MFA Final Projects
 
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1A Loving StruggleKate WingardBy 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
2Automatic Processing PitfallsJustin WatsonI 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
3Automatic processing pitfallsWatson, JustinI used this text to examine processes by mirroring the internal structures of my mental processes.Art & Art History2016
4Be SomewhereDavid Habben2017
5Beyza Kilic MFA Ceramics project paper 2016Kilic, Beyza2016
6The big unknownBeard, KeithMy 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 History2016-08
7Craft as a Bridge Between Humanity and the Natural WorldJessica BoothAs 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
8Four stage & 3 months in-betweenRomo, VanessaTime 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 History2017-07
9Gather-piece-stitch: the art of placeDownen, CélinePhilosopher 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 History2016
10Ghosts, Storytelling and Ominous FiguresCandace von HoffmanThis 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
11Growing PainsHannah NielsenAs 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
12Herbarium obscura: shadow of natureRivera, 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 History2016
13Identifying as MonstersHolly RiosThe 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
14Interstices: On Reconciliation with the Natural WorldEric Robertson2021
15The InterviewsNolan FlynnThrough 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
16Intuitive SurveyReilly Sabine JensenIntuitive 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
17KeishoEtsuko Kato HansenThis 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
18Landscapes of a Tumultuous MindTess WoodThis 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
19ManimalsKristina HinesIn 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
20MFA exhibitionBench, Ryan JoeThe 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...Printmaking2017-09
21Misguided Adventures Guide to Strange PedagogyJoshua Graham2019
22Most of the Parts and Some of the StoryWilliam G. CurtisMy 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
23Multicultural: Facts and findings from the two years I spent living under a microscopeMehr, AnnetteThis 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 History2017-12
24Perception is RealityDana HansenReality, 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
25Reclaiming Eden: Artmaking for Internal TransformationSydney 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
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