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The Landscape Does Not Care It Is A Landscape: A Utopian Pessimist Journey In Kentucky., Shachaf Polakow

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

These thesis and exhibition, invite the viewers to travel through different places in Central and Eastern Kentucky. The region’s landscape, like many other American landscapes, is often known to the public through the settler colonial lens—a lens that ignores Indigenous peoples’ history in the region. The work in the exhibition is a response to landscape art's history and its complicity with American settler colonialism- art that was recruited to create a new identity for the settlers and for the country from the beginning of the American Colonial Project. Landscape art was a crucial part of this effort, presenting the land …

Echoes Of Home, Hanna Traynham

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The artist discusses her Master of Fine Arts exhibition, Echoes of Home, held at the Tipton Gallery in Johnson City, Tennessee on display March 15 through April 8, 2022. The author provides insight into concepts and influences relating to the creation of the exhibition with perspective on her intimate connection with place and memory.

The exhibit features five installations addressing home, elusive memory, and the change and continuity of cultural traditions over time. The works consist of a series of large-scale wild clay vessels, gestural clay bookends, a wall installation of cups with a line drawing, suspended porcelain slabs, …

Kinstitution: A Topia Between Archive And Proposal, Christopher Lineberry

Theses and Dissertations

Situating Topher Lineberry's work, this paper offers a primer on institutional critique, preliminary developments of "kinstitutional critique," and the cultivation of family-derived art history through the work of the artist's grandmother, Helen Lineberry. Feeding into a working understanding of family-and-kin-as-institution, the paper ultimately locates Topher Lineberry's work between relations to place, historical archives, and speculative proposals.

The Barren Springs Songbook, Caroline Grace Sutphin

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The Barren Springs Songbook is a poetry collection exploring Appalachian themes through the lens of three representative characters and my own experience. The poems presented are in blank verse and lean heavily on musicality, as each poem features an epigraph from my own Great Uncle Henry’s song lyrics. The poetry explores themes of poverty, folklore, feminism, and Christianity within the context of Barren Springs, an insular Appalachian community. The characters of Henry, India, and Myrtle provide a glimpse into how things have been in my family history, and the more modern poems representing myself show the cultural shifts that are …

Place-Based And Non-Place-Based Performing Arts Experiences And First-Generation, Appalachian College Student Engagement, Rachel Schott

Ed.D. Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to examine the pre-college arts experiences of Appalachian college students who participated in place-based and non-place-based performance arts ensembles and, using a qualitative research approach informed by Kuh et al.’s (2005) study on positive student engagement, understand the influence that participation in these ensembles might have on Appalachian students who are the first in their generation to pursue higher education. In this study, the researcher examined student data from 28 first-generation, Appalachian college students who responded to an online survey, and 11 who volunteered to participate in-depth, personal interviews. All the student participants were …

North Of Ourselves: Identity And Place In Jim Wayne Miller’S Poetry, Micah Mccrotty

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Jim Wayne Miller’s poetry examines how human history and topography join to create place. His work often incorporates images of land and ecology; it deliberately questions the delineation between place and self. This thesis explores how Miller presents images of water to describe the relationship between inhabitants and their location, both with the positive image of the spring and the negative image of the flood. Additionally, this thesis examines how the Brier, Miller’s most prominent persona character, grieves his separation from home and ultimately finds healing and reunification of the self through his return to the hills. In his poetry, …

Secret_Menu, Charles K. Mai

Senior Projects Spring 2018

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Embedded In These Walls, Trish J. Gibson

Theses and Dissertations

Embedded In These Walls uses photographic imagery, archival ephemera, and written text to examine a specific history of generational trauma through the lens of a singular family of a southern tradition to point to a larger systemic breakdown of accountability and truthfulness regarding abuse

Es-Sen-Tial, Lyn A. Govette

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is in support of the exhibition entitled ES-SEN-TIAL on display in Tipton Gallery located in Downtown Johnson City from February 27, 2017 to March 10, 2017.

The exhibition is a presentation in fiber medium of the human impact on the landscape, specifically using the extractive industry of coal mining as example. This is accomplished through the use of digital imagery printed on textiles, hand and machine embroidery, and surface design techniques of dyeing and layering. This body of work reflects the artist’s interest in art activism and the utilization of photography, fiber arts, ideas and techniques, as creative …

Joe Sartor: Morehead Mind Games, Kentucky Folk Art Center, Joe Sartor

Kentucky Folk Art Center Exhibition Catalogs

2017 Kentucky Folk Art Center exhibition catalog of artist Joe Sartor.

Bruce New: The Night Is Only A Dream, Kentucky Folk Art Center, Bruce New

Kentucky Folk Art Center Exhibition Catalogs

2017 Kentucky Folk Art Center exhibition catalog of artist Bruce New.

The Devil Made Us Do It: Depictions Of Satan In Kentucky Folk Art, Kentucky Folk Art Center

Kentucky Folk Art Center Exhibition Catalogs

2016 Kentucky Folk Art Center exhibition catalog of artwork depicting Satan.

Mark Francis: Time & Chance, Mark Francis, Kentucky Folk Art Center

Kentucky Folk Art Center Exhibition Catalogs

2016 Kentucky Folk Art Center exhibition catalog of artist Mark Francis.

Folk/Traditional Music From West Virginia Arranged For Classical Guitar Ensemble, Júlio Ribeiro Alves

Júlio Ribeiro Alves

My motivation for writing this book grew from my desire to better understand the people and the music heritage of West Virginia and to share the findings of my experience, with the guitar community, in the form of guitar ensemble arrangements.

