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| Title | Creator | Description | Department | Date | ||
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| 51 |  | Intuitive Survey | Reilly Sabine Jensen | Intuitive Survey is an exhibition of a community-centered arts project that focuses on the contemporary creation of knowledge surrounding cultural heritage and the material past at the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Bat in the Sultanate of Oman. It shares the process of how knowledge about the cultur... | 2022 | |
| 52 |  | Keisho | Etsuko Kato Hansen | This paper is a record of my research regarding the Tohoku earthquake in 2011, Japanese involvement in World War II, and my own familial history. Throughout my MFA, my art practice has examined each one of these as cultural and personal trauma. I also incorporate many traditional Japanese materials ... | 2020 | |
| 53 |  | Landscapes of a Tumultuous Mind | Tess Wood | This is an overview of my time in graduate school as well as before deciding to pursue; my graduate degree. It covers experiences both academic and non-academic that fueled by; decision to create a thesis project - centered on the practice of art as a therapeutic coping; mechanism for social anxiety... | 2022 | |
| 54 |  | Language and fragmentation | Blundell, Simon Henry | As our environment becomes increasingly mediated, so does our experience. My work is a direct response to an overmediated enviroment. Through mediation, our experience becomes fragmented. I am exploring the role of photography in the process of fragmentation and the way we construct meaning from our... | Art/Art History | 2003-12 |
| 55 |  | Left behind | Moore, Jeremiah Lee | This project paper contains a description of the development of my thesis exhibition. The introduction covers just over a year of work on a wood construction project, research on medieval maps, and how both endeavors influenced the advancement and outcome of my paintings. The second section titled ... | Art/Art History | 2008-08 |
| 56 |  | The Line Between Us | Nick Mendoza | Our country is divided when it comes to immigration. Pick up any newspaper and you will find a headline that deals with drug trafficking or building a seven hundred mile long fence between the United States and Mexico. Turn on the television and you will hear key phrases such as illegal or undocumen... | 2011 | |
| 57 |  | Love & Punishment | Vojko Rizvanovic | The artwork presented in my thesis exhibition is a unique and cohesive body of work tightly connected with my still-fresh memory of my recent incarceration. In this exhibition I'm including artwork that I created during my time in prison, the halfway house, and on probation. My hope is to move viewe... | 2012 | |
| 58 |  | Manimals | Kristina Hines | In the way that it is easy to forget the canvas that supports a painting, it is easy for me to forget that my body is an animal body. It is similarly easy to forget the contours of my environment. Rooms, cushions, furniture, dirt, plants, asphalt, rocks all recede into the background as I pursue the... | 2023 | |
| 59 |  | MFA exhibition | Bench, Ryan Joe | The subject of my paper is a body of work representing my personal interpretations, experiences, memories, and processes of creating images using the mediums of printmaking, painting and drawing. The subject matter represents broad visual sketches of the landscape, not direct visual copies; but inst... | Printmaking | 2017-09 |
| 60 |  | MFA Project Paper | Kirsti Ringger | 2010 | ||
| 61 |  | MFA thesis show by: James McGee | McGee, James | The body of work represented it this packet reflects on remembered and imagined experiences from childhood. Mostly symbols from a suburban world, the subject matter includes above ground pool and BMX bikes; the people portrayed are my family. These paintings illustrate what is specific about memory... | Art/Art History | 2005-06 |
| 62 |  | Misguided Adventures Guide to Strange Pedagogy | Joshua Graham | 2019 | ||
| 63 |  | Most of the Parts and Some of the Story | William G. Curtis | My final project, Most of the Parts and Some of the Story, concerns the pervading influence of particular events from my personal life and the exploration to find a way to effectively convey both important elements of these events as well as the state of mind they induced. Without relying on highly ... | 2018 | |
