BYU 'Visionism' artist featured in exhibit at Orem library

OREM, Utah — Artist Hagen Haltern will present a program Thursday, May 21, in the Orem Library, 57 S. State, 7 p.m., that will highlight a display of works by Haltern and fellow artist Jared Harlow, which will be on display until June 19. The series of works, entitled "Visionism," contains 31 pieces, each of which began as a drawing, a collage, a photograph or a lithograph, but expanded through computer graphic manipulation.Haltern began teaching at Brigham Young University in 1977 after studying art in his homeland of Germany. He was initially unfamiliar with the capabilities of graphic manipulation. Harlow showed him the extent of the computer's abilities, and the two teamed up.The collection was inspired by an address to BYU faculty/staff in 1967 by former LDS Church President Spencer W. Kimball — "catch the total vision of our potential and dream dreams and see visions of the future" — as well by previous generations of artists, philosophers, theologians and astronauts.