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Bantaba: Designing The Sacred Circle, Tashiara Scott

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MOTIVATION In Richmond, there are 1.21 times as many African Americans as any other ethnic group. Yet 63.4% of African Americans live in poverty (Richmond, VA). African Americans face greater exposure to stress due to low socioeconomic status and poverty. In these communities, “discrimination and deprivation undermine individuals’ ability to accumulate the social and material resources to mitigate the effects of stress” (Brondolo, 2018). In this city’s African American community, where stress levels are high and consequential health concerns are prevalent, dance can be a remedy for managing stress and improving health (Hanna, 2006).

DESIGN PROBLEM How can an intentionally …

The What If Collection, Aisha J. Daniels

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The What If Collection is a visual narrative that confronts white supremacy, the social, economic, and political ideology used to subjugate black civilization via colonial rule and enslavement in history and via structural racism today. Many white people have been socialized into a racial illiteracy that fosters white supremacy. This racial illiteracy fails to realize and understand the destructive effects of Western dominance on the rest of the world, particularly on past and present Africa and her diaspora. In response, utilizing discursive design, the collection constructs a counter-story that depicts a shift in the power structure in which the white …

This Must Be The Place, Eve White

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This publication is the companion piece to “This Must Be the Place,” a 3D realization of my conceptual photography work exhibited in the Anderson Courtyard at VCU's 2019 School of the Arts MFA Show. I photograph scenes from nature and reproduce these images onto flattened plexiglass planes, arranging them in new, natural environments and photographing them again. The outcome is a scenic collage in which two unfamiliar locations become superimposed. It is my hope that as people experience the work they become a part of the texture of it.

Untitled Unknown, Taylor Simone Stewart

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This article is the first of a series exploring domination culture through the ways narrative has been indoctrinated as reality and weaponized as a holding cell for captives. Within this exploration, the narrative of domination is placed in relation to higher dimensional realms of the unknown; this being the before and after of domination culture. This positioning will allow for the reality of a simultaneous existence within the labyrinth of domination and a higher dimensional unknown to be framed. Within this series of articles, I question the roll of the rogue characters shamanistic agents of resisting domination, the fear of …

Berthe Morisot: Woman Impressionist, Kathryn Mcfadden

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Delacroix, Joyce Carol Polistena

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Second Sight: Women Artists Of The South, Melissa Yes

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Action Forms: Retrospective: Exhibition Of Ilija Šoškić, Rachel Klipa

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Going (Neo-) Dutch: Establishing Marguerite Gérard’S Artistic Agency, Amanda Strasik

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In Memoriam

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In Memoriam: Charles (Randy) Mack, long-time SECAC member and past president of the organization, died in Columbia, SC on October 31, 2018. He was 78. Here, four SECAC members offer memories of Randy, to whom this issue of Art Inquiries is fondly dedicated.

Word Embodied: The Jeweled Pagoda Mandalas In Japanese Buddhist Art, Kerry Lucinda Brown

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Book review of Word Embodied: The Jeweled Pagoda Mandalas in Japanese Buddhist Art, by Halle O’Neal.

David Wojnarowicz: History Keeps Me Awake At Night, Mysoon Rizk

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Art Inquiries, Xvii:4, Full Issue

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How Art Works: A Psychological Exploration, Julia A. Sienkewicz

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Book review of How Art Works: A Psychological Exploration, by Ellen Winner.

The Noisemakers: Estridentismo, Vanguardism, And Social Action In Postrevolutionary Mexico, Andrea Lepage

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Book review of The Noisemakers: Estridentismo, Vanguardism, and Social Action in Postrevolutionary Mexico, by Lynda Klich.

Leonardo: Discoveries From Verrocchio’S Studio, Lindsay Alberts

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An Interview With Karen Graffeo, Sonja Rieger, And Carolyn Sherer, Kerr Houston

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Wicked, Hard And Supple: An Examination Of Suzanne Valadon’S Nude Drawings Of Young Maurice, Courtney Hunt

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Where You Come From Is Gone: Reinhabiting The Ruins Of The Native South, Catherine Wilkins

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The Settlement In The Salt Meadow: Housing In Steinway Village, 1873–1890, Anne Vuagniaux

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A Thesis Is A Product Is A Tracking, Yixue Li

