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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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| 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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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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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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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 |