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Kepler-16b, Nasa Jpl, Dan Goods, David Delgado

Morehead State University Art Collection

An undated print of planet Kepler-16b by the NASA JPL team in a series titled "Visions of the Future."

Beyond The Crimson Door, Erik J. Medina

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

An alcoholic father is forced to raise his daughter after the death of his wife. He has been trying to get better with the help of his doctor, but things only seem to get worse when the nightmares he's been having slowly start to merge with his reality. Not knowing what is real and fake, his world is turned upside down when the nightmares begin to threaten his daughter.

Tailormade : Fine Art Merchandise, Mirabelle Alan

MA Projects

This Master’s Thesis Project proposes a three-year business plan for establishing TAILORMADE, an online platform that develops fine art merchandise through accessible means to combat intellectual property theft from emerging artists. It analyzes how merchandise is used as a method in transforming the ways we create, buy and sell art. It also addresses how fast-fashion stores use their mass-produced merchandise as to copy artworks from emerging artists without consent or compensation. Through this analysis, TAILORMADE proposes a company that sells merchandise made by the artist, for the art lover, and that maintains artistic integrity.

TAILORMADE also taps into an emerging …

Index Of Mind, Ziqing Gao

MA Projects

Li Xiangming: Index of Mind, is an exhibition focuses on the artist’s recent productions and his contemplation of “object” and “its relations.” The collection demonstrates the artist’s freewill of creation and his hope of conveying his care and bring attention to the group of people who has been neglected in the trace of history. Li has not only been dedicated to express the living condition and mental state of a certain region, though to express the life and the will to live shared by all through his use of ordinary materials and subject matters with collective memories. This exhibition could …

Intelligent Art, Lindsay Covington

MA Projects

This proposal outlines the development of software, composed of a network of machine learning algorithms, which aims to eliminate risk associated with investment in Post-War and Contemporary art.

While art funds employ specialists to inform decision-making, there still remains an unsettling level of volatility in the art market, especially in the Contemporary art sector. This program will inform art fund specialists on what to buy and sell based on a variety of factors. These factors, which the program include economic predictors, changes in political climate, art news, celebrity sales and social media trends. Sentiment analysis of articles will be used …

Connecting Art And The Public Through Digital Marketing And Brand Collaboration – Co-Art, A New Art Marketing Agency, Qing Su

MA Projects

Traditional art marketing often focuses on physical exhibitions, in-person networking, and the endorsement of the art world “gatekeepers.” The making of a “star” artist relies not only on the quality of the art itself, but also on how galleries (the art marketers) orchestrate the complex power dynamics in the art industry – critics, curators, institutions, and collectors. This long-lasting mechanism leads to the elitization of the art world and disconnection with the mass public as it targets only a niche number of audiences that might make an influence on an artist’s career, price, and portfolio. COART is an agency that …

ประติมากรรม: ประจำเดือนและสภาวะความเจ็บปวดภายใต้อิทธิพลของฮอร์โมนเพศที่เปลี่ยนแปลงในร่างกายของสตรีวัยเจริญพันธุ์, ชาลิศา วงษ์มงคล

