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Desert Pool {If Every Desert Was Once A Sea}, Karen Miranda Abel Sep 2017

Desert Pool {If Every Desert Was Once A Sea}, Karen Miranda Abel

The Goose

Desert Pool {If every desert was once a sea} is a site-specific art project by Canadian artist Karen Miranda Abel completed in 2016 while artist-in-residence at Joya: arte + ecología, an arts-led research centre situated in an alpine desert within a national park in southern Spain. The elemental installation represents an envisioning of the ancient sea that occupied the Sierra de María-Los Vélez Natural Park millions of years before the current desert ecology, a time when its highest mountain peaks may have been islands.


Tipping Point, Pang Z. Vang May 2017

Tipping Point, Pang Z. Vang

Theses and Dissertations

What happens to a woman at the tipping point under oppression in a patriarchal society? How does she behave? Pulling from the vagina dentata mythologies, and personal and collective experiences of rape culture, I formed a body of work which problematize the stereotypical narrative of victim/perpetrator. As a visual and conceptual exploration, my work explores the themes of desire, agency/non-agency, and violence [as it manifests within and outside of the body]. Utilizing visual and conceptual quotations from film, pornography and sex toys, these works subvert the exoticized stereotype of the Asian woman as sexual plaything.


Black Matter, Kahlil Irving May 2017

Black Matter, Kahlil Irving

Graduate School of Art Theses

History as we know it, is inherited. Racism, fascism, white supremacy, and Eurocentric dominance have been presented as normal and acceptable within our society for many years. This has allowed police officers to execute Black American’s and not be acquitted for their horrendous crimes. As an activist I want to challenge the status quo. As an artist I am interested in investigating how I can present ideas embody or reflect contemporary issues and concerns. Using different colors can aggressively change how an object is perceived. Historical objects hold many important.

I explore many mediums, but an anchor material that I …


Sublime Memories: Bones As A Medium For Cyanotype Printing And Indigo Dying; The Strength Derived From Connection To The Environment; And The Power Of The Color Blue, Alexis R. Bernstein May 2017

Sublime Memories: Bones As A Medium For Cyanotype Printing And Indigo Dying; The Strength Derived From Connection To The Environment; And The Power Of The Color Blue, Alexis R. Bernstein

All College Thesis Program, 2016-2019

This project attempts to portray how connections to the environment provide strength and opportunities for growth. By printing cyanotype images of landscapes and plant life on bones, my work links the ecological world with a representation of mortality. The symbolism of bones provide concepts of strength and life, while the symbolism of blue evokes emotions of distance and longing that create a dreamy memory-inspired image quality throughout the series. The historic processes of cyanotype printing and indigo dying were successfully modified for the medium of bones, allowing both artistic techniques to work together in harmony.


Thrift Store Corners, Anna Boling May 2017

Thrift Store Corners, Anna Boling

Forces

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You Will Not Define Me, Crystal Lee May 2017

You Will Not Define Me, Crystal Lee

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Temple, Craig Erickson May 2017

Temple, Craig Erickson

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Downtown Little Rock, Arkansas, Anna Boling May 2017

Downtown Little Rock, Arkansas, Anna Boling

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Never Ending Story, David Knape May 2017

Never Ending Story, David Knape

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Retrieval, Jiaan Powers May 2017

Retrieval, Jiaan Powers

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Capture One, Alberto Gutierrez May 2017

Capture One, Alberto Gutierrez

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It All Began With A Thought, Sylvia S. Medel May 2017

It All Began With A Thought, Sylvia S. Medel

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Christine, Alfred Long May 2017

Christine, Alfred Long

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Full Moon Church, Alex Giovinazzo May 2017

Full Moon Church, Alex Giovinazzo

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Introduction, Scott Yarbrough May 2017

Introduction, Scott Yarbrough

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Sintra Protugal, Amanullah Khan May 2017

Sintra Protugal, Amanullah Khan

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It's Personal, Rebecca Hays May 2017

It's Personal, Rebecca Hays

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Writer's Block, Abigail Hitt May 2017

Writer's Block, Abigail Hitt

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Morning Rays, Shelby Hotz May 2017

Morning Rays, Shelby Hotz

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Chalk Hands, Shelby Hotz May 2017

Chalk Hands, Shelby Hotz

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Believer, Mamie Walters May 2017

Believer, Mamie Walters

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At Twilight, Jiaan Powers May 2017

At Twilight, Jiaan Powers

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Amaranthine, Trexiea Hernandez May 2017

Amaranthine, Trexiea Hernandez

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Stomp, Kelly Mcnett May 2017

Stomp, Kelly Mcnett

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Atlas, Amy Myrick May 2017

Atlas, Amy Myrick

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Rehearsal, Samantha Mills May 2017

Rehearsal, Samantha Mills

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Balance Of Power, Hannah Hightower May 2017

Balance Of Power, Hannah Hightower

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Labors Of Chemistry, Teddy Lishan Desta May 2017

Labors Of Chemistry, Teddy Lishan Desta

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The Glock And The Cross, Teddy Lishan Desta May 2017

The Glock And The Cross, Teddy Lishan Desta

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Untitled, Michael Nguyen May 2017

Untitled, Michael Nguyen

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