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Mr. Mendoza's Paintbrush, Anne Giangiulio

Selected Works Temporary Series

Excerpt from the graphic novel I designed, 'Mr. Mendoza’s Paintbrush' by Luis Alberto Urrea, published by Cinco Puntos Press in collaboration with Brooklyn illustrator Christopher Cardinale. Please be patient when downloading as file is 1.8 MB.

Posters Protesting Drug Violence In Juárez, México, Anne Giangiulio

Selected Works Temporary Series

I designed the posters 'Juárez: Once a City, Now Statistics' and 'Stop the Violence in Juárez' originally for 'Peace of Art: Design for Change' (www.peaceofartshow.org). This exhibit presents posters of social protest designed by professional and student designers to create awareness of the situation of violence in Cd, Juarez. To give a face to the violence and help people understand that the violence changes people’s lives. It is a display of Peace and/or protest on both sides of the border. More importantly, Peace of Art raises funds that will aid Cd. Juarez victims and their families. Both posters were later …

Searching For California's Hang Trees, Ken Gonzales-Day

Scripps Faculty Publications and Research

Also known as the Hang Tree Series, this was part of Ken Gonzales-Day's eight year project to search for, and photograph, possible, probably, and verifiable lynching sites in California. Perhaps most significantly, his project included the discovery and documentation of over 350 cases of lynching in the state of California between 1850 and 1935. Contrary to the popular image of 'cowboy justice' and Wild West vigilantism as being an exclusively white-on-white crime, Gonzales-Day was able to document, that in California, the majority (nearly two thirds) of cases of vigilantism involved the lynching of African Americans, Native Americans, Chinese, and Latinos …

Élan Vital, Sharon Mealey

CGU MFA Theses

My art explores the inner qualities of life, focusing on adaptability and resiliency. I am interested in the mysterious vital force philosophers call élan vital that animates human beings. I investigate the transitory nature of life where it intersects with élan vital. My paintings accommodate the ephemeral and the perpetual. Please see Download button in top right corner for the full statement.

Figured Velvets From Simple Looms: Velvet Pick-Up And Related Techniques For Handweavers, Wendy Landry

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Much historical velvet was designed to be figural, often in elaborate curvilinear floral motifs, and multiple colours. These complex patterns could be efficiently designed for and executed on the available drawlooms and their successors, the jacquard looms. Faced with such complexity, and the unavailability of jacquard looms and drawlooms, few handweavers have attempted to add velvet technique to their repertoire. However, the basic principles and weave structures of velvet are relatively simple and can be executed on simpler handlooms. Pick-up techniques and simple loom modifications make figured velvet accessible for weavers without access to complex jacquard velvet looms, allowing them …

Stranger Than Fiction, Andrew P. Maturo

The Mercury

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Children Of The Occupation, Preston G. Hartwick

The Mercury

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Dethroned, Josiah B. Adlon

The Mercury

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Paul, Rachel E. Rakoff

The Mercury

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Flight, Hannah J. Sawyer

The Mercury

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Stories Of Nepal, Sara W. Tower

The Mercury

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See Through, Sara P. Levin

The Mercury

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Grades 9 - 12 Surrealism, Angela Zornetsky

Art

This is a differentiated lesson on surrealism. As a final project, students are asked to choose a project and a reflection topic both of which are tiered into three groups by difficulty level.

Race & Rock & Roll: A Visual Analysis Of Rolling Stone Cover Photography, Erica D. Block

Honors Theses

If African Americans heavily influenced the development of rock & roll as a musical genre, why do we picture rock stars as white men with guitars? In this project I examine, with a particular focus on race, how the the visual culture surrounding rock music evolved to where it is today. To do this, I performed a close visual analysis of Rolling Stone Magazine covers from 1967-1980. In this presentation I illustrate Rolling Stone's trend of featuring 'white negroes' on their covers, which allowed the magazine to use the selling power of a white person's face while retaining the attractiveness, …

Bookbinding & Conservation: A Sixty-Year Odyssey Of Art And Craft By Don Etherington, Peter D. Verheyen

Librarian Publications

For those involved with bookbinding, book conservation, or with the Guild of Book Workers, Don Etherington needs no introduction – he has served as a teacher, mentor, and friend. Now, with Bookbinding & Conservation: A Sixty-year Odyssey of Art and Craft we can read about how he came to enter this field, was influenced by his teachers and mentors, and how he helped shape the world of bookbinding and conservation.

"Bookbinding & Conservation: A Sixty-year Odyssey of Art and Craft" contains a forward by Bernard Middleton, another leader in the field, and one who needs little introduction himself. It is …

Portfolio, Katelyn Dewitt, '10

BA/BFA Senior Honors Book Gallery

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Bfa/Ba Senior Exhibitions Catalog, Emily Cellini, '10

BA/BFA Senior Honors Book Gallery

2010 BFA/BA Senior Exhibitions poster and catalog designed by Emily Celini.

Design Portfolio, Laura K. Czys, '10

BA/BFA Senior Honors Book Gallery

Portfolio of graphic design work, from 2008-2010.

Crossroads To Jazz, Emily Cellini, '10

BA/BFA Senior Honors Book Gallery

Graphic design portfolio.

Clothespin: Not Just For Your Closthes Anymore, Jamie Kang, '11

BA/BFA Senior Honors Book Gallery

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