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การวิจัยเชิงสร้างสรรค์เรื่อง ประติมากรรม: ประจำเดือนและสภาวะความเจ็บปวดภายใต้อิทธิพลของฮอร์โมนเพศที่เปลี่ยนแปลงในร่างกายของสตรีวัยเจริญพันธุ์ มีวัตถุประสงค์วิจัยเพื่อ 1. ศึกษาประเด็นที่เกี่ยวข้องกับประจำเดือนในกรอบของสังคม วัฒนธรรม และในทางการแพทย์ 2. สร้างสรรค์ผลงานประติมากรรมที่สะท้อนภาวะความเจ็บปวดจากการมีประจำเดือน ทั้งทางร่างกายและจิตใจ การวิจัยนี้ เป็นการวิจัยจากการสำรวจลักษณะอาการในขณะมีประจำเดือนของตนเอง บันทึกข้อมูลโดยใช้รูปแบบการบันทึก Calendar of Premenstrual Experiences (COPE) โดยแบ่งลักษณะอาการเป็น 2 กลุ่ม คือ อาการทางกายและอาการทางจิตใจ ร่วมกับการศึกษาข้อมูลที่เกี่ยวข้องกับประจำเดือนทั้งในเชิงการแพทย์ สังคม และวัฒนธรรม เพื่อสร้างชุดข้อมูลที่ใช้กำหนดแนวทางในการสร้างสรรค์ ผู้วิจัยใช้วิธีวิทยาของทฤษฎีปรากฏการณ์วิทยา (Phenomenology) ในการทำความเข้าใจความรู้สึกจากประสบการณ์ การมีประจำเดือนของตนเอง และศึกษาทฤษฎีที่เกี่ยวข้องทั้งในด้านแนวคิดกับอารมณ์ (Expression) แนวคิดเกี่ยวกับความเจ็บปวด (Painful) ทฤษฎีสัญวิทยา (Semiology) รวมถึงผลงานศิลปกรรมที่เกี่ยวข้อง เพื่อหารูปแบบและวัสดุที่สามารถแสดงคุณลักษณะถึงความรู้สึกของสภาวะความเจ็บปวดทรมานจากการมีประจำเดือนได้ ผลงานศิลปกรรมที่สะท้อนภาพความเจ็บปวดจากการมีประจำเดือน โดยนำประสบการณ์และการเลือกใช้วัสดุมาสร้างสรรค์ผลงานที่สะท้อนอารมณ์ความรู้สึกจากการมีประจำเดือนที่ส่งผลต่อร่างกายและชีวิตประจำวัน จากผลงานสร้างสรรค์สามารถสรุปได้ว่า การใช้เทคนิคกระบวนการและวัสดุที่เชื่อมโยงถึงความเป็นผู้หญิง มีศักยภาพพอที่จะใช้เพื่อสื่อสารถึงประสบการณ์ความเป็นผู้หญิง การเชื่อมโยงแต่ละส่วนเข้าด้วยกันในผลงานประติมากรรมสามารถถ่ายทอดเรื่องราวความเจ็บปวดจากการมีประจำเดือนที่เกิดขึ้นทางร่างกายและจิตใจ

The Importance Of True Friendship As Exemplified Within Shakespearean Plays, Gretchen Eckert

Senior Honors Theses

Friendship is a valuable, important relationship, because a friend possesses great influence over a person’s life. For this reason, a good friend with a positive character is indispensable. In the Bible, God defined a true friend as selfless, generous, loyal, and honest. William Shakespeare valued the influence of a loyal friend, and his plays include a broad range of friendships that illustrate the impact of a friend’s characteristics. In Macbeth, Banquo proves to be a true, supportive friend who points Macbeth towards God. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hermia and Helena struggle with the selfishness that injures their …

Exhibition "Louisiana's Natural Treasure: Margaret Stones, Botanical Artist", Leah Wood Jewett, John D. Miles, Christina Riquelmy

Special Collections

In 2020, LSU Libraries Special Collections presented the exhibition “Louisiana’s Natural Treasure: Margaret Stones, Botanical Artist” at Hill Memorial Library, featuring selected original watercolor paintings and archival materials related to the Native Flora of Louisiana project.

A native of Australia, Margaret Stones (1920-2018) achieved an acclaimed international career that spanned three continents. Commissioned by LSU and funded by private donations, more than 200 watercolor drawings of Louisiana plants produced by Stones during the 1970s and 1980s are among the most treasured holdings of LSU Libraries Special Collections.

The Native Flora of Louisiana project was grounded in a long historical tradition …

Index Of Dirt: Composing And Composting In Art And Education, Circa 2020, Carol N. Padberg

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

This photo essay presents an abridged version of a performative lecture addressing strategies for regenerative art education and arts-based research. Using an alphabetized compilation of stories, texts, objects and lessons, the index provides examples of how embodied, field-based art education can provide appropriate learning methods for art students of the Anthropocene who bear the burden of the economic, environmental, and emotional precarities of our times.

Observation, Beth Ann Hamilton

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

We have been conditioned by past generations in our understanding of portrait importance. On the contemporary side of portraiture, most pictures are concealed within tech devices. Among common society, these personal phone portraits of oneself are considered tactless, and taboo. Most do not exist in a tangible context. It is my mission to display these portraits with a sense of grandeur and appreciation. My work is a retaliation to the boundaries of what was and what is portraiture.

My work consists of heavily decorated mixed media portraits set in a domestic realm, focusing on blissful sensuality. My art projects range …

Enigmatic Mediterranean Silk Quilts, Kathryn Berenson

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Nearly two dozen centuries-old, corded quilts and fragments made of jewel-toned silks rest in North American and European collections. Expertly designed, they are variously stitched with imagery of ships sailing over waters that teem with fish, musicians who play amidst animals that gambol and prance to their music, armed hunters and their dogs in pursuit of boar, wolf, and even lion, and arcaded galleries where half-dressed women pose beneath the arches. Double-headed eagles, a symbol of both political and religious significance, and roundels featuring profiles of men wearing turbans or crowns, are also common motifs.

