| | Title | Creator | Description | Department | Date |
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| 1 |  | A Loving Struggle | Kate Wingard | By using objects associated with the western notion of "home", my MFA thesis exhibition,"A Loving Struggle", looks at relationships, communication, and the awkwardness of authenticity. Home objects and furniture suggest ideas of comfort, stability, and community. Reference to the domestic space brin... | | 2019 |
| 2 |  | Automatic Processing Pitfalls | Justin Watson | I used this text to examine processes by mirroring the internal; structures of my mental processes. This paper is arbitrary to the; source of the experience examined, although this arbitrariness is; also an impetus to the survival mechanisms depicted. When we; elucidate our meanings we grow more los... | | 2016 |
| 3 |  | Automatic processing pitfalls | Watson, Justin | I used this text to examine processes by mirroring the internal structures of my mental processes. | Art & Art History | 2016 |
| 4 |  | Be Somewhere | David Habben | | | 2017 |
| 5 |  | Beyza Kilic MFA Ceramics project paper 2016 | Kilic, Beyza | | | 2016 |
| 6 |  | The big unknown | Beard, Keith | My MFA experience has taught me that when I allow myself to be vulnerable to the unknown, it creates a better outcome for my work as an artist. My unknowns are based on fear of not knowing how my choices will play out, and a fear of not achieving my full potential. The unknown also represents my rel... | Art/Art History | 2016-08 |
| 7 |  | Connection/Disconnection | Tara Carpenter | My work explores the way people form connections, both inside their brains, and with other people. Neurologist Joseph LeDoux says, "The particular patterns of synaptic connections in an individual's brain, and the information encoded by these connections are the keys to who that person is" (3). In o... | | 2012 |
| 8 |  | Craft as a Bridge Between Humanity and the Natural World | Jessica Booth | As people have faced major life and societal altering events that cause them to evaluate the systems they are living in and disengage from them, they seek more sustainable methods of living and community building that nature seamlessly incorporates into its infrastructure. As we engage with the natu... | | 2024-05 |
| 9 |  | Deficient | Tyler Spurgeon | The work in Deficient is composed primarily of large-scale oil paintings, yielding from two bodies of work that have merged to become something greater than the sum of their individual scopes. The combined body of work is able to more clearly encapsulate the ideas I am interested in exploring. At th... | | 2012 |
| 10 |  | Feeding the Hedonic Ghost | Holly Cobb | | | 2015 |
| 11 |  | Four stage & 3 months in-between | Romo, Vanessa | Time stops right before change occurs. As you cease to exist in your usual state of mind, you find yourself alone, reflecting, and ask what lies ahead? This sliver in time feels like a terminal. Years pass and you move far from the moment you thought was the death of newness. It becomes a distant pa... | Art/Art History | 2017-07 |
| 12 |  | Gather-piece-stitch: the art of place | Downen, Céline | Philosopher Gaston Bachelard celebrates the "naive wonder we used to feel when we found a nest. This wonder is lasting, and today when we discover a nest it takes us back to our childhood or, rather, to a childhood; to the childhoods we should have had." I use the nest as a metaphor in my art with t... | Art and Art History | 2016 |
| 13 |  | Ghosts, Storytelling and Ominous Figures | Candace von Hoffman | This final project paper reflects my graduate research based in my experience of growing up in Alabama, my family's involvement in White supremacist systems in the American South, and critical Whiteness. In the past two years, the arts-based research I have completed in pursuit of my MFA has examine... | | 2021 |
| 14 |  | Growing Pains | Hannah Nielsen | As an artist, I was also raised to love and revere painting, and I carry a passion for it. However, as I have grown and read, and gained a stronger appreciation for feminist and outsider art, craft has become a second passion that informs my practice. There is a thematic conflict here that reflects ... | | 2021 |
| 15 |  | Herbarium obscura: shadow of nature | Rivera, Nancy E. | Nature is ephemeral, fragile, and wild. Over time, we have learned to tame and control it: We grow lawns, cultivate houseplants, and manufacture synthetic facsimiles of nature for aesthetic and ornamental purposes. In this way and more, we manipulate how we experience and understand it. In my exhibi... | Art/Art History | 2016 |
| 16 |  | Identifying as Monsters | Holly Rios | The monsters in my work are not monsters by a traditional understanding, but rather utilize monstrosity as a tool of disruption to interrogate the male gaze. This body of work surveys feminine construction, exploitation, and the male gaze through divisive media. Intentionally sourcing imagery from t... | | 2023 |
| 17 |  | InAppropriate | Eric Erekson | The subject I have chosen, the naked/nude, is relatable to most people. It brings to the foreground ethical questions that stir public dialog, wanted or not. The naked and the nude figure are unavoidably connected to us by nature, and then confused by the stresses of social, cultural, economic, and ... | | 2014 |
| 18 |  | Interstices: On Reconciliation with the Natural World | Eric Robertson | | | 2021 |
| 19 |  | The Interviews | Nolan Flynn | Through the combination of inquisitive mark-making and active painting techniques, my work lives as a visual record of the excitement and emotions I feel when I'm making art. While at the moment of creation, notations reflecting on the experience of painting coexist, while speaking different visual ... | | 2019 |
| 20 |  | 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 |
| 21 |  | 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 |
| 22 |  | 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 |
| 23 |  | 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 |
| 24 |  | 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 |
| 25 |  | 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 |
