Art Barn Class Schedules

Barn research team member Jason Neil has taken on the challenge of creating a complete list of all the professors who taught or had offices in the Art Barn over the years. He is using USU Special Collections resources such as campus phone directories, bulletins, and class schedules to compile the list. Below are excerpts from three class schedules that he found, one for summer semester 1962, one for fall semester 1970, and one for spring semester 1971. These show some of the professors teaching in the Art Barn and the types of classes they taught there. The Art Barn is abbreviated as "AB" in these class schedules. Click on the images to open them up and be able to zoom in to read them better.

Jon Anderson & Don Young

Jon Anderson, retired USU Art Professor, has donated a painting from 1966 to the USU Museum of Anthropology. The piece depicts a scene in the Art Barn by one of Anderson’s illustration students, Don Young. Young painted this piece in a life drawing class as one of Anderson’s assignments. The assignment scenario asked students to create a scene depicting two USU police officers bursting into their classroom chasing after a burglar.

Completed in just two weeks time, the painting depicts the 1960s interior of the 3rd floor of the Art Barn with its exposed rafter beams, black wooden seats and student art work displayed on its walls. The painting’s vibrant colors and detail give viewers a glimpse of an art form then commonly seen on the front cover of magazines, such as Cosmopolitan and Newsweek in the 1960s and 70s and now often gracing the front cover of romance novels.

The artist Don Young died an untimely death at the young age of 30 from diabetes. However, his talent, shown through this painting, will impact future generations as a unique piece of USU’s Barn history. Thanks to Mr. Young and Mr. Anderson for sharing this wonderful work and story.