Each quilt is completely reversible; …

People, Landscape And Wool Weaving In Venezuelan Andes, María Dávila, Eduardo Portillo

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Wool weaving has been practiced in the Venezuelan Andean region for centuries, specifically at the Paramo ecosystem. This activity was introduced by the Spaniards and shaped by the relation of its inhabitants with the environment, warm clothing needs, climate, and the isolation of the place. Blankets and ruanas have been made traditionally on elementary handlooms by weavers who still use handspun wool, cotton, and natural dyes. Beauty in simplicity has built a singular aesthetic to be worn within the mist of the mountains. This paper intends to share a personal encounter of the authors with the community of weavers, spinners, …

Coming Together Again: A Case Study On Persian Silk Woven Textiles, Tayana Fincher

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Spanning well beyond the parameters of the Middle East, Islam has always had a global reach. It has adapted to numerous cultures and ancient histories encountered over the past 1,400 years. But, due to the prevailing Eurocentric purview in American museums, little has been recorded about the artists and makers of Islamic textiles. Many of these objects were produced by collective, royal workshops with unnamed contributors, or were intended for devotional use inside domestic spaces. With colonial ventures, too, many passed through the hands of collectors and dealers solely interested in the object’s material or aesthetic value.

A group of …

Transformative Power Of Stitchery: Sashiko From Cold Regions Of Japan And Embroidery Work Of The Nui Project, Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

This paper seeks to reveal the transformative power of stitchery by examining textile practices in Japan and articulating how a threaded needle can be viewed as the co-agent of stitchers, infusing their materials with properties in a “processual” and relational manner that reflects the currents of their lifeworld.^[1] I will contrast and compare two practices, one ancient and one modern, one responding to life’s necessities and the other simply to the act of stitching. In the ancient world, stitchery was essential for human survival, and later in rural Japan, sashiko stitchery was a medium that connected textiles with daily …

Where Can Objects Take You? The Case Of The World War Ii Japanese Airman's Suit, Madelyn Shaw, Trish Fitzsimons

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

“Dad always said that ‘It’s made out of Australian wool,’ and I thought that was just a joke because you couldn’t see how the Japanese would get hold of Australian wool during the war…. But it is a fine material…. They weren’t scrapping for something to wear.” —Wally Lanagan

In December 1942, the Yokosuka Military Department manufactured, surely among hundreds of others, a flying suit, which may or may not have ever been worn by a Japanese pilot. It did, however, end up on display at the Pioneer Park Museum in Dalby, a small town in rural Queensland, Australia. It …

Textile Memory In Colchane: Weavers Revitalizing The Aymara Tradition, Soledad Hoces De La Guardia

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

In Aymara culture, textiles have played a fundamental role as highly valued community possessions and significant media for ritual and tradition. In Chilean territory, the Colchane community has been fortunate, because they have here retained, with fidelity and vigor, their culture and traditional textile practices. However, the average age of active weavers is rising and those younger do not have the technical expertise of their elders, which has led to the loss of a significant part of traditional technical knowledge.

To not forget the “handwork” became an urgent concern for artisans in the community, members of the Aymar Warmi association, …

Viscacha: Luxury, Fate And Identification In Precolumbian Textiles, Elena Phipps, Caroline Solazzo

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Since the sixteenth century, references by Spanish chroniclers to the use of chinchilla hair (Andean rodents of several species including viscacha) by Andean weavers indicate that the fine hair of these animals had been incorporated into textiles. Their fine soft hair, often mottled in color, has distinctive characteristics which vary and, as a result, make them difficult to identify. Some archaeological finds, primarily in Chile have reported viscacha skins and fur bags, but few if any reports have identified the presence of textiles or spun yarns that incorporate this special fiber. The depiction of the animal takes on special meaning …

Unseen, Unheard, Unnamed: The Matchless And Unsung Heroes Of The Textile Art And Craft Of Rajasthan, Simrita Singh, Anu H. Gupta

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Rajasthan is known for its exquisite handicrafts, especially the textiles. In spite of having the most vibrant and glorious traditions, this sector has been grossly unorganized due to the poor socio-economic status of the artisans. The educational background of the artisans also is not satisfactory; hence, they lack public relations skills. They are totally dependent on big traders and middlemen for marketing purposes. Moreover, in this era of labels and designers, the artisans, however skilled or endowed they may be, have to work under some renowned brand or name to have a regular livelihood. However, not all artisans are lucky …

Artistic Philanthropy And Women’S Emancipation In Early Twentieth-Century Italy, In The Life And The Work Of Romeyne Robert And Carolina Amari, Ruggero Ranieri

