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Imagining The Unknown, Angelina Kidd

MFA in Photography and Integrated Media Theses

It is true that there is no scientific proof of life after life or of the human soul. However, I believe there is a soul and that it is energy manifested as light. Our lifetime is a mere pulse when measured against the evolution of earth. We are connected to the cosmos through the very calcium in our bones and the iron in our blood, which originated from stars that died billions of years ago. My belief is that the earthly body is separate from the soul and that our light energy returns to the cosmos. Energy will not cease …

Middle Ground: Being Human, Reality & The Imaginary, Ann Pegelow Kaplan

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Meandering through the seemingly endless spectrum that makes up contemporary Visual Arts, it is clear that many are taking stock of the past and wondering where we go from here. Looking back, documenting, accounting, excavating. Looking forward, wondering, daring to hope. My artwork embraces both the backward glance and the lean forward by considering the present moment and what constructs it. Within three interrelated series of photographic and video works, I consider and present for rumination our individual and shared human experience of the world and one another.
This body of work draws attention through a juxtaposition of the elevated …

Dotphotozine Issue 3, May 2013, Students Of The Csusb Art Department, Thomas Mcgovern

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Contested Grounds, Carly Drew

All Theses

My drawings reference the American landscape tradition and Regionalism to comment on contemporary rural experience and highlight our interactions with nature. I do this through utilizing personal and family history to develop imagery that documents the economic changes taking place. I discuss why the American landscape tradition is important for a cultural understanding of my work, how industrial language impacts our understanding of these spaces and finally how my work visually encapsulates the contrast between objective forms of mapping and the subjectivity of personal experience. These contexts help discuss some of the larger issues of land ownership and use by …

Trip Report: A Few Lessons In Love, Jason Adams

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Can a work of art care for someone? Can it address a need for comfort or love? My research focuses on simple gestures and actions that seek to fulfill these questions. This research spans a wide array of sculptural and performative strategies in order to give breadth to these goals and to access a multitude of audiences in different contexts. The work importantly bridges both traditional art venues as well as more public venues in order to participate in multiple conversations pertaining to the role of socially engaged art practices. By utilizing both ends of the locational spectrum for the …

Marshall University Music Department Presents A Graduate Recital, Bryan A. Noggy, Alto Saxophone, Bryan A. Noggy

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Marshall University Music Department Presents A Graduate Recita, Andrew O'Neal, Trombone And Bass Trombone, Andrew O'Neal

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Marshall University Department Of Music Presents A Senior Recital, Tim Feverston, Viola, Tim Feverston

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Marshall University Music Department Presents A Senior Recital, Shey Dillon, Flute, Shey Dillon

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The Economy Of Indifference, Nicholas Irzyk

Theses and Dissertations

The following monologue examines the personal, cultural and ethical viability of abstraction in a contemporary painting practice, conducted on the eve of my thesis exhibition.

Marshall University Music Department Presents A Junior Recital, John Bruce, Trombone And Bass Trombone, John Bruce

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Marshall University Music Department Presents A Junior Recital, Featuring, Kristen Bobuk, Horn, And Melody Cook, Piano, Danielle Ocheltree, Horn, Chris Cremeans, Horn, Nic Bragg, Horn, Kristen Bobuk, Melody Cook, Danielle Ocheltree, Chris Cremeans, Nic Bragg

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Marshall University Music Department Presents The Marshall University Chamber Choir In Concert With University Chorus, David Castleberry, Robert Wray

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Marshall University Music Department Presents The Marshalluniversity Symphonic Band And The Marshall University Wind Symphony, Jennifer Parsons, Steve Barnett

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Roger Shimomura Interview, John Beale

Asian American Art Oral History Project

Artist Bio: (The following biography was taken from Roger Shimomura’s Press Release Biography on his website http://www.rshim.com/) Roger Shimomura’s paintings, prints, and theatre pieces address sociopolitical issues of ethnicity. He was born in Seattle, Washington and spent two early years of his childhood in Minidoka (Idaho), one of 10 concentration camps for Japanese Americans during WWII.

