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Peripheral Recognition, Jason C. Childers

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Perception greatly affects the way we experience and understand the world. Using self-reflective research processes and data collection, I explore how art can subjectively re-present data and what this means for research and knowledge. The artworks through which I discuss these notions are Self Checkout 2013, Bibliography of Virtual Consciousness: Uniform Resource Locator Volumes 1-12 (BOVC:URL 1-12), and Observation Box. Self Checkout 2013 is composed of all of my receipts from 2013. They not only record my transactions, but also re-present data from which one can make inferences regarding my life—my consumer identity, my needs, my …

Toward A Transnational Queer Futurity: The Photography Of Catherine Opie, Zanele Muholi, And Jean Brundrit, Camille Erickson

Art and Art History Honors Projects

North American photographer Catherine Opie and South African photographers Zanele Muholi and Jean Brundrit create art that documents the lived experiences of queer and LGBTI-identified individuals and communities. Although their varying geographic and cultural specificities contribute to diverse representations, this research applies a queer transnational methodology to analyze how each artist uses the body as a site for re-visualizing queer identities. Employing cultural theorist, José Esteban Muñoz’s conception of a queer futurity reveals how these artistic projects resist the majoritarian politics of the present and envision potential utopian spaces of transformation. By embracing collectivity, belonging, and difference, the photographs enact …

Art And Literacy, Tara Hemelgarn, Sherrie Henderson, Patricia Thompson

P-12 Lesson Plans

This lesson prepares students for a visit, virtually or in person, to the Zuckerman Museum of Art. Using art images from the ZMA permanent collection as displayed in the See Through Walls exhibition, students practice skills in language arts and visual arts.

National Institutions Of Visual Culture, Niamh Ann Kelly

Books/Book Chapters

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Jaki Irvine, Biographical Entry, Niamh Ann Kelly

Books/Book Chapters

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Daphne Wright, Biographical Entry, Niamh Ann Kelly

Books/Book Chapters

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Maurice O'Connell, Biographical Entry, Niamh Ann Kelly

Books/Book Chapters

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Grace Weir, Biographical Entry, Niamh Ann Kelly

Books/Book Chapters

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Finola Jones, Biographical Entry, Niamh Ann Kelly

Books/Book Chapters

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Frances Hegarty, Biographical Entry, Niamh Ann Kelly

Books/Book Chapters

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The Role Of The Artist As A Social Critic: As Interpreted Through The Art Of Swoon, Allora & Calzadilla, And Ai Wei Wei, Jessica A. Hasara

Master of Liberal Studies Theses

Abstract: This thesis argues that the artists Swoon, Allora & Calzadilla, and Ai Weiwei rep-resent three approaches to contemporary art drawing on the traditions of street art, performance art, and conceptual art to change our expectations of art, public space, and civil disobedience, challenging the limits of what we know as social criticism and building community. These new and lively ways of making art can be viewed in association with systems of thought like Danto’s work which pro-poses a redefined way of looking at art; and Dewey’s work which emphasizes the importance of an aesthetic experience as a way of …

Chester Cornett: Beyond The Narrow Sky, Chester Cornett, Kentucky Folk Art Center

Kentucky Folk Art Center Exhibition Catalogs

2014 Kentucky Folk Art Center exhibition catalog of artist Chester Cornett.

Garry Winogrand: The Art Of Street Photography, Micayla Beuley

Honors Projects

This exhibition proposal, designed for the Dorothy Uber Bryan Gallery located in the Fine Arts Center at Bowling Green State University, is designed to enhance gallery patrons’ understanding of and appreciation for street photography through a biographical analysis of the works of Garry Winogrand. In addition to presenting 30 photographs by this esteemed photographer, patrons are invited to actively participate in the creation of street photographs and provides a unique opportunity to display them alongside that of a professional in a gallery setting. This exhibition proposal includes a curator’s statement, formal exhibition catalog essay, list of works proposed, detailed floor …

Ritual Process, Kevin A. Baer

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

My art is a means for investigating the passage of time, the decay of physical things, and the truth of mortality. I explore these concepts through process-oriented sculptures that emphasize ritual and material. The process is communicated with the creation of relics, often existing as drawings or the remains of degenerated sculptures. These relics bear witness to the process. I focus on themes of temporal change and death because they remain central to our metaphysical and physical existence. I see a diminished reverence for the power of death in our culture, and through my work I aim to pay homage …

Hamza Salim Interview, Julian Coleman

Asian American Art Oral History Project

Bio: Hamza J. Salim is a Palestinian artist, architect, and community based activist from Chicago, Illinois. He earned his masters in Architecture from the University of Illinois at Chicago and his work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in New York, Chicago, Los Angels, London and Dubai. He is currently serving as the Project Director of the 12th Chicago Palestine Film Festival and is the Immigrant Community Coordinator at a non-for-profit social service agency, Arab American Family Services.

Bio from facebook.com/HamzaJSalimStudio/info

See also: http://www.hamzajsalim.com/

Many Worlds Converge Here: Vision And Identity In American Indian Photography, Alicia L. Harris

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

Photographs of Native Americans taken by Frank A. Rinehart at the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition in 1898 were then and continue to be part of the construction of indigenous identities, both by Anglo-Americans and Natives. This thesis analyzes the ramifications of Rinehart’s portraits and those of his peers as well as Native American artists in the 20^th and 21^st centuries who have sought to re-appropriate these images to make them empowering icons of individual or tribal identity rather than erasure of culture.

