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A Maker's Perspective Of Materiality: Observing Material Change Through Legacy Craftsmanship, Maker Intent, And Contemporary Manifestation, Adam Swift

Masters Theses

Simple handmade objects have important stories to tell about the hands that made them and the environments they pass through. This project observes the thinking, materials, and process involved in craft work through the lens of materiality. I wrestle with materiality by presenting a personal making project, in front of L.C. King Mfg. Co., a Tennessee workwear company that maintains century-old manufacturing practices and values. With the interactive – and interdisciplinary – perspective of cultural rhetoric as the guiding theoretical framework, this display of both freshly created (the leather bag project) and progressively experienced (the chore coat) material realities aims …

2020 Mfa Thesis Exhibitions, The University Of Tennessee, Knoxville, School Of Art

Ewing Gallery of Art & Architecture

MFA class of 2020: Jillian Hirsch, Kristina Key, April Marten, Ashlee Mays, Emmett Merrill, Angelina Parrino, Dana Potter, William Rerick, Marla Sweitzer.

Unsustainable: A Planet In Crisis, Sam Yates

Ewing Gallery of Art & Architecture

Unsustainable: A Planet in Crisis features artwork ranging in material, discipline, and execution that addresses the theme of planetary crises – climate change, the rise of disease and superbugs, world conflict and national instability, plastics in the ocean, gun violence, pollution of the waterways from mining, air pollution from use of fossil fuels, the opioid crisis, and species extinction.

Participating artists are: Michele Banks, Brandon Ballengee, PhD, Scott Chimileski, PhD + Roberto Kolter, PhD, Brandon Donahue, Lorrie Fredette, Yeon Jin Kim Pam Longobardi, Dan Mills, John Sabraw, and Karen Shaw.