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In this work, I discuss how global products/ identities are made, transported and consumed, and the inevitable ‘mis-’ in acts of transmission. This research ranges from the miscommunication in languages and linguistics, to the gap between production and consumption. I investigate how things and humans are misread, mispronounced, misfit and mistranslated when they traverse social and cultural borders, arriving at a place in between languages, holding on to and letting go of things that are familiar to neither and both cultures. This work explores diverse media such as publications, videos and installations, and examines how they maybe used to address …

Bending Educational Reality, Mariam Rafehi

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Virtual reality (VR), an emergent technology, affords experiential content delivery in education by evoking emotive responses in users, which can be prohibitive via traditional media. This thesis explores VR for the development of grit – passion and perseverance, which are essential characteristics in education and long-term success. The research proposes design strategies to stimulate senses for emotional engagement and a physiological response. In the project, two interactive environments position the user in emotional states to build passion and perseverance. To develop passion, the virtual world is designed to engage in creativity using 3D-spatial audio and visual effects. In contrast, to …

Relational Aesthetics: Creativity In The Inter-Human Sphere, Carl Patow

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RELATIONAL AESTHETICS: CREATIVITY IN THE INTER-HUMAN SPHERE

By Carl Patow, MD, MPH, MBA

A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of

Master of Fine Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, 2019.

Major Director: Pamela Taylor Turner, Associate Professor, Kinetic Imaging, VCU Arts

Relational Art was first described as an art movement in Nicolas Bourriaud’s catalogue for the exhibition Traffic in 1995, and in an eponymous book in 1998. He observed that contemporary artists were shifting the focus of their work away from creating objects of spectacle to interaction with viewers through dialogue. Examination of a sample …

My Clothing Is Me: Embracing Adhd In Traditional Qatari Apparel, Rabab Abdulla

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Children diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) are often secluded from society, as the condition is perceived to be a defect. These children constantly fidget, move, lose track of time, and forget to complete tasks, leading them to struggle within existing social environments. Additionally, in Qatar there is a need to educate society about ADHD. This research explores wearable solutions that alter behaviors through physical interactions and sensory engagements. In response to the challenges faced by ADHD, Qatari traditional attire has been customized to support children with time management, and communication between child, parent, and society. Additionally, these wearables …

Lifetime, Emily E. Kuchenbecker

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Time is my bully. Time marks the start of something, as well as the end. We are all carrying out the inexorable passing of time as it relates to our impending mortalities.

I do not fear death.

The awareness of my body’s impermanence employs me to feel that much more connected to the vessel containing that of which I am.

But what am I? Am I my body- or is it much deeper?

Through the work executed during my graduate research, I have attempted to quantify my existence through the archiving my time and body. This document ushers you through …

At The Table; An Investigation Of How Growing, Cooking, And Sharing Food Together Can Bring A Wealth Of Benefits, Angeline M. Troilo

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MOTIVATION: The value of family mealtime has been well documented by decades of academic research. Children from families, (regardless of race, class or income), that routinely sit down to a meal together, suffer less depression, obesity and substance abuse. They also stay healthier and do better in school (Benefits 2018). There are nutrition, health, social, and mental benefits to eating with others. Research has shown that people eat more fruits and vegetables and other nutrient-rich foods when they share a meal with others. They also drink less soda and eat less fried foods (Benefits 2018). Eating meals together teaches children …

Graphic Content Warning; Personal And Political Traumas, Emily K. Wardell

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The written portion of this thesis work is meant to address and further investigate the visual work created using mediums of print and found video. This artistic research has been interested in examining varying associations with truth, recollection, and evidence. This includes the recollection of public histories and news-media narratives as well as my own history and trauma. Through this work my aim was to create a deconstruction and revolt against how associations are formed, and how to understand imagery as information. This thesis first discusses my relationship to appropriated imagery, then connects and examines it through the addition of …

Light In Community: A Study In The Adaptive Reuse Of Sacred Space, Abigail Barras

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ABSTRACT

MOTIVATION
American life is increasingly fragmented, leading to a sense of restlessness and disconnection. Much of that fragmentation can be traced to our pattern of architectural and sociological development, namely, the rise of the automobile suburbs in the 1950s and 60s and the abandonment of densely populated, human- scaled environments like that of the small town or city center (Oldenberg, 1999).

PROBLEM
Large numbers of architecturally significant buildings have fallen into disrepair over the years following the “white flight” of the 1960s and 70s, during which significant segments of investment dollars left city centers and followed to the suburbs …