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2020 Tin Pan South National Songwriting Poster, Madison Thomson

Illustrations

Illustration for NSAI's (Nashville Songwriters Association International) 28th Annual Tin Pan South Songwriting Festival. Logo design provided by the client and re-drawn by the illustrator.

The Elliott Community Center, Merrie Luton

Interior Design

The reuse of a building near downtown Nashville is considered as a possible means of bringing a community together.

Seed, Miranda Garza

Interior Design

The Seed Center explores the environmental needs for a successful clinic addressing addictive behaviors.

Flip Of A Switch, Kate-Lyn Rogers

Graphic Design

No abstract provided.

Psa Poster, Jordan Zinn

Illustrations

Create a public service announcement (PSA) poster to bring attention to a topic that interests you. A PSA is a clear and concise, powerful message that is intended to create behavioral change for the public good. The 11x14” poster must be laid out in InDesign and include the following: a strong visual, compelling headline, 1-2 sentences that explain the topic, a call-to-action (CTA), source credit, and the Ad Council logo.

Drag, Madison Thomson

Graphic Design

A typology booklet about the different forms of drag performance and art.

Teavana Ad Campaign, Danielle Long

Graphic Design

Original artwork for an ad series.

Advertising Postcards, Kate-Lyn Rogers

Graphic Design

No abstract provided.

Advertising Postcards, Madison Thomson

Graphic Design

No abstract provided.

Gilda's Club Ad Campaign, Karen Matkosky

Graphic Design

Original artwork for an ad series.

Molotow Markers For Any Surface, Abraham Lara

Graphic Design

Original artwork for this ad series.

Cryptid Art, Christie Gaskill

Fine Arts

For the fluxus excursion, my superpower was a shapeshifting cryptid. The word cryptid comes from the word cryptozoology or the study of creatures that the scientific community has not recognized yet. I took a walk in downtown Dickson with zero expectations of myself. I decided to stop at a book store that I had not been in. I usually don’t go into book stores. This would change up my natural habits of art-making. The first book I found mentioned depression as a shapeshifter and was full of many enlightening short poems about depression. I took witness sketches from around the …

Art Mummy, Christie Gaskill

Fine Arts

This was a project on the failure of memory.

"How's My Critique Going", Rosemary Solomon

Fine Arts

Students were asked to make a Flow Chart that represented a Habit

Untitled, Rachel Mckee

Fine Arts

This was an assignment called "Tagging the City". This student made tags with printed made up words and a Instagram site on the back of the tag for anyone to look up and see the meaning of the "tag".

Untitled (Listen), Lisa Bachman Jones

Fine Arts

Untitled (listen) investigates the willingness and capability to hear limitations and needs. The materials point to the body. Cotton fabric, the paper wrapping and wax of crayons, and food cartons all touch us or are touched by us. Each of these materials can be taken to physical limitations. The cotton will rip, the wax will break, and the paper will fold under too much weight. I present cross-generational groupings in the installation. Age often determines who is worth listening to.

4am 4pm 6am 8pm, Huy Nguyen

Fine Arts

This was a project where students had to take a walk and think about a Fluxus excursion.

You Want It, You Buy It, You Forget It, Mia Jones

Fine Arts

This was part of the Walking as Thinking project. Mia chose the identity of a "protester" and asked random people in Hillsboro Village to hold individual signs or her to document.

Art Is I, Science Is We, Imani Beverly, Bryan Briones, Ronald E. Mickens

Georgia Journal of Science

The expression of the title has been used for some time to produce a concise summary of the major distinction between “art” and “science.” Our goal is to give a fuller and deeper understanding of this statement by discussing its meaning and interpretation within the context of a precise definition of science. We conclude that “Art is I, science is we,” captures accurately the fundamental difference between these two disciplines.

Exploring Gender Through Art In Myanmar, Allison E. Joseph

EnviroLab Asia

No abstract provided.

Yeezus Is Jesuz: Examining The Socio-Hermeneutical Transmediated Images Of Jesus Employed By Kanye West, Daniel White Hodge

Journal of Hip Hop Studies

Kanye is enigmatic in many ways. His continuous reference to deity while still embracing a person like 452 makes him worth the study and effort to explore his contribution and effect in the Hip Hop cultural continuum. This article investigates, Kanye West from a theological and spiritual standpoint to provide insights from his theological aesthetics. While the ever-growing field of Hip Hop studies begins to explore religion in Hip Hop, the present work seeks to address this and develop new theologies/theories that fit both a Hip Hop and Black theology context. While the formal discipline of theology in the United …

Ordinary Monsters: Ethical Criticism And The Lives Of Artists, Christopher Bartel

