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V.1 Winter 2023, Center For Arts & Language, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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v.1 is a publishing platform for the ongoing work, ideas, discussions, debates, and aspirations of students at the Rhode Island School of Design. The Winter 2023 issue has a theme of text, images, and communication. It contains written pieces that experiment with text and language, student visual art, and other work.

2023-2024 Risd Course Catalog, Risd Registrar's Office, Risd Archives

RISD Course Catalogs / Announcements

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2023 Yearbook, Book 2: Students, Risd Archives, Center For Student Involvement (Csi), Risd Design Guild

RISD Yearbooks

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2023 Yearbook, Book 3: Campus, Risd Archives, Center For Student Involvement (Csi), Risd Design Guild

RISD Yearbooks

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2023 Yearbook, Book 1: Introduction, Risd Archives, Center For Student Involvement (Csi), Risd Design Guild

RISD Yearbooks

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Therapeutic Approaches Applied To A Middle School Art Unit, Alisa Burggraff

Art 895 Research Papers

This case study begins with a brief description of my circumstances as a middle school art teacher, Social and Emotional Learning (SEL), the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL), and my research questions: How can art educators adapt CASEL/SEL within their art curriculum to improve students’ mental health and abilities to cope with stress and trauma? What specific therapeutic and CASEL Model procedures can be applied to an art curriculum that aids in the development of a child’s social and emotional development or learning? SEL and CASEL are defined and compared to art therapy/art therapy practices. A rationale …

Learning Through Social Media: A Case Study Of The Getty Center, Regan Fisher

Art 895 Research Papers

Social media is a powerful tool that allows for massive connectivity across the globe and is integral to how young people interact with each other and make sense of their world. During the COVID19 pandemic of 2020, social media was instrumental in connecting communities to museums and providing access during closures. This case study examines how The Getty Center in Los Angeles utilized social media with innovative, strategic thinking and engaging content to achieve their mission of educating the public and increasing awareness about the artifacts housed in their collection.

Art And Its Importance To Social-Emotional Learning And Behavior Management In The Classroom, Ashley Joustra

Art 895 Research Papers

This case study examines the association between an arts education and social-emotional learning (SEL) and attempts to identify if an increased social competence positively affects behavior in the classroom. Education policies are explored as well as outcomes of SEL through art programs. Organizations promoting the SEL such as CASEL and educational plans highlighting art/SEL integration from the UChicago Consortium of School Research are studied. Behavior data from CUSD 300 in northwestern Illinois is examined in relation to art and SEL education.

Encouraging Confident Art Making In The Primary Elementary Art Room, Morgan Hagan

Art 895 Research Papers

This action research study observes artistic outcomes from students in kindergarten through third grade who display a range of artistic skill levels, and backgrounds. The purpose of this study is to explore what confidence looks like in student artwork and what pedagogical practices art teachers can use to help encourage that confidence by answering two central questions. What does confidence look like in student artwork? What pedagogical practices can art teachers use to encourage students to have confidence in art making?

Re-Engaging Students In Art History: An Action Research Study, Jenna Hermann

Art 895 Research Papers

In this action research study, I examine different ways to re-engage students in the study of art history. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, I sought out more effective and exciting ways to integrate technology when teaching art history to my eighth-grade students. I implement studentled learning strategies as students explore The Met’s website, focusing on the 1900-Present virtual exhibition. I consider if and how this virtual learning platform does or does not make learning about art history more engaging.

Modernist And Post-Modernist Paradigms: A Forged Art Education Curriculum, Raelissa Hovelson

Art 895 Research Papers

The purpose of this study is to consider a curriculum that uses the best characteristics of both modernist and pos-tmodernist approaches to art education, and showcases artists that model the forged curriculum. A modernist approach to art education has students emulate the technical skills that has prevailed the Western culture of classical artists. A post-modernism approach is the idea that art education should be more about multiculturalism, social engagement, equity, diversity, and inclusion. Using a qualitative case study, a literature review is analyzed to understand both modernist and post-modernist paradigms. Through discussion, artists that model characteristics from both teaching approaches …

Combating Chronic Absenteeism With After-School Art Programs, Katherine Obholz

Art 895 Research Papers

Chronic absenteeism is a problem common within our education system, even more so in districts impacted by poverty. Consistent student attendance has and will continue to be an issue within our schools because it is difficult to pinpoint all the causes and issues that affect a student’s attendance. Despite this, art education, and after school art programs have been shown to improve student buy-in and help alleviate the inconsistent gaps in overall student attendance, behavior, test scores, life-skills, and improve participation within the classroom. This paper furthers the investigation by taking into consideration what the Boston and Chicago public afterschool …

Art Activism In The Elementary Art Classroom: A Case Study, Julian Kramer

Art 895 Research Papers

This research is focused on the integration of art activism into the elementary art curriculum. It begins with an overview of four contemporary artists known for their activist works. A review of recent literature related to art activism and art education follows. While there were many articles discussing art activism in art education curricula, integrating art activism at the elementary level is not well documented. It concludes with a discussion of these artists and the recent literature, with suggestions for age-appropriate activism-based art projects for elementary students.

