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The Blue Horizon, Shir Bassa
The Blue Horizon, Shir Bassa
Art and Design Theses
Unlike American Jews, I don't let religion define me. Unlike Israeli Jews, I don't believe I should do anything for a land. This exhibition explores the viewpoint of an appropriating parasite in search of a welcoming host. This exhibition will lead viewers through the myriad roles an artist can assume for herself. The use of repetitions and instructions are essential to my artistic practice and allows me to challenge and define my own belief systems for both oppression and liberation. The Blue Horizon is an exhibition made of printmaking, video and textile.
Dysfunctional, Gina R. Thompson
Dysfunctional, Gina R. Thompson
Art and Design Theses
Dysfunctional examines the relationships and experiences that contribute to my art. I grew up in an unsafe environment, with dysfunctional people. This work serves as a peek inside some of those emotions and explores issues of codependence and abusive family systems that suffer but endure. There is no victim in this story only a strong survivor who wants to cultivate awareness through her work. I have revisited this subject as a way to overcome shame. By being vulnerable and sharing my experiences I am able to heal.
Where Do We Go From Here?, James M. O'Donnell
Where Do We Go From Here?, James M. O'Donnell
Art and Design Theses
Where do we go from here? is a video installation by Atlanta-based artist James O’Donnell that attempts to provoke others into similar contemplation of that existential question through an immersive video and audio installation exploring the self through references to the internal and external; past and future; and connection and disconnection.
Glory Be Revival Of Neighborly Love, Calvin Burgamy
Glory Be Revival Of Neighborly Love, Calvin Burgamy
Art and Design Theses
This project is a video installation that includes filming the worship services of three small African American churches that exist within an area of rapid gentrification. Perhaps because of their tiny congregations, or racial makeup, these particular little churches seem hidden by a cloak of invisibility.
Subject To Change, Christina Price Washington
Subject To Change, Christina Price Washington
Art and Design Theses
Subject to Change is the culmination of a two-year investigation of the idea of home. This thesis discusses the journey of creating a home for my family and the work it spawned. Various cultural and artistic influences that shape the work include Grimm’s fairytales, my upbringing in Germany, Sigmund Freud, Bernd and Hilla Becher, and Josef Beuys. This work reflects a situation and transforms material that takes on symbolic meaning.
Looking Back: An Examination Of Family Archives, James E. Bentley Iii
Looking Back: An Examination Of Family Archives, James E. Bentley Iii
Art and Design Theses
With digital technology now dominating the film and photography industry, analog resources are becoming scarce. Simultaneously, memories preserved through personal family archives also are in danger of deterioration. Time, heat and humidity can cause film to decay just as the passage of time and the erosion of memory allows their contents to fade. In Looking Back, my family film and photography archives are exhumed and collectively examined by myself and my family. Reflecting upon this massive accumulation of imagery and their attached memories seems an endless task. However, as expressed in Looking Back, the greater the effort to …
Between You And Me, Thomas Micah Stansell
Between You And Me, Thomas Micah Stansell
Art and Design Theses
In an increasingly online world interpersonal interactions become a less integral part of our cultural make-up. The exploration of this phenomenon is the thematic concept that activates Between You and Me - a triptych-split-screen short film and video installation. This text is dedicated to exploring how theme, technique, and theory are considered in the context of the film, and how character and form (more than narrative) illuminate the thematic concept.
Not Directly Evident, James Thomas Kennedy
Not Directly Evident, James Thomas Kennedy
Art and Design Theses
This thesis paper gives the reader the opportunity to glimpse the dramatic artistic changes that took place in my work. It will provide insights into my development as an artist and my experiences in graduate school. I will share how the process of making art became my main interest and how art changed me spiritually, mentally, physically, and personally.