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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Quilting"”.
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Quilting stories and embracing culture: an arts-informed narrative inquiry exploring the experiences of an older Chinese Canadian immigrant with depression
Chinese immigrants tend to underutilize mental health services. Cultural and linguistic barriers may discourage Chinese immigrants from accessing these services. Yet, a paucity of qualitative research that explores the experiences of older Chinese Canadian immigrants with depression exists in the …
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Stochastic inversion of seismic data by implementing image quilting to build a litho-facies model for reservoir characterization of Delhi field, LA
… image reconstruction method that is called image quilting is implemented. This algorithm searches for similar patterns that have some overlapping criteria with the previously accepted pattern. The distance function is defined in a way to search for the overlapping grid nodes. The algorithm …
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Piecing together creativity: feminist aesthetics and the crafting of quilts
<p>When traditionally feminized crafts such as quilting are embraced as fine art, the discourses surrounding their "elevation" often serve to bolster the power of art world establishments by referencing the tenets of modernism and employing mutually reinforcing aesthetic hierarchies. In this …
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Quilts as Visual Texts
… In drawing together the worlds of academia and quilting, I will use a variety of theoretical lens to explore quilts as texts. As a text, quilts contain units of meaning much like words. These units of meaning will be explored in Chapter 2 “Quilt Talks: How Quilts Communicate.” In this chapter I …
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Cultural and Political Geographies of the AIDS Crisis in Ireland
… ‘AIDS’ body through two embodied practices; AIDS Quilting and blood donation. Drawing on a Butlerian conceptualisation of precarity and precariousness, it configures a landscape of HIV/AIDS care provision that is implicated in the production of the precarious body and the precarity of the state. …
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Needling the system : the textile art of Colette Whiten, Barbara Todd, and Ann Newdigate
… through their respective mediums of tapestry, quilting, and embroidery, challenge existing systems of meaning through a strategic critique of dominant cultural ideologies. Simultaneous to this discussion it seeks to examine how traditional and institutional structures have contributed to the …
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Teaching the Arts through the Appalachian Culture: a Proposal for a High-School Class.
… areas: Spinning and Weaving, Dyeing, Basketry, Quilting, Pottery, Woodcarving, Blacksmithing, Vernacular Architecture, and Handmade Instruments of Country Music.</p> <p>This course has been taught by the writer at Science Hill High School in Johnson City, Tennessee, and was enthusiastically …
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The Crescent and the Cross: Islamic Influence in Southern Culture
… west African weaving and African American quilting traditions here.
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Quilted Narratives: Patchworking Rural Appalachian Cultural Influence and Identities through the Storied Experiences of Women Educational Leaders
… K-12 educational settings. Using the metaphor of quilting, my research study considered the storied narratives of rural Appalachian women educational leaders as patches for a quilt, taking each story and sewing them together to see what commonalities and complexities exist that guide leadership in …
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Materializing a Mad Aesthetic Through the Making of Politicized Fibre Art
… craft, specifically fibre-based practices like quilting and nature-based dyeing, as a way to make sense of the world around me. Craft is what makes me feel things. It forces me to see big pictures, look outside of myself, get raw, question my long-held beliefs, be uncomfortable, desire to do …
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Fairy Tales: The Dark Side
… and Sally Smart. Jones’ textile work utilised quilting techniques in keeping with a tradition of women artists using textile’s historic association with women as a means of highlighting feminist issues. Women artists have made quilts both as art and as feminist symbols in order to address …
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The social imaginary, Jacques Lacan, and the African Christian diaspora in Europe
… analysis is that the diaspora context requires quilting operations that halt not only the sliding of the signified, but of the signifier as such. This analysis could also be read as an indirect contribution to the debate on the significance of the African Christian diaspora in Europe, especially …
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Black Feminist Poiesis: Locating “The Uses of the Erotic” Within Black Domesticity
… in art that subverted the European tradition of quilting. When we look at the daily life practices of these women we see a refusal to live a life without the capacity to feel in the doing. We see an aliveness rooted in an alternative way of knowing and being in the world inspired by what these …
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Spirit, Art, and Care
<p>In textiles, installations, and interactive performances, I explore how spiritual practice becomes art practice. My experiences as a hospice volunteer, musician, and Buddhist inform my work’s focus on contemplating impermanence as a path to spiritual transformation. Artmaking is a vehicle for …
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Between Friends.
<p>This paper correlates with a Master of Fine Arts graduate thesis exhibition held at Slocumb Galleries in Ball Hall at East Tennessee State University March 21 through 25, 2011. The exhibition contains a mixed media body of work including prints, metal point drawings, and quilts. These works are …
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Kick Me
Human experience, particularly the trials and tribulations of growing up, is the foundation on which I build. In this body of work, I represent these somewhat unsettling times. I use flattened space, strong diagonals, and vibrant color to add energy to the compositions. An underlying structure of …
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Elusive matter, material bodies: American art in the age of electronic mediation, 1865-1918
This dissertation examines how American art engaged new electronic media during the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, when techno-utopian desires for global harmony and interconnection surged throughout American culture, encouraged by the advent of the electromagnetic telegraph. While the …
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Exploring female art-making through reflective practice: A multi-dimensional cultural, spiritual and embodied experience
This thesis explores some of the many elements and influences of lived experience that are present in acts of art-making. Reflective practice in art-making adds the intentional and purposive act of reflective learning to the experience of art-making. In an academic context the challenge arises for …