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(Re)Canonizing The Tool: Constructions And Insincerity In The Digital Age, Danielle Romagno
(Re)Canonizing The Tool: Constructions And Insincerity In The Digital Age, Danielle Romagno
Masters Theses, 2020-current
This thesis conceptually frames and accompanies the MFA body of work (Re)Canonizing the Tool: Constructions and Insincerity in the Digital Age done by Danielle Romagno. Using lenses of relationship between humans and tools, a desire to problematize our world, absurdity, and reimagined function, this document explores the work’s connection to the contemporary superficiality of online media like infomercials and YouTube DIY tutorials.
Savoring The Moon: Japanese Prints Of The Floating World, Madison B. Dalton
Savoring The Moon: Japanese Prints Of The Floating World, Madison B. Dalton
Senior Honors Projects, 2020-current
Guided by the Director of the Madison Art Collection and Lisanby Museum, Virginia Soenksen,I served as the Curatorial Assistant for the Lisanby Museum’s forthcoming exhibition Savoring the Moon: Japanese Prints of the Floating World. The exhibition will highlight the Madison ArtCollection’s impressive Japanese woodblock prints in the ukiyo-e style. Ukiyo-e translates to“pictures of the floating world.” This style proliferated in Japan during the Edo period (1603 - 1868) and Meiji period (1868 - 1912), with visual themes that ranged from flora and fauna, Japanese ceremonies, kabuki actors, mythology, courtesans, and cultural pastimes. The estate of Charles Alvin Lisanby gifted over …
Unearthing Strata And Changing Waters: A Landscape For Today, Mallory P. Burrell
Unearthing Strata And Changing Waters: A Landscape For Today, Mallory P. Burrell
Masters Theses, 2020-current
My current practice culminates in generative acts that respond to the objects that I collect from Blacks Run in Harrisonburg, VA. The writing and artworks are extensions of my interest in hybridity and spaces where organic and artificial matter intersect. This thesis provides a conceptual framework for Unearthing Strata and Changing Waters: A Landscape for Today, an MFA body of work by Mallory Burrell.