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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.

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 …

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 …

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

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.

Save The Trees. Save Humanity., Lindsey Davis

The Goose

Visual art by Lindsey Davis

Environmental Art And Activism: Editors’ Notebook, Alec Follett, Melanie Dennis Unrau

The Goose

Editorial introduction to the special issue on environmental art and activism, The Goose, volume 17, issue 2 (2019).

Meta Me On An Ecstatic Walk With Hansel And Gretel: A Reflection Of Dispensed, Reclaimed And Reframed Existence, Laura White

Critical and Creative Thinking Capstones Collection

This synthesis revolves around a rendition of Hansel and Gretel, in which I am exiled from innocence through the chaos of life. I recollect my breadcrumb clues in the form of thoughts and beliefs that I have held for as long as I remember. The breadcrumbs lead to open-ended questions about habits of mind for meaning making. My process of self-examination uses an adaptation of Action Research and I connect my current life to where I began using an Intersecting Processes analysis. I observe and document the unfolding of my life while studying it, using self-expression and thinking made visible …

Multiple Bodies As One, Valerie Skakun

Theses and Dissertations

Influenced by traumatic bodily injuries, physical therapy, muscle growth, breathing patterns, mental health, ways of supporting a disabled body, navigating the health care system, and exhaustion, the work described in this paper is a double meaning of the word "organ" and investigates the body as machine. The vital parts of a pump organ, the bellows and pipes, are extracted and re-configured into structures built for the performer's entire body to physically engage with in order to produce wind-driven sounds. Two of the sound sculptures require that two performers engage in play together, allowing them to audibly communicate through moving their …

Giiwe, Skyler Kuczaboski

I2

No abstract provided.

Displaced, Charlene Browne

I2

No abstract provided.

Cempasuchitl, Jennifer Lopez

I2

No abstract provided.

The Anti-Yellow Agenda, Karen Zheng

I2

No abstract provided.

Darwin Or Frankenstein?, Sylvia S. Santamaria

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Through sculpture and drawing, I create my own versions of natural specimens primarily based upon the visual unity of disparate organisms. Invented specimens are composed using a variety of processes employing a mixture of atypical materials following the (20^th, 21^st century) Postmodern shift away from formalist and traditional uses of any singular medium. As well as a variety of art materials, the specimens are hybrids of organic and biomorphic elements, blurring boundaries between botanical, animal, fungal, metal, and mineral. Is my approach perhaps like Charles Darwin, observant and studious naturalist, or am I more like Dr. Frankenstein, …

Sculpture As Souvenir: Reportable And Repeatable, Ashlyn Lee

Art Theses and Dissertations

In this paper, an analysis of the site as material, process, and concept for an artwork results in an understanding of the art object as a souvenir. Reportable and repeatable experiences are discussed and remembered in the six works of the Qualifying Thesis Exhibition at the Pollock Gallery. Of the six works is an installation, Catfish Fence, and five small works displayed on the gallery window sill: Bundle, Posted: No Trespassing, Sling, Right Recipe, and Margie Ruth’s Swing Where the Wasp Bit Me. Susan Stewart’s discussion of souvenirs from On Longing (1984) serves as a tool for considering the art …