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Whitework: The Cloth And Call To Action, Sonja Dahl

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

In the newly independent colonies of the American Northeast, styles of white-on-white quilting and embroidery became popular among women coming of age. Considered the epitome of their needleworking skills, whitework required patience, time, focus, precision, and a steady hand. Such detailed stitchwork on pure white cotton-then a booming industry in the American South-prepared these young women to make homes that were meaningful, full of symbolism and care. Drawing analogy between these historic textiles and current movements for decolonization and anti-racism, this talk expands the term Whitework to function as a call to action, for both myself and other white-identified scholars …

The Techniques Of Samitum. Based On A Reconstruction Of A Silk From The Oseberg Burial, Åse Eriksen

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

A collection of samitum was found in the Norwegian Viking burial Osebert (834 CE) in 2014. I got the opportunity to study some of the fragments and could reconstruct a nearly full pattern unit from six narrow bands, once cut from the same fabric. I wove a small piece of this fabric in my ordinary flatloom, using both modern dyestuff and fabric spun silk material. Fragments found in Egypt from 400 AD show that both tapestry and taquete were woven in the same fabric. When searching for the loom used for the original samitum fabric, I made a vertical warp …

Indian Basketry In Yosemite Valley, 19th-20th Century: Gertrude “Cosie” Hutchings Mills, Tourists And The National Park Service, Catherine K. Hunter

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Basketry is the highest art form of Native Americans in California. I will focus on Yosemite Valley starting in the 1850s when Native Americans adapted progressively to contact with miners, settlers, and tourists. As a Research Associate at the Peabody Museum, Andover, Massachusetts, I inventoried the Native American Basket Collection. The unpublished Hutchings Mills Collection, acquired by Gertrude ‘Cosie’ Hutchings in Yosemite prior to 1900, caught my attention. In 1986, the Department of the Interior requested the collection be loaned, exchanged, or purchased as “the single most important assemblage from that period.” The collection did not leave Andover; however, one …

Shepherds And Shawls: Making Place In The Western Himalayas, Jennifer Hoover

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Cars weave through the flocks of the Gaddi shepherds as they travel from the plains to high altitude deserts, winding along roads lined with shops selling Kullu shawls. In these ways and more, textiles are the face of the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. Yet dominant discourses position both the shepherds and weavers of the region as the last hold-outs of endangered traditions. These discourses continue colonial-era assumptions of rural artisans as “primitives” in need of either protection from encroaching industrialization or motivation to modernize. Academic writings, popular visual representations, and government policies also reinforce monolithic identities of herders …

Threads, Twist And Fibre: Looking At Coast Salish Textiles, Liz Hammond-Kaarremaa

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Coast Salish textiles are: remarkable for their quality; unusual in the fibres used; notable in their designs; singular in the innovative processes used to manufacture them. Salish textiles were determined by geography, shaped by trade, and influenced by colonization. That the textile tradition has survived is a reflection of the prestige they hold and the importance of the textiles in the Coast Salish culture. Relatively unknown and underappreciated, the older textiles deserve to be looked at with fresh eyes and modern methods that bring to light the outstanding abilities of the Coast Salish women in the creation of these important …

Ancient, Indigenous And Iconic Textile Motifs In Contemporary Fashion Case Study: Defining Concepts Through Textile Designs: Appropriation, Collaboration, Provenance And Identity, Kristin Scheel Lunde

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

This paper investigates the material and visual characteristics of certain ancient and historical textile motifs with roots in Chinese and African culture, and their sudden appearance in new geographical and cultural context. Appropriated into western contemporary textile and fashion trends, this paper examines the new roles of these designs in context of foreigness, identity, and hybridity. Their consumption and reception both within and beyond their original cultures is a central theme, and it is evident that their reception in both locations, although different, exhibits some similarities. Exploring the transcultural consumption and reception that occurs in various cultural locations this paper …

Zero Textbook Cost Syllabus For Art 1011 (Art History Survey I), Janine Defeo

Open Educational Resources

This introductory course presents a global view of art history through slide lectures and museum visits, with an emphasis on works of art found in New York City museums. It selectively surveys the visual arts of Europe from prehistory through the Middle Ages and concurrent historical periods in Egypt, the Near East, the Islamic world, Asia, Africa and the Americas.