A Case Study Of Learning Within A High School Community Art Partnership, Becky Weaver

Art 895 Research Papers

Secondary education is placing a greater emphasis in preparing students through real life work experience. This case study examines one specific partnership of Baldwin High School visual arts students interning with a local business. It seeks answers to what can be gained through this partnership and what value, if any, the partnership has to visual arts education. This case study will compare student reflective performance before and after students’ internship experience. In this qualitative study, I interview the adult mentors leading the students’ internship, examine students’ reflective practices through their written self-evaluations, and observe their experiences with critiques. This along …

Teaching Critical Consciousness With Contemporary Artists, Emily Ancona

Art 895 Research Papers

This study explores the level of critical consciousness of students by introducing contemporary artists who explore critical issues in their work. In this action research study, I examine my student’s artwork and written reflections before and after introducing them to multiple contemporary artists. I will explore the ways that these artists can encourage students to create artwork that has a higher level of critical consciousness.

Exploring Universal Design For Learning In The Art Classroom: Connecting Theory With Practice, Emily Heerten

Art 895 Research Papers

This case study focuses on the Universal Design of Learning (UDL), specifically its impact into integrating it into the art classroom. I studied UDL to better enhance and implement flexible instruction in my art classroom the past three years. In this case study, I reflected upon my own art classroom experiences during this time. UDL has been an important aspect in my art curriculum in an effort to increase opportunities for artistic academic achievement for each student. I examined UDL and how to implement it into the art classroom. This was to fill in gaps in education that is meant …

The Speculative Artifact 2022, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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The Speculative Artifact was a student publication created for the Graphic Design seminar/studio Critical Issues Studio, taught by Anther Kiley in Fall 2022. The publication features designs and concepts for artifacts of the future created by students. Artifacts include language aids, a sex worker kit, food packaging, a garden pack, style-transferred furniture, a post-taste apartment, a maze sculpture, a personality magazine, animal-human cohabitation, signage, a friend-dating system, coding tech, a transhuman sticker book, and television programming with animal languages

Designing A Master Of Art And Design: Student-Staff Reflections On First-Year Experiences As A Process, Diana Gregory

Faculty Articles

In fall 2019, four staff in the School of Art and Design were charged with designing the first graduate degree in the College of the Arts, a Master of Art in Art and Design (MA). This reflective essay will serve much like an artistic critique of student-staff reflections on the process and products of our first-year experience through our lived experience from inception 2019 through spring 2022. This journey delineates the attitudes and intentions that are supporting the emergence of our student-staff partnership. I am illuminating these concepts from an artistic perspective to showcase the foundational cognitive and emotional processes …

Supporting Students’ Social Emotional Well-Being Using Clay: An Action Research Study, Paul Monroe

Great Plains Graduate Review

The purpose of this action research study is to examine scholarly recommendations on how to use clay to promote the social and emotional well-being of students in the high school ceramics classroom. This study enacts recommendations and strategies to enhance an existing curriculum to align with my school district’s educational goals of promoting social emotional learning (SEL). This study took place at a high school in Westchester County, New York in the fall of 2021. Data for this study is informed by my interviews with two specialists regarding putting SEL strategies into action, my modification of an existing curriculum as …

V.1 Fall 2022, Center For Arts & Language, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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v.1 is a publishing platform for the ongoing work, ideas, discussions, debates, and aspirations of students at the Rhode Island School of Design. The Fall 2022 issue centers on the theme "what do you see?" and contains articles on a lecture by Camille Norment, the curator for the student exhibition "No Longer Transparent," the new RISD identity, elevators at RISD, various objects, crabs, the Prov-Wash bathrooms, the history of the drinking straw, drawing, Charles Mingus, and the 2022 grad show, along with other student creative writing.

