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Marshall University Music Department Presents The Marshall University Symphony Orchestra In What's Missing?, Elizabeth Reed Smith

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Marshall University Music Department Presents A Senior Recital, Josh Corder, Saxophone, Josh Corder

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Marshall University Music Department Presents A Senior Recital, Jason Arnoldt, Saxophone, Jason Arnoldt

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Art And Symbolism: The Technique Of Applying Hidden Meaning And Communicating Specific Ideas Through Art, Andrea C. Macbean

Senior Honors Theses

Symbolism is an artistic style frequently used in the arts. Through the course of art history, it was its own artistic movement as well. The incorporation of specific symbols, shapes, colors, or identifiable images communicates to the viewer an intended message or statement. Frequently, symbolism appears to be hidden or initially unperceived by the intended audience. In some works, symbolism is so abstract that it needs explanation or clarification to be understood completely by the viewer. This thesis will analyze a few techniques of symbolism that can be incorporated in a work of art to communicate truth, entice thought, point …

Marshall University Music Department Presents A Piano Guest Artist Recital With Dr. Arunesh Nadgir, Arunesh Nadgir

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Folk/Traditional Music Of West Virginia Arranged For Classical Guitar Ensemble, Júlio Ribeiro Alves

Music Faculty Research

My motivation for writing this book grew from my desire to better understand the people and the music heritage of West Virginia and to share the findings of my experience, with the guitar community, in the form of guitar ensemble arrangements.

Untitled Narratives, Aubree Ross

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Untitled Narratives is a photographic series about changing emotional states, and an evolving identity. The photographs represent a transformation between the confined and the free. The elements I use to portray the movement an individual makes between identities are a combination of a character and an environment. My photographs are driven by personal experiences and show recovery and openness. The character in the series is a representation of myself. The Character symbolizes emotional personas indicating past and present events, which shape the individual I am. I use the character as a representation of the hope and need for change. I …

Kitsune #2, Jodi Bentivegna

Gandy Dancer Archives

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Pre, Timothy Alden Burger

Gandy Dancer Archives

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Ponte Vecchio, Lexi Hannah

Gandy Dancer Archives

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The Process Of Passage, David Gerhard

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My art navigates the fragmented religious traditions of my childhood in an attempt to clarify my thoughts and feelings about which spiritual beliefs and practices I want to teach my children. This navigation is represented across art media through portraits of my family and myself. As I was raised in a multicultural family that combined aspects of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, and Judaism, a complex navigation occurs within me to find meaning in existence amidst disparate traditions, cultures, and beliefs. For my thesis show, I adapted existing fragments and frameworks from these varied beliefs and cultural traditions into a collage of …

Cultural Convergences, David Armistead

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As far back as I can remember my family has had two primary outlets in regards to entertainment; going to museum exhibitions and attending or watching football games. My parents have been members of the High Museum in Atlanta for years while simultaneously having season tickets to Georgia Tech football. My current series of paintings, drawings, prints and videos examine the cultural significance of sports in American society; specifically American football. As a "big guy" who was raised in the south, it is often assumed that I played football at some point in my life. Admittedly, I feed this stereotype …

Remembering And The Everyday: The Fleeting, Fragmented, And Sensual, Alyssa Prince

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Our memories are malleable. There is no identifiable truth; we consistently change them based on our present state of being. Nevertheless, our memories influence us greatly. My paintings engage this topic of the remembering process and display the active, reconstructive nature of how we remember. This idea is approached through making paintings that engage my own involuntary memories that are inevitably impossible to grasp. The resulting paintings explore issues pertaining to the remembering process, partiality, and the inaccuracies of representation. In this thesis, I discuss the importance of the reconstructed, provisional image, the fluctuating nature of our memories, an interaction …

Cybersociology A To Z, Katherine Butler

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My prints explore the prevalence of the Internet in contemporary culture and how online communication has affected maturation and an individual's growing perception and representation of self. By combining commonly used Internet jargon and a traditional alphabet flashcard motif, I have created an Alphabet Series that allows me to draw comparison between online and offline spaces, as well as to describe the way in which the Internet as a social tool has changed communication mutually across the digital and actual realms. Using the most popular social media websites for North American adolescents as a reference, I have explored the way …

Ordinary Effort, John Mcmahon

Boise State University Theses and Dissertations

The thesis is primarily concerned with how the search for knowledge is driven by a quest for certainty, resulting in a compulsion to fix knowledge in explicit rules and procedures. Rather than producing a satisfactory sense of stability, this produces comedy and tragedy as human endeavors play out against a backdrop of arbitrary structure.

Three videos explore this problem through the lens of professional sport, where the quest for certainty is evaluated against the application of rules, against rules governing the action of the body, and against the attempt to circumvent the rules. Theoretical background is provided by examining the …

Marshall University Music Department Presents A Senior Recital, Tyler Davis, Tuba, Tyler Davis

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Art In The Library: From Our Walls To A Monitor Near You, Courtenay Mcleland

Library Faculty Presentations & Publications

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Marshall University Music Department Presents A Jazz Ensemble Ii, Mr. Jeffrey Wolfe, Director, Jeff Wolfe

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Marshall University Music Department Presents A Senior Recital, Michael Rose, Tenor, Michael Rose

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Marshall University Music Department Presents A Woodwind Ensembles Recital, Wendell B. Dobbs, Ann Bingham, Ed Bingham, Kay Lawson, Richard Kravchak, Donald Williams

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