Nd’Awakananawal Babijigwezijik Wd’Elasawawôganôl: “We Wear The Clothing Of Our Ancestors”, Vera Longtoe Sheehan

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

When thinking of Native American people, a typical image is of tanned people with long dark hair wearing leather and furs in the distant past, but that is not an accurate depiction of the Abenaki people or their textiles. As an Abenaki scholar, artist, and educator, my research into the textile traditions of the Abenaki people includes archaeological evidence, primary resources, and oral history interviews. Abenakis themselves have different ideas of what it traditional because textile and fiber arts evolved over many millennia throughout N’dakinna, the Abenaki homeland which once encompassed Vermont, New Hampshire, northern Massachusetts, and parts of New …

Manipulating The Threads Of Culture: Contemporary Shibori Artist Yvonne Wakabayashi, Eileen Wheeler

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Deeply anchored in her practice of shaping and manipulating fibre are both the aesthetic integral to Yvonne Wakabayashi’s Japanese heritage and the inspiration of the natural environment she finds along the shores of her own birth place, Canada’s west coast. Wakabayashi’s journey to find her authentic voice in her varied textile works, engaged both historical craft practices of Japan and printmaking processes of the West. Most importantly, it led to the discovery of shibori with its ancestral links and innovative contemporary possibilities. This paper explores how an individual artist embraces her artistic cultural identity that also negotiates the upheaval wrought …

การออกแบบระบบอัตลักษณ์สำหรับการท่องเที่ยวเชิงวัฒนธรรมด้านอาหาร, กฤตวิทย์ กฤตมโนรถ

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

งานวิจัยนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์ 1) เพื่อหาอาหารที่แสดงถึงอัตลักษณ์ทางวัฒนธรรมของ 4 ภูมิภาค ได้แก่ อาหารภาคเหนือ อาหารภาคกลาง อาหารภาคตะวันออกเฉียงเหนือ และอาหารภาคใต้ 2) เพื่อหาสัญลักษณ์ ตัวอักษร อารมณ์และสี ที่เหมาะสมกับอัตลักษณ์อาหาร 4 ภูมิภาค 3) เพื่อหาสัญลักษณ์ ตัวอักษร อารมณ์และสี ที่เหมาะสมกับอัตลักษณ์อาหารไทย ขั้นตอนและวิธีการวิจัย เก็บข้อมูลจากหนังสือ และบทความต่าง ๆ เพื่อสร้างแบบสอบถามสำหรับคนท้องถิ่น 200 ท่านและผู้เชี่ยวชาญด้านอาหาร 3 ท่านด้วยเทคนิคเดลฟาย เพื่อให้ได้คำตอบตามวัตถุประสงค์ข้อ 1 แบบสอบถามได้ผ่านการตรวจสอบความเที่ยงตรงเชิงเนื้อหา มีค่าดัชนีความเที่ยงที่ 0.9921 หลังจากนั้นสร้างแบบสอบถามสำหรับผู้เชี่ยวชาญด้านเรขศิลป์ 34 ท่านด้วยเทคนิคเดลฟาย เพื่อให้ได้คำตอบตามวัตถุประสงค์ข้อ 2 และ 3 แบบสอบถามได้ผ่านการตรวจสอบความเที่ยงตรงเชิงเนื้อหา มีค่าดัชนีความเที่ยงที่ 1.0000 ผลการวิจัยพบว่า อาหารที่แสดงถึงอัตลักษณ์ทางวัฒนธรรมของภาคเหนือ ได้แก่ แกงฮังเล น้ำพริกอ่อง ไส้อั่ว ขนมจีนน้ำเงี้ยว ข้าวซอย น้ำพริกหนุ่ม อาหารที่แสดงถึงอัตลักษณ์ทางวัฒนธรรมของของภาคกลาง ได้แก่ แกงเขียวหวาน ต้มยำกุ้ง ห่อหมกปลา แกงเผ็ด พะแนง แกงส้ม อาหารที่แสดงถึงอัตลักษณ์ทางวัฒนธรรมของของภาคตะวันออกเฉียงเหนือ ได้แก่ ไส้กรอกอีสาน ส้มตำ ลาบ น้ำพริกปลาร้า ปลาร้าบอง อาหารที่แสดงถึงอัตลักษณ์ทางวัฒนธรรมของของภาคใต้ ได้แก่ แกงไตปลา ข้าวยำ แกงเหลือง คั่วกลิ้ง ปลาทอดขมิ้น บูดูทรงเครื่อง ไก่กอ ผัดสะตอ การออกแบบระบบอัตลักษณ์ที่เหมาะสมกับอัตลักษณ์อาหารภาคเหนือ สัญลักษณ์ ได้แก่ 1. แบบสมมาตรหลายแกน 2. แบบเปิด 3. แบบเส้นโค้ง 4. แบบไม่มีเส้นขวาง ตัวอักษรไทย ได้แก่ Handwriting และ Crossover ตัวอักษรอังกฤษ ได้แก่ Humanist และ …

