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Dig, Spin, Repeat, Brittany Anne Sievers Jan 2017

Dig, Spin, Repeat, Brittany Anne Sievers

LSU Master's Theses

Dig, Spin, Repeat, is a body of process based installation objects that uses minimalistic aesthetics placed strategically in the gallery to highlight the architecture of the room. By connecting these unique architectural elements, the work aims to achieve mindfulness similar to the research of Ellen Langer: encouraging active observation. Drawing from my background in sports and factory work, I create multiple repetitive forms out of hand-spun yarn and sourced clay. The room-sized installation objects produced from these raw materials explore the value of staying in the present moment for both the viewer and myself.


After;Life, Morgan Lynn Anderson Jan 2017

After;Life, Morgan Lynn Anderson

LSU Master's Theses

After;life is an exploration of the time and space between life and death. The installation, created from dozens of woodcut prints, creates this imaginary place, and encompasses viewers through sight, smell, sound, and touch. All elements of this installation are heavily influenced by Southern Louisiana culture and wildlife, and are meant to be familiar enough to provoke personal memory and experience. A set of rituals in the form of three poems, corresponding to three different spirit guides: The Black Dog, The Alligator, and The Opossum, lead the reader through the space from life, through liminal, into death.


The Truth About Your Monsters, Cassidy Creek Jan 2017

The Truth About Your Monsters, Cassidy Creek

LSU Master's Theses

The Truth About Your Monsters is an immersive and dialogical exhibition formatted as a walk-through storybook environment. Viewers are transported into a child’s make believe world through hands-on stations. By building on the skeleton of an archetypal narrative, audience members are encouraged to tap into their own experience as they contribute imagery and action to the narrative. I call on audience members to discuss personal or universal fears by prompting them to draw images of monsters that represent their fear.


Coasteering, Adam James Meistrell Jan 2017

Coasteering, Adam James Meistrell

LSU Master's Theses

Coasteering: (noun) An adventure sport tasked with defining and exploring boundaries and coastlines. Adam Meistrell’s artwork is an invitation to interpret evidence and inspiration through making, investigation, and utility. He utilizes a variety of working methods to interpret evidence and share his understanding.


One Two One, Brianna Morgan Ozanne Jan 2017

One Two One, Brianna Morgan Ozanne

LSU Master's Theses

These things, they speak in whispers. Come close, lean in, listen up. Whisper back. Tell me everything. I know you’ve been here, too. I know you’ll understand. I know you have a shoebox full of memories just like these hidden deep inside your closet. I know.


Baby's Day Out, Andrea Nicole Berg Jan 2017

Baby's Day Out, Andrea Nicole Berg

LSU Master's Theses

Baby's Day Out explores the world through a phenomenological newness that is expressed within abstract figurative painting. Fact and fiction blend in this fantastical array of emotions and real-world referents. I relied on quick mark-making, intuition, and gestural brushwork to explore representations of psychic and emotional states. The results are reminiscent of dreams, poems, secret whispers, unconscious fantasies, and delusions. The viewer is left to navigate the aporia of the space, by gingerly extending each limb forward and backward, to wander from piece to piece. Meaning is relative as the content of each painting is dependent on the interpretive lens …


Reach, Abigail Lauretta Smithson Jan 2017

Reach, Abigail Lauretta Smithson

LSU Master's Theses

During the past three years, I have asked the same two questions over and over again: What is a photograph capable of communicating? What is a document of a place? My thesis exhibition and paper explore these questions using basketball, an art form and creative outlet that I have loved since childhood, as a starting point. Basketball is the lens that I have chosen to look through when approaching my work and a metaphor for larger societal issues, such as racism and gun violence.


