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Unseen, Unheard, Unnamed: The Matchless And Unsung Heroes Of The Textile Art And Craft Of Rajasthan, Simrita Singh, Anu H. Gupta

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Rajasthan is known for its exquisite handicrafts, especially the textiles. In spite of having the most vibrant and glorious traditions, this sector has been grossly unorganized due to the poor socio-economic status of the artisans. The educational background of the artisans also is not satisfactory; hence, they lack public relations skills. They are totally dependent on big traders and middlemen for marketing purposes. Moreover, in this era of labels and designers, the artisans, however skilled or endowed they may be, have to work under some renowned brand or name to have a regular livelihood. However, not all artisans are lucky …

Artistic Philanthropy And Women’S Emancipation In Early Twentieth-Century Italy, In The Life And The Work Of Romeyne Robert And Carolina Amari, Ruggero Ranieri

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Romeyne Robert, married as Ranieri di Sorbello, started an embroidery school in 1904 in Umbria, at the family’s country estate of Pischiello. Her goal was to teach young peasant women to emancipate themselves by learning the craft of embroidery. She was inspired by the Arts and Crafts movement in America and by contemporary programs developed in settlement houses along the East Coast. Their aim was to help the emancipation of immigrant women from Italy by fostering the recovery of artisan skills. At the Sorbello Embroidery School, Romeyne rediscovered the Renaissance technique originally called the punto Umbro, later renamed punto Sorbello. …

Tribal Textiles And The Mingei Circle In Japan: Muneyoshi Yanagi’S View On Carpet, Yumiko Kamada

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Tribal carpets and textiles have been enthusiastically collected by connoisseurs and ordinary people in Europe and the United States for years. Along with a number of publications on tribal carpets and textiles, several recent exhibitions such as Portable Storage: Tribal Weavings from the Collection of William and Inger Ginsberg at the Metropolitan Museum of Art indicate a keen academic interest in the West. In contrast, tribal carpets and textiles did not gain the attention of the majority of Japanese. However, some Japanese, especially Yanagi Muneyoshi and his friends in the Mingei circle, notably Hamada Shoji, Serizawa Keisuke, and Tonomura Kichinosuke, …

Dredge The Foundry | For Dirt And Era, Woody Stauffer

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

Billions of years are past us and billions of years await. Shaping earthen material into sculptural abstractions is my way to sense and convey the lethargic natural progression of the planet. Fossilization, rot, dirt, plant growth, animal existence, and rust are aesthetics I endow with new perspectives and form through mold making and casting. The dichotomy between the eons of time behind us and the endless possibility of a technological future has inspired the addition of a science fiction aesthetic. To rust these computerized constructed geometric forms demonstrates how futuristic ideals will also wither away. In many ways we are …

Ecological Art Exhibition As Transformative Pedagogy, Stacey Skold

College of Education and Human Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Environmental degradation is considered one of the biggest issues facing humankind. The problem is deep and global with fast fashion playing a significant, yet underrealized role. Scholars have established that developing the sustainable behaviors necessary to mitigate the effects of environmental degradation is a complex process, that knowledge of environmental degradation alone is insufficient to develop sustainable behaviors, and that both attitudinal and behavioral transformations are necessary for global environmental action and stewardship. As a result, researchers have called for new approaches to environmental education to promote transformative learning.

Art experiences can function as a powerful tool in learning and …

The Sky's The Limit, Andrew Zhang '22

Distinguished Student Work - Visual Arts

Photograph

Coalescent: A Collection Of Defining Life Experiences, Stephanie A. Dishno

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Coalescent: A Collection of Defining Life Experiences, reflects on my experiences and curiosities of important life events that a person may use to construct their narrative identity. In this paper, I discuss my reflections, influences, and materials used to create my thesis exhibition, Coalescent. I describe my work as a collection of life experiences that are used to construct a narrative identity.

Visual Feast, Makaili J. Taylor

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

This body of work, Visual Feast, explores the infatuation we have with sweets. Throughout my thesis, I discuss how this universal shared experience contributes to the art world, explaining how our culture today has turned a simple requirement to survive into a source of entertainment. I use my work to show the absurdity of our desires to overindulge, and the ways we fetishize food. By creating a visual feast for the viewers, my goal is to challenge perceptions of what is acceptable and what is absurd.

