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Taking In: The Best Of Aib Photography 2011, Aib Students

Taking In

Taking In is a student run project featuring a selection of work created by students attending the Art Institute of Boston. The project focuses on the business of promoting art and culminates each year with a juried exhibition, publication. and website all designed to promote selected works of AIB artists. The selected pieces were chosen anonymously by a jury of distinguished members of the Boston art community to represent the best of AIB Photography in 2011. The book in your hands is the end result of a collective effort by those in the class.

A Meditative Art, Lori White

All Student Theses and Dissertations

My artwork symbolizes the idea of meditation through the true and organic forms. I paint a space where my mind is at ease. A place where all the chaos of the world around me stops and become beauty. In my artwork, the organic forms that I produce reflect the meditative power of natural forms. My mind sees the environment in a simple abstract appearance that mirrors a sense of peace and harmony. By painting with smooth, organic, and soft lines my artwork helps me get to a point of relaxation. Through the process of letting go of the world that …

Impressions Of Reality, Brooke Nicholson

All Student Theses and Dissertations

This thesis reviews the student's reflections and statements on her master's show. Watercolor and graphite (pencil) are used. (Abstract by OPUS staff)

Cultural Transgression: The Pursuit Of Art And Education, Ann Langeman

Research Day (Arts & Humanities, FIMS, and Education)

My research focuses on the transformational role art and education played in my life and seeks to explore broader cultural and educational implications of these experiences.

Jacob Fowler Mfa Thesis Statement, Jacob Fowler

CGU MFA Theses

I am invested in mindless activity, repetitive actions, and hasty production. Performance and completion are at the forefront of my hurried work habits. Practicality has directed my selection of materials and decision-making process toward meaningful and intentional outcomes. However the outcome is reminiscent of goal-oriented activities that are misplaced, in essence, a pragmatic process of customization gone astray. Please see Download button in top right corner for the full statement.

Day Jaw Boo, A Re-Collection, Rachel Vanwagoner

Theses and Dissertations

For my MFA thesis exhibition, I have collected ideas surrounding events that happened in the past and combined them with the ceramic work I have made in the three years of my master's program at Brigham Young University. I have grouped visual elements from Buck Rogers and other Futro (retro-future) pop-culture with ideas surrounding the Voyager Interstellar Mission and the compiling of the Golden Record. Combining these elements in an installation, will create an environment where people can reflect on things they have "already seen" and envision a brighter future. For that reason I playfully call the show Day Jaw …

Since 1980, Sookyung Bae

CGU MFA Theses

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Wilson, Ivan, 1889-1981 (Mss 356), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 356.  Correspondence, photographs, sketches and drawings, writings, journals and clippings of or relating to Ivan Wilson, an artist and faculty member in the Art Department at Western Kentucky University  from 1920 to 1958.  Includes some materials related to other artists.

Drawing A Line In The Sand: Copyright Law And New Museums, Megan M. Carpenter

Law Faculty Scholarship

Over the last twenty years, audience attendance at museums, galleries, and performing arts institutions in the United States has decreased dramatically. Major museums and galleries are considering ways to add engaging and meaningful value to the user experience with technology, from incorporating user-generated content to creating multimedia installations billed as “collaborative” works.

In 2010, the Dallas Museum of Art’s Coastlines: Images of Land and Sea exhibition featured landscapes from 1850 to the present, as well as a sound installation composed by students and faculty in the Arts and Technology program at the University of Texas at Dallas, which played on …

Delicacies, Michelle Carla Handel

CGU MFA Theses

My work initiates a conversation about corporeal strangeness by creating ambiguity or mystery where simultaneous qualities of sensuality, vulnerability, and disgust exist. I create contradictions, subverting pleasing or friendly forms with uncomfortable qualities to elicit a sort of visceral consternation. Cues pointing in different directions can remain simply experiential or they can refer to the complexity of the body and raise questions about human attitudes towards it. Abstraction is used as a visual shorthand or entry point to the body in an effort to describe commonality among humans rather than emphasizing their differences. In this way, there is more freedom …

