Cuentos De Barro,
2025
CUNY Hunter College
Cuentos De Barro, Daniel Anthony Vasquez
Theses and Dissertations
Cuentos de Barros addresses the complexities of creating art and processing indigenous heritage and personal history as a Salvadoran immigrant within a neo-colonial society. Centering ritual, care, and healing, the artist imbues sculptures with tenderness using abstract forms and the tactile manipulation of unfired clay and graphite.
Woe Be Gone,
2025
CUNY Hunter College
Woe Be Gone, Yuhan Hu
Theses and Dissertations
In Woe be gone, Yuhan Hu explores the porous boundaries between image, memory, perception, and material through a deeply personal and reflective multimedia practice. Drawing on influences from film, literature, and game environments, Yuhan investigates how moments—fleeting or fixed—transform when mediated through photography, digital frames, and sculptural assemblage. Anchored by a series of installations and image-based works, the thesis unpacks the poetics of poor images, the failures and promises of translation, and the emotional residue of digital and physical touch. With a tactile sensitivity to materials like wood, wax, solder, and horsehair, Yuhan contemplates impermanence, miscommunication, and care, embracing …
How Much Touch Can The Paper Withstand?,
2025
CUNY Hunter College
How Much Touch Can The Paper Withstand?, Aldrin Regina Valdez
Theses and Dissertations
Between embodiment and disembodiment, Aldrin Regina Valdez’s works on paper map histories of care, violence, and mourning, both personal and collective. They ask: how much touch can the paper withstand?
Indeed, In A Way, It's Worse.,
2025
CUNY Hunter College
Indeed, In A Way, It's Worse., Jani C. Zubkovs
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis investigates walking as both method and metaphor within an artistic practice grounded in photography. Through walking, I engage in a sustained act of seeing — one that resists the speed and consumption-driven logic of late capitalism and opens space for reflection, slowness, and heightened perception. My photographic work focuses on fragments of the built environment, particularly advertisements, signage, and residual human marks, reframing them through strategies of cropping, isolation, and recontextualization. These images question the distinction between original and reproduction, presence and absence, surface and depth. Drawing on thinkers such as Jonathan Crary, Luigi Ghirri, Siegfried Kracauer, and …
Studies About The World, And The Magical Principles Of Our Destructive Dynamics,
2025
CUNY Hunter College
Studies About The World, And The Magical Principles Of Our Destructive Dynamics, Vanessa Georjana Sandoval Cuadrado
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis paper arises from an interest in how realities are fictional constructions. In it, I am exploring and questioning the separation between nature and culture, and how bodies are expressions of ecological relations. In this sense, I conceived the end of this world (the main subject of this paper) as an opening to the possibility of other worlds emerging.
Card Tables Are A Dime A Dozen, Art Is Rare,
2025
CUNY Hunter College
Card Tables Are A Dime A Dozen, Art Is Rare, Shannon Pritchard
Theses and Dissertations
In this text, through the categories of truth and mimicry, discomfort, repetition, and bureaucracy, Shannon Pritchard dissects her studio practice. With a dedication to high craft, she investigates the world through the lens of the Freudian Uncanny, linking eerie subject matter to conspiracy mindset, mid-century politics, and personal relationships.
Displaced Nostalgia,
2025
CUNY Hunter College
Displaced Nostalgia, Nava Derakhshani
Theses and Dissertations
Exploring themes of identity, displacement, gender, and belonging, this paper examines the artist's work and her approach to her art. She covers the many influences that she has access to while unable to visit her ancestral homelands. Acknowledging the translation that comes from this removal, her art is in conversation with other diasporic, exiled, marginalised groups. She makes art with various materials such as clay, shadow, light, and paint, to work on the themes that she is pursuing.
Paintings And Paintings,
2025
CUNY Hunter College
Paintings And Paintings, Anna T. Gregor
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis argues for a renewed distinction between mere paintings and capital-P Paintings, contending that meaning arises through sustained, reciprocal engagement between viewer and artwork. Amid "postmodern" disorientation, it proposes a reorientation toward individual works as sites of immanent logic and shared perception, rather than relying on external narratives or historical clichés.
The Function Of Art,
2025
CUNY Hunter College
The Function Of Art, Magdalen O. M. Pickering
Theses and Dissertations
With the help of machines and the powers of perception, Magdalen Pickering introduces logic to strange and fantastical subjects. The Function of Art explores a hybrid of techniques in painting, screenprinting, and computer generated imagery as Magdalen attempts to use generative printing to obscure art historical consciousness. The installation crosses into virtual reality; reframing textiles, landscapes, and the gallery space through a metaphysical lens.
E Is For Ephemera,
2025
CUNY Hunter College
E Is For Ephemera, E Rady
Theses and Dissertations
E is for Ephemera contends with an artist's role as a performer - traversing questions of identity, documentation, temporality, authority, power relations and implication of the self in response to systemic forces. Here, performances are treated as zones in which simulated scenarios sometimes offer various potential opportunities to resolve.