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

Should we take into account an artist’s personal moral failings when appreciating or evaluating the work? In this essay, I seek to expand Berys Gaut’s account of ethicism by showing how moral judgment of an artist’s private moral actions can figure in one’s overall evaluation of their work. To expand Gaut’s view, I argue that the artist’s personal morality is relevant to our evaluation of their work because we may only come to understand the point of view of the work, and therefore the work’s prescribed attitude, by examining the values, attitudes, and behaviors of the artist. This view is …

A Displacement Of The Self: How Manuel Alvarez Bravo Uses Hair To Represent The Reassertion Of An Indigenous Feminine Identity In Postrevolutionary Mexico, Brooke Lashley

Augsburg Honors Review

Many artworks created during the Mexican Revolution (1910-1940) and in the years immediately following it contained nationalist themes that served to reinforce the importance of maintaining a traditional Mexican identity amongst the Mexican people. As a result, many Mexican artists questioned such traditional representations. This can be seen in images of Mexican women that depict them within the perimeters of an idealized traditional Mexican aesthetic. However, as a burgeoning feminist agenda arose, women were urged to present themselves as free from the oft-oppressing patriarchal traditions of Mexico's past. Now choosing between the ideologies of their pasts and promises of a …

An Alternative To “Rules” In Practice Approaches To Distinguishing Art Kinds, Larry Shiner

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

Numerous contemporary philosophers have invoked the idea that art is best understood as a social practice in order to distinguish among art kinds or to distinguish Art from closely related practices such as Design. Many general accounts of social practices and of art practices in particular claim that sets of shared assumptions or norms are a key constituent of practices. But some standard accounts of social practices interpret these shared norms with the concept of “rules” or “agreements.” I argue that the idea of rules or agreements is theoretically inadequate and should be replaced by what the philosopher of science, …

Promoting Healing With Therapeutic Use Of Clay, Jennifer Fortuna

The Open Journal of Occupational Therapy

Alice McCall Smith, occupational therapist and artist based in North Carolina, provided the cover art for the Summer 2019 issue of The Open Journal of Occupational Therapy (OJOT). The piece, titled “Mother and Child,” is an 8-1/4” tall sculpture made from clay. Alice grew up on a hill sheep farm in the Scottish Highlands. She has used many of the skills learned on the farm in everyday life and in occupational therapy practice. After being diagnosed and treated for depression, Alice turned to sculpting to cope with challenging emotions. The therapeutic use of clay was a meaningful part of her …

To The Question Of Studying The Phenomenon Of Musical Dynasty, Gulshanoy Tursunova

Eurasian music science journal

Numerous issues related to the study of the phenomenon of the musical dynasty in science are still insufficiently investigated. A comprehensive study of this issue today should attract the attention of not only art historians, but also a wide range of specialists - psychologists, musicians, physiologists, specialists in the field of genetics, sociologists. The results can be achieved in the context of detailed and comprehensive research in various fields of science. The article deals with the phenomenon of musical dynasty, its important role as an engine of progress of the world musical culture, the place and role of dynasties in …

Fore And Aft: Abstraction In Tolkien’S “Ishness” Designs, John R. Holmes

Journal of Tolkien Research

Though Tolkien's artwork tended toward the figural, there was a period during his undergraduate years in which he created abstracts under the name of "Ishnesses." This essay examines the nature of abstraction, how it relates to medieval concepts of art, and how it relates to Tolkien's "visionary" painting of subjects not in the primary world but in the Middle-earth of his vast imagination.

Fore and Aft: Abstraction, Vanishing Point and Symmetry in Tolkien’s “Ishness” Designs

Lost In Translation: Retelling The Tale Of Joan Of Arc, Hannah Jones

Augsburg Honors Review

Ever since Joan of Arc was burned at the stake on May 30, 1431,, historians have studied her lengthy trial interrogations for a glimpse of who Joan the person was. They've offered society both pious and saucy descriptions, portrayed her as a "religious mystic, rebellious girl..."unnatural" transvestite," an Amazon, a schizophrenic, a patriot and, depending upon who you read, a common or uncommon woman of the Middle Ages. Lacking a definitive conclusion, historians, musicians, popular literary figures, modern filmmakers, and other larger social groups have gone on to portray her in their own ways: canonizing her as a saint, promoting …

Closing Pause, Peter London

Artizein: Arts and Teaching Journal

Peter London was invited to offer a response to the two part special issue of An Arts-Based Contemplative Pause as a last moment of pause. Peter, in turn, graciously offered his contemplative thoughts that we hope will inspire others to pause and engage their own contemplative reflections inspired by the artist scholar offerings in this special issue.

Arts Of Living On A Damaged Planet: Ghosts And Monsters Of The Anthropocene By Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Heather Anne Swanson, Elaine Gan, And Nils Bubandt, Randy Lee Cutler

The Goose

Review of Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Heather Anne Swanson, Elaine Gan, and Nils Bubandt's Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene.