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Red Note New Music Festival Poster, 2025, School Of Music, Carl Schimmel, Alex Stephenson

Red Note New Music Festival

The RED NOTE New Music Festival at Illinois State University is a week-long event which features outstanding performances of contemporary concert music.

Blueprints, Sara Alfieri

School of Art, Art History, and Design: Theses and Student Creative Work

I am captivated by the relationship between ceramic vessels and architecturally-inspired structures. My goal is to create a variety of abstract compositions that are both visually stimulating and functionally engaging. Through the act of fitting, placing, and interacting with forms and surfaces, I explore the interplay between design, function, and accessibility. These interactions, in turn, invite a deeper exploration of how we navigate and experience space, both visually and physically.

The structures in my work serve as both tangible and conceptual support systems for my ceramic vessels. While the vessels can exist independently, their connection with the structures is revealing. …

Artificial Interiors, Alex Renbarger

School of Art, Art History, and Design: Theses and Student Creative Work

Artificial Interiors is a series of intimately scaled paintings that depict dramatically lit domestic interiors. My limited yet saturated color palette creates a dark atmosphere that feels both strange and familiar, contributing to the unsettling ambiance of the domestic scenes. Their origins in Artificial Intelligence (AI) prompts further reinforce this effect. Each painting begins as a composite collage created with AI-generated images, iterative prompts, and Photoshop, in a process that creates fantasy spaces, detached from real ones, even as their elements - sofas, chairs, corners, stairs - suggest common expectations and experiences for domestic life in the U.S.

These digitally …

Re-Constellations, Catherine Harper

Arts and Design

I was born a full-bull Taurus, in what I now know as a Snake Year. My father pointed out sharp stars in the cold night above rural Northern Ireland – Orion, Cassiopeia, the Seven Sisters, and the Plough. He named the ejaculate arc of the Milky Way and the other-worldly emerald ripple of far-off Aurora. Growing up in a farming community, the seasons were marked by stellar movements, the lunar calendar, the mythologies and rituals of equinox and solstice, and their impact on fallow and fertile land. The moon’s tidal rhythms illuminated and enshadowed my background, the celestial rain of …

Bendiciendo Nuestros Hijos, Ceh

Liturgias

Bendiciendo nuestros hijos

Invocación Al Espíritu Santo-Bilingüe, Ángel Morales

Liturgias

Invocación al Espíritu Santo-bilingüe

Funeral-Cementerio Hombre-Liturgia, Ceh

Liturgias

Funeral-cementerio hombre-liturgia

Responsorios-Fiestas Y Días Especiales, Ceh

Liturgias

Responsorios-Fiestas y días especiales

Instalación Diaconisa Pasante-Inglés-Liturgia, Ceh

Liturgias

Instalación diaconisa pasante-inglés-liturgia

Navidad-Nochebuena-Liturgia, Ceh

Liturgias

Navidad-Nochebuena-liturgia

Instalación Diaconisa Pasante-Liturgia, Ceh

Liturgias

Instalación diaconisa pasante-liturgia

Instalación Vicario-Liturgia, Ceh

Liturgias

Instalación vicario-liturgia

Reconciliación-Liturgia, Ceh

Liturgias

Reconciliación-liturgia

Preserving First Amendment Values: Social Media And The Harmful Content Test, Liam Watts

Undergraduate Honors Theses

We live in a world in which the internet is unavoidable. It is used for our everyday tasks (such as sending business emails) and is even used to communicate with other individuals around the world (through messaging services, for example). Another unavoidable aspect of the internet is social media; it is used for communication, news gathering, and engaging in discussion, inter alia. Sometimes, the way individuals use social media is quite aversive. Thus, social media companies have rightfully tried to govern their platforms in a way that attempts to reduce the harm that comes from aversive content. However, social media …

Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter, Vol 33, No. 2, The Sinclair Lewis Society

Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter

"Sinclair Lewis Conference in Sauk Centre to Celebrate Arrowsmith"

"Impressions of Sinclair Lewis: Interview with Andrea B. Nardi, Italian Translator of Main Street," by Anthony Di Renzo

"Mr. Babbitt Goes to Washington"

"'You meet such interesting people on the road': Humor in Sinclair Lewis's Early Travel Writing," by Sally E. Parry

"'Adventures in Autobumming' and Hell on Wheels," by Sally E. Parry

"Meet the 2025 Lewis Conference Keynote Speaker: Dr. Michael T. Osterholm," by Shaun F. Richards

The Trial Of The Chicago 7, Kendall Gilbert

Student Zines

This zine was created for ENG 120, Writing in the Disciplines with Professor Steven Bookman.

It is a social justice zine detailing the events of the trial of the Chicago 7 and the political and social importance of the trial, as well as why it is still relevant today.