Selecting In - Selecting Out, Melanie S. Moore Bermudez

CGU MFA Theses

The scientific process was developed as a means to understanding the world around us. It is a systematic approach to reaching the unknown, and consists of fixed and unknown variables. At the beginning of an inquiry the known variables are identified and utilized within the experiment. But working with what is known and predictable can only go so far. It is with the introduction of the unpredictable that gaps are bridged and a new lens to see is created. It is this methodology that is at the foundation of my art practice. Please see Download button in top right corner …

Bousman, Louise Tate, 1906-1979 (Sc 99), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 99. Paper, 1935 (41 p.), entitled "Handwoven Textiles," written by Louise Tate Bousman, Louisville, Kentucky, which is a summary of material gathered for a textile show held at the Kentucky Library & Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky. There are photos and samples included and the the paper is indexed. Also letters of Miss Bousman, 1935, 1945, news clipping and printed item related to weaving.

Erin Payne Mfa Thesis Statement, Erin B. Payne

CGU MFA Theses

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Exhibition Catalog For Blind Corners, Portals And Turning Points, Ronald Mills De Pinyas, Brian Winkenweder

Exhibition Catalogs, Essays, and Related Materials

This catalog features work from the exhibit Blind Corners, Portals and Turning Points by Ronald Mills de Pinyas. Blind Corners, Portals and Turning Points was presented by the Linfield Gallery and the Department of Art and Visual Culture at Linfield College from October 10 through November 12, 2011. Brian Winkenweder's essay "Painting to Be" is included in the catalog.

Systemy Systemus, Anna Macleod

Exhibition Catalogues

No abstract provided.

'European Treasures At The El Paso Museum Of Art' Exhibit Catalog, Anne Giangiulio

Selected Works Temporary Series

Excerpt from the The 313-page book celebrating the 50th anniversary of the museum's founding and the arrival in 1961 of about 60 pieces of art from the Kress collection. That gift from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation was instrumental in launching the city-run art museum, hard cover with dust jacket and end papers exhibition catalog I designed for the El Paso Museum of Art. This catalog won a 2011 Gold ADDY and a Special Judges' Award from the Advertising Federation of El Paso. 6 MB.

'Dear Juarez' Poster Protesting Drug Violence In Juárez, México, Anne Giangiulio

Selected Works Temporary Series

I designed the poster 'Dear Juárez' originally for 'Peace of Art: Design for Change' (www.peaceofartshow.org). This exhibit presents posters of social protest designed by professional and student designers to create awareness of the situation of violence in Cd, Juarez. To give a face to the violence and help people understand that the violence changes people’s lives. It is a display of Peace and/or protest on both sides of the border. More importantly, Peace of Art raises funds that will aid Cd. Juarez victims and their families. The theme of 2011's show was "Perspectives."

'Regina Silveira: Limits & In Absentia (Collection)' Exhibition Catalog, Anne Giangiulio

Selected Works Temporary Series

'Regina Silveira: Limits & In Absentia (Collection)' catalog designed for the exhibits at the Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts and The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT. Please be patient when downloading as file is 17 MB.

A River Interrupted: Making The Case For Changing Our Management Of The Rio Grande, Anne Giangiulio

Selected Works Temporary Series

Designed and helped to install the exhibit 'A River Interrupted: Making the Case for Changing our Management of the Rio Grande' on display May 17–December 22, 2011 at The Centennial Museum at The University of Texas at El Paso. This bilingual exhibit's content was created by faculty and students of UTEP's Department of Biology and Center for Environmental Resource Management. The exhibit features data gathered by them and the World Wildlife Fund. Please be patient when downloading as file is 2.7 MB

Ailbhe & Johnny's Wedding Invitations, Anne Giangiulio

Selected Works Temporary Series

I designed this pop-up wedding invitation for my good friends. It was inspired by a much simpler, handmade pop-up card from Oaxaca, Mexico that the groom had bought the bride when they were dating and that they both loved. The hands of bridesmaids, family, and friends were enlisted for the measuring, cutting, tying and gluing that these invites required. With coordinating lined envelopes, hand-calligraphy addresses and metallic gold wax seals, These invitations were truly a labor of love. We even made confetti out of any leftover paper scraps!

