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Cultural Convergences, David Armistead

All Theses

As far back as I can remember my family has had two primary outlets in regards to entertainment; going to museum exhibitions and attending or watching football games. My parents have been members of the High Museum in Atlanta for years while simultaneously having season tickets to Georgia Tech football. My current series of paintings, drawings, prints and videos examine the cultural significance of sports in American society; specifically American football. As a "big guy" who was raised in the south, it is often assumed that I played football at some point in my life. Admittedly, I feed this stereotype …

Untitled Narratives, Aubree Ross

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Untitled Narratives is a photographic series about changing emotional states, and an evolving identity. The photographs represent a transformation between the confined and the free. The elements I use to portray the movement an individual makes between identities are a combination of a character and an environment. My photographs are driven by personal experiences and show recovery and openness. The character in the series is a representation of myself. The Character symbolizes emotional personas indicating past and present events, which shape the individual I am. I use the character as a representation of the hope and need for change. I …

Kitsune #2, Jodi Bentivegna

Gandy Dancer Archives

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Pre, Timothy Alden Burger

Gandy Dancer Archives

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Ordinary Effort, John Mcmahon

Boise State University Theses and Dissertations

The thesis is primarily concerned with how the search for knowledge is driven by a quest for certainty, resulting in a compulsion to fix knowledge in explicit rules and procedures. Rather than producing a satisfactory sense of stability, this produces comedy and tragedy as human endeavors play out against a backdrop of arbitrary structure.

Three videos explore this problem through the lens of professional sport, where the quest for certainty is evaluated against the application of rules, against rules governing the action of the body, and against the attempt to circumvent the rules. Theoretical background is provided by examining the …

Ponte Vecchio, Lexi Hannah

Gandy Dancer Archives

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The Process Of Passage, David Gerhard

All Theses

My art navigates the fragmented religious traditions of my childhood in an attempt to clarify my thoughts and feelings about which spiritual beliefs and practices I want to teach my children. This navigation is represented across art media through portraits of my family and myself. As I was raised in a multicultural family that combined aspects of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, and Judaism, a complex navigation occurs within me to find meaning in existence amidst disparate traditions, cultures, and beliefs. For my thesis show, I adapted existing fragments and frameworks from these varied beliefs and cultural traditions into a collage of …

Remembering And The Everyday: The Fleeting, Fragmented, And Sensual, Alyssa Prince

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Our memories are malleable. There is no identifiable truth; we consistently change them based on our present state of being. Nevertheless, our memories influence us greatly. My paintings engage this topic of the remembering process and display the active, reconstructive nature of how we remember. This idea is approached through making paintings that engage my own involuntary memories that are inevitably impossible to grasp. The resulting paintings explore issues pertaining to the remembering process, partiality, and the inaccuracies of representation. In this thesis, I discuss the importance of the reconstructed, provisional image, the fluctuating nature of our memories, an interaction …

Cybersociology A To Z, Katherine Butler

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My prints explore the prevalence of the Internet in contemporary culture and how online communication has affected maturation and an individual's growing perception and representation of self. By combining commonly used Internet jargon and a traditional alphabet flashcard motif, I have created an Alphabet Series that allows me to draw comparison between online and offline spaces, as well as to describe the way in which the Internet as a social tool has changed communication mutually across the digital and actual realms. Using the most popular social media websites for North American adolescents as a reference, I have explored the way …

Marshall University Music Department Presents A Senior Recital, Tyler Davis, Tuba, Tyler Davis

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Art In The Library: From Our Walls To A Monitor Near You, Courtenay Mcleland

Library Faculty Presentations & Publications

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Marshall University Music Department Presents A Jazz Ensemble Ii, Mr. Jeffrey Wolfe, Director, Jeff Wolfe

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Marshall University Music Department Presents A Senior Recital, Michael Rose, Tenor, Michael Rose

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Marshall University Music Department Presents A Woodwind Ensembles Recital, Wendell B. Dobbs, Ann Bingham, Ed Bingham, Kay Lawson, Richard Kravchak, Donald Williams

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Marshall University Music Department Presents Britten's Birthday Bash, Richard Kravchak, Elizabeth Reed Smith, Wing Sun Ku, Şőlen Dikener, Henning Vauth

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Art Furniture, Report Of Creative Research Grant Results, David C. Babcock, Doug Stout

Journal of Undergraduate Research

As a senior in the Department of Visual Arts: Industrial Design program I elected to design and build a series of creative furniture pieces as a senior B.F.A. project. The Industrial Design program at B.Y.U.. is a product design program with a slight bent towards transportation design. My particular interest in furniture aspects of product design led to a self-initiated education experience. I received a great deal of help and support from: Neil Hadlock and Brian Christensen of the Visual Arts Department Sculpture Program and Kip Christensen of Industrial Education Program.

Advertising And Consumer Awareness, Garron K. Belnap, Dr. Dan Stout

Journal of Undergraduate Research

In order to learn more about the differences between the perceived effects and the actual effectiveness of advertising, which is rampant in the media today, a survey of 77 human subjects was conducted. The only qualification of subjects was the number of hours of television he or she watches in a week. I ignored all other demographics such as age, gender, and race.

Progress Report On A Web-Based Index Of Merrill Bradshaw’S Compositions, Daniel Bradshaw, Murray Boren, David Day

Journal of Undergraduate Research

As indicated by the title of this report, the index of Merrill Bradshaw’s compositions is still in the making. Although I expected this project to expand as I entered into the details of finding, collecting and indexing all of Bradshaw’s compositions, I was still surprised at how much time it took me just to find and collect. Thus far, I have collected information from the HBLL and Performance Libraries, worked with Mr. Day and Dr. Bradshaw to arrange the transport of materials toBYU, and filed the compositions for the archives of the HBLL. Though the final goal of this research …

Marshall University Music Department Presents Daniel Ricks, Trumpet, Daniel Ricks

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Marshall University Music Department Presents The Mu Guitar Ensemble, Kareem Mccullough, Jonathan Thorne, Erik Anderson, Casey Fitzwater

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Marshall University Music Department Presents A Senior Recital, Sarah Riddle, Sarah Riddle

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Marshall University Music Department Presents A Master Class, Stephen Mattingly, Guitar, Stephen Mattingly

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Marshall University Music Department Presents A Music Alive Faculty & Guest Artist Collaboration Series, "A Tour Around The World", London, Richard Kravchak, Elizabeth Reed Smith, Wing Sun Ku, Şőlen Dikener

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Marshall University Music Department Presents A Guest Artist, Stephen Mattingly, Guitar, Stephen Mattingly

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Marshall University Music Department Presents A Senior Recital, Bryce Duncan, Saxophone, Bryce Duncan

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Marshall University Music Department Presents The Jazz Ensemble I, Dr. Martin Saunders, Director, Martin W. Saunders

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Marshall University Music Department Presents Serendipity, Kristen Alves, Lora Snow, Wendell B. Dobbs, Júlio Ribeiro Alves

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Marshall University Music Department Presents The Marshall University Chamber Choir In Concert, David Castleberry

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Marshall University Music Department Presents A Joint Senior Recital, Derik Staley And Ross Patrick, Derek Staley, Ross Patrick

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Marshall University Music Department Presents Trombone Ensembles, Michael Stroeher

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