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Goodwin, Dane | (UN)Known Origin | My research and artworks utilize traditional hand done and modern digital printmaking techniques. Some processes inherently convey a sense of being handmade, such as wood cut relief printing and intaglio printing; these techniques rely strongly on the hand of the artist, directly transferring handma... | Printing techniques; traditional printing; digital printing | 2017 |
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Marcinek, Michael | 36 frames: a self portrait | There is no doubt that we live in a highly mediated culture, more and more images are readily available to us. We view them instantaneously as events are unfolding on our computers, tablets, cellphones, as well as in newspapers and on television. We are constantly barraged and influenced by images f... | Photography; self-portraits | 2012-05 |
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Bowe, Abigail | Abigail Bowe: Art Portfolio 2020 Life Drawings and Character Design | This year, I've worked to improve my skillset in concept and character design. With my emphasis in animation and minor in drawing under my Film & Media Arts major. I've dedicated most of my coursework to learning about the elements of design, character appeal and artistic development. This part sem... | | 2020 |
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Hammock, Chris | Anthropology, Ethnography, and Documentary Film: Reflecting on a Documentary Journey | A comparative analysis of underlying ethical dilemmas in anthropology and documentary work, founded on the production of a short student documentary highlighting an ethnographic anthropology research project. The documentary studies academic field, classic ethnographic documentaries, and personal ac... | | 2018 |
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Atencio, Mitchell M. | Back to Bagatelles: Realizing the Remainder of Ligett's Musica Ricercata | György Ligeti completed Musica Ricercata in 1953, and shortly thereafter transcribed six of the movements into the 6 Bagatelles for wind quintet. Much of the scholarship surrounding Ligeti's transitional period discusses Musical Ricercata, a pivotal work for Ligeti marking divergence in composition... | | 2019 |
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Rathbun, Lauren Elizabeth | Beyond classical: mixing in the belt. An exploration of musical theatre singing | Belt, mix and classical are three terms for distinguishing the different sounds used in musical theatre vocal repertoire. Each requires different techniques regarding resonance space, vowels, laryngeal position, and breath management. For years, there has been a debate among vocal pedagogues questio... | Voice type (Singing) | 2015-08 |
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Mortensen, Mikala | Challenges in Playing the Flute and Their Specfiic Application to Solo Flute Literature | The left (binding) margin of the thesis should be 1.5 inches and the other three margins 1.0 inch. The text should be double spaced 12 point Times New Roman and follow standard format for your discipline. Thus the body of a Mathematics Thesis might be composed in a LaTex, a Social Science Thesis wou... | | 2016 |
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Krueger, Adrienne | The commune in commodities: Bruno braquehais's photography of the Paris commune of 1871 | Perhaps no other photographer of the Paris Commune has received as much art historical attention as Bruno Braquehais. Within this scholarship, he is heralded as unique, either framed as the dedicated photojournalist of the Commune or as the sole photographer sympathetic to the cause of the Commune. ... | | 2021 |
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Norris, Aileen | Dance as Activism: Exploring Gun Violence Through Movement and Text | In my thesis, I explore the potential for dance to take on an activist role, serving to springboard conversations and personal understandings of social issues in ways that conventional activism does not access. Through creative and textual research, I created a 20-minute long dance work titled "Aler... | | 2019 |
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Lebenzon, Roxanne Macdonald | Defining Ballet: How the Culture Shapes the Expression of Art | Ballet is truly its own entity in the dance world. With its strict pedagogy and rich history, its evolution to modernity has taken a winding path. As ballet has transitioned into the new millennium, there has been consistent chatter about how to classify ballet. There are those who hold steadfast to... | | 2017 |
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Keller, Jackson | Designing for Interactivity: the Camera in 3D Video Games | This paper analyzes the effect that camera control has on art, design, and player experience in 3D video games. It will specifically explore the implications of various methods of camera control that have emerged during the brief history of 3D games: the first and third-person perspectives, fixed an... | | 2019 |
