America.  

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Dance Is an International Language

A BYU dance student collaborated with a student in India to learn each other’s dance heritage.

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Animation Students Awarded Another Student Emmy

Twice in a row: BYU won in both animation and advertising at the Student Emmys.

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AdLab Creates Film for NBA All-Star Weekend

The NBA chose BYU’s AdLab over professional agencies to make a film for All-Star Weekend.

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AdLab Teams Sweep Student Emmys

Student advertisers from BYU continue to gather accolades for their work.

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AdLab Wins Student Emmy Award

Can you imagine BYU students making an ad about selling your car to buy a wedding ring? AdLab students did and won a prestigious award.

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Giving is Helping the College of Fine Arts and Communications

There is an excitement on campus as tours for our performing ensembles are planned, study abroad programs are scheduled, and field experiences are restarting. Read about a few alumni who are making names for themselves and are boosting BYU's reputation around the world.

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Prestigious Film Festival Screens Animated BYU Film

Video: Salt , which was directed and produced by BYU students, was screened at the 2021 Chicago International Children’s Film Festival.

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Art to Help Healing

In 2016, Myleka Bevans’s five-day-old daughter passed away. Bevans, who recently graduated in art, shared her experience in her 2020 exhibit Encounters with Grief.

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BYU Singers Masked

Making music together. Even amidst all the necessary safety precautions, students say they are just grateful to be singing.

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Managing the Music

Esther’s internship with the Utah Symphony helped her see how making music for the masses is more than simply playing notes.

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Making a Sundance-Honored Film

Oscar Jimenez and Luis Puente were ecstatic to learn that the short film they made would premiere at this years Sundance Film Festival.

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A Creative Epiphany

While on a study abroad scholarship in Cannes, France, Ad Lab student Maddy Thompson got to work on some ad campaigns for major brands. It was there that she had an epiphany about her potential.