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Fashion Slow: Poetic Threads Of Fate And Decay, Adrienne Rugg

WWU Honors College Senior Projects

This collection of multimedia art, poetry, and embroidery pieces showcases the process of learning and working in a new medium. This project prompted me to engage with a new mindset of constantly adapting, combining, and practicing new skills throughout the learning curve. Inspired by the urge to create something more meaningful than the onslaught of new “art” produced by AI, I spent the past months finding meaning in the process of creation rather than the product. The product is only a stationary glimpse into an ever-changing collection of ideas—but proof that the very human work of creation is more powerful …

Understories: A Queer Rewilding Of Ecology And Literature, Aina Zabinski

WWU Honors College Senior Projects

This capstone project metaphorays into rewilding contemporary climate conscious literature and biology research related to forests. It situates (under)stories as firmly rooted in the context of queer ecology, pointing to a non-essentialist and anti-colonialist view of the world that strongly endorses the significance of environmental humanities in liberation work. Climate change and its connection to systems of social oppression necessitate a breakdown of the divide between arts and sciences in hopes of sustainable futures in the Anthropocene. Storytelling plays an important role in this. Queer eco-literature will not save the world on its own, of course, but it does hold …

All Patched Up!: A Collection Of Poetry And Prose Detailing Life And Personal Journey, Lukas Spring

WWU Honors College Senior Projects

"all patched up!" is a poetry chapbook compiling works from across the author's time at university, portraying a journey filled with ups and downs through mixed media presentation of written word. The result is a patchwork quilt of experiences including exploration of identity, gender, struggle, community, and mental health.

Mistletoe Blooms: A Proposal Of Method, Petra Ellerby

WWU Honors College Senior Projects

The intellectual product housed within this two-part document is the result of an attempt both to engage with unaccustomed formats—fine art, design—and to do justice by a set of idiosyncratic methodological tenets that have played a pivotal role in my personal trajectory, my own internal history of ideas. In spite of its compound nature, the project remains faithful to a fundamentally humanistic spirit: it is an allusive study in cross-disciplinary thinking, an affective attempt to summarize, define, communicate, and defend one specific way of seeing and understanding. At its core, my capstone serves as a venue (even an excuse) for …

River Archives: A Visual Examination Of Self Through Personal Journal Entries Along The Deschutes, Wenatchee, And Colorado Rivers, Skylar Lynn Tibbetts

WWU Honors College Senior Projects

Final piece consists of three glass sheets of varying sizes, representative of (from left to right) the Deschutes, Wenatchee, and Colorado rivers. Collaged on the front side are scans of journal entries composed during my time on each particular river, with a topographic map of the river cascading through. On the back of each glass sheet are the journal entries transcribed in text.

Hello_World: A New, Not-Quite-Animated Story (First Draft), Jack Harbick

WWU Honors College Senior Projects

This story is meant for the medium of animation and is intended to act either as a pilot episode for a longer series or the beginning/skeleton of an animated film.

Synopsis: A robot awakens into a human-less world with seemingly no pre-programmed directive and a low battery. With the help of a new friend, a postcard, and some strange plants, they'll undertake a great journey to find whatever answers they can.