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Williams, Sydney Porter | Education, art and Activism: Collecting the Stories of World-Changers | This thesis explores the idea of civically-engaged artwork that sparks conversation, specifically artwork created by young people, and often fostered by educators and community collaborators. For the purpose of this thesis, I define civically-engaged and activist art as art that is created with the ... | Activism; youth; art; civic-dialogue; community | 2020 |
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Jensen, Megan | Faustus, Marlowe, and Bosch: Intersections of medieval fantasy imagery | This thesis is a theoretical costume design project for Christopher Marlowe's play The Tragical History o f the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus that uses The Garden of Earthly Delights, a triptych painting famous for its outlandish imagery by the Dutch Renaissance painter Hieronymus Bosch, as its s... | Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593. Doctor Faustus; Bosch, Hieronymus, -1516. Garden of delights; Costume design | 2015-04 |
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Kelly, Diana | Federal Education Reform and Music Education: a Review of the Literature and Implications for the Future | The purpose of the literature review is to examine the relationship between federal education reform and the subsequent response from music educators in order to prepare for future reform. For studies to be included in this paper, they had to be directly related to the topic, peer reviewed, publishe... | | 2018 |
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Ranzenberger, Elise Kitterman | Figuratively foreign | Germany is a country with profound historical significance and a unique fusion and coexistence of international cultures. There are infinitely diverse perspectives and 5 experiences to be found from the people who live there, each with their own story and significance, composing modern German identi... | Art, German - 21st century | 2013-07 |
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Kirby, Kaltin | Finding a character | My thesis revolves around the idea of creating a character. There have been countless theatre practitioners and theorists Stanislvasky to Meisner who have tried to develop the "best way" to create a character. This project centers around my personal process to create a character based on my traini... | Acting | 2014-05 |
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Beller, Annastasia | Heartstrung: a choreographic expedition into the Queer female experience | This project follows a journey in learning how to portray a queer female experience on a ballet stage in a way that both produces emotional resonance and dissuades ostracization. Through the process of creative research, I choreographed a fiveminute- long contemporary ballet duet entitled "HeartStru... | | 2022 |
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Roth, Andrew L. | Historical perspectives: portraits from civil war america | Over the course of two semesters, working with Professor Maureen O'Hara Ure of the Department of Art and Art History, I developed a series of historical portraits in latex paint and collage elements culled from various magazines. I began each subject's portrait with a charcoal sketch and a latex und... | Portraits; Brown, John, 1800-1859; Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895; Truth, Sojourner, 1797-1883; Grant, Ulysses S., 1852-1929; Lee, Robert E., 1807-1870; Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891; Lincoln, Abraham,1809-1865 | 2012-05 |
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Jensen, Emma Margaret | The history and legacy of the "Russian" violin bow hold | Bow hold is a critical component of violin technique; it greatly influences an artist's tone production and virtuosity. Because bow hold is based in part on performance style and individual preference, various approaches have been introduced over the past centuries. One such approach, the "Russian" ... | | 2021 |
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Myrick, Trevor | The horror of sexual violence: The representations of rape in American horror story | This thesis looks at the representation of rape in American Horror Story, considering its formal and narrative construction alongside critical responses, drawing attention to both innovative and stereotypical aspects of its function within the series. While the series generally revels in representin... | Art/Art History | 2014-05 |
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Lee, Angela | How Creative Movement Practices, Such as Storytelling and Personal Narrative, Act as a Medium for People with Disabilities to Understand and Express Identity | After experiencing a multitude of various special needs programs (ranging from dance to climbing to personal training) in the surrounding Salt Lake City area, I found a focus on the interaction between special education and dance. Specifically, I turned to Tanner Dance to participate and assist in t... | | 2014 |
