2023 Cinematic Works - 2023

My project was a clothing swap and drive that supported not only the environment but also the families of cache valley. My motivation came from the knowledge I’ve gained about the environmental impacts of textiles on the planet

For our final project, we wrote a song titled “Mother Earth”. In 5 verses, we focus on 5 main global issues that we’ve discussed in class over the course of this semester. We wrote in the perspective of our Mother Nature crying out to her inhabitants, pl

I decided I was going to write one symphonic piece of music that represented the general idea of the class. Long story short, I ended up writing a 13 minute, three-movement suite, with pictures and text to help encapsulate the whole class.

When tasked with a creative final project at the beginning of this semester, I was stumped. I have never fully seen myself as a “creative” person. However, I know that I am a dancer and that I could possibly try to convey my own sense of creativity throug...

As a Choral Music Education major, I took this question into the perspective of “How would I tell this story, or any piece of it, to better connect my students to its importance?”.

I created this piece as a way to represent what is going on in the world and the future in storefor us.

For our final project we performed Stephen Mitton’s piece for string quartet titled “Juvenoia”.

I believe that we all have talents that can be used together in collaboration to make our world a better place. For this project I used my talents as a pianist and collaborated with some of my peers that are both artists and pianists to put on an environm...

“The Average US Consumer Throws Away 81.5lbs of Clothes Every Year. In America alone, an estimated 11.3 million tons of textile waste – equivalent to 85% of all textiles – end up in landfills on a yearly basis” (Martina Igini).