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Romeyne Robert, married as Ranieri di Sorbello, started an embroidery school in 1904 in Umbria, at the family’s country estate of Pischiello. Her goal was to teach young peasant women to emancipate themselves by learning the craft of embroidery. She was inspired by the Arts and Crafts movement in America and by contemporary programs developed in settlement houses along the East Coast. Their aim was to help the emancipation of immigrant women from Italy by fostering the recovery of artisan skills. At the Sorbello Embroidery School, Romeyne rediscovered the Renaissance technique originally called the punto Umbro, later renamed punto Sorbello. …

Tribal Textiles And The Mingei Circle In Japan: Muneyoshi Yanagi’S View On Carpet, Yumiko Kamada

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Tribal carpets and textiles have been enthusiastically collected by connoisseurs and ordinary people in Europe and the United States for years. Along with a number of publications on tribal carpets and textiles, several recent exhibitions such as Portable Storage: Tribal Weavings from the Collection of William and Inger Ginsberg at the Metropolitan Museum of Art indicate a keen academic interest in the West. In contrast, tribal carpets and textiles did not gain the attention of the majority of Japanese. However, some Japanese, especially Yanagi Muneyoshi and his friends in the Mingei circle, notably Hamada Shoji, Serizawa Keisuke, and Tonomura Kichinosuke, …

Melacak Akar Kreativitas Di Kota Bandung Masa Kolonial, Achmad Sunjayadi

Paradigma: Jurnal Kajian Budaya

In 2007 Bandung was designated as a pilot project for the creative cities of Asia Pacific, and in 2015 Bandung was included in the UNESCO Creative Cities Network. It is related to the development of the city of Bandung and the creativity of the population. Its creativity is formed through a process. This article traces the roots of this creativity since the beginning of its formation in the early 19th century to become the city of Bandung in the early 20th century. The method used is the historical method supported by creative cities’ and voluntary organization’s concepts. Primary sources were …

Decolonizing Gender Identities In Indonesia: A Study Of Bissu ‘The Trans-Religious Leader’ In Bugis People, Petsy Jessy Ismoyo

Paradigma: Jurnal Kajian Budaya

Bhinneka Tunggal Ika is one of the pillars of Indonesia that has placed our nation and nationess to a diversity of identity, from genders, tribes, religions, to cultures. Indonesia has a long history of gender diversity that recognized various gender identities as part of the culture. Henceforth, In Indonesia, gender is not perceived in a binary way between male or female, masculine and feminine, without giving the ‘third space’ to other genders and sexuality. For example, Bugis people recognize five genders: oroané, makkunrai, calabai, calalai, and bissu, which will be examined further in this paper. In reality, a lively debate …

Dredge The Foundry | For Dirt And Era, Woody Stauffer

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

Billions of years are past us and billions of years await. Shaping earthen material into sculptural abstractions is my way to sense and convey the lethargic natural progression of the planet. Fossilization, rot, dirt, plant growth, animal existence, and rust are aesthetics I endow with new perspectives and form through mold making and casting. The dichotomy between the eons of time behind us and the endless possibility of a technological future has inspired the addition of a science fiction aesthetic. To rust these computerized constructed geometric forms demonstrates how futuristic ideals will also wither away. In many ways we are …

Ecological Art Exhibition As Transformative Pedagogy, Stacey Skold

College of Education and Human Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Environmental degradation is considered one of the biggest issues facing humankind. The problem is deep and global with fast fashion playing a significant, yet underrealized role. Scholars have established that developing the sustainable behaviors necessary to mitigate the effects of environmental degradation is a complex process, that knowledge of environmental degradation alone is insufficient to develop sustainable behaviors, and that both attitudinal and behavioral transformations are necessary for global environmental action and stewardship. As a result, researchers have called for new approaches to environmental education to promote transformative learning.

Art experiences can function as a powerful tool in learning and …

This Month, Jennifer N. Figueroa

Theses and Dissertations

This Month is a series of collages that depict police violence at civil rights and Black Lives Matter protests. By pairing events from 1964 to contemporary protests that occurred in the same month, the collection draws a connection between the past and present.

The Sky's The Limit, Andrew Zhang '22

Distinguished Student Work - Visual Arts

Photograph

Visual Literacy Lesson Plan: Color Photography, Ian Mcdermott

Open Educational Resources

This session focuses on building subject knowledge in photography and finding background information on an artist. The lesson begins with students closely examining a photograph, following the Visual Thinking Strategies model (https://vtshome.org/). Following the exercise, students are divided into groups and select a monograph on a photographer. As a group, they research the photographer using the book and other library resources (subscription databases) and open web resources (artist’s website, museum websites). The session ends with student groups giving 2-5 minute presentations on a photographer.