The Textual Gutter: How Gene Luen Yang Redefines The Gutter In Boxers & Saints To Tell A Transnational Tale, David Lucas Jr

SANE journal: Sequential Art Narrative in Education

This paper attempts to provide a new understanding of the gutter and how it is used to significant effect in Gene Luen Yang's, Boxers & Saints. This research draws upon the work of Scott McCloud to establish a framework for the theoretical applications of the gutter. Most prior research focuses on the gutter within the page. This article demonstrates how Yang pushes the concept of the gutter further by creating a new type of gutter that moves beyond the pages and across texts. Then the research attempts to demonstrate how the idea of the textual gutter heightens the transnational elements …

Bbt Acoustic Alternative Top Bracing Cadd Data Set-Norev-2022jun28, Bill Hemphill

STEM Guitar Project’s BBT Acoustic Kit

This electronic document file set consists of an overview presentation (PDF-formatted) file and companion video (MP4) and CADD files (DWG & DXF) for laser cutting the ETSU-developed alternate top bracing designs and marking templates for the STEM Guitar Project’s BBT (OM-sized) standard acoustic guitar kit. The three (3) alternative BBT top bracing designs in this release are
(a) a one-piece base for the standard kit's (Martin-style) bracing,
(b) 277 Ladder-style bracing, and
(c) an X-braced fan-style bracing similar to traditional European or so-called 'classical' acoustic guitars.

The CADD data set for each of the three (3) top bracing designs includes …

Pop/Art: The Birth Of Underground Music And The British Art School, 1960–1980, Andrew Cappetta

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

“Pop/Art: The Birth of Underground Music and the British Art School, 1960-1980” argues that the British art school became a training ground for underground musicians in the 1960s and the 1970s because of changes in art school pedagogy and policy in the post-war period. New educational philosophies propagated during the late 1950s and 1960s, above all Basic Design and Behaviorism, redefined the artist as an intermedial experimenter, collapsed distinctions between fine art and design, and theorized the art object as a dynamic and interactive matrix between the maker and viewer. These initiatives, which evolved from art school reforms that began …

Cultural Formation Of Place: Making Yourself At Home, Olivia Arratia

Art Theses and Dissertations

The environment you grow up in can become a pivotal part of your existence. The sights, smells, people, and places you experience every day can transform the way you see the world. Growing up in a Mexican-American household has brought its own set of experiences that have made me the artist I am today. I am one of many contemporary artists building on the foundations of their heritage and the Chicano movement. I am also a Mexican-American artist expanding the identity and extending the legacy in the 21st century. This paper will investigate how Mexican-American heritage has influenced my artistic …

Food Insecurity Among Niu College Students, Hannah Schaumberg

Student Projects

Many people with certain privileges never notice them, because they are so fixated on the hasty generalizations of what is seen on the surface rather than the interior aspects. For many students, understanding and recognizing privileges is the main concept to understanding their surroundings. The concept of reflecting on their interactions and knowledge of food insecurity will be curasol among communities. By researching the concepts of food insecurities among NIU students, we can bring awareness of the topic within society. The focus is to understand which intersectional groups are affected by food insecurity and to bring awareness of the subject …

Invisible Until, Markeith Woods

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

“Invisible Until” explores my personal experiences while working full time at Tyson Foods in Pine Bluff, AR up until moving to Fayetteville for graduate school. The body of artwork comes from reflecting on past a present while drawing from inspiration from Jacob Lawrence, Kerry James Marshall, Jordan Casteel, and more. Using history as a tool to break down the American struggle I used conversations amongst my high school classmates to pull from their direct experiences to convey life and what it means to come from Pine Bluff. By using real people and their life events of trying to achieve progress, …

Postmarked 2022, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Postmarked was a publication started during the COVID-19 pandemic by three RISD architecture students. The first issue has the theme of "sonder" and contains student writing and artwork on postcards that deal with this theme.

V.1 Spring 2022, Center For Arts & Language, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

v.1 is a publishing platform for the ongoing work, ideas, discussions, debates, and aspirations of students at the Rhode Island School of Design. The Spring 2022 issue contains writings divided into five categories: ecosystems, homes, archaeologies, explorations, and new constructions. Writings touch on urban ecology, wilderness, physical and mental health, identity, and other topics. Visual work is also present in this issue.

A Gift Of Relationship

DePaul Magazine

The Weitz Family Foundation of Omaha recently elevated the Visual Art Education program at DePaul’s College of Education with a gift that establishes a new endowed chair and supports the program’s pioneering Stockyard Institute. Katie Weitz, the foundation’s executive director, shares how her own education, and her family’s charitable efforts, have been impacted by the Stockyard Institute’s community-engagement initiatives.

2022-2023 Risd Course Announcement, Risd Registrar's Office, Risd Archives

RISD Course Catalogs / Announcements

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