Plausible Expositions With Possible Expeditions, Nikolaus D. James

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

Influenced by video games and cinema, in this body of work, Plausible Expositions with Possible Expeditions, I use objects to create scenarios that suggest a narrative. The scenes are then photographed and displayed through cathode-ray tube televisions and viewers use their own knowledge and ideas about the objects to create that narrative. Each of these objects has is own data set, and the most common have a universal data set—information surrounding the object that is widely recognized, much like how a crowbar is commonly associated with crime. Similar to playing a video game, an algorithm is used when viewing my …

Visual Literacy Lesson Plan: Color Photography, Ian Mcdermott

Open Educational Resources

This session focuses on building subject knowledge in photography and finding background information on an artist. The lesson begins with students closely examining a photograph, following the Visual Thinking Strategies model (https://vtshome.org/). Following the exercise, students are divided into groups and select a monograph on a photographer. As a group, they research the photographer using the book and other library resources (subscription databases) and open web resources (artist’s website, museum websites). The session ends with student groups giving 2-5 minute presentations on a photographer.

การสร้างสรรค์ผลงานทางดุริยางคศิลป์: ตับเรื่องเกาะสีชัง, สันติ อุดมศรี

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การสร้างสรรค์ผลงานทางดุริยางคศิลป์: ตับเรื่องเกาะสีชัง มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อศึกษาภูมิหลังทางประวัติศาสตร์และมูลบทที่เกี่ยวข้องกับเกาะสีชัง จังหวัดชลบุรี และเพื่อสร้างสรรค์ผลงานทางดุริยางคศิลป์: ตับเรื่องเกาะสีชัง โดยใช้ระเบียบวิธีวิจัยเชิงคุณภาพ เก็บและรวบรวมข้อมูลจากการศึกษาค้นคว้าทางเอกสาร การสัมภาษณ์ผู้เกี่ยวข้อง ผู้ทรงคุณวุฒิ และการเก็บข้อมูลภาคสนาม ผลการวิจัยพบว่า เกาะสีชังมีความน่าสนใจทั้งด้านประวัติความเป็นมาจากการเป็นสถานที่จอดพักเรือสินค้าเพื่อหลบลมพายุ ต่อมาใช้เป็นสถานที่ประทับตากอากาศของพระมหากษัตริย์และชนชั้นสูง เป็นเกาะเดียวในประเทศไทยที่มีพระราชวังตั้งอยู่ ปัจจุบันเกาะสีชังเป็นแหล่งท่องเที่ยวที่มีชื่อเสียงของภาคตะวันออก พัฒนาการดังกล่าวจึงเป็นแรงบันดาลใจให้ผู้วิจัยสร้างสรรค์ผลงานในลักษณะของเพลงตับประเภทตับเรื่อง เพื่อบอกเล่าเรื่องราว ความเป็นมาและความน่าสนใจของเกาะสีชัง ผ่านบทเพลงที่สร้างสรรค์ขึ้นใหม่ในลักษณะกลอนสุภาพ ตามหลักการประพันธ์เพลงในลักษณะบันดาลรังสฤษฏ์ ของรองศาสตราจารย์พิชิต ชัยเสรี และแนวคิดการประพันธ์เพลงของรองศาสตราจารย์ปกรณ์ รอดช้างเผื่อน โดยนำคำขวัญของเกาะสีชังมาสร้างสรรค์บทร้องเพลงคำขวัญเกาะสีชัง และนำเรื่องราวเกี่ยวกับเกาะสีชังมาสร้างสรรค์บทร้องและทำนองเพลง ได้แก่ เพลงปฐมลิขิต บอกเล่าถึงที่มาของชื่อเกาะสีชัง เพลงศักดิ์สิทธิ์สีชัง บอกเล่าเรื่องราวเกี่ยวกับสิ่งศักดิ์สิทธิ์ที่ชาวเกาะสีชังนับถือ เพลงสรณังราชฐาน บอกเล่าประวัติและความสำคัญของพระราชวังจุฑาธุชราชฐาน และสร้างสรรค์เพลงสุขสนานชาวเกาะ และเพลงแสนเสนาะสีชล เพื่อบอกเล่าความเปลี่ยนแปลงของชุมชนเกาะสีชังสู่แหล่งท่องเที่ยวที่สำคัญ ทั้งนี้ เพลงที่สร้างสรรค์ทั้งหมด ใช้บันไดเสียงเพียงออล่าง และใช้กลุ่มเสียงปัญจมูล ซลท x รม x มากที่สุด อีกทั้งผู้วิจัยใช้สำเนียงจีนในเพลงศักดิ์สิทธิ์สีชัง และใช้สำเนียงลาว สำเนียงจีน และสำเนียงฝรั่ง ในเพลงสุขสนานชาวเกาะ เพื่อสะท้อนว่าเกาะสีชังเป็นที่พักอาศัยและเป็นแหล่งท่องเที่ยวของคนหลากหลายเชื้อชาติ นอกจากนั้น ผู้วิจัยยังได้สร้างสรรค์ทำนองเพลงแสนเสนาะสีชลตามแนวรำวงประยุกต์แบบชาวบ้าน เพื่อสื่อถึงความสนุกสนานเชิญชวนไปท่องเที่ยวที่เกาะสีชัง

