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Reclaiming Orvieto, Italy: Livio Orazio Valentini’S Pursuit Of A Spatial, Cultural, And Artistic Heritage, Jeremy Culler

Art Inquiries

No abstract provided.

Every Seed Counts, Lindsey Wasnak

Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects

Above all else, humans should understand the impact of the decisions they make, before they make them. In specific, the decisions that could harm the environment, whether that is on a large or small scale. Humans create an enormous amount of trash, and for this honors project a campaign was created that emphasizes the importance of being environmentally conscious with paper. Being environmentally conscious can be expressed in a multitude of ways, so the main focus of this project was to create plantable seed paper that people can use and then grow things with after they are finished. This project …

Jordan Nassar: The Field Is Infinite, Megan Bickel

Art Inquiries

No abstract provided.

Liminality Of Culture In Studio Art: A Biographical Investigation Of A Second Generation Filipino American Experience, Danielle Culibao Powell

Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020-2023

Danielle Culibao Powell manifests the disconnectedness of a second-generation immigrants' cultural disorientation into colorful collage paintings, reconciling cultural history with contemporary identity while building a connection between herself and her parents' homeland the Philippines. The evolution of Powell's studio art practice follows entering a transcultural marriage and researching the art created by the Filipino women artists before her. This thesis documents that evolution both visually and conceptually. It elaborates the history of both the cannons of Western Art and lesser-known Filipina art and expressed in art rooted in cultural plurality.

Typemaking, Rebekah Sorensen

Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects

The objective of this project is an exploration of typemaking—an analysis including the development of letterforms to the various methods in printing these forms, including the rich history behind these developments—which ultimately results in the form of communication known as graphic design. Research begins with the history of print processes and evolving typographic styles, providing a comprehensive understanding of how typography has been applied as a means of communication, and the benefits to society throughout time. The information is then applied through the digital design of letterpress type, followed by the physical production of these pieces using a range of …

For People And Planet: Teachers’ Evaluation Of An Educational Mobile Game And Resource Pack, Ma. Mercedes T. Rodrigo, Johanna Marion R. Torres, Janina Carla M. Castro, Abigail Marie T. Favis, Ingrid Yvonne Herras, Francesco U. Amante, Hakeem Jimenez, Juan Carlo F. Mallari, Kevin Arnel C. Mora, Walfrido David A. Diy, Jaclyn Ting Ting M. Lim, Ma. Assunta C. Cuyegkeng

Department of Information Systems & Computer Science Faculty Publications

For People and Planet: An SDG Adventure refers to a freely available Android-based narrative adventure game and teacher resource pack that helps learners see the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in their day-to-day lives. In this paper, we describe the results of an evaluation of both the game and the resource pack by eight (8) middle school teachers. After playing the game and reading the resource pack, teachers gave their feedback about what they liked best and least about the materials, how they could use these resources for their classes, and how these resources could be improved further. Overall, …

Enduring Covid-19 As Nyc Subway Riders, Ruben Cuevas

Theses and Dissertations

My thesis paper describes my master art project of paintings about the New York City Subway riders commuting routine prior and during the Coronavirus. As a regular subway rider myself I am closely connected with this particular art project because I witnessed the subway riders endure the most contagious viral pandemic of the 21st century. My thesis recounts how from a few sketches and photo shots of people in the subway this art project developed into a collection of paintings carefully completed on large linen canvas and acrylic medium. The initial set of my paintings narrate typical NYC subway rider …

Jazz Colors: Pigment Identification In The Gouaches Used By Henri Matisse, Ana Martins, Anne Catherine Prud’Hom, Maroussia Duranton, Abed Haddad, Celine Daher, Anne Genachte-Le Bail, Tiffany Tang

Publications and Research

Jazz, the illustrated book by Henri Matisse, is a testament to the vitality of the artist in the last decade of his career. The book consists of twenty illustrations reproduced in 370 copies using a stencil-based printing technique and the same Linel gouaches the artist had used for the original maquettes. This study reports on the comprehensive analysis carried out to identify the pigments in the gouaches used in Jazz by transmitted and reflectance infrared, Raman, SERS, and X-ray fluorescence spectroscopies, and describes the lightfastness of these gouaches as evaluated by microfaedometry. This study also highlights the necessity of …

Foreigner, Cancan Huang

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

This written thesis serves as supporting documentation for Foreigner, my MFA Thesis Exhibition. This exhibition reflects my experience as a foreigner, a solitary Chinese man living in the United States. Through embodying my personal experience, my paintings question the relationship between individuals and society.