Folds,
2025
CUNY Hunter College
Folds, Bayan Abukiwan
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis uses the fold as an orienting metaphor and material gesture to linger on the minor details of intimacy that are severed by occupation and political violence. Through painting, drawing and ceramics, the work traces the more implicit modes of dehumanization—particularly in relation to Palestine—while engaging the domestic as a site of quiet and complexity. Influenced by artists like Jennifer Packer and Beatriz González, the practice embraces slowness, touch, and opacity to fold the viewer into a haptic encounter with the work.
The Logic Of Car Accidents And Other Digestive Processes,
2025
CUNY Hunter College
The Logic Of Car Accidents And Other Digestive Processes, Rosalie G.L. Smith
Theses and Dissertations
In this essay the author explores the artistic process via an analogy with digestion. The author goes on to explain their work via components of their practice, described as organs.
The Spirit Of Things Sometimes Or Shrew Gazing,
2025
CUNY Hunter College
The Spirit Of Things Sometimes Or Shrew Gazing, Mariel Rolwing Montes
Theses and Dissertations
Mariel Rolwing Montes’ paintings are viewed as though through a portal. Photography and collected objects are negotiated on the canvas through a collage logic, allowing for distortion through memory. In The Spirit of Things Sometimes or Shrew Gazing, Rolwing Montes contextualizes her work around references related to history, imagination, and mysticism.
Inherited Fervor: Maternal Archive,
2025
CUNY Hunter College
Inherited Fervor: Maternal Archive, Maria Angela Talavera Tejeda
Theses and Dissertations
Inherited Fervor: Maternal Archive investigates the deconstruction of the non-verbal language of Catholic ecstasy rituals to develop a choreographic language. Through the piece Doves Don’t Fly at Night, it explores the expansion of dancers’ physical range, positioning the body as an archive that embodies memories and mirrors the audience’s humanity.
Aquí Y Ahora A Dance Tribute To Gustavo Cerati And The Expression Of Hispanic Immigrant Identity In New York City,
2025
CUNY Hunter College
Aquí Y Ahora A Dance Tribute To Gustavo Cerati And The Expression Of Hispanic Immigrant Identity In New York City, Karina Terán
Theses and Dissertations
This Thesis explores how dance serves as a language of cultural identity among Hispanic immigrants in New York City. Through a multidisciplinary performance and research, it reflects lived experiences, blending movement and music to celebrate legacy, resilience, and community, while honoring the influence of Argentine rock icon Gustavo Cerati.
Piecemeal,
2025
CUNY Hunter College
Piecemeal, Max J. Eisenberg
Theses and Dissertations
Exploring the history of photographic manipulation both inside and outside of the camera from the late 19th century until today. My work plucks out cultural and local signifiers from the state of Florida, and the American South as a whole, and disseminates them using a constructed symbolic vernacular in the form of in-camera collaging on large format film.
All You Can Eat,
2025
CUNY Hunter College
All You Can Eat, Kelly Schiesswohl
Theses and Dissertations
All You Can Eat is a 2D-animated horror short following the patrons and inhabitants of a bakery as they prepare for its annual pie-eating contest. As the contest nears, tensions rise after the discovery of a dark secret amongst the staff inspires rebellion. Through the visual metaphor of pie and the pie-eating contest, this film explores how sexual violence functions on a systemic level. It explores our collective conditioning to a range of behaviors that contribute to patriarchal oppression and the social cycles that reinforce them across generations. Through design and surreal storytelling, this film captures the urgent threat of …
Found Words, Lost Homes: Immigration And The Language Of Identity,
2025
CUNY Hunter College
Found Words, Lost Homes: Immigration And The Language Of Identity, Ali Motamedi
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis explores the relationship between personal experience and public space through a body of work that moves between image, text, and material. Rooted in an intimate perspective and extending into streets, landscapes, and communal environments, the practice examines how nomadism—both physical and conceptual—shapes ways of seeing and making. Drawing from my background in engineering, a deep connection to Farsi literature, and the lived experience of immigration, the work reflects on themes of displacement, belonging, and identity.
The Importance Of Being Earnest: A Costume Designer’S Process,
2025
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
The Importance Of Being Earnest: A Costume Designer’S Process, James Hunter Rock
Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film: Theses, Student Research, and Creative Work
This thesis is a comprehensive breakdown of the costume design process for Nebraska Repertory Theatre’s production of The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde during the fall semester of 2024. The author logs the production’s processes in collaborating on the concept and aesthetic of the play to present the Victorian era story for a modern audience. In this thesis, insights into the costume designer’s conceptualization, research, previsualization, and final design process are explored, providing an in-depth look into the creation of characters that remain true to the director’s original vision while being engaging for contemporary theatre. The various challenges …
Trouble Don't Last Always,
2025
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Trouble Don't Last Always, Carletta Williams
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Being born and raised in the South, it has become clear to me that acts of adornment and cultural representations of home are a prevalent factor of the Southern archive. Trouble don’t last always considers the various elements of coloniality that saturate function within the Southern Black home, noting that acts of adornment and cultural representations of home are a prevalent factor of the Southern archive. Enumerating the various roles that Black women play as place makers while also navigating elements of coloniality. In turn these spaces do not function without their knowledge production. This knowledge is one that becomes …
