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Showing 1 to 20 of 672 for “"MFA thesis"”.
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Loners : working from a pattern
MFA Thesis for Shanell B. Papp on Loners, textiles, video/film, re-purposing and pattern breaking. w/ work from Marcel Duchamp, Edward Keinholz, Rene Magritte, Joseph Beuys, Eugene Atget, Arthur Fellig (Weegee), David Hoffos, Sarah Lucas, Tracey Emin, Mike Kelly, Allyson Mitchell, Madonna, Weird Al.
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bipolar[i].discuss();
This MFA thesis uses the medium of computer language to explore the chaos underlying Bipolar I Disorder, an enigmatic and disruptive illness. Using creative coding to generate a series of abstract systems representing human traits, I explore the common truth that pervades the seemingly randomness …
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Open circuit: an editing specialization
… By detailing the editing process of three MFA thesis films as well as examining a variety of extracurricular projects, the report explores the challenges of film editing and the growth of a beginning filmmaker.
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Moments of Absorption
… and visual themes that are presented in my MFA thesis exhibition. The research looks into the absorption of the nude subject, the gestures that communicate this absorption, and the domestic space as a stage for the presentation of these gestures. This work investigates a tension between the …
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Shifting Surfaces: Developing a Visual Language with Emergent Patterns and Abstracted Bodies
Shifting Surfaces is an MFA thesis exhibition comprised of screenprints and sculptures. The written thesis contains documentation of the exhibition and a selection of related works, focusing on the progression of research and artmaking which led to the development of a new visual language. Shifting …
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I Know, Right?
My MFA thesis and supporting exhibition will highlight sculptural work that deals directly or indirectly with shared cultural experiences. A narrative explains my interests in meticulous craft and recycling cultural objects and the origins of the popular culture imagery used in the exhibition. I …
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Writing Images: Blending Drawings and Code
… can be addressed in the same way. This MFA Thesis uses the principles of rule-based and generative art to cross the borders between drawing and coding.
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Synecdoche: Visions of Midwestern Solitude
Synecdoche: Visions of Midwestern Solitude is an MFA Thesis Exhibition comprised of small-scale paintings of rural scenes that examine the way memory and perception is used in experiencing the landscape. By incorporating a method of nocturnal observation, the artist introduces an element of …
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Entangled Relationships Illustrated Through Parasitic Plants
This thesis paper examines the use of natural forms to metaphorically represent human bonds in my creation of the series of works for my MFA Thesis Exhibition based on interacting relationships between plants. My images focus on parasitic plants, as a metaphor for restrictive and binding aspects of …
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Schemas
The work included in my MFA thesis exhibition entitled Schemas, represent the relationship that objects have to the body via perception. They become a map of understanding that is at once the object and the experience of that things objectness. Strategically composed this experience is translated …
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Escenografía viva
… projections, bodies, and movement. This MFA thesis examines four original iterations developed using Escenografía Viva as the central framework for creation. Combining reflective practitioner and design research methodologies, the study investigates how scenography can emerge from the …
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Broadway Junior : musical theatre for youth performers
This MFA thesis identifies the junior musical as an umbrella term for commercial American musical theatre adapted for youth performers and explores the value of these adaptations in schools. Interviews and survey responses comprise this qualitative study that examines interest in and opportunities …
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In front of them all: a memoir in essays
This Creative Nonfiction MFA Thesis is a book-length work told in three acts. The first three essays explore the narrator's adolescence and young adulthood in Hawaii, South Korea, and online with focus placed upon the body and on terror. The second act, "Movement," details the writer's upbringing …
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Agrarian Impressions
The images and words assembled in this thesis describe and relate experiences from my past that seem necessary to understanding my current body of ceramic and mixed media sculptures. As the title Agrarian Impressions implies, the stoneware sculptures are based upon memories from growing up on a …
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The Office of Possible Projects
<p>This writing is a companion to the MFA thesis projects that I presented in the Spring 2022 semester at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Arkansas. My thesis work did not exist as a singular, solo exhibition in a traditional gallery space like it did for most of the artists in my …
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Our stories heal -- mind, body and soul : pivoting to a healing-centered engagement in an applied theatre residency
… connection, vision, and presence. This MFA thesis is a qualitative case study of a teaching artist facilitation experience during aa 9-week applied theatre residency at a group home facility in central, Texas. The researcher uses reflective practitioner and autoethnographic analysis to …
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Love is a series of vaultings
This creative writing MFA thesis, Love is a Series of Vaultings, is a book-length collection of poems and essays that seek transformation by resacralizing the speaker's queer body and metabolizing the violence of white, evangelical Christianity toward a more ethical, ecological ritual …
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Legends of Light: Crafting middle grade fantasy in the tradition of Catholic philosophy and medieval visual culture
… adult fantasy novels and introducing my MFA thesis project as a part of that tradition, I discuss the need for books which invite families to come together and contemplate the joys and sorrows of the human experience.</p>
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A Comparative Exploration of the Depictions of Punjabi Women in Daniyal Mueenuddin’s In Other Rooms Other Wonders and Now We Are Monsters
… collection of short stories that comprised my MFA thesis at the University of Washington. The essay aims to assess the themes and narratives revolving around women’s lives and experiences in Pakistan as depicted in Mueenuddin’s fiction, and how my own fiction builds on as well as resists them. …
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Parameters of Spooning: In the Site of Possibility
… queer an object? The work I produced during my MFA explores these skills and applies them to the form of the spoon, continually pushing this form further and further into ‘uselessness.’ These spoons—in ceramic, wood, metal, bronze, and woven natural materials—investigate failure as a queer …
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