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The Beekeepers, Richard Robinson

Theses and Dissertations

The Beekeepers complements a film/digital video of the same name. It documents my process in creating alternative films/digital videos while pursuing my MFA at Virginia Commonwealth University. It starts with my first film/digital video, “Redemption,” and traces my progression over two years culminating with the 25 minute experimental documentary, “The Beekeepers

Find Meaning Make Meaning, Karen Stein

Theses and Dissertations

Employing the designer William Morris as a source of inspiration, this project seeks to explore the call for nature and beauty as a part of our lives. Moreover, it interweaves the necessity for experience of the sensual world (the five senses) with the cerebral world (a requisite to igniting the internal imagination)—a concept embodied in the form of the book. It advocates a redefining of the book as an imagination sculpture (the external and the internal) reflecting this new definition.

A Space For Absence, Timothy Dalton

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis focuses on the evolution of my work created during my two years of study at Virginia Commonwealth University. Although I touch upon my influences what I am writing is a reflection after the fact that does not necessarily encompass my original intent or inspirations for these works. I find my inspiration from personal discoveries within my daily life. Light flickering through the rails of a fence as I walk by makes me more aware of my body's movement in space. Watching the steady condensation of water droplets forming on a fountain creates a moment of pause within the …

Dancescape: A Work In Thetranslation Of Bodies And Movement, Julia Allisson Cost

Scripps Senior Theses

Translation is inevitably challenging work. When the human body and its movement are the subjects translated, the work may be particularly difficult, as questions both technical and ethical may arise about the representation in the second medium. Yet the exercise can also be very illuminating, creating space for insights that may not have been possible without the translation. For my Scripps College art thesis, I have created a series of paintings of Western dancers and researched four artists whose work involves bodies, movement, or dance and whose approaches differ tremendously. These artists are Edgar Degas (1834-1917), an impressionist painter known …

An Investigation Of The Reliability And Validity Of The Caperton Forgiveness Styles Inventory, Duane Caperton

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This research was an investigation into the process of forgiveness. The analysis of qualitative interviews with nearly 100 participants suggested four different approaches, or styles, of forgiving and non-forgiving. The Intrapersonal style describes people who forgive other people by focusing on their own thoughts, feelings, and actions. The Interpersonal style describes people who forgive other people by focusing on the thoughts, feelings, and actions of the offending persons. The Easy Going style describes the people who never forgive anyone because they rarely or never feel offended and consequently rarely or never feel the need to forgive others. The Grudge Holder …

Original Sin, Jake Van Wyk

Pro Rege

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Self-Portrait I And Ii, David Versluis

Pro Rege

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By The Creek, Matt Drissell

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Burial, Matt Drissell

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Seattle Gum, Doug Burg

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Annie's Art Studio, Doug Burg

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Climate Change, Ivana George

Bridgewater Review

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Submission, Jake Van Wyk

Pro Rege

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Rush Two, Doug Burg

Pro Rege

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Self Portrait (Bad Habits - The Distraction Of Radio), Matt Drissell

Pro Rege

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His Holy Temples, David Schelhaas

Pro Rege

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Steel/Hinge/Leaf Shot, Doug Burg

Pro Rege

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The Changing Book: Transitions In Design, Production, And Preservation, Peter D. Verheyen

Librarian Publications

This book review was originally published in the Guild of Book Workers' Newsletter, Vol 181, December, 2008. "The Changing Book: Transitions in Design Production, and Preservation publishes the proceedings of the conference of the same name organized by and held at the University of Iowa July 22-25,2005. This conference tied together many threads, from an exhibition honoring the life's work of William (Bill) Anthony, the first conservator at the University of Iowa and teacher to some of today's best, to a "tent show" which gave the public the opportunity to learn about the book arts hands-on, to 19 formal presentations …

01sj / Fuse

SWITCH

This page describes two initiatives: 01SJ, a global festival produced by ZER01, and the FUSE residency program, a collaboration between SJSU’s CADRE Lab and the Montalvo Arts Center.

Chance Operations, Liena Vayzman

SWITCH

This article describes the multimedia exhibit and performance, “Chance Operations,” held in Fall 2008 at the Climate theater in San Francisco. The event featured 14 projects exploring the theme of chance.

