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The Dark House And Its Inhabitants, Emily Bielski
The Dark House And Its Inhabitants, Emily Bielski
MFA in Illustration & Visual Culture
From the inception of the genre, Gothic horror has been fixated on the domestic space in distress. This essay explores domestic archetypes and roles of the Gothic novel, serving as a “tour of the house”, analyzing the iconography of the dark castle, and how it externalizes and exacerbates the fears and behaviors of its inhabitants. The power dynamic of the household is starkly divided by the expectations and authority of masculine and feminine figures. In turn the “house” becomes a vehicle for the anxieties of the inhabitants—both experienced and inflicted—regarding gender, sexuality, isolation, and abuse. Exploration of the visual and …
Legends Of Light: Crafting Middle Grade Fantasy In The Tradition Of Catholic Philosophy And Medieval Visual Culture, Bernadette Lamb
Legends Of Light: Crafting Middle Grade Fantasy In The Tradition Of Catholic Philosophy And Medieval Visual Culture, Bernadette Lamb
MFA in Illustration & Visual Culture
This essay promotes the writing and illustrating of middle grade literature that mirrors the wonder-inducing experiences of leafing through an illuminated manuscript and stepping into a Gothic cathedral. An examination of Catholic medieval visual culture moves into a discussion on its underlying philosophy and theology, which are profoundly centered on relational healing and the dignity of the human person. Christian writers including St. Pope John Paul II, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Josef Pieper, Madeline L’Engle, Dr. Bob Schuchts, Makoto Fujimura, and Andrew Peterson inform an exploration of mercy, forgiveness, and love as self-gift in the context of illustration and storytelling …
A Perfect Escape: Fantasy, Place And Narrative In Adolescence, Cydney Cherepak
A Perfect Escape: Fantasy, Place And Narrative In Adolescence, Cydney Cherepak
MFA in Illustration & Visual Culture
This essay explores the realms of special places, the literary genre of fantasy, narrative, and comics. These topics are traversed alongside subjects of adolescence and the creation of stories for middle-grade readers. Framed with personal stories, as well as peaks into my process, I investigate these subjects through the lens of my own life and work, specifically my thesis project, a comic for middle-grade readers titled Beyond the Castle Walls. Beginning with adolescence in association with special places, I consider the work of developmental psychologists David Sobel and Edith Cobb as they pin-point the role of secret forts, nature, …
Meet Me In The Middle Ages: Engaging With Fantasy, Reality, And Collaborative World-Building, Amanda Greene
Meet Me In The Middle Ages: Engaging With Fantasy, Reality, And Collaborative World-Building, Amanda Greene
MFA in Illustration & Visual Culture
This critical essay accompanies and describes my thesis project, Medievalia Miscellany, a magazine for middle-grade readers which explores the world of medieval fantasy through art, comics, stories, and activities. Throughout the essay, I use my own term “archaeological upcycling” to discuss and explore a variety of relationships between ideas of parts and a whole. I then use it to characterize the way stories are created out of many different parts and how these parts help a reader to relate to both the world of the story and the world in which they live. I describe the genre of medieval fantasy …
Material Encounters: Making Memory Beyond The Mind, Ariel Wills
Material Encounters: Making Memory Beyond The Mind, Ariel Wills
Masters Theses
Can acts of making carry the memories of our embeddedness within the world? This thesis explores how making things can nurture a sense of kinship that cuts across the organic and inorganic, erasing the distinction between living and dead, material and spiritual. Through handwork such as art-making, sewing, knitting, cooking, woodworking, and beyond, the burden of remembering and of archiving is shared across human and non-human bodies, cultivated through practices of making, and through the materials themselves. By recounting the stories of my family’s experience as Jewish immigrants in the United States, I aim to reveal how their domestic practices …
The Sunday Night Black & White 4, Sunday Night Bombers
The Sunday Night Black & White 4, Sunday Night Bombers
The Sunday Night Bombers
A zine featuring black and white art and short form narrative.
The Sunday Night Black & White 8, Sunday Night Bombers
The Sunday Night Black & White 8, Sunday Night Bombers
The Sunday Night Bombers
A compilation zine featuring black and white art and short form narrative.
The Sunday Night Black & White 5, Sunday Night Bombers
The Sunday Night Black & White 5, Sunday Night Bombers
The Sunday Night Bombers
A compilation zine featuring black and white art and short form narrative.
The Sunday Night Black & White 6, Sunday Night Bombers
The Sunday Night Black & White 6, Sunday Night Bombers
The Sunday Night Bombers
A compilation zine featuring black and white art and short form narrative.
The Sunday Night Black & White 7, Sunday Night Bombers
The Sunday Night Black & White 7, Sunday Night Bombers
The Sunday Night Bombers
A compilation zine featuring black and white art and short form narrative.
The Wolf Is Back By Robert Priest, Kelly Shepherd
The Wolf Is Back By Robert Priest, Kelly Shepherd
The Goose
Review of Robert Priest's The Wolf is Back.
The Sunday Night Black & White 1, Sunday Night Bombers
The Sunday Night Black & White 1, Sunday Night Bombers
The Sunday Night Bombers
A compilation zine featuring black and white art and short form narrative.
The Sunday Night Black & White 2, Sunday Night Bombers
The Sunday Night Black & White 2, Sunday Night Bombers
The Sunday Night Bombers
A compilation zine featuring black and white art and short form narrative.
The Sunday Night Black & White 3, Sunday Night Bombers
The Sunday Night Black & White 3, Sunday Night Bombers
The Sunday Night Bombers
A compilation zine featuring black and white art and short form narrative.
Untitled, Anonymous Author
Unititled, Anonymous Author
Untitled, Anonymous Author
Untitled, Anonymous Author
Mer-Me, Jennifer Jensen
Leopard Print, Jennifer Jensen
Housewife's Heart, Jennifer Jensen
Housewife's Heart, Jennifer Jensen
The Tuxedo Archives
Illustration - social commentary