Fugitive Fragment, 2017 Claremont University Consortium
Fugitive Fragment, Diana Campuzano
CGU MFA Theses
My work explores the fugitive beauty around us and tries to capture and embody it. For my work IC5070 I began with an image of a nebula IC5070, I created a work that hung from the ceiling and was 27 feet square and hung down 8 feet to just above the viewers. I explore the micro and the macro worlds with many of my works crossing back and forth between
Ghost Water Exhibition, 2017 Brigham Young University
Ghost Water Exhibition, Michael G. Sharp
Theses and Dissertations
The Ghost Water exhibition of artworks by Michael Sharp was comprised of four main works titled: 30 x 60 Minute Grid Series, Suspension, History/Prehistory, and Lake Bonneville Remnants. The artwork was created as a reaction to the land that once held the prehistoric Lake Bonneville and to its current remnant Great Salt Lake. The work explores the dialogue between absence and presence.
Border Crossing: One Teacher's Journey Toward Becoming A Culturally Competent Art Educator, 2017 Brigham Young University
Border Crossing: One Teacher's Journey Toward Becoming A Culturally Competent Art Educator, Lindsay Renea Ruiz
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis explores one secondary art teacher's journey into multicultural education, multicultural art education and issues in holistic education. It delves into the difficulties and expectations in creating a classroom culture where all students feel validated and respected, and mutual understanding is fostered across cultural borders. Specific needs of multicultural students are addressed in regards to their education. Then due to an unexpected turn of events which led to a five week study abroad in India, the research looks at ways to incorporate a holistic approach, and spiritual dimension, to multicultural education based on Tibetan Buddhist principles. This narrative looks …
A Case Study Of The Springville Museum Of Art Pre-Exhibition Workshop, 2017 Brigham Young University
A Case Study Of The Springville Museum Of Art Pre-Exhibition Workshop, Tammara L. Ballard
Theses and Dissertations
The author designs a traveling professional development opportunity, Pre-Exhibition Workshop, for the Springville Museum of Art (SMA) Educational Outreach Program. All Utah high school art teachers and their students are invited to attend one of twenty-five presentations throughout the state's school districts. This thesis examines the challenges and benefits of including students in the process of preparing their own entries for the 2014 42nd Annual Utah All-State High School Art Show. The curriculum for the workshop follows a new lesson plan model of including enduring understandings and essential questions as outlined by the 2014 National Core Art Standards. …
Frankenstein's Onion, 2017 Claremont Graduate University
Defining Your Online Presence For The Arts Professional: Facebook, Twitter And Instagram, 2017 University at Albany, State University of New York
Defining Your Online Presence For The Arts Professional: Facebook, Twitter And Instagram, Lauren Puzier
University Libraries Faculty Scholarship
A discussion of the costs and benefits of using social media and online tools to boost your professional profile, and tips on how to tailor your experience. This presentation focuses on how artists, art educators, museum professionals and other art world are using Twitter, Facebook and Instagram to manage their online image and business.
Gas Lamps, 2017 Claremont Graduate University
Gas Lamps, Laura Wilde
CGU MFA Theses
My work investigates the role and dynamic of society, culture, and familial influence on the masculinity and femininity within our individuality. It specifically deals with my on going discovery of the masculine side of my personality, and how the feminine roll is influenced, or not influenced, by this. I have been applying Jungian psychology and the theory of individuation, archetypes, and so forth, to my process. I have made several bodies of work in a quest to understand the fundamental roles that femininity and masculinity have affected my choices and individual understanding. Documenting old and new relationships, I make puppets, …
Cozy Mart: Convenient Aesthetics, 2017 Brigham Young University
Cozy Mart: Convenient Aesthetics, Eric John Edvalson
Theses and Dissertations
Convenience stores in their various forms are not only commercial outlets of foodstuffs and sundry items but are also experiential in nature; the act of going to a convenience store is a culturally shared experience. In homage to these spaces, Cozy Mart is a public art installation and performance which recreates this shared experience in an idealized form. Based on do-it-yourself culture, appropriation of public space, and artistic traditions of sculpture and printmaking, Cozy Mart invites interaction with art outside of the traditional gallery space and capitalizes on alternative methods of art distribution.
Joseph Beuys And Social Sculpture In The United States, 2017 The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Joseph Beuys And Social Sculpture In The United States, Cara M. Jordan
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Alongside the rise of the activist movements in the late 1960s, the German artist Joseph Beuys (1921–1986) proposed his concept of “social sculpture” — a method of fostering creativity, aimed at transforming society through interdisciplinary dialogue — as an alternative to the chaotic political, economic, and social life of postwar West Germany. He sought to heal society through a work of art with holistic and spiritual intentions, centered on the belief that art can include the entire process of living and therefore can be created by a wide range of people beyond artists. Although his ideas are understood and even …
I Like America: Painting In The Expanded Field, 2017 City University of New York (CUNY)
I Like America: Painting In The Expanded Field, Isaac Aden
Theses and Dissertations
Using Structuralist theory, Krauss created a Klein group diagram. the diagram included site sculpture, construction, marked sites, and axiomatic structures.Could the same strategy be applied to painting? As I attempted to engage painting from a critical perspective, I formed of a body of work entitled Painting in the Expanded Field.