The exhibition is composed of a series of paintings that visualize my personal story as a foreigner living in an incompatible and unacquainted culture. By displaying imagery of myself and my family in frozen moments, the paintings draw viewers into a discussion about personal identity, life philosophy, and culture collision. The exhibition and this thesis expand …

In/Visible, Raymond Thompson Jr

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

My MFA thesis and supporting exhibition focus on challenging the United States’ photographic archive that often left out African-American people. The work, through the use of appropriation and alternative photographic processes, disrupts America’s historical visual archive and notions that surround the white gaze. Through the unsettling of this visual space, new speculative narratives can be created to help imagine new futures. This work is the beginning of a process of mourning histories I have never known and reclaiming a place for myself and my family in the American landscape that is free of racial trauma.

Understanding Antisemitism : An Analysis-In-Process By Jews For Racial & Economic Justice (Jfrej): A Grassroots, Membership-Based Organization In New York City, Rachael Schragis, Rebecca Katz, Erin Brownstein Mcelroy, Audrey Sasson, Jews For Racial & Economic Justice, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 poster : illustrations (black & white and color). Starting in 2018 and into early 2021, more than 70 JFREJ members participated in a cultural organizing project to understand, struggle against, and imagine a world free from antisemitism. JFREJ members and artists Rachel Schragis and Rebecca Katz facilitated this process, which involved JFREJers of all ages and backgrounds, including members of our Mizrahi & Sephardi, Jews of Color, and Poor & Working Class Caucuses. A 40-page pamphlet on the subject by JFREJ was produced to accompany the poster. Library does not have the pamphlet. Offset printing. Flowchart. Gift of Angela …

Insurrection Nation, Alejandro Cartagena, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

56 unnumbered pages : all color illustrations (portraits). Cover title. Publication information from publisher's website. Limited edition of 200. Photos taken January 6, 2021, Washington, D.C. SUMMARY: Color photographic portraits of the faces of 1440 individuals who took part in the attack on the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021. "The looting, the destruction, the deadly violence. President Donald Trump was right: Insurrection is upon us..."-- author's webpage. Stapled.

Dear Laurie, Dear Gülşah, Gülşah Mursaloğlu, Laurie A. Palmer, E.S. Kibele Yarman, Umur Publishing, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

108 unnumbered pages : color illustrations + 1 poster. Cover title. Edition of 500: 300 in English, 200 in Turkish Coptic bound with wrap-around cover that unfolds to become a poster. "'Dear Laurie, Dear Gülşah' is a publication that brings together the correspondence between A. Laurie Palmer and Gülşah Mursaloğlu across disparate geographies, from April to September 2020. Within this transformative year that bore witness to a global pandemic, anti-racist protests, downfalls of power figures and monuments and fires around both continents, the letters both reflect on the present moment and offer insight into the artists' practices and long-term projects."--Letter …

Taking Space: Contemporary Women Artists And The Politics Of Scale, Elizabeth S. Hawley

Art Inquiries

No abstract provided.

Difficult Paintings, Hao (Damien) Ding

Theses and Dissertations

The sublime as a concept has a fraught and racist history. However, it remains the single most helpful idea in describing the deeply felt state of being when one comes across something ineffably powerful. From an art-making perspective, this thesis, and the accompanying exhibition of installations and paintings, proposes an alternative construction of the concept of the sublime. Using Lacanian psychoanalysis as a conceptual point of departure, a painter can manipulate the relationship of the viewer and paintings to create paradoxical moments of simultaneous intimacy and distance, which interact to create an alternative path towards the sublime. Through descriptions of …

