Artists

Brian Zick

BRIAN ZICK makes pictures, eats hamburgers and likes to watch Diana Rigg on re-runs of “The Avengers.”

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BYU Graphic Communications

McRAY MAGLEBY is Director of Graphic Communications at BYU. Under his leadership the department has won national recognition for artistry in design. Magleby himself has won numerous national and regional design awards.

BRENT D. BURCH, a designer for BYU Graphic Communications, was able to at￾tend BYU for six years without graduating in Graphic Design.

LORRAINE CONGER, from Cucamonga, California, is a designer for BYU Graphic Communications.

KERRY LYNN HERRIN is a graduate of BYU, where she works in Graphic Com￾munications. She posed for the cover of Ballroom Dance Rhythms.

KATHY KALM, one of the newer members of the BYU Graphic Design team, graduated from BYU in 1974.

MICHAEL MASATO KAWASAKI, from Lanai City, Hawaii, is a graduate of BYU, where he is currently a designer for Graphic Communications.

BRADLEY G. SHARP was the 2nd largest baby born at the LDS Hospital up to 1949. He now wields his 149 pounds in graphic design at BYU.

JANET RATY is currently majoring in Art/Graphics at BYU.

ROBERT MILBERG of the BYU Graphic Communications department won all￾city, all-league, and most valuable player for water polo in Lakewood, California, in 1967. Not content to rest on such laurels he was selected Outstanding Trainee Leader of his Army class in 1970.

 

 

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Leah Tippetts

Leah Tippetts Smith grew up primarily in California, where her father planned college campuses at Cal Berkeley, UCLA AND UCSD (San Diego). She majored in art at Utah State and BYU , graduating with an M.A. Leah taught Art, A.P. Art History, English, Creative Writing and Humanities at Jordan High School for 39 years. Exhibits showing her work, have been at: the Springville Art Museum, the Kimball Art Museum, Pioneer Memorial Theatre, Harmony, and the BYU Museum of Art.

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Leo Pando

Leo Pando was born and raised in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He graduated with a BFA in Art History and Criticism from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque and a BFA in Illustration from Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles. By 1978 he was freelancing in New York city. His illustrations appeared in Rolling Stone, Billboard, McCalls Magazine, Psychology Today, and The New York Herald Tribune. Record company accounts include MCA Records and Atlantic Records. Advertising accounts include J. Walter Thompson and Doyle Dane Dernbach. Pando did post-production work on the concert/documentary, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Rolling Stones (1974) and the feature comedy Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982).

In 1989 Pando moved to Edmonton, Alberta, where, for three years he worked as a storyboard illustrator/assistant film editor at Great North Productions Inc. on the documentary In Search of the Dragon (NOVA, PBS). In 2010 he returned to Canada briefly to consult on and storyboard Code Breakers, a documentary for Clearwater Media Productions (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 2011).

In 1991 Pando began a two-year hiatus from illustration to indulge his childhood love of horses. He worked as assistant barn manager at Keno Hills Stables, an Arabian horse breeding and training facility in Sherwood Park outside of Edmonton, Alberta.

Leo and his wife Diane Bowen live in central Maine where he worked as an illustrator/graphic designer until his retirement in 2010.

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Joe Heiner

JOE HEINER was inspired to become an artist by his seventh-grade art teacher, Joe Wixom (who did the drawings of Juanita Brooks in the Spring 1974 issue of Dialogue). The cover for this issue is a collaborative effort between teacher and pupil – Wixom did the photograph of the Angel Moroni to which Heiner added his own photographic and illustrative skills.

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Ruta Franceska Dreijmanis

RUTA FRANCESKA DREIJMANIS, a Latvian Lutheran, was educated at the Massachusetts College of Art and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Currently she is Director of Graphic Design with the Milo Baughman Design in Salt Lake City. Her work has appeared in such prominent magazines and newspapers as The New Yorker , House Beautiful , House and Garden , etc. She sells paintings privately as well as limited edition paintings through Greg Copeland in New York.

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