Shimomura received a B.A. degree from the University of Washington, Seattle, and an M.F.A. from Syracuse University, New York. He has had over 130 solo exhibitions of paintings and prints, as well as presented his experimental theater pieces at such venues as the …

Birds Of Prey, Shauna Kirkland

Theses and Dissertations

As a child growing up, I was always in love with the ritual of “dress up”. Whether it was my dolls, various reluctant pets, or myself, it was always an activity I loved. It is not surprising then that adornment has become the medium through which I express myself and bring my fantasy world to life. Jewelry and accessory have the potential to lead many lives. One particular piece can change entirely by putting it on one body as opposed to another, or by removing it to see it as an object. In fashion, the body is the canvas and …

Marshall University Music Department Presents The Marshall University Symphony Orchestra In Faculty Showcase Concert, Elizabeth Reed Smith, Michael Stroeher

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Day Folder, Raewyn Martyn

Theses and Dissertations

Provisional or unfinished images, forms and actions can sustain their status by continuing to change. This can resist programmed experience of their state, and shift their relationship as images within time. The sub-aesthetics of the unfinished and entropic can alter our understanding of where and how images are formed and located within time. My paintings each exist within their own emergent systems of time, structure and productive disorder. This thesis discusses these ideas in relation to DAY FOLDER and other work made during my MFA studies.

Query: How Does The Never To Be Differ From What Never Was?, Robert Scott Whipkey

Theses and Dissertations

The feeling of a narcotic cannot be put to words, just as the sensation one receives from her or his favorite artwork is impossible to record. Equally, both these delicacies of modern existence must be sought out. The user/viewer only gets a tiny taste and must therefore keep coming back for more. Utopia may be an unrealistic construction of culture, but I would posit the idea the both narcotics and art strive to give us just that – however tiny a taste. This paper addresses the intersections of visual art, drugs, anti-hero worship and contemporary representations of Romanticism throughout the …

Constant Motion, Daniel Rowe

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis contains my writings and concept development, as it relates to personal history, time and animated art. This is explored through various methodologies, including short story and Zen meditative writing. As a companion to my recent thesis exhibition, this paper looks to make logical, emotional and spiritual connections between my art practice, ritualized cultural tropes and contemporary views of mortality.

Some Account Of The Art Of Photogenic Drawing, Joseph Minek

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is an overview of the processes and procedures used in the production of my artistic practice. In my work, I explore notions such as the ambiguity of the photographic image, what constitutes an image or object as photographic, and the unexplored possibilities of the medium through surface and mark making. In addition, I draw inspiration from artists Wolfgang Tillmans, William Henry Fox Talbot, and Marco Breuer as entrance points to my conceptual interests. For viewers, my work generates an internal dialogue about the limits of the photographic medium.

My Mechanics Of Justification, Veronika Pausova

Theses and Dissertations

This document examines the theory behind the process leading to my paintings, as well as the content of the images I use. The former will invoke romanticism, infinite possibilities, and the need for having certain parameters and flexible rules. The latter will talk about sentimentality and contemporary culture. I will explain the mechanics of justifying the choice of a particular way of painting: the push and pull between the loaded content of an image versus the language of painting itself.

Marshall University Music Department Presents The Mu Jazz Ensemble Ii, Marshall University

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Forever Starts Now, Lior Modan

Theses and Dissertations

Moms as historical perspectives, abstraction and image making; Through stoves, swimwear and carpets. Then, one hope- That one-day history will become yours and mine.

Stalling Life, Leslie Rogers

Theses and Dissertations

Using a diagram, glossary, anecdotes, and first-person narrative histories, I explain how I use sculptural installation, image making, and serendipity to exploit the illogical to the point of being meaningful.

Marshall University Music Department Presents Other People’S Music, Michael Stroeher, Trombone, Henning Vauth, Piano, Michael Stroeher, Henning Vauth

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Marshall University Music Department Presents The Violauta Duo, Wendell B. Dobbs, Júlio Ribeiro Alves

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Wing Young Huie Interview, Anna Hendrickson

Asian American Art Oral History Project

Artist Bio: Photographer Wing Young Huie earned a B.A. in journalism from the University of Minnesota in 1979. Huie became a full time professional photographer in 1989 and is most well known for his photographs documenting people in a culturally diverse and changing urban landscape. Several of his projects focus on Minneapolis and St. Paul neighborhoods. Huie’s photographs have been exhibited nationally and internationally in St. Paul, Minneapolis, Chicago, Westport, New York City, West Palm Beach, Budapest, and Rotterdam. Four books based on Huie’s photography projects have been published and are listed in the Selected Works. – Bio from …

Marshall University Music Department Presents The Marshall University Percussion Ensemble, Steven Hall

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Marshall University Music Department Presents A Music Alive Faculty Recital , Violautalino Duo, Wendell Dobbs, Flute, Júlio Ribeiro Alves, Guitar, Wendell B. Dobbs, Júlio Ribeiro Alves

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