Yolkkh: The Story Of My People, Amna Zelimkha Yandarbin

Theses and Dissertations

The name of my project is: Yolkkh, The Story of My People. With this project I present a series of scarves each one bearing an illustrated scene in order to tell a story – my story and the story of the Noxci people. Noxci are the people who are referred to as “Chechens” by Russians and are generally known by that title. As a Muslim, I have witnessed the way Western media tend to dehumanize my community. In order to contrast this dehumanizing process, I thought that telling the story of my family would help reverse Islamophobic tendencies and raise …

Reclamancipation: A Story Of Brilliance, Resilience, And Transilience, Nia A. Campbell

Theses and Dissertations

The experiences of African American women are composed of more than the maltreatment that often exclusively defines them. Oppression and celebration intermingle to define the identities of African American women, and this thesis proposes a method to understand this reality through an exchange of stories in the form of a customizable board game. The game educates those inside and outside the African American women’s community by encouraging the emancipation of self, decolonization of society, and formation of empathy. This thesis embraces intersectional feminism, womanism, and linguistic descriptivism. The research is informed by personal narratives of African American women ages 23-71 …

Form Follows Culture, Nada Raafat Elkharashi

Theses and Dissertations

We all use everyday objects as part of our daily routines, but the way we use them varies from one culture to another. Using George Herbert Mead’s study of human conduct and Louis H. Sullivan’s credo, “Form follows function,” this thesis examines the cultural meanings and implications surrounding the fundamental act of drinking water. Using a methodology of iterative, exploratory making, a collection of glass vessels explores philosophical and physical manifestations of Islamic cultural principles derived from the Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم. With the goal of restoring cultural integrity to our daily activities, the work highlights …

You Wouldn't Download An Art, Rice Evans

Theses and Dissertations

To quote the late Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens, “The internet is a series of tubes.” Like my art practice, these tubes meander through concepts, techniques, and mediums to arrive at a messy, confusing, and overwhelming shared experience of digital life. It is here where we find humor, creativity, and most importantly our own folk culture.

≥I++ Wayward Self, Space, And Language, Mystie Do, Thu Tm Do

Theses and Dissertations

Having crossed different geographical and cultural borders, I can’t seem to position myself beyond society’s forced binaries of race, sexuality, and materiality. My personal diasporic experience drives me to bring together various presences, putting them next to one another, engaging them in dialogues. My works often share multiple space–time possibilities: a digital space, a physical site, a virtual alternity. Occupying these parallel worlds are varied ratios of mixtures of natural ecosystems, my own system of abstraction, and existing technological systems that allow us a level of individual engagement not previously available. I want to invite people to fluctuate between these …

"With The Commodity In The Hand": A Practical Investigation Of The Intersection Of Material Culture With Performance Theory, Katharine M. Given

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis examines the intersection of performance theory and material culture through the practices of garment reconstruction. In chapter 1, I examine key theorists in the fields of material culture and performance studies and articulate the connections between the two fields. In chapter 2, Using practice as research, I recount the experience of building reproduction garments from the eighteenth century using historically appropriate tools and methods, as well as the experience of wearing those garments. Finally, in Chapter 3, I walk through a possible historical examination of my encounter with these reconstructed garments, and consider the way in which feminine …

Flourish: Combating Food Insecurity & Promoting Wellness On A College Campus, Jocelyn Zavala

Theses and Dissertations

MOTIVATION In the past, it has been assumed that students enrolled in college are fairly privileged individuals unlikely to face challenges associated with poverty (Haskett et al., 2020). That assumption has been challenged in the past few decades and a survey released last year by the Hope Center for College, Community and Justice indicated that 45% of today’s higher education students face food insecurity (Goldrick-Rab et al., 2019). According to VCU’s Dean of Students Office, it is a situation in which a student lacks access to enough nutritious food in order to live a healthy, active life. Food insecurity can …

Haven: Support For Mothers, Sarah Kincaid

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis explores how a nonmedical interior environment can provide support and care for mothers during the perinatal period in order to prevent maternal mental health (MMH) issues such as anxiety and postpartum depression.

Ties That Bind Us, Christine M. Orr, Christine M. Orr

Theses and Dissertations

when objects converge in a space

they start a dialogue of their lives

lives that become entangled with your life

your memory

objects are the narrators of memory

a stain, a chip, a tear

materials embed meaning and metaphor within the process of creating

woven cloth, throwing lines, squeezed and pressed coils

all become remnants of the hand

as I make, play, and collect materials and objects

questions are brought forward

How do these components talk to one other?