The Open Road, Bryan Condra

Theses and Dissertations

In our journeys on the open road, we travel through a landscape of visual imagery composed of patterns, rhythms and a spectrum of changing colors. Our previous experiences, mental and physical attitudes and expectations, shape our perceptions. By visually interpreting and presenting my experiences of the journey on the open road I hoped to tell a story of how the open road energizes the creative spirit. My goal was to explore how the landscape is altered by motion and speed as we pass through it, and how the journey can be experienced in various ways. I wanted to investigate and …

Muffin Fall 2008, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Muffin was a newsletter produced in the early aughts by RISD’s Queer Student Union as a student guide to queer culture. The 2008 issue features creative writing, a book review of "The Gay Girl's Guide to Dating, Sex, and Romance," an "Ask Madame Muffin" column, a gay celebrity gossip column, screenshots of a thread on homosexuality from Yahoo! Answers, an article on sexual morality and autonomy, and a page of queer resources.

Kimbrough, Mary Alice (Sexton), 1907-1991 (Sc 1749), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1749. Duplicate of Easter postcard made by Mary Alice (Sexton) Kimbrough and sent to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 4 April 1944. The design consists of tiny hand-cut pieces of postage stamps.

Fall 2008, Valparaiso University

The Lighter, 1958-Last Year

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Self-Crosslinked Gliadin Fibers With High Strength And Water Stability For Potential Medical Applications, Narendra Reddy, Yiqi Yang

Department of Textiles, Merchandising and Fashion Design: Faculty Publications

For the first time, protein fibers with excellent mechanical properties and water stability have been produced from gliadin for potential use in tissue culture and other medical applications. Biomaterials developed from plant proteins such as zein and soyproteins are preferred for several medical applications over synthetic polymers such as polylactic acid. However, the plant protein based biomaterials developed so far have poor mechanical properties and hydrolytic stability even after crosslinking. This study aims to develop biomaterials from gliadin with excellent mechanical properties and water stability without using any crosslinking agents. A novel gliadin fiber production method was used to self …

Id, Shannon Egan

Schmucker Art Catalogs

The five sculptors in ID challenge the conventions of representational self-portraiture. In their selective and often abstract use of figuration, these artists engage the identification of self as it is situated socially and institutionally—one’s “I.D.”—as well as the psychoanalytic dimensions of the “id.”

The exhibition’s title introduces a kind of paradoxical conflict between public identification, found in various bureaucratic forms of I.D. (passports, drivers’ licenses, and Social Security numbers, for example), and the id, a Freudian classification for the most basic and unconscious physical drives (sex, food, aggression).

All of these artists respond to the seeming incongruities of I.D. and …

Spanish Environment Under Threat From New Road, Jo Farb Hernandez

Faculty Publications

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The Lantern Vol. 76, No. 1, Fall 2008, Louisa Schnaithmann, Dayna Stein, India Mcghee, Callie Ingram, Nathan Taylor, Nathaniel Rosenthalis, Brett Celinski, Chelsea Catalanotto, Nicole Dillie, Robert Whitehead, Ryan Sullivan, Maire Moriarty, Katherine Lecours, Christopher Schaeffer, Robert Evans, Colin Ottinger, Amanda Schwartz, Abigail Raymond, Sarah Round, Maximilian Kreisky, Patrick Hayakawa

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• Cruel
• A Night in Three Parts
• The Moment I Said It
• To Know
• I Will Never Skipskipskip a Rock
• The Ravine
• Untitled
• Skeleton
• Midnight Letter
• Where Children Come From
• Orphan of War
• Ciega / Mezquita
• The Other Side
• Those Dancing Days are Gone
• Cycling
• The 2nd of July
• The Tantric Semantics of Studying Abroad
• A Three-Part Study in Musical Relations
• Amway Man
• Hard Luck Investigator
• Spring
• Interview With Poet Eleanor Wilner

Blanket Statements, Issue 93, Fall 2008

Blanket Statements: News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group

Blanket Statements, Issue 93, Fall 2008

Embodiment And Emptiness: Alison Rector’S Interior Spaces, Shannon Egan

Art and Art History Faculty Publications

Alison Rector’s painting Green Kitchen (2002) depicts a seemingly ordinary domestic interior: a flight of stairs ascends to the right, and a foyer, furnished simply with a wooden table and chairs, leads to a kitchen and, further still, to a broom closet. The old-fashioned wood-burning stove, muted and patterned wallpaper, antiqued furniture, brass sconce, and wide-planked hardwood floor characterize this home as possibly from the late nineteenth or early twentieth century, but the lack of figures and personal effects makes the definitive time of occupancy ambiguous. Rector’s unoccupied interiors, however, do not appear abandoned. Even in the quietest of her …