Old Wives’ Tales: Collections From Beneath The Floorboards, 2024 University of Mary Washington
Old Wives’ Tales: Collections From Beneath The Floorboards, Layla Barnes
Student Research Submissions
Old Wives’ Tales: Collections from Beneath the Floorboards draws on the rich tradition of feminist speculative fiction, particularly in the genre of the fairy tale. It responds to Walidah Imarisha’s idea of “visionary fiction,” a kind of fiction which seeks to participate in “the decolonization of the imagination.” Using an experimental fragmentary form, it explores themes of story and counter-story, maternal legacy, female interconnectedness and community, and magic as a form of female empowerment in opposition to patriarchal control and surveillance.
Texas Gothic, 2024 Southern Methodist University
Texas Gothic, Taryn Uribe Turner
Art Theses and Dissertations
The emotional and the ecological combine to create my body of work titled, “Texas Gothic.” My thesis tells the stories of my oil paintings created through personal connections to a variety of landscapes, animals and experiences that share the setting of Texas.
Desire and regret take shape as animals and figures not fully formed or real. Unreliable narratives of the past are entangled with present tensions to create a painting that haunts and stalks.
And yet, there is hope!
Through nostalgia and sweetness and burdens, my paintings confront a shrouded future. The contradictions of time passing are explored in my …
Queerform/Ing, 2024 Southern Methodist University
Queerform/Ing, Matthew Solon-Lee Weimer
Art Theses and Dissertations
My artwork is situated within and around vessels and the Queer Homoerotic World and explores sexuality as a Demisexual within them. This is accomplished through the two processes of my creation, Minivague and Queerform/ing: balancing sexual tension and explicit expression, while subverting traditional norms and stereotypes with queerness to distance oneself from stereotypical Gay Art. Altering/emphasizing makes the artwork more romantic, lighter, whimsical, softer, and tender than the figure/s and the situations actually are. The process is also emphasizing what one sees or wants to be seen. The Pink Boy becomes a celebration of intimacy of any form. I discuss …
With Love, ; An Interdisciplinary And Intersectional Look At Why Creativity Is Essential, 2024 Whittier College
With Love, ; An Interdisciplinary And Intersectional Look At Why Creativity Is Essential, Theo Starr Gardner
Whittier Scholars Program
My Whittier Scholars Program self-designed major, Teaching Creativity, is a mixture of Art, Literature, and Education classes. My research and praxis classes have been focused on the ‘how?’s and 'why?’s of creativity, so it felt only right that my project should be a constructivist, generative project. The project I have been working on throughout my time at Whittier, and that has just fully come to fruition on April 11th, 2024, was a solo art gallery/open mic event entitled ‘With Love,’. With Love, was conceptually inspired by the research I’ve conducted on creativity and creative arts education over the past few …
Between Magic And Realism: The Ashes Of The Forest, 2024 Portland State University
Between Magic And Realism: The Ashes Of The Forest, Guzide Erturk Guzeldere
Student Research Symposium
My presentation is on a novel, The Ashes of The Forest, which is my undergraduate honors thesis and was published in Turkey on March 8th of this year. What if birds had disappeared from the earth? In which direction could you go to find them? If the sea receded from your shore and never returned, what would you do? The narrative centers around the mysterious events in the seemingly ordinary Mossy Village along the shores of the Aegean Sea, the tensions between the characters, and their inner reckonings. When the sea withdraws far away, the main character, Azra, a young …
A Little Spot Of Green In A Big Red World, 2024 Denison University
Contributors, 2024 Denison University
Extractions, 2024 Denison University
Bystander, 2024 Denison University
The End Is Here (Response To “I Know The End” By Phoebe Bridgers), 2024 Denison University
The End Is Here (Response To “I Know The End” By Phoebe Bridgers), Rebecca Hurtado
Exile
No abstract provided.
Mirror Image, 2024 Denison University
Always Running, 2024 Denison University
Connection, 2024 Denison University
125 N Alta Ave., 2024 Denison University
Vino Rosso, 2024 Denison University
Drown Ur Sorrows, 2024 Denison University
Dear Miss Dickinson (Response To ““Hope” Is The Thing With Feathers” By Emily Dickinson), 2024 Denison University
Dear Miss Dickinson (Response To ““Hope” Is The Thing With Feathers” By Emily Dickinson), Antonia Baylor
Exile
No abstract provided.
His Homeless Heroes, 2024 Denison University
Running On Empty, 2024 Denison University
L’Étoile, 2024 Denison University