by mtk96 | May 2, 2020 | Arts, Culture, Spring 2020
What if I told you that you could walk through an art gallery without ever having to set foot inside a museum? How, you ask? The answer is street art. What is street art? Street art is simply public art created outdoors, usually created with spray paint. Street art...
by mtk96 | Apr 29, 2020 | Arts, Culture, Spring 2020, Utah County
Go to concerts, the movies say. They’re youthful and fun. But you go to BYU and live in Provo. “Where?!” you scream into the void. “I don’t know any venues!” The movies say nothing. They just laugh in your face, cold and unfeeling. Okay, maybe it’s not quite...
by mtk96 | Apr 29, 2020 | Arts, Culture, Spring 2020
Louis Armstrong, perhaps the most famous jazz musician to come from New Orleans, said “If you have to ask what jazz is, you’ll never know.” Jazz is the human experience. Jazz is change and adaptation, cooperation and battle. Jazz is joy and pain and everything...
by Stowaway Magazine | Mar 9, 2020 | Arts, Culture, Winter 2020
A deeply traditional musical sensation has been sweeping through West Africa’s Senegal for the past few decades, and it continues to be an ever-evolving art form that only grows in popularity in this day and age. This music, known as mbalax (pronounced “mm-ballah”),...
by Stowaway Magazine | Jul 1, 2019 | Arts, Culture, Fall 2019
Maybe you’re not really interested in reading—maybe you’re only flipping through this magazine for the pictures. You have your visual fascination in common with a medieval peasant. Christianity Stained glass has graced Christian architecture with its illumination for...
by Stowaway Magazine | Apr 9, 2018 | Arts, Culture, Fall 2018
As you walk into a Gothic church, the ethereal atmosphere is immediately evident. The reverent hush and the dark stonework lit by brilliantly colored stained-glass patterns of light create this aura that is completely unique to sacred Gothic architecture. Most people,...