This thesis comprises two sections. In the first section, the analysis is focused on the historical …

David Lucas, David Lucas, Kentucky Folk Art Center

Kentucky Folk Art Center Exhibition Catalogs

2013 Kentucky Folk Art Center exhibition catalog for artist David Lucas.

Elke Krystufek And The Obessive Production Of Person, Melanie E. Emerson

Mid-America College Art Association Conference 2012 Digital Publications

Elke Krystufek’s artistic practice has centered almost wholly on duplicate and substitute images of herself, specifically emphasizing the female body and its position within the discourses of art history and gendered identity. While an earlier generation of feminist artists used their bodies as subject and object of their work in order to critique stereotypes and forcefully dismantle barriers that excluded women from the public sphere or labeled them objects of desire, Krystufek uses similar tactics to point to the fact there is no longer a private space. Identity is not solely the property of an individual, but rather an open …

Linvel Barker: Works From The Collection Of Rita Biesiot, Linvel Barker, Rita Biesiot, Kentucky Folk Art Center

Kentucky Folk Art Center Exhibition Catalogs

2012 Kentucky Folk Art Center exhibition catalog of artist Linvel Barker.

2 X 20: Works By 20 Of Kentucky's Finest Working Folk Artists, Minnie Adkins, Barbara Burton, Jo Ann Butts, Brent Collinsworth, Joan Dance, Tad Desanto, Marvin Francis, Tim Lewis, Jance Miller, Lonnie Money, Twyla Money, Robert Morgan, Bruce New, Janice Harding Owens, Jim Gary Phillips, Thaddeus Pinkney, Monica Pipia, Willie Rascoe, Eileen Stockham, Donny Tolson, Lavon Van Williams, Kentucky Folk Art Center

Kentucky Folk Art Center Exhibition Catalogs

2012 Kentucky Folk Art Center exhibition catalog of the twenty finest working folk artists.

Point Of Intersection: Arts Participation, Art Appreciation, And Community Cultural Development, Della Marie Cheek

Graduate Theses

This thesis is culled from my engaged perspective as writer, recipient, and coordinator of South Carolina Arts Commission's (SCAC) Statewide Arts Participation Initiative (SAPI) grant, which was funded through the Wallace Foundation, and from my simultaneous engaged perspective of developing and teaching Clinton Junior College's (CJC) first offering of academic course ART101: Art Appreciation.

Krause & Spellmann: Scenes From Lost America, Jo Neace Krause, Charles Spellman, Kentucky Folk Art Center

Kentucky Folk Art Center Exhibition Catalogs

2011 Kentucky Folk Art Center exhibition catalog of artists Jo Neace Krause and Charles Spellman.

Robert Morgan: The Age Of Discovery, Robert Morgan, Kentucky Folk Art Center

Kentucky Folk Art Center Exhibition Catalogs

2011 Kentucky Folk Art Center exhibition catalog of artist Robert Morgan.

Program Booklet: 21st Annual James Porter Colloquium, Department Of Art

21st Annual James Porter Colloquium

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The Strange Horses Came, Kentucky Folk Art Center

Kentucky Folk Art Center Exhibition Catalogs

2010 Kentucky Folk Art Center exhibition catalog for the World Equestrian Games.

Red River: The Narrative Works Of Edgar Tolson, Carl Mckenzie, Earnest Patton & Donny Tolson, Edgar Tolson, Carl Mckenzie, Earnest Patton, Donny Tolson, Kentucky Folk Art Center

Kentucky Folk Art Center Exhibition Catalogs

2010 Kentucky Folk Art Center exhibition catalog of artists Edgar Tolson, Carl McKenzie, Earnest Patton and Donny Tolson.

Rhythm In Relief, Lavon Williams, Kentucky Folk Art Center

Kentucky Folk Art Center Exhibition Catalogs

2009 Kentucky Folk Art Center exhibition catalog of artist Lavon Williams.

Casting A Net: Contemporary Drawing Practices And Strategies, Brian Fay

Other resources

Casting a Net: Contemporary Drawing Practices and Strategies is an overview of national and international drawing practices and considering these in relation to the work of John Beattie.

George D. Green: Influences Behind His Work, Dustin Klein

The Journal of Undergraduate Research

NOTE: This paper is part of a collective project that is published online in the Michigan based Undergraduate Research Journal for the Human Sciences, 2008 Special Edition: “Eye Deceptions: The Evolution of George Green’s Painting from the Late 1970’s to the Present” (http://www.kon.org/urc/v7/v7a/george-d-green-painting-evolution.html). Our sincere gratitude to Dr. Dorothy I. Mitstifer, Executive Director of the Undergraduate Research Journal for the Human Sciences, the Honors Society Kappa Omicron Nu and the Association of College Honor Societies, for authorizing the separate publication of this paper, as individual contribution, in the 2008 SDSU Journal of Undergraduate Research. All the reproduced images of paintings …

Program Booklet: 18th Annual James Porter Colloquium, Department Of Art

18th Annual James Porter Colloquium

No abstract provided.