| 64 |  | Motion pictures | Moore, Amanda Jane | Art cannot be created in a bubble. Motion Pictures is no exception. This body of work is a culmination of my education, location, and personal interaction with pop culture. Without my move from Atlanta to Salt Lake City, I would not have become so obsessed with my subject matter. Without my subje... | Art/Art History | 2006-05 |
| 65 |  | Multicultural: Facts and findings from the two years I spent living under a microscope | Mehr, Annette | This final project paper is an accompaniment of my thesis work: a series of 11 oil paintings of bacterial cultures. These bacterial cultures were collected from volunteers, throughout 2016-2017. The paintings of these cultures are defined as portraits of the people who volunteered their bacteria. Th... | Art & Art History | 2017-12 |
| 66 |  | Paper & tape | Tachinni, Eugene Ronald | This final project paper has two components; text and imageiy. The first component, the text, has two parts. The first part is a collection of four personal narratives written by the artist, contained in the first four chapters. The second part is a response to an assignment given in a course ca... | Art/Art History | 2008-05 |
| 67 |  | Perception is Reality | Dana Hansen | Reality, or at least how it is individually experienced, is framed by our perceptions, which are constantly changing. As new experiences occur, and memories begin to fade, our view of the present and future alter. In this paper, I will discuss how the medium of digital sculpture and its process-lang... | 2020 | |
| 68 |  | Photographic Brushstroke | Van Thieu Chu | Photographic Brushstroke, a term that has been an oxymoron, is no longer. Being a visual artist is in; many ways like being a singer, if you sound like everyone else then why even bother singing. If you; go to my exhibition with a predetermination of what photography is, you will not find a single; ... | 2010 | |
| 69 |  | The Pressure of Perfection | Mary Sauer | The pressure of perfection can either inspire great achievements or be like a debilitating disease. My research and art deal with how perfectionistic tendencies affect the lives of young to middle aged, American women. Perfectionism can lead these individuals to interpret social trends and styles as... | 2014 | |
| 70 |  | Prime Property | Thomas Liebich | This Final Project Paper is concerned with my art project Prime Property. The final exhibition of the project opened on August 24, 2007 and ran through September 14, 2007 in the Alvin Gittins Gallery of the University of Utah. In this paper, I'm attempting to shed light on my rational and intentions... | 2008 | |
| 71 |  | Prime Property | Liebich, Thomas | This Final Project Paper is concerned with my art project Prime Property. The final exhibition of the project opened on August 24, 2007 and ran through September 14, 2007 in the Alvin Gittins Gallery of the University of Utah. In this paper, I'm attempting to shed light on my rational and intentio... | Art/Art History | 2008-05 |
| 72 |  | Project paper: Kirsti A. Ringger | Ringger, Kirsti Asplund | Hegel believed the aim of a human mind is to know itself, but that a human mind develops a notion of itself within a community of other minds, and that throughout history, humans collectively build upon what has gone before and improve. Art is one way that the collective knowledge is learned by eac... | Art/Art History | 2010-10 |
| 73 |  | The quasic garden | Sevenans, Monique Ann | Within this thesis I will discuss the origins of the work I have created for The Quasiac Garden. It will begin with an explanation of how I use the creation of art as an instigator of my intuition. There is a dependent relationship between the creation of materials and the formal elements of de... | Art/Art History | 1998-03 |
| 74 |  | Querl dismantling the book | Dykes, Stefanie | When an artist adopts an intuitive working methodology, the creation of images or objects often appear before a final clear conceptual idea is defined. My artistic practice changed dramatically with my desire to dismantle books, to unburden myself from outdated or discarded texts, and to fold them ... | Art/Art History | 2010-07 |
| 75 |  | Reclaiming Eden: Artmaking for Internal Transformation | Sydney Porter Williams | "Reclaiming Eden is a culmination of work created over years of emotional and psychological growth, a documentation of my development towards consciousness. While I investigate my story of growth, intertwined with mental illness, generational trauma, and the effects of abusive religious institutions... | 2024-05 |