What are they saying?

How do I listen?

knowledge is generated in the transformation of material through the process of

making …

Ballad Of A Bootlegger, Sarah K. Parker

Theses and Dissertations

Roll in the soot of fires-gone! Purification through osmosis(?). They don’t pass onward so you can pass on the recognition. Learn the lesson, you bootlegger! This is necessary; you must use your hands and forge onward. Shit fire to save a match and light the birthday candles, time will pass before you’ve finished blinking so take another sip in and breathe easy child-- loss is part of life and no one can ever take that away from you (not that you’ve feared this). Slip the ring on your finger and marry to a practice of breaking perceptions of rules that …

Ex-Tensions: Material Entanglement And Intensities, Zohreh Galdizadeh Garmeh

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

This thesis is an exploration of the intrinsic capacity of matter and material formations and utilization of art as a mode of inquiry. Ex-tensions: Material Entanglement and Intensities investigates the animism and vibrancy of objects and the hidden interplay between materials and intensities that flow through and around within the spaces that confine us. In this body of work, all forms of material configurations are understood as animated and agential and as different representations of the same substance that are only formally diverse.

Lunar Volvelle, Monica Ong, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volvelle : color illustrations ; 19 x 19 cm + 1 card (2 unnumbered pages Edition limited to 50 numbered copies, signed. Artists' book in the form of a volvelle, a chart made of concentric paper wheels. "To see the current lunar phase, begin by rotating the sun disc until the pointer rests on the desired date. Count the number of days since the last new moon or use an almanac to determine the day of the lunar cycle and move the moon disc to that number. As the moon reveals its ever-changing shape, so too does the poem …

Robert Adam Interiors And Wakehurst's Yellow Drawing Room: Imported Period Rooms In The United States, Isabella Margi

Pell Scholars and Senior Theses

No abstract provided.

นวัตกรรมการสร้างสรรค์ตราสินค้าเครื่องแต่งกายเอาเทอร์แวร์สำหรับกลุ่มกรีน ฮิปสเตอร์ ด้วยแนวคิดโมดูลาร์ อินโนเวชั่น, อรปรียา ฤทธิโชติ

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

นวัตกรรมการสร้างสรรค์ตราสินค้าเครื่องแต่งกายเอาเทอร์แวร์ สำหรับกลุ่มกรีน ฮิปสเตอร์ (Green Hipster) ด้วยแนวคิดโมดูลาร์ อินโนเวชั่น (Modular Innovation) เป็นการวิจัยเพื่อหาแนวทางการออกแบบเครื่องแต่งกายสำหรับกลุ่มเป้าหมายที่ให้ความสนใจในด้านการอนุรักษ์สิ่งแวดล้อมในปัจจุบัน พัฒนาควบคู่กับการเพิ่มประโยชน์ด้านการใช้สอยของเครื่องแต่งกาย โดยมีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อหาแนวทางในการสร้างตราสินค้าเครื่องแต่งกายเอาเทอร์แวร์ สำหรับกลุ่มกรีน ฮิปสเตอร์ (Green Hipster) จากสิ่งทอรีไซเคิล ด้วยแนวคิดโมดูลาร์อินโนเวชั่น (Modular Innovation) โดยใช้กระบวนการวิจัยเชิงคุณภาพและเชิงปริมาณควบคู่กับกระบวนการออกแบบสร้างสรรค์ให้สอดคล้องกับกลุ่มเป้าหมาย เริ่มตั้งแต่การศึกษากลุ่มเป้าหมาย กลุ่มกรีน ฮิปสเตอร์ (Green Hipster) ถึงข้อมูลทั่วไป (เพศ อายุ การศึกษา รายได้) และพฤติกรรมการบริโภคสินค้า เพื่อให้เข้าใจถึงรูปแบบและหลักเกณฑ์ที่ส่งผลต่อการตัดสินใจเลือกบริโภคสินค้า ตลอดจนการศึกษาถึงลักษณะแบรนด์สินค้าในปัจจุบันทั้งต่างประเทศและในประเทศ เพื่อหาช่องว่างทางการตลาดที่สามารถตอบโจทย์กลุ่มเป้าหมายได้ ผู้วิจัยมีเครื่องมือที่ใช้ในการวิจัยได้แก่ แบบสอบถามกลุ่มผู้บริโภคทั้งผู้หญิงและผู้ชายในเจเนอเรชั่นวาย มีอายุระหว่าง 23-35 ปี จำนวน 56 คน ผลจากการวิจัยพบว่า การสร้างสรรค์เครื่องแต่งกายเพื่อกลุ่มกรีน ฮิปสเตอร์ที่มีความสนใจในด้านการอนุรักษ์สิ่งแวดล้อมกับแนวคิดโมดูลาร์อินโนเวชั่น สามารถมีแนวทางในการออกแบบร่วมกันได้ โดยการออกแบบที่สามารถปรับเปลี่ยนหรือถอดประกอบชิ้นส่วนได้ (Modular Design) และโอกาสการใช้สอยในรูปแบบลำลองกึ่งกิจกรรมกลางแจ้ง (Casual Outdoor) สามารถประยุกต์ใช้เพื่อตอบสนองความต้องการของกลุ่มผู้บริโภค ช่องว่างการตลาดสู่การสร้างสรรค์ตราสินค้าแฟชั่นได้ในอนาคต

