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Constructions, Sean Ryan Larson

School of Art, Art History, and Design: Theses and Student Creative Work

I have always been drawn to investigating the nature of ambiguous objects; objects whose role is unclear; objects that fall between distinct categories, and that exist in what appears to be transitional stages. The pieces I make provoke the imagination by building in experimental self-defined systems that refer to contemporary architecture, as well as comment on the ceramic and non-ceramic process. My pieces vary in form and intention just as the skyline carries changes in form and order. I want to make experimental objects that develop in front of me from the ground up, without a pre-planned result. Using fundamental …

Dream State, Audrey L. Stommes

School of Art, Art History, and Design: Theses and Student Creative Work

My work explores the moments before falling asleep as well as my dreams, allowing my experiences and subconscious to emerge in the paintings. My bed has become my sanctuary and permeates my life and work. The tight confines of my studio apartment push all conceivable activity to, on, or around my bed. The paintings, in turn, have become a visual diary of the occurrences within this space, allowing me to explore a fundamental human experience of dreaming.

My current work translates my experiences while I employ visual language from past work developed from observation. I combine techniques of drawing and …

Taking In: A Selection Of Undergraduate Photography 2013, Aib Students

Taking In

Taking In is a student run project featuring a selection of work created by students attending the Art Institute of Boston. The project focuses on the business of promoting art and culminates each year with a juried exhibition, publication, and a website all designed to promote selected works of AIB artists. The selected pieces were chosen anonymously by a jury of distinguished members of the Boston art community to represent the best of AIB Photography in 2013. The book in your hands is the end result of a collective effort by those in the class.

Bringing Back Color, Bringing Back Emotion: Exploring Phenomenological Empathy In The Reclamation Of The Female Nude In Painting, Sophia R. Forman

Scripps Senior Theses

At the nexus of the seemingly disparate art-theoretical topics of color and the female nude is a critical consideration of phenomenology in both one of its most basic senses—as the first-person experience of perceived phenomena—and as a larger philosophical position which, through its abstraction of perception to subject-object relationships, implicates the painted figure. Specifically, this paper conflates the phenomenology of color with the transcendental phenomenology of Edmund Husserl and Maurice Merleau-Ponty in investigating empathy. Structured as a dialectic, it establishes the most prominent views of both color and the female nude—the nude as a symbolic figure, color as perceptual experience—before …

Pathos, Spring 2013, Portland State University. Student Publications Board

Pathos

Editor: Deena Anreise

Fiction Fix 14, April Gray Wilder, Sarah Scoles, Amanda Avutu, Louise Henrich, Susan Fedynak, Ira Joel Haber, Clay Steakley, Joachim Frank, Ernest Williamson Iii, Marty Carlock, Arthur Davis, David Press

Fiction Fix

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Shadowlands, Kimberly Riner

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

Shadowlands is a reflection on loss. By focusing on those who are left behind after a loss, I am able to explore the range of reactions associated with grief. The artwork displayed in Shadowlands is an intuitive response to these experiences. It has been informed by research of cultural norms associated with mourning. By investigating specific ceremonies, rituals and interactions, I construct objects and installations that bridge the line between memory and memorial.

The Stories Of Environmental Ethicists In Word And Image, Camille Robins

Scripps Senior Theses

The Stories of Environmental Ethicists in Word and Image captures the spirit of three local people: John B. Cobb, Jr., Rosemary Radford Ruether, and Dean Freudenberger. As teachers, writers, activists, and members of the progressive retirement community Pilgrim Place, they’ve had a significant influence on the global environmental movement. The photographs and small essays in this project highlight who they are and what they’ve done, and how they continue to shape contemporary intellectual discourse. An analysis of how portrait photographers use images to tell stories and how they incorporate text in their photographic collections to create fuller, more robust pictures …

Fabricated Perceptions, Monique E. Perry

All Student Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is a personal exploration through playful and childlike imagery. I draw on historical and contemporary artistic influences to the creation of my concepts. Themes of visual metaphor, trompe l’oeil, diorama, and contrasting spatial relationships of objects are explored. Each piece carries its own interpretation that is kept open ended for the viewer. My goal for this art series is to amuse, provoke imagination, and encourage individual interpretation.

Marshall University Music Department Presents A Guest Artist Recital With The Sarasvati Trio, Marshall University

All Performances

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Marshall University Music Department Presents A Senior Recital, Christopher Kimes, Tenor Saxophone, Christopher Kimes

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Marshall University Music Department Presents A Junior Recital, Nathan Bohach, Vibraphone And Drumset, Nathan Bohach

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The River In A Landscape Of Creative Practice: Creative River Journeys., Kylie J Stevenson

Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language

In my current PhD study, Creative River Journeys, I use the metaphor of the river as a data capture tool when interviewing artist-researchers about their experiences of conducting creative practice within a university context. My use of the river functions as a metaphor for the creative process. I have adapted the River Journey tool from its previous use as a map of teacher identity and professional development, and in a project about children’s musical experience. This PhD project follows a long tradition of using the river as a metaphor. For example, the river has been used in a narrative therapy …