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Norton, Alexander Santillano III | How Much of What We Did Was Good? | Many media commentators often remark that today's political climate is unhealthy and divisive. They speak of better days when people used to sit down in the same room, listen to each other, and find common ground. I believe that art, in the form of ‘music theater,' can achieve this goal. I note th... | | 2019 |
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Butler, Alexia Li Adair | Italy: My catalyst | During the summer of 2012, I spent five weeks in Italy studying opera. That experience changed my life, but it also started me on a path of discovery and growth. When I returned I was filled with a desire to continue the trajectory of learning that had been set during those weeks. Through the Honors... | Singing - Instruction and study - Italy; Americans - Italy | 2013-05 |
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Elison, Tony | Keyframe: Six Images for Jazz Sextet and String Quartet | Memory defines reality. The mind's interpretation of the present relies entirely upon its experience. Before you pick up a rock, you have an idea of what it will feel like in your hand. You can discern information about someone through social cues instead of having that information explicitly explai... | | 2020 |
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Smith, Toni | Love, and 1,138 other reasons to marry | As the lesbian daughter of a lesbian mother growing up in the rural American west in the 1980s I was acutely aware that the law did not exist to protect my family. We were "those people." The definition of "those people" has changed over time in our country. We have been (among others) slaves, imm... | Same-sex marriage - Law and legislation - United States | 2016-04 |
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Wayman, Cory | Made in heaven? when art and pornography share a bed | This Art History thesis investigates the relationship between the categories of pornography and art primarily through a visual and textual analysis of American artist Jeff Koon's series Made in Heaven. This analysis is furthered by a comparison of Koons's work to that of contemporary artists Marilyn... | | 2019 |
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Kearsley, Elizabeth A. | Making 360 and representing the aesthetics of nostalgia through documentary | 360 is a short documentary film I made that follows Micha Osuchowski, a young woman obsessed with the culture of the late 1990s and early 2000s, also referred to as the Y2K era. The film weaves together two aspects of Osuchowski's life, her occupation selling Y2K clothing online and skateboarding, a... | | 2021 |
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Davidson, Peter C. | Making Diego's Dream | Diego's Dream is a short documentary film about a young man named Diego Catalan who was brought from Mexico to the United States when he was only eight years old. In the film, Diego recounts his vivid memory of the experience of crossing the border as a child, and reflects on current issues of immig... | | 2017 |
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Kim, Jon | Mathematical Foundations of Atonal Music Theory | Atonal music theory borrows much of its conceptual framework from the mathematical disclipline of set theory. Several music theoretical concepts, however, exceed the scope of set theory and are ill-defined as such. This document aims to help complete the mathematical foundation of atonal music theor... | | 2018 |
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Endow, Danielle Miyako | Modern representation of female protagonists in media: An exploration of identity | Coming from the perspective of a woman living in Utah, I have explored what it means to be an ambitious, yet lost individual in today's media. Over the course of one year I wrote a full-length screenplay that follows the journey of a woman who loses her sense of self and must find her way back by te... | Screenplay writing | 2014-12 |
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| Movie Night: a creative analysis | "Movie Night" is a film about a woman with a haunting fear that her sexuality, or lack thereof, might harm a new relationship. The first scene presents how a lack of representation in media can lead to certain standards and stereotypes, and by putting an alternative in this film itself, I seek to pr... | | 2021 |
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Kerr, Lindsay Tarbet | Notes and a narrative to accompany a piano recital | I wrote this thesis in connection with my hour-long senior recital, held April 19, 2015 as the culmination of my work as an undergraduate student in the piano performance program. The thesis includes extended and short program notes for each of the compositions included in my recital: Frederic Chopi... | Piano - Performance | 2015-05 |
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Humphrey, Dianna | Oh the Humanities! Using the Clemente Program to Educate Underserved Students in Art History | As funding for the arts perpetually decreases, the importance of art historical education becomes more evident in society and providing a sustainable model for this education is of vital importance. The Clemente Program for the Humanities at East High School in Salt Lake City, Utah advocates for in... | Clemente Program for the Humanities - Utah - Salt Lake City; Art and history - United States; Education | 2016-08 |