The Untitled Black Burlesque History Project, 2017 City University of New York (CUNY)
The Untitled Black Burlesque History Project, Sekiya Dorsett
Theses and Dissertations
The Untitled Black Burlesque History Project is a character driven short documentary featuring Chicava Honeychild, a neo-burlesque1 dancer who is unearthing a hidden Black burlesque history. As Chicava searches for her “stripper grandmas,” she mentors a new generation of burlesque performers who are of women of color. Chicava Honeychild first meeting with Black burlesque Jean Idelle is interwoven with the burlesque journey of Henrietta, Chicava Honeychild’s burlesque student. As Henrietta is honing her burlesque craft in preparation for her first performance, we learn about Jean’s dynamic life as a burlesque dancer in the 1940s and 1950s. Utilizing burlesque as a …
Writing About Art - Sample Papers, 2017 CUNY City College
Writing About Art - Sample Papers, Ana Marjanovic, Leslie Epps
Open Educational Resources
The sample papers facilitate understanding of the following assignments:
Short Paper #2 (Outline and Final Draft) and
Short Paper #3 (Outline and Final Draft)
Maria Deau Senior Art Portfolio, 2017 St. Norbert College
Maria Deau Senior Art Portfolio, Maria Deau
Senior Art Portfolios
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Family, 2017 Eastern Washington University
Family, Carolyn Darjany
2017 Symposium
In 1993 I married my high school sweetheart and we began adding to our family with our first child a couple of years later. Over the last 22 years, our 4 children are amazingly different from one another and from ourselves. Yet, with all those differences, similarities abound. We share mannerisms, memories, experiences, habits, personalities, and physical traits. This short series explores family. Our ‘sameness’ makes us comfortable with one another while our diversity of personalities refreshes our senses and offers surprise – and sometimes, conflict. We are a fabric tightly woven together whether we like it or not.
Création, Jeu Et Contemplation : L’Art Comme Exercice Spirituel, 2017 Chapman University
Création, Jeu Et Contemplation : L’Art Comme Exercice Spirituel, Ivan Magrin-Chagnolleau
Presidential Fellows Articles and Research
"Je voudrais commencer en parlant d’un livre que j’ai lu il y a quelques années déjà, et qui pour moi a été très influent et très important, qui s’appelle « Free play », qui est un livre de Stephen Nachmanovich. C’est un livre que je trouve passionnant à plusieurs titres. D’abord parce que l’idée centrale du livre, c’est de dire qu’on ne peut créer que dans le jeu, c’est-à-dire que toute création doit être ludique pour pouvoir exister vraiment. Et ça, c’est une prise de conscience. J’allais dire une découverte, mais je ne pense pas, parce que je pense que …
Sub For More, 2017 Virginia Commonwealth University
Sub For More, Chelsea Lee
Theses and Dissertations
This written thesis unpacks the thoughts and motivations behind the decisions I have made in my artistic practice that have ultimately culminated in my M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition: Sub for More. By merging images of my own work as well as internet sourced images of the culture that drives my work, I have created a platform to begin to understand my experience during graduate school. This text examines and explores my belief in the inherent power in pop culture, my obsession with fame, celebrity, and my self-identity as a participant in current pop-culture.
The "New Conquering Empire Of Light And Reason": The Civilizing Mission Of William Jones, 2017 Boise State University
The "New Conquering Empire Of Light And Reason": The Civilizing Mission Of William Jones, Niharika Dinkar
Art, Design & Visual Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations
But now all is to be changed. All the pleasing illusions, which made power gentle and obedience liberal, which harmonized the different shades of life, and which, by a bland assimilation, incorporated into politics the sentiments which beautify and soften private society, are to be dissolved by this new conquering empire of light and reason. All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely tom off. All the superadded ideas, furnished from the wardrobe of a moral imagination, which the heart owns, and the understanding ratifies, as necessary to cover the defects of our naked, shivering nature, and to …
Radical Dissonance And Haunted Gestures: Rupture And Reverence In The Artwork Of Aja Mujinga Sherrard, 2017 University of Montana
Radical Dissonance And Haunted Gestures: Rupture And Reverence In The Artwork Of Aja Mujinga Sherrard, Aja M. Sherrard
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
This paper serves to establish the studio practice of Aja Mujinga Sherrard within the framework of conceptual art, touching on the flexible use of media, the subversive or political nature of the work, and its relationship to movements and disciplines such as Feminism and Poststructuralism.
The section entitled “Race and Incoherence” addresses the practice of Radical Dissonance—or the creation of ruptures within commonly accepted concepts and social constructions—through the Costuming Kinship Series, 13≠12≠12.2 (Genetics Project), and Body Double. The section entitled ”Art, Loss, and the Unspeakable” traces an emotional shift in her work and speaks directly to the pieces …
Plantiod Planet, 2017 Virginia Commonwealth University
Plantiod Planet, Roxana Hojat
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis examines my studio practice and research during my studies at Virginia Commonwealth University in the Photo & Film MFA program, which has culminated into my thesis exhibition. Through traditional portraiture and landscape photography that utilize contemporary photographic practices such as digital processing and material studies, my work in Plantiod Planet creates a fiction which examines plant intelligence and the gendering of landscape.
Walking Code, 2017 Technological University Dublin
Walking Code, Conor Mcgarrigle
Articles
This paper describes an early stage research project that seeks to apply Situationist concepts of psychogeography to urban walking as artistic and activist practice. The project seeks to ultimately create a syntax that can be used to describe and codify the subjective spatial practice of walking in the city. This process is a conceptual and discursive exercise to generate new knowledge about urban space as embodied data space that seeks to create a practical open framework that can be deployed to algorithmically generate walking experiences tailored toward specific desires and activities.
This will be achieved through the development of algorithmic …