Developed & Less Finished: Maintaining Life, Lauren Kaye Sukany

Theses and Dissertations

This painting series, memory-inspired using developed compositions and less finished paint application, depicts mysterious scenes of figures in interiors maintaining life. Themes of maintenance, celebration, conversation, and leisure are emphasized using formal elements of figures in interiors, perspective, and paint application. These compositions are memories based on a collection of moments in time. Though inspired from memories, the pieces are not intended to portray real life but a shared physical and mental space of the figures creating a magical and mysterious element within the composition. While revisiting American paintings of the 1930s and 1940s, the larger implications of my work …

Marshall University Music Department Presents Justin Bowe, Senior Percussion Recital With Guests, Justin Bowe

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Art Meets Science! Get Over It . . ., Stephen Nowlin

The Transdisciplinary STEAM+ Journal

The news headline, when such projects garner attention, usually goes like this – Art Meets Science! Or perhaps Art Merges with Science! or maybe they combine, or art collides with science, or they fuse, join, bond, or unite. And ‘art’ in the phrase usually precedes ‘science’, perhaps because their integration is more typically initiated from the art side of the equation. But whatever the order of the two terms, and whatever verb is used to link them, the tenor of the declaration is typically the same – this is a story worth reporting on, it announces, because …

Traces Of Earthly Things, Kristin Frost

CGU MFA Theses

My strongest memories are visual. I feel connected to the moments of my life that have left imprints in my mind, traces of events that are still thick with color, energy, and purpose. I make paintings, collages, and installations that are visual combinations of events, land forms, and places from the present and the past. Through the repeated reworking of images and ideas in each piece, I reform my own concepts of space and time. Each aspect of my multi-step process changes not only the physical features of a piece, but also the original recollection that generated it. Through this …

Marshall University Music Department Presents The Duo Mirić, Marshall University

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Marshall University Music Department Presents A Senior Recital, Josh Sharp, Tuba, Along With, Will Murphy, Piano, Josh Sharp

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Marshall University Music Department Presents The Marshall University Symphony Orchestra, Family Concert, Dr. Elizabeth Reed Smith, Conductor, Elizabeth Reed Smith

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Marshall University Music Department Presents A Guest Artist Recital, Øystein Baadsvik, Tuba, Øystein Baadsvik

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Marshall University Music Department Presents A Faculty Recital, W. Edwin Bingham, Saxophone, Ed Bingham

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The Art Theft: Noah Charney Has Fashioned A Multimedia Career From The Work Of Those Who Steal Paintings, Gerry Boyle

Colby Magazine

When it comes to art theft, Noah Charney ’02 is an expert. Charney’s study of this nefarious niche of the art world has made him a household word in museum and gallery security circles, and a new novel and television programs in the works have propelled the art-history major’s career.

Defining Art: Lunder Collection Of American Art Raises Colby To Pinnacle Of College Art Museums, Bob Keyes

Colby Magazine

With their gift of more than 500 works of art, Peter Lunder ’56, D.F.A. ’98, and Paula Crane Lunder, D.F.A. ’98, stunned Colby, Maine, and the art world.

Carving Space: Schupf Donation Brings To Colby Museum One Of The Foremost Collections Of Renowned Artist's Works On Paper, Bob Keyes

Colby Magazine

Paul Schupf saw his first Richard Serra print at the Colby Museum of Art. Awestruck, Schupf has returned the favor by giving to Colby one of the largest and most important collections of Serra works on paper.

Art Movement: With A World-Class Collection And A New Director, The Museum Of Art Is Ready For Its Next Chapter, Lynne Moss Perricelli

Colby Magazine

The Colby College Museum of Art has grown steadily in stature over the past four decades. A look at the museum’s past and present, and future—and a conversation with Paul Schupf about art and The Dead.

Marietta Patricia Leis - Earthly Pleasures, Marietta Patricia Leis

Exhibition Catalogs

Catalog for the exhibition Marietta Patricia Leis - Earthly Pleasures held at the Seton Hall University Walsh Gallery, March 11 - April 5, 2013. Curated by Jeanne Brasile. Includes essays by Jeanne Brasile and Peter Frank. Includes color illustrations.

Ivy Leaves, Volume 88, Ivy Leaves Editorial Staff

Ivy Leaves

The 2013 edition of the Anderson University journal of art and literature, Ivy Leaves.

The names of the known editors for this issue of Ivy Leaves were Cara Dillon, Sarah Burgess, Emmy Wheatley, Chris Mauldin, Genevieve Hamilton, Jonathan Kurtz, Chelsea Pancoast, Mary Langston Willis, Christina Martin, Emily Weiland, Joy Hiller, Sarah Leugemors, Brittany Wilson, David Estep, Heather McIlrath, Dixie Hemingway, Gage LeGreca, Annie Churdar, Teresa Jones, and Tim Speaker. Photography by Joy Hiller, Sarah Leugemors, Heather McIlrath, Emily Weiland, David Estep, and Brittany Wilson.

Marshall University Music Department Presents Nicholas Bragg, Horn, Nicholas Bragg

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Remembering Hugh Gourley, Gabriella De Ferrari, Bree Jeppson, Paul Schupf

Colby Magazine

Remembering Hugh Gourley, who nurtured the Colby College Museum of Art