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Good Girl, Erika C. Navarrete Anderson

School of Art, Art History, and Design: Theses and Student Creative Work

I have always had a narrative sensibility, drawing from memory, stories, and personal experience. Perhaps it was the abundance of story telling and gossip I absorbed growing up. The dominance of women in my family had a profound influence on how I created narratives in my earlier work. They remain core influences, and through them I have developed further, reaching out past linear narrative and specific story to focus on the psychology of internal and external experience.

When I began my MF A it was the first time in two years I was 'getting intensive feedback on my work. What …

Blanket Statements, Issue 91, Spring 2008

Blanket Statements: News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group

Blanket Statements, Issue 91, Spring 2008

Taking In: The Best Of Aib Photography 2008, Aib Students

Taking In

Taking In is the culmination of a semester's worth of work done by a group of thirteen students who set out to publish a collection of the best of AIB's student work. Guided by professor and artist Matthew Nash, and previous issues of Taking In, the class organized production, solicited work from peers, selected distinguished members of the art community to jury the work, and communicated with a team of designers to layout the book. The thirty-seven images are only a fraction of the work currently being produced by the students at the Art Institute of Boston, and there is …

A Call For Liberation: Aleijadinho's 'Prophets' As Capoeiristas, Monica Jayne Bowen

Theses and Dissertations

Throughout the late eighteenth century, many Brazilians became inspired by the political revolutions of the French and American colonies and sought for a similar type of revolution, hoping to gain independence from the Portuguese. One nationalistic group, the "Inconfidência Mineira," probably influenced the art of the sculptor Aleijadinho (1738-1814). Aleijadinho's work has been examined as a political message previously, but never as propaganda through the representation of capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian martial art. Capoeira probably formed as a means for Afro-Brazilian slaves to fight their way out of captivity. While training to fight, slaves would disguise capoeira to look like a …

Thomas, Mazie Lee (Allen), 1906-2001 (Mss 199), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Scrapbook of artwork created by Mazie Lee (Allen) Thomas, an African American folk artist from Adairville, Logan County, Kentucky. The scrapbook was compiled by Thomas's niece, Vicki Lawrence. Also includes a biographical sketch, slides of four oil paintings, news clippings and a short videotape.

Ceramic Sculptor To Visit Illinois Wesleyan, Sherry Wallace

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

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Dairy Culture: Industry, Nature And Liminality In The Eighteenth-Century English Ornamental Dairy, Ashlee Whitaker

Theses and Dissertations

The vogue for installing dairies, often termed "fancy" or "polite" dairies, within the gardens of wealthy English estates arose during the latter half of the eighteenth century. These polite dairies were functional spaces in which aristocratic women engaged, to varying degrees, in bucolic tasks of skimming milk, churning and molding butter, and preparing creams. As dairy work became a mode of genteel activity, dairies were constructed and renovated in the stylish architectural modes of the day and expanded to serve as spaces of leisure and recreation. Dairies were often lavishly outfitted to create a delicate and clean atmosphere, a fancy …

21st Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition To Begin, Jessica Block

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

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The Laboratory On 53rd Street : Victor D' Amico And The Museum Of Modern Art 1937-1969, Briley Rasmussen

Graduate Student Independent Studies

This project addresses previously unexplored areas of Victor D'Amico's career as Director of the Education Department at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) from 1937-69, during which time he developed and implemented his philosophy on creative teaching that developed creativity, innovation and appreciation for modern art through a focus on individual aesthetic experience. Beginning with MoMA's early role and mission and the founding of the Education Project, the education programs as a laboratory for experimental art education are studied, specifically the Museum's television series Through the Enchanted Gate and the Children's Art Carnival as exemplars of D'Amico's experimental programming. This …

Warps & Wefts 2009, Carol Bier

Textile Research Works

The interlacing of warp and weft defines a woven fabric. The weaver strings warp yarns onto a loom, a frame designed to hold the warps parallel and taut, and then introduces the wefts sequentially. The process is weaving; the result is a textile.

When we think of textiles, we most often think of garments to clothe our bodies and furnishings to supply our domestic needs. But throughout history, textiles have also played a primary role in fashion, drawing on not only color and pattern but also draping qualities and the effects of tailoring to cover (or show off) the body. …

'Claiming Space: Mexican Americans In U.S. Cities' Exhibition Catalog, Anne Giangiulio

Selected Works Temporary Series

'Claiming Space: Mexican Americans in U.S. Cities' catalog designed for the exhibit at the Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts. This catalog won a 2009 Silver ADDY Award from the Advertising Federation of El Paso. Please be patient when downloading as file is 30 MB.

'In The Weave: Bhutanese Textiles And National Identity' Exhibit Logo And Panels, Anne Giangiulio

Selected Works Temporary Series

'In the Weave: Bhutanese Textiles and National Identity' logo and informational wall panels designed for the exhibit at the Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts. The photography used in these panels was taken by 2008 Guggenheim Fellow and New Mexico State University Professor David Taylor. I isolated and monotoned all the hand-painted Buddhist symbols used in the panels from a single shot of Taylor's taken of a Bhutanese temple wall.

'Unknitting: Challenging Textile Traditions' Exhibition Catalog, Anne Giangiulio

Selected Works Temporary Series

'Unknitting: Challenging Textile Traditions' catalog designed for the exhibit at the Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts. Please be patient when downloading as file is 12.1 MB.

