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Vr Let My Creativity Out: Youth Creating With Immersive Learning Technologies, Paula Macdowell Dr. Jul 2023

Vr Let My Creativity Out: Youth Creating With Immersive Learning Technologies, Paula Macdowell Dr.

International Journal of Emerging and Disruptive Innovation in Education : VISIONARIUM

With a greater demand for ingenuity and innovation in today’s creative economy, educators need to be creative practitioners inasmuch as students must be, learn, and grow creatively. This qualitative study explores the affordances and constraints of youth creating with immersive learning technologies at a Youth VR Research Camp. A class of 28 students in grade 8, ages 13 and 14, were invited to participate as the co-researchers. The data collection methods included artifact analysis, student-led pair interviews, sharing circles, surveys, and observation. The process of research-creation involved MultibrushVR and FrameVR design challenges focussed on pro-social and environmental change. Findings …


Integrating Art And Design With Environmental Science, Laura D. Hinson May 2023

Integrating Art And Design With Environmental Science, Laura D. Hinson

The Confluence

This article demonstrates how combining art and design and environmental sciences would benefit both fields by analyzing how utilizing art and design in environmental sciences can help enhance aspects of the teaching process and environmental studies, specifically those dealing with climatology and pollution. Additionally, by taking an ecocritical approach to analyzing art and its creation, this article will detail how artists can become more conscious of the impacts creating certain types of art has on the environment while also noting environmental changes documented through art.


Michelangelo Buonarroti And Homophobia In The Renaissance, Grace T. O. Ray Nov 2022

Michelangelo Buonarroti And Homophobia In The Renaissance, Grace T. O. Ray

The Confluence

Tommaso de’ Cavalieri was a young man with an aristocratic background when he first met famous artist Michelangelo Buonarroti in Rome. Tommaso was known to be an incomparable physical beauty, with intelligence and elegant manners, as well as being a member of one of the most illustrious families of Rome—the Orsini. Some have said this is what drew the artist to Cavalieri from the start. Though not much is known about their encounter, it is confirmed that Cavalieri remained a close and loyal companion to Michelangelo for thirty-two years until the artist’s death in 1564. Furthermore, throughout their years together …


Creating A 1940s Costume: A Historical Investigation, Jennifer Mott Nov 2022

Creating A 1940s Costume: A Historical Investigation, Jennifer Mott

The Confluence

The purpose of this Art History research investigation was to create a costume from the 1940s by immersing myself in a time period when people often made their own clothing. This was done to better understand what it means to have a personal connection to the items I wear. Our experiences as consumers in the twenty-first century are vastly different than those belonging to the people that lived during the mid-twentieth century because almost all of our clothing is purchased from corporations and created by people that we will likely never meet. For this investigative study, I shopped for and …


Arrow Rock, Spring 2022, Full Issue Jan 2022

Arrow Rock, Spring 2022, Full Issue

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The Puurfect Night May 2017

The Puurfect Night

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An artistic rendition of a kitten strolling near a tree on a hill under the light of a full moon and starry sky.


Artwork (A.) May 2017

Artwork (A.)

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An artistic rendition of a white, three-dimensional skull on a black, glittering background. As the first of two artworks in this issue named Artwork from the same creator, the (a.) and (b.) have been added respectively to distinguish the two from one another.


Artwork (B.) May 2017

Artwork (B.)

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An artistic rendering of what appears to be a column of light emerging from or descending to the landscape beneath it. As the second of two artworks in this issue named Artwork from the same creator, the (a.) and (b.) have been added respectively to distinguish the two from one another.


Fairy Clocks May 2017

Fairy Clocks

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An artistic rendition of what appears to be dandelions having gone to seed referred to by the title of the work as "fairy clocks".


A Starry Night At Hogwarts May 2017

A Starry Night At Hogwarts

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An artistic rendition of the iconic image of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry from the Harry Potter Series/Franchise in the style of Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night.


A Cherry Blossom Moon May 2017

A Cherry Blossom Moon

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An artistic rendition of a cherry blossom tree in full boom lit from behind by a full moon.