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“You Will Never Touch My Roots”, Zari Apodaca
“You Will Never Touch My Roots”, Zari Apodaca
Art & Art History Student Scholarship
Zari Apodaca ’23
Major: Studio Art
Faculty Mentor: Professor Judd Schiffman, Art and Art History
An Exhibition of ceramic objects reflecting on genocidal trauma and cultural bereavement in Armenian culture. Through her art, Zari asks questions about the intergenerational effects of exile and persecution. In Zari’s words: “Through multiple ceramic copies of face plaques and head sculptures, I work to understand who I see myself to be, despite feeling so disconnected. I communicate my inner thoughts concerning identity and society through text carved into clay and broken up pieces of faces to better understand the missing gaps in myself.”
A Rouen Book Of Hours: Dynamic Religious Accoutrement, Cherished Accessory, And Looking Glass?, Sara Junkins
A Rouen Book Of Hours: Dynamic Religious Accoutrement, Cherished Accessory, And Looking Glass?, Sara Junkins
Art & Art History Student Scholarship
Sara Junkins ’23
Major: Art History and Creative Writing
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Elizabeth Welch, Art and Art History
Sara Junkins submitted an excellent art history thesis in which she mirrors the original owner and patron’s relationship to a 1510 book of hours made in Rouen, France, grappling like the patron with issues of faith, status, gender, and style. An external reviewer highlighted her sophisticated usage of Mircea Eliade’s theory of sacrality, saying that she “convincingly position[s] the book within the dichotomy of the sacred and profane.” Her investigation of the dynamic hybridities and dichotomies in the book—the sacred and the …
Lou Rizzolo: Art Installations Of East Hall And The Sky, University Libraries
Lou Rizzolo: Art Installations Of East Hall And The Sky, University Libraries
East Campus Oral Histories
WMU Professor Emeritus of Art Lou Rizzolo speaks with Cassie Kotrch via FaceTime about his time at WMU first as a student and then as a professor and artist. Lou discusses two writings he prepared. The first details his first day on East Campus and a seemingly impossible mission. The second details some of the major works of his time as a professor, especially one series of works around the study of the brain that was in the East Hall gym.
Artistic Engagement With Monadnock: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study, Jonathan W. Coffin
Artistic Engagement With Monadnock: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study, Jonathan W. Coffin
Antioch University Dissertations & Theses
This hermeneutic phenomenological study discloses the lived experience of creating art in association with New Hampshire’s Mount Monadnock. This study reveals the potential for artistic invention in association with place gradually to undermine an established sense of separation from environment and to prompt conscious awareness of continuity with environment. A series of interviews with four artists who create art of or in the presence of Monadnock revealed in the lived experience of creating Monadnock art a process that consists of five phases: first encounter, abstract appreciation, existential understanding, sustained attention, and continuity. A hermeneutic circular method of interpretation based upon …