Pathos, Winter 2020, Portland State University. Student Publications Board

Pathos

Editor: Sadie Jordan

การสร้างสรรค์ผลงานทางดุริยางคศิลป์: ตับเรื่องเกาะสีชัง, สันติ อุดมศรี

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การสร้างสรรค์ผลงานทางดุริยางคศิลป์: ตับเรื่องเกาะสีชัง มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อศึกษาภูมิหลังทางประวัติศาสตร์และมูลบทที่เกี่ยวข้องกับเกาะสีชัง จังหวัดชลบุรี และเพื่อสร้างสรรค์ผลงานทางดุริยางคศิลป์: ตับเรื่องเกาะสีชัง โดยใช้ระเบียบวิธีวิจัยเชิงคุณภาพ เก็บและรวบรวมข้อมูลจากการศึกษาค้นคว้าทางเอกสาร การสัมภาษณ์ผู้เกี่ยวข้อง ผู้ทรงคุณวุฒิ และการเก็บข้อมูลภาคสนาม ผลการวิจัยพบว่า เกาะสีชังมีความน่าสนใจทั้งด้านประวัติความเป็นมาจากการเป็นสถานที่จอดพักเรือสินค้าเพื่อหลบลมพายุ ต่อมาใช้เป็นสถานที่ประทับตากอากาศของพระมหากษัตริย์และชนชั้นสูง เป็นเกาะเดียวในประเทศไทยที่มีพระราชวังตั้งอยู่ ปัจจุบันเกาะสีชังเป็นแหล่งท่องเที่ยวที่มีชื่อเสียงของภาคตะวันออก พัฒนาการดังกล่าวจึงเป็นแรงบันดาลใจให้ผู้วิจัยสร้างสรรค์ผลงานในลักษณะของเพลงตับประเภทตับเรื่อง เพื่อบอกเล่าเรื่องราว ความเป็นมาและความน่าสนใจของเกาะสีชัง ผ่านบทเพลงที่สร้างสรรค์ขึ้นใหม่ในลักษณะกลอนสุภาพ ตามหลักการประพันธ์เพลงในลักษณะบันดาลรังสฤษฏ์ ของรองศาสตราจารย์พิชิต ชัยเสรี และแนวคิดการประพันธ์เพลงของรองศาสตราจารย์ปกรณ์ รอดช้างเผื่อน โดยนำคำขวัญของเกาะสีชังมาสร้างสรรค์บทร้องเพลงคำขวัญเกาะสีชัง และนำเรื่องราวเกี่ยวกับเกาะสีชังมาสร้างสรรค์บทร้องและทำนองเพลง ได้แก่ เพลงปฐมลิขิต บอกเล่าถึงที่มาของชื่อเกาะสีชัง เพลงศักดิ์สิทธิ์สีชัง บอกเล่าเรื่องราวเกี่ยวกับสิ่งศักดิ์สิทธิ์ที่ชาวเกาะสีชังนับถือ เพลงสรณังราชฐาน บอกเล่าประวัติและความสำคัญของพระราชวังจุฑาธุชราชฐาน และสร้างสรรค์เพลงสุขสนานชาวเกาะ และเพลงแสนเสนาะสีชล เพื่อบอกเล่าความเปลี่ยนแปลงของชุมชนเกาะสีชังสู่แหล่งท่องเที่ยวที่สำคัญ ทั้งนี้ เพลงที่สร้างสรรค์ทั้งหมด ใช้บันไดเสียงเพียงออล่าง และใช้กลุ่มเสียงปัญจมูล ซลท x รม x มากที่สุด อีกทั้งผู้วิจัยใช้สำเนียงจีนในเพลงศักดิ์สิทธิ์สีชัง และใช้สำเนียงลาว สำเนียงจีน และสำเนียงฝรั่ง ในเพลงสุขสนานชาวเกาะ เพื่อสะท้อนว่าเกาะสีชังเป็นที่พักอาศัยและเป็นแหล่งท่องเที่ยวของคนหลากหลายเชื้อชาติ นอกจากนั้น ผู้วิจัยยังได้สร้างสรรค์ทำนองเพลงแสนเสนาะสีชลตามแนวรำวงประยุกต์แบบชาวบ้าน เพื่อสื่อถึงความสนุกสนานเชิญชวนไปท่องเที่ยวที่เกาะสีชัง