Onlone 00:00, Junyun Chen

Theses and Dissertations

Being alone is not the only definition of loneliness. Loneliness can be felt even when surrounded by a lot of people, especially in the virtual online world. Our digital devices play an important role in connecting everyone together without the restriction of time and space. Communication became more and more convenient in this era. Mostly we are digitally connected, but sometimes, we are mentally disconnected. We are online and together in this virtual world, but loneliness is always a never ended situation that we are suffering from. As a visual communicator, My works focus on using performance as an approach …

Resilience, Glenda Militano

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

ABSTRACT

My objective for creating this body of work is to explore the complexity and beauty of the human brain. What inspired these works is my research on cognitive psychology and neuroscience. Cognitive psychology involves the study of internal mental processes, while neuroscience deals with nerves and nervous tissue that relate to behavior and learning. Neuroscience is where psychology meets biology. The series of paintings in Resilience, were created with the intent to connect these two fields of study, while charting my exploration and discoveries found linked with science and psychology. The brain and its components are portrayed in …

Escape From Wonderland - A Novel, Crystal Denise Pennymon

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

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Dinamita Rojas, Jorge C. Manzanilla

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

La trama gira alrededor del Dinamita Rojas un boxeador que es contratado para perder en las grandes ligas del pugilismo mexicano, su pelea más importante es contra el Púas Olivares y es ahí donde se decide a romper el trato y ganar. Un final sorpresivo para alguien que no conocía el sabor de la victoria.

El triunfo, se convierte en su mayor derrota puesto que el público y sus familiares tuvieron que vivir de burlas y falsas promesas. El alcohol y los vicios lo apartan un tiempo de los cuadriláteros, hasta que apareció otro reto y este era el Veneno …

In Media Res, Christopher Andrew Sisk

Theses and Dissertations

We are inundated by a constant feed of media that responds and adapts in real time to the impulses of our psyches and the dimensions of our devices. Beneath the surface, this stream of information is directed by hidden, automated controls and steered by political agendas. The transmission of information has evolved into a spiral of entropy, and the boundaries between author, content, platform, and receiver have blurred. This reductive space of responsive media is a catalyst for immense political and cultural change, causing us to question our notions of authority, truth, and reality.

Profile In Scale, Jason Boldt

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

I started gaining and interest in sculpture after seeing and learning about Frank Lloyd Wright and his use of natural materials integrated into planar and linear forms. I appreciate how he creates buildings such as Fallingwater, a home built for a family, where the structure is part of nature rather than intruding in on it.

The underlying feature between all of my work is the relationship between different forms that are integrated together. My sculptures include different media, such as wood, stone, metal, and found objects. My latest projects, however, include creating maquettes, which are miniaturized versions of larger objects. …

Augmentation Of Music, Kyle Lenzen

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

My main inspiration for my work is music. I convey the idea of music in a physical and conceptual way. The way I represent music in my work is through Collage, Silhouettes, and Abstract Shapes. The main elements that I use can be found in album art, musicians and musical notation. Music has been a huge influence on my life. I want to share that influence and bring people together through my work. Music creates connections with anybody and can bridge different cultures together.

One way to document music is using the staff. The basic staff uses five lines and …

A Comparison Of Traditional American, German And French Oboe Reeds, Nicole Evans

Undergraduate Theses, Professional Papers, and Capstone Artifacts

Abstract not available.

Taking In: A Selection Of La + D Photography 2018, La + D Students

Taking In

Taking In is a juried annual student-run publication that showcases the best of LA + D undergraduate photography and video. The project focuses on the business of promoting art and culminates each year with a juried exhibition, publication, and website all designed to promote selected works of AIB artists. The selected pieces were chosen anonymously by a jury of distinguished members of the Boston art community. The book in your hand is the end result of a collective effort by those in the class.

Syncretic Souvenirs: An Investigation Of Two Modern Indian Manuscripts, Madeline Helland

Scripps Senior Theses

The objective of this project was to establish a provenance for two Indian manuscripts that were recently discovered in the collections at Scripps College. Based on their illuminations, script, and binding structure, I was able to conclude that these two manuscripts are Hindu religious texts created around the 19^th or 20^th century. To determine an approximate origin and the significance of these volumes, my research focused on the syncretism of religion, material history, and power dynamics in India. Their context was specifically framed within the history of manuscript construction and conservation.