University of Mississippi
Western Kentucky University
Liberty University
Cal Poly Humboldt
Chapman University
Northwestern University
Kazerne Dossin: Memorial, Museum and Research Center
University of Southern Mississippi
Making Then Meaning,
2023
Rhode Island School of Design
Making Then Meaning, Ben Denzer
Masters Theses
This is an artist talk contained within a book. It is 816 pages and 49 minutes long. Closed captions run across the spreads. A video of this talk can be watched on bendenzer.com/making-then-meaning
At RISD, I’ve been prompted to expand the scope and tools of my practice and to reflect on questions of meaning in my work.
I spend my days making things, but I’ve never really had good answers to questions of why I make the things I make, or what their meaning is. I don’t think there are simple answers to these questions.
I think meaning comes from …
The Benefits Of Asynchronous Friendship,
2023
Mississippi University for Women
The Benefits Of Asynchronous Friendship, Sarah Shotts
Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture
No abstract provided.
Creating Commons: Photovoice Philosophy In A Third Space,
2023
University of Toledo
Creating Commons: Photovoice Philosophy In A Third Space, Jason M. Cox, Lynne Hamer
Journal of Social Theory in Art Education
Teach Toledo is a program that the authors co-coordinate using community assets to create a third space to confront systemic racism’s impact on teacher education programs and facilitate hybridity (Bhaba, 1994). Diverse student cohort members use their lived experience as the base for their individual and shared urban educational philosophies, coordinated in a first-year horizontally and vertically integrated curriculum including written compositions and a PhotoVoice project. “Creating commons” refers not only to provision of a third space as a common space where private experiences can be combined to create a hybrid, new understanding, but also to the creative act of …
Eco-Interoception: What Plants, Fungi And Protista Have Taught My Body,
2023
Southern Methodist University
Eco-Interoception: What Plants, Fungi And Protista Have Taught My Body, Sara Riley Dotterer
Art Theses and Dissertations
To me, ecology is the relational, full-body awareness that I am made up of and deeply connected to everything around me; and for better or worse, this is reciprocal. I form ecotones, an ecological transitional zone between two ecosystems, with the world around me. I use this ecotonal lens to blur binaries and dissolve boundaries between me and the world “outside my body.” During my Masters of Fine Arts at Southern Methodist University, I have continuously explored and represented the lives of various more-than-human species outside of my body, including plants, fungi and protista through an ecotonal lens. Although these …
Morning Drizzle,
2023
University of North Dakota
June Blooms,
2023
University of North Dakota
Time Piece,
2023
University of North Dakota
Sunset In The Sky,
2023
University of North Dakota
Prairie Breeze,
2023
University of North Dakota
Lime Kiln Lighthouse,
2023
University of North Dakota
Moulton Falls Bridge,
2023
University of North Dakota
Feels Like Home,
2023
University of North Dakota
White,
2023
University of North Dakota
Smoke,
2023
University of North Dakota
Plastic,
2023
University of North Dakota
Sunflower Basking In The Sun,
2023
University of North Dakota
Sunflower Basking In The Sun, Shelamar Henderson
Floodwall Magazine
No abstract provided.
Bath,
2023
University of North Dakota
Schoolhouse On The Prairie,
2023
University of North Dakota
Schoolhouse On The Prairie, Shelamar Henderson
Floodwall Magazine
No abstract provided.
The Voice Of One Crying In The Wilderness,
2023
Washington University in St. Louis
The Voice Of One Crying In The Wilderness, Megan Kenyon
MFA in Visual Art
I am a Midwestern, Christian, and feminist artist. I make work about the beautiful, broken, and absurd ways in which American evangelical culture influences lives, especially women’s lives. I’m dragging everything into the light by deconstructing and critiquing the world in which I live, move, and have my being. I do this by harnessing prophetic imagination and incarnational space to shine a light on how patriarchy infects evangelical Christian theology and practice. Using prophetic imagination through photographic self-portraiture and text (my own and found texts using the Bible), I seek to make plain the effects of white, Christian patriarchy on …
Lost In The Sun,
2023
University of North Dakota