Minnie Adkins: Against The Grain, Minnie Adkins, Kentucky Folk Art Center

Kentucky Folk Art Center Exhibition Catalogs

2015 Kentucky Folk Art Center exhibition catalog of artist Minnie Adkins.

Unexpected Zeus, Adam Lambert

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Chester Cornett: Beyond The Narrow Sky, Chester Cornett, Kentucky Folk Art Center

Kentucky Folk Art Center Exhibition Catalogs

2014 Kentucky Folk Art Center exhibition catalog of artist Chester Cornett.

Folk/Traditional Music Of West Virginia Arranged For Classical Guitar Ensemble, Júlio Ribeiro Alves

Music Faculty Research

My motivation for writing this book grew from my desire to better understand the people and the music heritage of West Virginia and to share the findings of my experience, with the guitar community, in the form of guitar ensemble arrangements.

David Lucas, David Lucas, Kentucky Folk Art Center

Kentucky Folk Art Center Exhibition Catalogs

2013 Kentucky Folk Art Center exhibition catalog for artist David Lucas.

Linvel Barker: Works From The Collection Of Rita Biesiot, Linvel Barker, Rita Biesiot, Kentucky Folk Art Center

Kentucky Folk Art Center Exhibition Catalogs

2012 Kentucky Folk Art Center exhibition catalog of artist Linvel Barker.

2 X 20: Works By 20 Of Kentucky's Finest Working Folk Artists, Minnie Adkins, Barbara Burton, Jo Ann Butts, Brent Collinsworth, Joan Dance, Tad Desanto, Marvin Francis, Tim Lewis, Jance Miller, Lonnie Money, Twyla Money, Robert Morgan, Bruce New, Janice Harding Owens, Jim Gary Phillips, Thaddeus Pinkney, Monica Pipia, Willie Rascoe, Eileen Stockham, Donny Tolson, Lavon Van Williams, Kentucky Folk Art Center

Kentucky Folk Art Center Exhibition Catalogs

2012 Kentucky Folk Art Center exhibition catalog of the twenty finest working folk artists.

Krause & Spellmann: Scenes From Lost America, Jo Neace Krause, Charles Spellman, Kentucky Folk Art Center

Kentucky Folk Art Center Exhibition Catalogs

2011 Kentucky Folk Art Center exhibition catalog of artists Jo Neace Krause and Charles Spellman.

Robert Morgan: The Age Of Discovery, Robert Morgan, Kentucky Folk Art Center

Kentucky Folk Art Center Exhibition Catalogs

2011 Kentucky Folk Art Center exhibition catalog of artist Robert Morgan.

The Strange Horses Came, Kentucky Folk Art Center

Kentucky Folk Art Center Exhibition Catalogs

2010 Kentucky Folk Art Center exhibition catalog for the World Equestrian Games.

Red River: The Narrative Works Of Edgar Tolson, Carl Mckenzie, Earnest Patton & Donny Tolson, Edgar Tolson, Carl Mckenzie, Earnest Patton, Donny Tolson, Kentucky Folk Art Center

Kentucky Folk Art Center Exhibition Catalogs

2010 Kentucky Folk Art Center exhibition catalog of artists Edgar Tolson, Carl McKenzie, Earnest Patton and Donny Tolson.

Rhythm In Relief, Lavon Williams, Kentucky Folk Art Center

Kentucky Folk Art Center Exhibition Catalogs

2009 Kentucky Folk Art Center exhibition catalog of artist Lavon Williams.

Against The Grain : The Works Of Minnie Adkins, Minnie Adkins, Kentucky Folk Art Center

Kentucky Folk Art Center Exhibition Catalogs

2007 Kentucky Folk Art Center exhibition catalog of artist Minnie Adkins.

The Great American Spirit, Phyllis George, Kentucky Folk Art Center

Kentucky Folk Art Center Exhibition Catalogs

2002-2003 Kentucky Folk Art Center exhibition catalog of folk art depicting the events of September 11, 2001.

Folk Art Treasures From Guangxi, Kentucky Folk Arts Center, Guangxi Provincial Museum

Kentucky Folk Art Center Exhibition Catalogs

2000 Kentucky Folk Art Center exhibition catalog of folk art from the Guangxi Province of China.

Kentucky Quilts: Roots & Wings, Adrain Swain, Shelly Zegart

Kentucky Folk Art Center Exhibition Catalogs

1998 Kentucky Folk Art Center exhibition catalog depicting Kentucky quilts.