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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 |
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Reflection | Lockett, Steven Dennis | My art is based on my life. These life experiences acquired fuel my imagery. They speak a personal language of emotions both positive and negative. Using the human figure as my subject, I look for interesting ways to capture the essence of my thoughts as I create an image. The focus is on an inn... | Art/Art History | 2006-04 |
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Simple stuff...? | Kurtz, Michelle | We are all part of the human condition that I describe as being human in a social, cultural, and personal context. To be part of this plays a part in shaping who we are. Often times we are not aware of, or have forgotten situations in our lives that have shaped us. In SIMPLE STUFF... ? I use clic... | Art/Art History | 2010-08 |
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Where things belong | Gawle, Benjamin Joseph | The following is a written account supporting the sculptures in my MFA Thesis Exhibition. Each piece consists of ceramic objects along with ceramic containers to house such objects. These containers protect, present, and preserve the objects in an organized way. The containers are also labe... | Art/Art History | 2006-06 |
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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 |
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Creative visions of community | Moyer, Sarah Elizabeth | Wondering how to utilize my freshly issued BFA, I became captivated by the publicly accessible format of mural paintings. Always on display, murals can be enjoyed by everyone, regardless o f their age or socio-economic background. Many have become landmarks in their community, often catalysts for ne... | Art/Art History | 2008-08 |
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Surface...ing | Zimmer, Cristin Elizabeth | What happens inside our minds is often just as important as what transpires in the natural world. These private thoughts, feelings, emotions and ambitions are crucial in forming our being. Although difficult to access and sometimes accept, these fragments that make up our psyche can be contradictor... | Art/Art History | 2010-07 |
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Across the Road | Meikle, David W. | The rolling foothills, rugged mountains, and sharp red rock found in the West have always held great appeal to me. I am a keen observer of the environment around me. I am constantly making mental notes about what is happening to the land at various times of day and at different times of year. A... | Art/Art History | 2006-05 |
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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 |
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Recollection | Jorgensen, Eva Christina | I would like to thank the following: my committee, Justin Diggle, Maureen O'Hara Ure, and Kaiti Slater, for their helpful criticism and advice; my fellow graduate students, especially Zuzanna Smolarkiewicz, Thomi Liebich, Meredith Prevot, and Leah Moses Gandhi, for their insight, camaraderie, and h... | Art/Art History | 2007-08 |
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Van Chu photographic brushstroke | Chu, Van | 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 ... | Art/Art History | 2010-05 |
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Tapisseries | Prevot, Meredith Louise Maynes | Patterns appear throughout the history of visual art. It is on printed or woven cloth that these patterns are most ubiquitous, and at the same time, least noticed. Over the past few years, textile design and decorative arts patterning have become a significant interest in my artwork, especially the ... | Art/Art History | 2007-12 |
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Final project paper | Smolarkiewicz, Zuzanna Joanna | The examination of personal identity inevitably leads to questions - the most common of which is what enables the perpetuation of the self. Who am 7? Am I myself because of my past, my present, or what I hope for in my future? Or does my identity emerge from my personal relationships with others,... | Art/Art History | |
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Rural decline | Hill, Jay David | Driving past Burley, Idaho on my way to Boise for what must be the umpteenth time, I pass an aged and worn out motel sign, broken and unlit, perched far above the highway on three naked metal poles. The motel, once an oasis for the road-weary traveler, is gone. The sign stands proud but weary, in th... | Art/Art History | 2006-08 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Factitious | Lewis J. Crawford | This paper is a journey into how I discovered the word factitious and re-defmed it for my artistic practice. I have broken down the paper into four different chapters that explore and explain this process. "Narrative Is Necessary," the first chapter, discusses the history of my research on narrati... | Art/Art History | 2009-05 |
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100 anos: revolucion Mexicana 1910-2010 (100 years Mexican revolution 1910-2010) | White, Luz del Carmen Paredes Almeida de | This is a final project paper based on the celebration of the centennial of the Mexican Revolution 1910-2010. 00 aiios, Revolution Mexicana 1910-2010 is a multimedia exhibition inspired by the celebration of the Centennial of the Mexican Revolution. The exhibition is composed of a series of magneti... | Art/Art History | 2010-08 |
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Salt and mortar | Flack, Douglas McGarren | My work constructs a culture that lives in the salt flats. I desire to understand why people do what they do and 1 achieve this by capturing my own experiences through every day life and translating them into a visual representation on the salt flats. I choose to paint these people in their contex... | Art/Art History | 2008-05 |
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Aerial Alchemy | James, Jan | On a trip to Egypt, as I was floating down the Nile, it was easy to envision the alchemists observing the mystical powers that transformed the desert. Black silt borne down the river is deposited on the land when the water overflows its banks during flood time. The black earth gives a rich lining ... | Art/Art History | 2010-05 |
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Tailings | Larkin, Vincent Stuart | This paper describes the research leading up to and a description o f the MFA thesis exhibit titled "Tailings." The exhibit addresses the increasing saturation o f our environment with pollutants, toxins, and manufacturing waste through sculptural work that contains or represents the physical ... | Art/Art History | 2008-05 |
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Hand to mouth | Ramachandran, Sylvia Meena | Just as we make tools to try to overcome our limitations, we make gestures to try to connect with people and things beyond ourselves. In this exhibition, I consider the utensil as a poetic extension of the body. The work follows a decade of contemplating the meaningfulness of daily tasks and of th... | Art/Art History | 2006-08 |
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Project paper | 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 |
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You are here: visualizing Provo agriculture an MFA community-based art education final project | Lofgreen, Carlyn | As an undergraduate student, I was consistently taught that art was anything that was in a museum or gallery. Art was a commodity to be bought and sold, and while the artist could derive pleasure from the making of it, art was in the end purely aesthetic and unattached to the mundane task of daily ... | Art/Art History | |
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Study for my voice | Allred, Matthew Wade | Within myself I find many perspectives, there are places to think from, places to stand in, and places to speak about. This work touches many of these places and examines the experiences of occupying them. These photographs are the manifestation of an exploration to understand myself, and the natu... | Art/Art History | 2008-08 |