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Inner Portraits, Bethany Salisbury May 2023

Inner Portraits, Bethany Salisbury

Graduate Theses

This paper investigates the many interconnected layers of women’s mental health through portraiture and how animal and plant symbolism can represent the way women's hormones and bodily health affect their mental health. I reveal how the artwork created presents these connections and inner mental health narratives to the viewer, creating a space of empathy, destigmatization, and self-reflection. This body of portraiture art connects five women through a series of both two-and three-dimensional portraits based on interviews using my own adaptation of Sara Lawrence-Lightfoots’ (1983) portrait methodology.

Women and non-binary individuals have always dealt with difficult interactions of bodily and mental …


Elevating The Queer Body, Grant Mahan Dec 2022

Elevating The Queer Body, Grant Mahan

Graduate Theses

Elevating the Queer Body is an art based exploration in removing objectification in the visual consumption of my own queer body. Throughout this thesis, I explain the experience of queer objectification, and how to overcome it through abstraction in a painting practice. This research comprises spiritual ideologies, as well as the history of abstraction, to inspire me in creating an ethically consumed representation of my figure. This is achieved through an abstract depiction and veiling of my figure. Presented compositions are overlaid with Islamic inspired devotion and ornamentation as a form of elevating the body itself.


Imprints: The Marks We Make, Patricia Botts Aug 2022

Imprints: The Marks We Make, Patricia Botts

Graduate Theses

When walking throughout a cemetery, you may notice the small dash on a tombstone between the year of someone’s birth and their death. Have you ever given thought as to how a tiny line can represent so much? Even a small mark, such as the dash, can represent volumes in the entirety of a person’s life and the imprint they leave on those around them. In my work, I use various types of line as symbols associated with representations of life. I am most interested in lines as visual representation of physical and psychological wounds, both newly created and those …


Native American, Danielle Walker Nov 2019

Native American, Danielle Walker

The Anthology

No abstract provided.


Edith, Edie Estes Nov 2019

Edith, Edie Estes

The Anthology

No abstract provided.


William, Rachel Goldie Nov 2019

William, Rachel Goldie

The Anthology

No abstract provided.


Precious, Lacey Todd Nov 2019

Precious, Lacey Todd

The Anthology

No abstract provided.


Painting, Olivia Floyd Nov 2019

Painting, Olivia Floyd

The Anthology

No abstract provided.


Eat Salad, Taylor Mcguirt Nov 2018

Eat Salad, Taylor Mcguirt

The Anthology

Art Editor's Choice


Black Jesus, Samuel Carter Nov 2018

Black Jesus, Samuel Carter

The Anthology

No abstract provided.


Serendipity In Blue, Katie N. Karban Nov 2018

Serendipity In Blue, Katie N. Karban

The Anthology

No abstract provided.


Rendering, Katrina Flood Jun 2016

Rendering, Katrina Flood

The Anthology

Artwork


Untitled, Kaitlyn Walters Jun 2016

Untitled, Kaitlyn Walters

The Anthology

Artwork


Full Issue, The Anthology Jun 2016

Full Issue, The Anthology

The Anthology

This is the entirety of the 2013 Winthrop Anthology issue.


Luminous Luminosity, Thomas Seay Jun 2016

Luminous Luminosity, Thomas Seay

The Anthology

Artwork


Future, Rachel Sullivan Jun 2016

Future, Rachel Sullivan

The Anthology

Artwork


Full Issue, The Anthology Jun 2016

Full Issue, The Anthology

The Anthology

This is the entirety of the 2014 Winthrop Anthology issue.


Answers Will Come, Gabrielle Wolfe May 2016

Answers Will Come, Gabrielle Wolfe

The Anthology

Artwork


Chicken, Heidi Nisbett May 2016

Chicken, Heidi Nisbett

The Anthology

Artwork


Accumulating, Joanna Henry May 2016

Accumulating, Joanna Henry

The Anthology

Artwork


Sanctioning Of Gifts Ii, Tom Seay May 2016

Sanctioning Of Gifts Ii, Tom Seay

The Anthology

Artwork


Full Issue, The Anthology May 2016

Full Issue, The Anthology

The Anthology

This is the entirety of the 2015 Winthrop Anthology issue.


New Beginnings, Kristen Rowell Apr 2016

New Beginnings, Kristen Rowell

The Anthology

Artwork


Lightbulb Ii, Amy Ciravolo Apr 2016

Lightbulb Ii, Amy Ciravolo

The Anthology

Artwork


Glow, Amy Ciravolo Apr 2016

Glow, Amy Ciravolo

The Anthology

Artwork


Nia, Emily Furr Apr 2016

Nia, Emily Furr

The Anthology

Artwork


Full Issue, The Anthology Apr 2016

Full Issue, The Anthology

The Anthology

This is the entirety of the 2016 Winthrop Anthology issue.