A Fiqhi Vision For Investing In Gold Company Stock (Legal, Classifications, Issues, And Alternatives), Dr. Mohamed Hassan Abdel-Wahhab

Faculty Peer-Reviewed Papers | بحوث هيئة التدريس المحكمة

This research addresses the investment in gold company stocks from a fiqhi (juridical) perspective, focusing on the legal classification of purchasing stocks in companies whose primary assets are gold. The study highlights the fiqhi rulings regarding gold and silver, with emphasis on the condition of equivalence and handover in financial transactions. As financial markets have evolved, the trading of gold company stocks has raised questions about the legitimacy of such transactions and their compliance with Islamic law. The research aims to evaluate the Sharia-compliant alternatives for these transactions, especially when physical handover, which is a condition for the validity of …

An Exploration Of The Differences Between Male And Female High School Athletes Becoming College Athletes, And The Reasons For Their Successes And Failures; Combining Sociological And Philosophical Perspectives., Lilli Horn

Gender Studies Student Scholarship

College sport is reaching a new high, however the gender disparities remain consistent throughout all aspects of elite athletics. From funding to media representation, and recruiting opportunities, women remain at an extreme disadvantage compared to their male counterparts. Despite a recent surge in the attention to women’s athletics, the main issues behind the gaps are still not being addressed or changed. Some reasons for gaps in attainment can be obvious, however other reasons may be deep rooted in social stereotypes as well as structurally. In a society where the patriarchy is seemingly indestructible, the fight for equality is ongoing.

This …

Fiesta Reforma-Liturgia, Ceh

Liturgias

Fiesta Reforma-liturgia

Installation Vicar-Inglés-Liturgia, Ceh

Liturgias

Installation vicar-inglés-liturgia

5b Mesa Del Ministerio, Gerardo Hands, Marcos Kempff

Liderazgo

Mesa del ministerio

Eb-Evangelizando La Familia, Marcos Kempff

Estudios Bíblicos

ES-Evangelizando la familia

2025 Spring Quiz & Quill Magazine, English Department

Quiz and Quill

No abstract provided.

Wholely: A Youth Ministry Program To Develop Life Skills For Students, Brenda Antigua

Christian Ministries Senior Capstone

Churches usually focus primarily on people's spiritual lives. The mission of youth ministries is to foster a relationship with God among young people from an early age, but the church is called to do more because God cares holistically for his children. Wholely is a ministry that works with the academic, educational, and professional needs of students in Humboldt Park, Chicago, IL, providing them with monthly workshops that teach them life skills to prepare them for the future; mentorship from devoted leaders; inductive Bible study to learn what the Word says about them and what they are learning; a resource …

Does Anxiety Affect Shared Leadership? A Case Study On The Shared Leadership Practices Of A Pentecostal Denomination, Gretchen H. Abney

PhD in Organizational Leadership

This study investigates the interplay between anxiety and shared leadership within the organizational structure of a Pentecostal denomination, focusing on its One Team initiative. This qualitative case study examines how anxiety and self-differentiation affect leadership dynamics and team interactions. Using the Bowen family systems theory as a conceptual framework, the research explores organizational clarity, team roles, decision-making, and relational trust. Data collection involved three phases: analysis of organizational artifacts, focus group interviews with One Team members, and individual interviews with executives. Emergent themes included organizational experiences, expressions of anxiety, self-differentiation, commitment to future development, and the importance of training opportunities. …

Exploring The Perspectives Of Trained Pastoral Leaders On The Perceived Role Of Mental Health Conditions In Spiritual Formation, Duane P. Roberts

PhD in Organizational Leadership

The call of the pastoral leader is to serve and lead their congregants through a process of spiritual formation in alignment with how Jesus led His disciples to fulfill the Great Commission. However, when an underlying mental health condition is present, it can play a disruptive role in the spiritual formation of congregants in unique ways. Mental health conditions are a global phenomenon that continue to significantly affect individuals across all sectors, including the church. Thus, pastoral leaders are seeking to employ the most effective leadership style to guide congregants in continual spiritual formation when an underlying mental health condition …

Youth Mac: Exploring The Impact And Influence Of Varied Youth Pastor Leadership Qualities And Practices That Lead To Efficacious Student Ministry, George L. Fultz Ii

PhD in Organizational Leadership

Congregations across the United States are experiencing significant declines in youth and young adult engagement and retention, raising a red flag when thinking about the long-term sustainability of the church. While previous research has focused on senior pastoral leadership, there has been limited exploration of youth pastor leadership and its effects on church growth and adolescent retention. This qualitative study utilizes McGavran’s church growth theory to investigate how youth pastors’ leadership styles influence ministry effectiveness. This research used semistructured interviews with six youth pastors from diverse congregations to collect the data. After completing thematic analysis, four themes emerged: (a) the …

Painting Stories And Filming Change, Coralynn V. Davis

Faculty Contributions to Books

Mithila Art has helped illuminate various aspects of the relationship between gendered Maithil social roles and Maithil women’s narratives in connection with a feminist participatory action research project conducted primarily in 2016-2017 in and around the northern Bihari town of Madhubani. While participatory action research philosophically and methodologically attends to process as much as product, Mithila Art played a role in the process and product of making a documentary film and in our capacity to understand and communicate with varied audiences about shifting Maithil gender norms. The research and filmic project provided insight into the complex relationship among the stories …

Cover Art - Suspicous Baby, Georgia Leakey

The Messenger

Design by Helen Mei

Kate 2025: Trans*Cendence, Marlo Young, Sage Reliford, Julia Tenbusch, Zahara Rahi, Karina Streeter, Katie Deeter, Kyle Miller, Ellyse Gallagher, Ava Borromeo, Morgan Smedley, Charlie Ryan, Julia Zetlmeisl, Evie Reed, Ahjay Cody, Kit Mccall-Crum

Kate

Each year, kate seeks to:

• explore ideas about normative gender, sex, and sexuality
• work against oppression and hierarchies of power in any and all forms
• serve as a voice for race and gender equity as well as queer positivity
• encourage the silent to speak and feel less afraid
• build a zine and community that we care about and trust