Dealing Death And Drugs: The Big Business Of Dope In The U.S. And Mexico, Anne Giangiulio

Selected Works Temporary Series

Excerpt from the book I designed, 'Dealing Death and Drugs: The Big Business of Dope in the U.S. and Mexico' by El Paso City Representatives Susie Byrd and Beto O’Rourke. Published by Cinco Puntos Press. Byrd and O’Rourke soon realized American drug use and United States' failed War on Drugs are at the core of problem. In Dealing Death and Drugs—a book written for the general reader—they explore the costs and consequences of marijuana prohibition. They argue that marijuana prohibition has created a black market so profitable that drug kingpins are billionaires and drug control doesn’t stand a chance. Using …

Segunda Llamada: Actions For Sustainable Use Of Water Poster Submission, Anne Giangiulio

Selected Works Temporary Series

With the aim to raise awareness over the current environmental situation: Segunda llamada, the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana (Autonomous Metropolitan University) and Natura Mexico extended the invitation to participate in the 2nd International Poster Competition with the theme: Actions for sustainable use of water. I submitted this poster which translates to "Why save water today? For tomorrow."

Which Side Are You On? The Story Of A Song, Anne Giangiulio

Selected Works Temporary Series

Excerpt from the graphic novel I designed, 'Which Side Are You On? The Story of a Song' by George Ella Lyon, in collaboration with Brooklyn illustrator Christopher Cardinale, published by Cinco Puntos Press. 'Which Side Are You On?' tells the story of a song which was written in 1931 by Florence Reece in a rain of bullets. It has been sung by people fighting for their rights all over the world. Florence’s husband Sam was a coal miner in Kentucky. Many of the coal mines were owned by big companies, who kept wages low and spent as little money on …

Building A City And A Nation: Immigration Stories From El Paso, Texas, Anne Giangiulio

Selected Works Temporary Series

Designed and helped to install the exhibit 'Building a City and a Nation: Immigration Stories from El Paso, Texas' on display March 1, 2011 to May 15, 2011 at the Main Branch of the El Paso Public Library. This bilingual exhibit's content was created by faculty and students of UTEP's Department of History. The exhibit features historic portraits taken at the Casasola Photography Studio in El Paso, Texas and documents the experiences, struggles and triumphs of people crossing into the United States from Mexico with images of immigrants hailing from Mexico, Lebanon, China and beyond. The exhibit later traveled to …

Taking Sides, But Who’S Counting? The Decagonal Tomb Tower At Maragha

Textile Research Works

Lu and Steinhardt introduced the term “girih tiles” to describe the set of equilateral polygons that structures a colorful two-dimensional decagonal tiling on the Darb-e Imam in Isfahan, Iran (1453 CE) with distant roots in the five-fold symmetries articulated in brick on the Gonbad-e Qabud, a tomb tower dated to the late 12th century CE located at Maragha in western Iran. Their work seeks to establish the early existence of quasi-crystalline tilings long before such means of covering the plane were understood mathematically in the West. Questions remained unanswered as to whether those who constructed these monuments were aware of …

Laser Cutting Informatics, Charlotte Becket

Cornerstone 2 Reports : Community Outreach and Empowerment Through Service Learning and Volunteerism

No abstract provided.

Blanket Statements, Issue 106, Winter 2011–2012

Blanket Statements: News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group

Blanket Statements, Issue 106, Winter 2011–2012

The Memory Of Forgotten Things, Brittany Metz

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis investigates my lack of childhood memories and documents how my artwork stands in as a substitute for that lost memory. The first part of the thesis analyzes my early life and influences; the second part analyzes my art making and process. The narrative style of writing is intentionally autobiographical to mimic the narrative style and structure of the thesis installation. My upbringing, interests, creative process, access to materials, and inspiration are fully explored. The impact my early life has on my current work is evident. Real memory is combined with created memory in the thesis multi-media installation. I …

Assessing (Multi)Culturalism Through Public Art Practices, Anru Lee, Perng-Juh Peter Shyong

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

Unmasking Creativity: Process & Product, Diana Gregory

Exhibition Publications

The Georgia Art Education Association 2011 Member Exhibition Although creativity is a multidimensional, multifaceted complex of ideas, the inspiration and illumination for artworks is often found in the mundane and the ordinary. The works chosen for Unmasking Creativity: Process and Product were evaluated not only for their aesthetic production, but also for the explanation of their creative process. Providing a glimpse into what motivated the artist’s choices offers the viewer a deeper understanding of the work.