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Carrying Water: A M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition By Aaron Sober, Aaron M. Sober

School of Art, Art History, and Design: Theses and Student Creative Work

For all of us, everyday life is punctuated by moments of victory, defeat, pride, and vulnerability. The process of welcoming gain and tolerating loss is a basic lesson in proportionality. My work is a personal reckoning with the contradictions that define this very human experience. Through animal imagery, symbol, and metaphor I explore the unpredictable circumstances that form a life lived.

We engage with, and understand our own place in the world through stories. By doing so, the avatars we create reflect the scope of our experiences, both sublime and damaged. The animal protagonists who inhabit my work are placeholders …

Form In Place, Normandy Alden

School of Art, Art History, and Design: Theses and Student Creative Work

There is a 200 acre farm in central NY state where I am building a house, a business, a family, a life. My vision for these extends beyond my own capabilities and lifespan. It is a vision of elegance, simplicity and utility. My pots are reflections of this vision, and embody the qualities of the life I seek. They are both exuberant and quiet, expansive and constrained.

The landscape surrounding my farm swoops and recedes with grace. Lines of windrows curve over hayfields, beautifully articulating undulations in topography. Nothing about this agricultural landscape is incidental. The lines and textures I …

Square With The World, Dustin Andrew Young

School of Art, Art History, and Design: Theses and Student Creative Work

Memory influences everything in our lives. Massive amounts of information are stored from each experience and that data influences future thoughts and decisions. Included are the collective memories of daily headlines and images from pop-culture, as well as personal memories from my own history. Contemporary society is constantly inundated with emotionally charged imagery that aims to shock viewers by appealing to their sensibilities. By reworking the images to avoid shock and specificity, my artwork turns these depictions into mnemonic symbols that stir the mind with associations.

Advisor: Aaron Holz

A Language In Becoming, Camille C. Hawbaker

School of Art, Art History, and Design: Theses and Student Creative Work

Words as I have known them are evolving concepts in the landscape of human language, where the meanings of words are interwoven with layers of history and culture. The boundaries of language are defined by words, and around the edges are instinctive sounds that precede and exceed meaning. These sounds are an interrupting force that unsettles the linguistic structure. We often use them for expression in the form of sobs, grunts, moans, murmurs, chants, obscenities and exclamations. They appear in times of spontaneous emotion that words cannot convey. They can also be used purposely, poetically, “…to shatter [one’s] judging consciousness …

Marshall University Music Department Presents A Junior Recital, Mason Bartlett, With Guests, Mu Percussion Ensemble, Mason Bartlett

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Marshall University Music Department Presents The Marshall University Day Of Percussion, Featuring, Bill Platt, Matt Sharrock, Aaron Statler And Charles Powell, Marshall University

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Marshall University Music Department Presents A Guitar Studio Recital, (Students Of Dr. Júlio Ribeiro Alves), Marshall University

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Marshall University Music Department Presents Dr. Matthew James, Saxophone, Matthew James Dr.

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Firefly Song, Lasantha Rodrigo

Theses and Dissertations

Chethiya is a brown, gay, disabled (ultimately), abused young man from Sri Lanka, who comes to the U.S. on a full scholarship. His dream is to be a Broadway star, but after coming out of his first relationship with an emotionally abusive, alcoholic man, he is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, a chronic, degenerative neurological disease that results in demyelination, causing progressive debilitation. The story is divided into six chapters that narrate his life under various marginalizations he is subjected to, culminating in traumatization. The story, however, ends on a positive note of redemption with the narrator looking forward to his …

Marshall University Music Department Presents A Faculty Recital, W. Edwin Bingham, Saxophone, Lois J. Kaarre, Piano, Ed Bingham, Lois J. Kaarre

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Marshall University Music Department Presents A Jazz Ensemble I, Martin W. Saunders

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Marshall University Music Department Presents Variazioni, Facutly Recital, Wendell Dobbs, Flute, Stephen Lawson, Horn, Júlio Ribeiro Alves, Guitar, Wendell B. Dobbs, Stephen Lawson, Júlio Ribeiro Alves

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Marshall University Music Department Presents Şőlen Dikener, Cello, Júlio Ribeiro Alves, Guitar, Şőlen Dikener, Júlio Ribeiro Alves

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Marshall University Music Department Presents The Marshall University Symphony Orchestra In A Family Concert, Elizabeth Reed Smith

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Marshall University Music Department Presents The 2014 Birke Fine Arts Festival, Trending Now: Artists And Audiences In The Information Age, Fifth Annual Festival Of New Music, Concert Five, Henning Vauth

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Marshall University Music Department Presents The 11th Annual Reed Day, Guest Artists, Michael S. Lippard, Clarinet, Wesley Miller, Saxophone, Matthew Morris, Bassoon, And, Marshall University Faculty Clinicians, Ann Marie Bingham, Clarinet, W. Edwin Bingham, Saxophone, Kay Lawson, Bassoon, Richard Kravchak, Oboe, Donald Williams, Clarinet, Michael Lippard, Wesley Miller, Matthew Morris, Ann Bingham, Ed Bingham, Kay Lawson, Richard Kravchak, Donald Williams

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From The Inside Out, And Through., Dominique Ovalle

The STEAM Journal

These photographs describe “Science” born of consumerism, hijacked by me, economically disenfranchised, or rather—temporarily embarrassed, artist. I was putzing around Malibu—my old college stomping ground, looking for free food; maybe a sample of some gourmet $5 chocolate, and all I got were these photographs.

Musings From A Year Of Ste[A]M...How It Looks Walking Down The Path, Ruth Catchen

The STEAM Journal

This is a follow up article to one in the inaugural issue which describes the beginnings of implementing a STE[a]M curriculum in a school with a high at-risk student population. This article discusses the outcomes and the future after a year of STE[a]M.

Can Art Stress?, Bojana Joksimovic-Ginn

The STEAM Journal

Presented in this paper is an interactive, acoustic installation morphologically and functionally influenced by the evolutionarily developed phenomena of two particular defense mechanisms. The first one is the prey’s reduction of noise once a predator is detected; the second one is an internal physiological response to danger known as stress. Conducted in a manner of an experiment, this interactive artistic project has interesting and unpredicted results.

Mana & Ea, Dan Taulapapa Mcmullin

The STEAM Journal

This work, Mana and Ea, expresses Polynesian indigenous sovereignty struggles with colonialism and globalism in the Pacific Islands.