This Month, Jennifer N. Figueroa

Theses and Dissertations

This Month is a series of collages that depict police violence at civil rights and Black Lives Matter protests. By pairing events from 1964 to contemporary protests that occurred in the same month, the collection draws a connection between the past and present.

Beyond The Crimson Door, Erik J. Medina

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

An alcoholic father is forced to raise his daughter after the death of his wife. He has been trying to get better with the help of his doctor, but things only seem to get worse when the nightmares he's been having slowly start to merge with his reality. Not knowing what is real and fake, his world is turned upside down when the nightmares begin to threaten his daughter.

Drama Applied To Content-Based Instruction In Elementary Education, A. Rocio Muhs

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Growing public interest in bilingual education has prompted many school districts to offer dual language models. Unaddressed challenges inherent in dual language immersion programs can compromise the quality of implementation, thus affecting student achievement and ultimately program sustainability. This study investigates how the integration of dramatic arts into core subject instruction in Spanish improves student learning and motivation among first grade second-language learners. Based on the existing challenges confronting a Dual Language Immersion Program in Western Montana, this study asks: What is the relationship between students’ attitudes about learning in a second language and the teacher’s pedagogical practices? In this …

"A Performing Artist's Journey...Begins" (Senior Showcase), Jennifer Boswell

Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects

As a Theatre major, my sponsor and I decided that my Honors Research Project would be a one-person, twenty-minute performance. Originally, this showcase was going to be a live theatre event. Due to coronavirus and social distancing, I had to adjust and adapt as I transformed my piece into a virtual performance.

In choosing the content that would be performed, I carefully selected pieces that represented my journey as a performing artist the past four years. I wanted to showcase my growth and range as a performer. I chose one monologue from each of the six MainStage Theatre productions I …

The Ultimate In Air, Mary Ann Caws

Publications and Research

Air filling something that is then sent away, into the air or, perhaps, beyond. Starting with Chardin's "Air Bubbles" I take up some of Joseph Cornell's Bubble sets, and then Marcel Duchlamp's Air de Paris, ending with the present, in these pandemic times, Air de New York.

Memory Bread, Nisiqi

Art + Design Masters Theses

Memory Bread, constituting a daily performance ritual and the post-action objects, seeks to address the generational decline of mother language use in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, a post-colonized province of China. I chose to eat sliced white bread in the performance and later casted concrete sculptures as the extension of the action for both substances’ capitalistic nature. Being an invasive material that took over the traditional architectural lifestyle, the use of concrete mirrors the pervasive cultural and ethnic assimilation in China. Meanwhile, the materiality of concrete being a mixture of various substances also metaphors the mixed culture that Chinese-Mongolians …

Untitled, Unknown

Morehead State University Art Collection

An untitled, undated stone sculpture that stands outside ADUC by an unknown artist.

Untitled, Unknown

Morehead State University Art Collection

An untitled, undated piece of a paratrooper jumping from a plane done by an unknown artist

Visual Diary As A Tool For Idea Generation For Graphic Design Study Program, Fei Chin Jacqueline Sim

Student Works (2020-2029)

This research is to explore visual diary as a tool that allows students to express their multiple creative views and their abilities in generating ideas. This tool has been integrated as part of the selected students’ assignments and projects as a practice in the creative arts education. Many of them were taught to sketch, doodle and experiment in different drawing techniques. Nonetheless, many of them are facing the problem of lack of knowledge and understanding in the ideation process. The quantitative research design and procedures were employed in this study. A total of 35 visual diaries were selected, one each …