Jason Lanegan

JASON LANEGAN {http://jasonlanegan.blogspot.com/} joined the LDS Church on July 25, 1990, the summer between his junior and senior years in high school, served a mission in North Carolina, attended BYU-Idaho, and received degrees from Northern Arizona University (sculpture) and Eastern Washington University (art education), followed by a graduate degree in sculpture with a minor in art history from Brigham Young University where he began his current explorations into reliquaries. He has been head sculptor for Paleoforms, director of the Morris Fine Art Gallery, sculpture professor, and museum director at Northern Arizona University, and is currently gallery director for the Department of Visual Arts at BYU. He believes that our identity, which he sees as reliquiries, is indeed con￾structed but not pure invention: “It is the objects and events that we each find meaningful that are incorporated into our self-image.” Reinforced by “continual self-evaluation,” he finds irony and humor in the ongoing quest to “leave our worldly desires behind piece by piece.” Jason, his wife, Kimberly, and their five children live in Spanish Fork, Utah.