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Veenema, Arthur | The original: A process of producing a short film | The thematic goal of my short film The Original was to explore the blurred nature between reality and artificiality that arises from emerging technology. The Original questions an individual's place amongst the simulated realities that have come to compose our world. The concepts behind my script we... | Motion pictures -- Production and direction | 2014-12 |
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Bergquist, John | Popular music and public education: Culturally responsive to the past and present alike | Popular music is included to varying degrees in American public school curricula despite the fact that experts in the field have called for its inclusion since the Tanglewood Symposium in 1968 (Choate et. al, 1967). Green (2008) found that some educators might be uncomfortable with popular music pr... | Music - Instruction and study | 2016-04 |
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Clark, Tehya | The Production Process of a Traditional Animated Short Film | This Thesis will detail the process of the production of a short film. The film is produced using traditional animation with some supplementary digital technology, for editing, shooting, and pre production. I will go over the process which starts with pitching, script writing, audio recording, story... | | 2020 |
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Franklin, Jacob | Running forward | Founded in 2009 by Jacob Franklin and John Asher, Running Forward, is a non-profit organization that encourages healthy lifestyle choices in elementary school aged boys and girls by emphasizing nutrition, physical fitness, and personal growth through a mentality of empowerment. Running is the primar... | Running for children; Success - Psychological aspects | 2012-12 |
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Smithee, Katrina | Seeing into A doll's house through windows of feminism and mounting an epic production thereof : a dramaturgical production file | The development and performance of a theatrical work is a complex process which involves myriad decisions and many participants. One of the most essential contributors is the Dramaturg, the individual responsible for guiding the production and ensuring that the final product is cohesive and true to ... | Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906. Dukkehjem; Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906 - Dramatic production | 2013-05 |
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Niederjohn, Krista | Sex and sexuality: a reflection of society as seen through theatre | My honors thesis at the University of Utah consists of two parts: a performance, and a paper. Both focus on the idea of the arbitrary definition of sex and sexuality. Sex is defined as: "sexual activity, including specifically sexual intercourse." Sexuality is defined as: "a capacity for sexual feel... | Sex in the theater | 2013-08 |
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Heiner, Catherine | SHOTS FIRED | Recent national headline have drawn attention to the use of "trigger warnings" on college campuses. These warnings, initially used to help survivors of traumatic events, have been described as a way to infantilize college students and a precursor to censorship. This project will examine the circumst... | | 2017 |
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Donovan, Morgan | Shower stills | Ever since some of its earliest discovered forms, such as the painting of figures on cave walls, the creation of art has sought to understand the human condition. Now within our constantly changing society, it is increasingly important to continually explore the structure of humanity and the ways in... | Portrait photography | 2013-05 |
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Atalaya, Candelaria | Time and light souvenirs | I was a young photography student in my home country of Peru when I built my first Pinhole camera as one of the many school assignments, and long before I came to United States. For my very first picture, I placed the Pinhole camera on the school patio the elements of the composition for the project... | Photography, Pinhole; Photography, Artistic | 2014-12 |
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Mclntire, Jake Alex | Transformed into omnipresence | During my time at the University of Utah I have developed a body of work revolving around the dichotomy and coexistence of absence and presence. My fundamental inspiration spurs from the death of my Mother and a lost connection to religion. I understand absence and presence as reciprocal fluid state... | Art/Art History | 2013-05 |
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Schwartz, Maisie | Travel in dance education: what's the pointe? | The purpose of my project was to examine the benefits of travel in dance education to determine if international travel is something the University of Utah Department of Ballet should continue to support The funding and allowance of training and performance-based travel abroad has long been a point ... | Dance - Study and teaching; Travel - Philosophy | 2014-05 |
