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You’Ll Find No Answers Here, Joseph M. Morelli May 2013

You’Ll Find No Answers Here, Joseph M. Morelli

Joseph M Morelli

A thesis on one art grad student’s inability to understand how we can possibly order and classify nature, but loving natural history collections all the same; It’s about not knowing a whole lot about anything, really, but trying desperately to figure things out anyway.

I fabricate sculpture in order to construct my own systems of classification. I construct collections to assuage my growing anxiety with regard to being in a constant state of utter bewilderment and in sheer awe of the natural world.In doing so, I chronicle a very small slice of the interactions that happen between the disciplines of …


Sokota| Art. Health. Wellness., Cresantia F. Koya, Peter D. Sipeli, Lingikoni E. Vaka'uta, Vivian Koster Jan 2013

Sokota| Art. Health. Wellness., Cresantia F. Koya, Peter D. Sipeli, Lingikoni E. Vaka'uta, Vivian Koster

Cresantia Frances Koya Vaka'uta

This Art exhibition featured 19 Fijian emerging artists who participated in a one year project learning about Wellness, health and NCDs in Fiji and the Pacific. Their conceptual art projects were designed to generate dialogue with the wider community and with the Ministry of Education's Health Promoting School Project. The exhibition is an outcome of the Educating for Sustainable Lifestyles through the Arts is co-managed by Peter Sipeli (FNU) and Cresantia Frances Koya (USP). It is funded through the Fiji College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, FNU, AusAid, Ministry of Health and the Faculty of Arts, Law and Education, …


The Lower Ninth Ward, New Orleans: Vestiges Of A Neighborhood, Adam N. Hess Dec 2008

The Lower Ninth Ward, New Orleans: Vestiges Of A Neighborhood, Adam N. Hess

Adam N Hess

The Lower Ninth Ward, New Orleans: Vestiges of a Neighborhood is a photo-documentary of the remnants of one of America’s most unique and culturally distinct neighborhoods. Three years after Hurricane Katrina devastated this neighborhood, it lies in ruin, slowly returning to nature. All that remains of the community that once occupied the Lower Ninth are the dilapidated buildings, the crumbling homes, and the small possessions left behind.

For the past three years I have explored the Lower Ninth Ward, discovering the remains of a community rich in tradition, family, and religion. Through the use of black and white photographs and …