Building A Bosque: 10 Years Of Habitat Restoration At Rio Bosque Wetlands Park, Anne Giangiulio

Selected Works Temporary Series

Designed and installed the exhibit 'Building a Bosque: 10 Years of Habitat Restoration at Rio Bosque Wetlands Park' at UTEP’s Centennial Museum. This exhibit celebrated a 10-year collaboration between the University's Center for Environmental Resource Management and other local entities in caring for the Wetlands and helping restore it to the plant and wildlife habitat it once was prior to the channelization of the Rio Grande in the mid-1930s. For more information about the Park, go to: http://research.utep.edu/Default.aspx?PageContentID=891&tabid=18875

Beck Show Poster, Anne Giangiulio

Selected Works Temporary Series

Designed a gig poster for the September 25 Beck show at the Abraham Chavez Theatre. The downloadable file here does not depict well that the poster was screenprinted with metallic gold ink on speckletone brown French paper. A photo of me with the poster appeared in Vanity Fair online in an article about Beck's "secret" show he played after the scheduled Abraham Chavez performance. See the online article at: http://www.vanityfair.com/online/culture/2008/09/29/becks-secret-show-in-el-paso-tx.html

Pitch Black, Anne Giangiulio

Selected Works Temporary Series

'Pitch Black' by Anthony Horton and Youme Landowne is a graphic tale I designed. Published by El Paso's Cinco Puntos Press, 'Pitch Black' was honored by the American Librarian Association as one of 2008's top ten graphic novels for young adults. The book also received a rave Kirkus review on September 15, 2008 noting its design “...and the fluid black-and-white sequential panels tell it well.” Finally, on October 7, 2008, The New York Times did a feature on the book both in print and online in its 'City Room' page: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/rules-for-living-in-subway-tunnels/?hp Please be patient when downloading as file is 6.6 …

Global Warming Posters, Anne Giangiulio

Selected Works Temporary Series

I designed the environmentally-themed posters 'You Can Reduce Global Warming' and 'Stop Global Warming'. Both were named finalists in the 2008 Tenth International Biennial of the Poster in Mexico City and on display at the Museo Franz Mayer in Mexico City.

Proposed Logo For 'Music Under The Stars', Anne Giangiulio

Selected Works Temporary Series

Logo chosen as a top ten finalist for Music Under the Stars’ logo contest held by El Paso’s Museums and Cultural Affairs Department for the 25th Season of 'Music Under the Stars', a free summer outdoor concert series held at the Chamizal National Memorial.

To The Ends Of The Earth: Utep At The Poles, Anne Giangiulio

Selected Works Temporary Series

I designed the exhibit 'To the Ends of the Earth: UTEP at the Poles' at UTEP’s Centennial Museum. This exhibit displayed the photography and research findings of the IPY-ROAM (International Polar Year–Research and Educational Opportunities in Antarctica for Minorities) program hosted by the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), especially as they pertain to global warming. For more information about the program and this exhibit, go to: http://ipyroam.utep.edu/ The exhibit was also the featured cover story of 'UTEP Magazine's Winter 2008 issue. For a Flash version of this issue go to: http://utepmagazine.utep.edu/winter2008/

Blanket Statements, Issue 94, Winter 2008–2009

Blanket Statements: News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group

Blanket Statements, Issue 94, Winter 2008–2009

Documentary Film Presentation Local Colors: Natural Dyeing In A Milas Carpet Weaving Village, Ulara Tamura, John Wells

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

This documentary, filmed in 2006, examines the process of naturally dyed carpet production in a village in the Milas region of Muğla Prefecture in southwest Turkey, a region well known as a traditional Turkish carpet production area. In large numbers of villages of this region, carpet weaving is the household based work of every woman who lives there.

In this paper, I aim to add more detailed information and discussion specifically on the colors and dyes of the carpets shown in this film. First I will introduce the varieties of the natural dye materials the villagers use one by one. …

The Evolution Of A Tourist Landscape: Wet Plate Collodion Photographs Of The Wisconsin Dells In The Twenty-First Century, Nick Olson

Lawrence University Honors Projects

A modern traveler of Wisconsin most often experiences the landscape through the windows of a car: shut in, listening to the latest hits on the radio, traveling at 70 miles per hour through rolling corn fields in the central part of the state. In this state of mind one cannot learn in-depth what potential experience the landscape has to offer. Of course the experience of an asphalt path flying by underneath is a reality in itself but other possible ways to experience the landscape exist. Along all roads, a plethora of billboards distract the traveler from the space through which …

On Green Technology, Julia Butterfly Hill

SWITCH

In this article, Hill shares a reflection on how humanity has lost its sense of connection with the Earth and each other, a disconnection she calls “Separation Syndrome.” Hill explores how technology can either harm or help depending on how we use it. She encourages artists and creators to approach technology and the environment with connected consciousness, using creativity for healing, sustainability, and transformation.

Rainy, Sara M. Thomas

The Mercury

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Geisha At The Festival Of Ages, Amanda Ward

The Mercury

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Dylan In A Gesture, Chelsea R. Kasten

The Mercury

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Dirty Bath, Kelly Bennett

The Mercury

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War And "Equality", Brian P. Menna

The Mercury

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Foggy Sunrise, Christopher A. Merkle

The Mercury

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Artists Working With The Earth In Mind, Ed Dean

SWITCH

This article explores the work of artist Dan Peterman, who uses recycled materials to create art that promotes sustainability and mutual care between people and the environment. Peterman’s work invites reflection and reuse and blends creativity, community engagement, and environmental consciousness. This article also describes his transformation of an old recycling site into the Experimental Station, a community-focused space for collaboration and renewal.