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Wang, Albert Abdul-Barr | Two reflections on the capitol insurrection | Two Reflections on the Capitol Insurrection acts as a complementary set of essays for Albert Abdul-Barr Wang's extensive photo book The Cults of the Famous and the Dead (https://www.blurb.com/b/11471408-the-cults-of-the-famous-and-the-dead). The artist reflects on the impetus for his research projec... | | 2023 |
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Karahalios, Vasiliki | The Unassuming Subversion of Jacksonian-ERA Democracy: An Analysis of Mary Edmonia Lewis's Minnehaha and Hiawatha of 1868 | By the mid-nineteenth century, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow had become one of the most celebrated poets in the United States. The publication of his poem The Song of Hiawatha in 1855 established him as the great American epic poet of the 19th-century. Not only was The Song of Hiawatha widely read and ... | | 2019 |
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Jones, Hannah Lisbeth | Weighing iconography of love in classical and early hellenistic art: considering allusions and metraphor in images of aphrodite balancing EROS | Though images of Eros and Aphrodite are prolific, appearing in many material and literary sources, scenes of erotostasia, or the weighing of Eros by Aphrodite, are rare and have been historically overlooked in the study of Greek art. However, the four cataloged scenes of Aphrodite raising a balance ... | Art/Art History | 2012-08 |
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Chen, Cynthia | What are we teaching? The translation of exoticism as pedagogy in Schumann and Tchaikovsky | Musical scholars have often studied exoticism-the evocation and representation of cultures outside of one's own-through racial, national, gender, class, and other identities. These studies commonly lead to the taxonomical classification of musical gestures and further questions on the purpose and l... | Music - Philosophy and aesthetics; Music appreciation; Music - Instruction and study | 2016-05 |
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Hazelton, Christal Rosa A. | What We tell Children: Queer Representation in Children's Animation | In this paper, I explore the history of queer representation in mainstream children's media -- both implicit and explicit -- and the historical movements that influenced their structures. Starting with the emergence of the "buddy" genre in the late 1950s and early 1960s, I use this as the basis of i... | | 2018 |
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Fitzwilliam, Roxanne | The Window Control and Catharsis | This paper is a companion to the animated short I made, called The Window. In this paper, I aim to comprehensively reflect upon the project itself, the inspirations and meaning behind it, as well as the process of making it. I will also explain how this project has worked as a form of art therapy an... | | 2019 |
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Fuller, Adam | Wynton Marsalis and Nicholas Payton: a compartative discourse | Jazz music has achieved the support of elite institutions, such as higher education and government arts initiatives, relatively recently. There is now a growing body of scholarly research on jazz history, performance practice, recordings, and music theory. However, there are widely differing concept... | | 2018 |
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Azuma, Mariko | Yin Yu Tang and the effects of re-contextualization on vernacular architecture | My paper on the cultural and architectural re-contextualization of Yin Yu Tang, or Hall of Abundant Shelter, at the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) in Salem, MA, has two main goals: 1) to consider the connections between architecture, space, and the family in a traditional Chinese house; and 2) to exami... | Peabody Essex Museum - Exhibitions, Hall of Abundant Shelter; Architecture, Chinese - Exhibitions | 2016-04 |
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Scott, Kali | You Do You: A Theoretical Exploration of Audience Agency in Theatre | This thesis explores the relationship between audiences and performers in theatre. Contemporary companies which consciously tamper with this relationship are analyzed. Particular focus is on companies that explore the extent to which the audience can directly affect a performance. The reasoning of c... | | 2017 |
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Russell, Curtis | The Zion curtain: A documentary play | The Zion Curtain is a documentary play about the collision of ideology and civil rights, using the words of real people to trace the roots and show the effects of reactionary, homophobic doctrines in the Mormon Church. Every "um," "uh," and pause is performed as spoken in original interviews by the ... | Homosexuality - Religious aspects - Latter Day Saint churches; Mormon gays | 2014-04 |