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| 1 |  | Teeter Totter: project paper | Mary Sinner | For as long as I can remember I've been arranging shapes and playing with space. It began with sidewalk chalk and found objects arranged on the cement to create elaborate spaces. Then cannibalizing my grandma's architectural digest magazines and inventing new layouts on cheap lined paper with mounta... | | 2014 |
| 2 |  | 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 |
| 3 |  | Who Sustains Our Tables? | Sara Serratos | According to Jean Baudrillard in L'autre par lui-même (The Other by Itself), reflections and criticisms of our society reinforce the immune system of our thinking and, throughout history, test the social systems that govern us. How have these ideas manifested in and motivated my work? Art in genera... | | 2023 |
| 4 |  | 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 |
| 5 |  | Evolutionary Intuition | Kent J. Barton | This body of work is the result of exploring new directions. The desire to push and to open myself to new information has always been my driving force. Making these forms required me to work and think about clay in a different way, building on my vocabulary with the material. Producing this series m... | | 2002 |
| 6 |  | Toward Figurative Transformation | Veera Kasicharernvat | The paintings selected for my M.F.A. show evolved during the last year of my graduate study. These paintings were a result of my continual search for the life force or essence of the object through the immediacy of paint. The four monotypes and four series of paintings represented a considerable shi... | | 2002 |
| 7 |  | 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 |
| 8 |  | Sulky Sentiments | Christina Riccio | Mental illness is a constant, unrelenting struggle to which my sense of reality is irrevocably tied. The pull of ceaseless darkness threatening to drag me under, alongside a perpetual cycle of irrational thoughts puts me at constant odds with my rational mind. An exploration of the duality between t... | | 2022 |
| 9 |  | A Woman's Place | Zuzanna Joanna Smolarkiewicz | The examination of personal identity inevitably leads to questions-the most common; of which is what enables the perpetuation of the self. What is necessary for some past or; future being to be you? But there are other questions of equal interest and importance.; Who am I? Am I myself because of my ... | | 2007 |
| 10 |  | Salt and Mortar | Douglas McGarren Flack | My work constructs a culture that lives in the salt flats. I desire to understand; why people do what they do and I 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 conte... | | 2008 |
| 11 |  | 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 |
| 12 |  | Worthiness, Shame and Freedom | Bryce Billings | This paper outlines my process, research, and journey toward personal freedom via the language of visual art, during my MFA candidacy at the University of Utah. I include the directions, discoveries, and insights from my personal story arc, leading to my MFA thesis show. I believe the culmination of... | | 2022 |
| 13 |  | 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 |
| 14 |  | Prime Property | Thomas Liebich | 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 intentions... | | 2008 |
| 15 |  | The Line Between Us | Nick Mendoza | Our country is divided when it comes to immigration. Pick up any newspaper and you will find a headline that deals with drug trafficking or building a seven hundred mile long fence between the United States and Mexico. Turn on the television and you will hear key phrases such as illegal or undocumen... | | 2011 |
| 16 |  | Solitude in Tandem | Adam Watkins | We live in a world of evolving distractions that steer us away from the importance; of the present moment. Subtle events, which shape our lives and the lives of those around; us frequently go unnoticed, often ironically as we engage in social media and egocentric; concerns of our own "status". What ... | | 2014 |
| 17 |  | 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 |
| 18 |  | 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 |
| 19 |  | The Pressure of Perfection | Mary Sauer | The pressure of perfection can either inspire great achievements or be like a debilitating disease. My research and art deal with how perfectionistic tendencies affect the lives of young to middle aged, American women. Perfectionism can lead these individuals to interpret social trends and styles as... | | 2014 |
| 20 |  | Thinking Inside the Black Box: Automatic Drawings of Celestial Bodies as Memory Metaphor | Lace Padilla | Even though memories may seem like snapshots of the past stored in our minds,; modern Cognitive Neuroscience has revealed that our memories are more closely; related to fiction than autobiography. We use this fiction to create an idea of ourselves; and a conception of the world we inhabit. Yet every... | | 2015 |
| 21 |  | Rewritten Places | Linnie Brown | Farmland converted to subdivisions. Roads created, widened, redirected. More buildings. Boundaries shifting. People moving in and out. These continual signs of change and development exist in the rapidly growing suburban city where I live. I view this human activity on the land as a complicated, on-... | | 2015 |
| 22 |  | Reclaiming Motherhood: I Will Not Vanish | Holly Parson Nielsen | The purpose of this thesis is to describe the evolution of my MFA show, Reclaiming Motherhood: I Will Not Vanish. One of the primary themes of my show is shapeshifting: physically, emotionally, and mentally transitioning, changing form, becoming fluid, and finding resilience. The big question 1 had ... | | 2021 |
| 23 |  | Ephemeral Tea | Thomas Betts | As Tom Betts researches his ontology through the creative act of art a hyperrealist oil painting is produced that alludes to society's consumption of time in an age where temporal states of awareness and interaction are governed by technology. He uses the subject of a teacup, a family heirloom that ... | | 2010 |
| 24 |  | Photographic Brushstroke | Van Thieu Chu | 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; ... | | 2010 |
| 25 |  | 100 anos Revolution Mexicana 1910-2010 / 100 years MEXICAN REVOLUTION 1910-2010 | Luz del Carmen Paredes Almeida de White | This is a final project paper based on the celebration of the centennial of the Mexican Revolution 1910-2010. 100 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 magne... | | 2010 |
