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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"quilt"”.
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Hawaiian Quilt Art: Continuity and Change
<p>This thesis examines Hawaiian quilt art from its earliest Polynesian <em>kappa moe</em> (barkcloth) to modern contemporary quilts. Hawaiian Fiber Arts, patchwork quilts, traditional appliqued quilts, flag quilts, contemporary quilts, and contemporary/sashiko quilts are presented. The time period …
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An account of silence in diagnostic radiography : a cultural quilt
… images conceived to be a metaphorical cultural quilt: representing an account of silence and silent practices. Thematic analysis indicates that silence strategies are used to facilitate the smooth every day running of X-ray departments focused around five themes: emotional labour and social …
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Contributions of supra-level design to visual rhetoric in quilt books
<p>Visual rhetoric is "the ability of the writer to achieve the purpose of a document through visual communication" ("Visual Rhetoric" 77). The success of visual rhetoric depends upon the extent to which a document's visual elements consider audience, purpose, and context. For example, if a …
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Life scraps/a patchwork quilt: Vignettes from the lives of Brenda and Jim
This qualitative inquiry explores the process of the social construction of disability and the meanings assigned to the disability by a mother and/with a son with cerebral palsy. Using the interpretative biographical methodology, vignettes were written in a journal by the mother. Applying the …
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Piecing a Quilt: Jessie Carney Smith and the Making of African American Women's History
This is a critical analysis of Jessie Carney Smith's Notable Black American Women (1992) as an illustration of black feminist knowledge production. It explores the contributions of Dr. Smith to African American women's and library history during her more than four decades as Head Librarian at …
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Piecing a quilt: Jessie Carney Smith and the making of African American women's history
This is a critical analysis of Jessie Carney Smith’s Notable Black American Women (1992) as an illustration of black feminist knowledge production. It explores the contributions of Dr. Smith to African American women’s and library history during her more than four decades as Head Librarian at …
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Crafting citizens: material rhetoric, cultural intermediaries, and the Amazwi Abesifazane South African national quilt project
… organizations participating in two March 2008 quilt workshops to sites including the South African Parliament and an American UNESCO-sponsored art exhibition, the dissertation contributes to current critical conversations on cross-cultural rhetoric, its circulation and real or imagined …
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Names Project Aids Memorial Quilt: A rhetorical study of the transformation of an epidemic through social movement
… study looks at the Names Project: AIDS Memorial Quilt as a rhetorical artifact and centerpiece of the current AIDS movement. The methodology for this study is an ethnographic and auto-ethnographic design, utilizing interviews with four Quilt volunteers and staffers, including my observations as a …
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QUiLT (Quantitative Ultrasound in Longitudinal Tissue Tracking): Stitching 2D images into 3D Volumes for Organ Health Monitoring
Volumetric property maps of organs (e.g., stiffness) are clinically significant and valu- able in diagnosing the onset and monitoring the progression of a large multitude of diseases such as autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) and chronic liver disease (CLD). Unlike 2D property …
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Mending the seams of an Urban Patchwork Quilt : achieving an 'Ordered Chaos' in temple towns of Southern India
Historically rich and culturally vibrant, the city of Mylapore (located in Tamil Nadu) is a prominent temple town of Southern India, in which the Kapaleeshwarar Temple is treasured. The analysis of this town, in relation to its urban context, demonstrates the need for an architectural typology that …
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A Patchwork Quilt: A Qualitative Case Study Examining Mentoring, Coaching, and Teacher Induction in the Western Québec School Board
… and learning. Conceptualized as a patchwork quilt, this thesis by article reports on a qualitative case study that examined the Teacher Induction Program (TIP) implemented in 2009 in the Western Québec School Board (WQSB). Each manuscript or fabric block highlights a different component of …
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Fragments of Memories
Quilt making, in its simplest form, is the taking of fragments from various sources and putting them together to form a new symbol that gives new meaning to those fragments, collectively. This thesis discusses my incorporation of the language of quilt making in my work, transforming its' ideals to …
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Quilts as Visual Texts
I argue that quilts should be considered as visual texts, one to which theories of visual rhetoric and rhetoric in general can be applied. 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 …
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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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A cultural illness : women, identity and eating problems in Faith Ringgold's 'Change' series
… cultural product. The painted narrative quilt series Change: Faith Ringgold's Over 100 Pound Weight Loss Performance Story Quilt by contemporary African-American artist Faith Ringgold expresses profound issues about women, identity, and eating problems. The Change series is a testament to …
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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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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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Uniform Series.
… The author explores the culture of the "art quilt" and its relationship to the artist's personal life.</p>
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