การออกแบบเรขศิลป์เพื่อให้ความรู้โฮมีโอพาธีย์, มณิภา วัฒกีกุล

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การวิจัยครั้งนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อค้นหาแนวทางในการออกแบบเรขศิลป์ที่เหมาะสมเพื่อให้คนกลุ่มเจนเนอเรชั่น วาย เกิดความรู้และความเข้าใจได้ง่ายเกี่ยวกับการแพทย์ทางเลือกโฮมีโอพาธีย์ กลุ่มตัวอย่างที่ใช้ในการวิจัยในครั้งนี้คือ กลุ่มคนเจนเนอเรชั่น วาย ช่วงอายุระหว่าง 20 - 39 ปี เก็บรวบรวมข้อมูลสถิติจากเว็บไซต์ เอกสารงานวิจัย หนังสือ บทความทางวิชาการ และสัมภาษณ์กลุ่มเป้าหมาย นำมารวบรวมและวิเคราะห์ข้อมูลในการออกแบบ ผลการวิจัยครั้งนี้พบว่า กลุ่มคนเจนเนอเรชั้น วาย นั้น มีสุขภาพทรุดโทรมจากการทำงานหนัก จึงเริ่มมีการหันมาใส่ใจสุขภาพมากขึ้นแต่ไม่มีเวลา อีกทั้งพฤติกรรมของกลุ่มกลุ่มคนเจนเนอเรชั่น วาย ใช้สมาร์ทโฟนและเล่นโซเชียลมีเดียเป็นหลัก ชอบสื่อสารและแสดง ออกผ่านสื่อใหม่และสื่อออนไลน์ต่างๆ ชอบเสพสื่อบันเทิงและชอบอ่านการ์ตูนดิจิตอลที่เป็นสื่อออนไลน์ กลุ่มเป้าหมายนั้นให้ความสนใจและพึงพอใจในการ์ตูนดิจิตอล จึงได้ผลสรุปว่าการ์ตูนดิจิตอลเป็นสื่อที่สามารถถ่ายองค์ความรู้โฮมีโอพาธีย์ที่เหมาะสมต่อกลุ่มคนเจนเนอเรชั่น วาย โดยการ์ตูนมีโครงสร้างในการเล่าเรื่องที่ละเอียดซับซ้อน สามารถถ่ายทอดเรื่องราวต่างๆได้อย่างละเอียดและมีความน่าสนใจ รวมถึงสารที่ต้องการจะสื่อสำหรับการออกแบบเรขศิลป์เพื่อให้ความรู้โฮมีโอพาธีย์คือ ชีวิตที่ดีคือการเปลี่ยนแปลง และกลุ่มบุคลิกภาพที่เหมาะคือ สบายๆไม่มีกฎเกณฑ์ (Casual), เป็นธรรมชาติ (Natural), ทันสมัย (Modern)