Everythingsfine, Reanna Schultz Jan 2017

Everythingsfine, Reanna Schultz

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Disarming discomfort through irony, material, and absurdity is at the center of my practice. I chose to describe my efforts of coping through installation instead of objects because I desire to create an immersive experience for viewers. Using a broadly recognized metaphor as weather allows me to reveal the silent yet ubiquitous nature that so many who suffer from anxiety and depression try to conceal. Depression often coexists with anxiety and both share the ability to alter one's perception of reality. The light bulb cloud installation includes hundreds of burnt-out incandescent bulbs to evoke the accumulation of listlessness, emptiness, and …


Volume 2, Issue 1 Jan 2017

Volume 2, Issue 1

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Musings From The Dean, Elaine Wallace Jan 2017

Musings From The Dean, Elaine Wallace

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Guest Editor's Introduction, Steven Caras Jan 2017

Guest Editor's Introduction, Steven Caras

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Editor's Introduction, Janet Lynn Roseman-Halsband Jan 2017

Editor's Introduction, Janet Lynn Roseman-Halsband

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Photograph Of Mikhail Baryshnikov, 1996, Steven Caras Jan 2017

Photograph Of Mikhail Baryshnikov, 1996, Steven Caras

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Photograph Of Mikhail Baryshnikov Dancing Apollo, 1978, Steven Caras Jan 2017

Photograph Of Mikhail Baryshnikov Dancing Apollo, 1978, Steven Caras

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Photograph Of Tom Conboy, West Palm Beach, 1994, Steven Caras Jan 2017

Photograph Of Tom Conboy, West Palm Beach, 1994, Steven Caras

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Ballet Students At Cubanican, Havana, Cuba, 1978, Steven Caras Jan 2017

Ballet Students At Cubanican, Havana, Cuba, 1978, Steven Caras

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Photograph Of Leroy Roberts, West Palm Beach, 1995, Steven Caras Jan 2017

Photograph Of Leroy Roberts, West Palm Beach, 1995, Steven Caras

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Photograph Of Donald Williams, Dance Theatre Of Harlem, 1999, Steven Caras Jan 2017

Photograph Of Donald Williams, Dance Theatre Of Harlem, 1999, Steven Caras

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Photograph Of Enrique Brown, Ballet Oklahoma, 1997, Steven Caras Jan 2017

Photograph Of Enrique Brown, Ballet Oklahoma, 1997, Steven Caras

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Photograph Of Connor Walsh, Houston Ballet, 2010, Steven Caras Jan 2017

Photograph Of Connor Walsh, Houston Ballet, 2010, Steven Caras

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Streb, 1999, Steven Caras Jan 2017

Streb, 1999, Steven Caras

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A Man And His Eagle, Elaine Wallace Jan 2017

A Man And His Eagle, Elaine Wallace

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Eagle Festival-Mongolia, Elaine Wallace Jan 2017

Eagle Festival-Mongolia, Elaine Wallace

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Adventures In Mongolia, Elaine Wallace Jan 2017

Adventures In Mongolia, Elaine Wallace

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Outer Mongolia, Elaine Wallace Jan 2017

Outer Mongolia, Elaine Wallace

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Outer Mongolia, Elaine Wallace Jan 2017

Outer Mongolia, Elaine Wallace

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Mongolian Hunter, Elaine Wallace Jan 2017

Mongolian Hunter, Elaine Wallace

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Eagle Hunters, Elaine Wallace Jan 2017

Eagle Hunters, Elaine Wallace

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Shapeless, Christopher W. Larrimore Jan 2017

Shapeless, Christopher W. Larrimore

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Life extends beyond the boundaries we perceive, and it is through our actions that we are able to either explore or hide from our universal purpose. After completing gross anatomy lab, I learned that while the human body is complex and most impressive, human action is significantly greater. A cadaver can not walk away from a table, it can not speak a word, it was almost void of all purpose. Except that it is not. Because a decision was made to become a medical cadaver, this action created a dramatic impact on the lives of many medical students. An act …


French Man, Christopher Larrimore Jan 2017

French Man, Christopher Larrimore

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