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I Hear You Now, I See You Then, Quinn Hunter

Art + Design Masters Theses

In the research driven project I Hear You Now, I See You Then, I refer to the contemporary and historical erasure of the labor of African American women using research gathered from the southern plantation economy to create an art installation. The objects in this installation are primarily made with artificial hair integrations and utilizing labor intensive methods that are similar to those used to install the hair on the Black body. The objects I make reference the luxury items in the domestic spaces of historic plantation sites that have been re-branded to be used in the wedding /tourism industry. …

Memory Bread, Nisiqi

Art + Design Masters Theses

Memory Bread, constituting a daily performance ritual and the post-action objects, seeks to address the generational decline of mother language use in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, a post-colonized province of China. I chose to eat sliced white bread in the performance and later casted concrete sculptures as the extension of the action for both substances’ capitalistic nature. Being an invasive material that took over the traditional architectural lifestyle, the use of concrete mirrors the pervasive cultural and ethnic assimilation in China. Meanwhile, the materiality of concrete being a mixture of various substances also metaphors the mixed culture that Chinese-Mongolians …

Adleta Type Shop And Bindery Masterlist, Megan Mccormick

Letterpress and Bookmaking

Over 300 typefaces, including

Caslon, Garamond, Goudy, Palatino, Bookman, Century Schoolbook, Cheltenham, Bodoni, Stymie, 20th Century, Gothic, Spartan, etc.

Typeface designers include

William Caslon I; American Type Founders and William Caslon I; Claude Garamond; Frederic Goudy; Morris Fuller Benton; Hermann Zapf; American Type Founders; Linn Boyd and Morris Fuller Benton; Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue; Ingalls Kimball; Joseph W. Phinney; Giambattista Bodoni; Freeman Claw; Barnhart Brothers & Spindler; Sol Hess; Lucian Bernhard; Max Miedinger and Eduard Hoffmann; Walter Huxley; Warren Chappell; Adrian Frutiger; Peter Dom; Tommy Thompson; Robert E. Smith; Max R. Kaufmann; William T. Sniffi

Foundries include

American Type Foundry; Barnhart …