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    • A critical evaluation of contemporary art for its usefulness in the public high school curriculum 

      Rising, Dorothy Milne (1933)
      When art was introduced into the public school curriculum, it was regarded as a frill, since it had no definite and generally accepted objectives. Gradually, industry emphasized the economic value of the subject and advocated ...
    • A New Home 

      Hewat, Daniel
      Being a product of your environment, limitations of exploring ones' self and discovery of your own essence become very apparent by not exploring your surroundings. One would never know the beauty of a sunrise cresting the ...
    • ABOUT TIME 

      Murley, Abraham
      ABOUT TIME (MEMORY AND THE OPPOSITES) ABRAHAM MURLEY A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF FINE ART
    • An analysis of painting in the light of aesthetic theory 

      Taylor, Kyle Eldon (1931)
      Different philosophers have deduced different aesthetic theories by starting with different philosophical as- sumptions. So disagreement with a man1s conclusions may frequently be traced back to disagreement with his first ...
    • An element [in]/[not in] a set 

      Jia, Jia
      I automatically read the customer’s minutest movements and gaze, and my body acts reflexively in response. My ears and eyes are important sensors to catch their every move and desire. Taking the utmost care not to cause ...
    • Anchurus And His Remedy 

      Coleman, Timothy
      Contrary to the statement by the character Garcin in Jean-Paul Sartre’s play No Exit that other people are Hell; it is in fact other people who offer us a glimpse of Heaven. But if one is to have that peek at paradise ...
    • Ancient Future 

      Cahill, Payton
      I explore human experience through the lens of the natural world while calling attention to preservation and its changing role. Encrusted with crystals my work explores fossilized fragments of our everyday world that speak ...
    • Available Futures or: How to Mourn When You're Not Done Dying, A Reflection 

      Detweiler, Henry C
      The following pages describe works that I have made during the 15 months (and counting) of the COVID-19 pandemic. Twenty years from now, glib didactics describing “this time” will pepper the walls of museums for their ...
    • Between Authority and Pretense 

      Halpine, Clare
      Humor calls into question collectively held truths, whether real or imagined, emergent or engrained. Through costume and studied speech, the performance artist as pundit makes permissible a self to which we may otherwise ...
    • Body and Apparition: Material Presence in Sixteenth-Century Italian Religious Sculpture 

      Giffin, Erin C.
      In early modern church interiors across the Italian peninsula, religious devotees gazed upon, spoke to, and touched sculptural sacred objects. These forms of contact reinforced the sensation of presence and communication ...
    • Breaths of the Ether 

      Xie, Lanxia
      Based on my memories of hazy cityscapes, the sensations of the contradictions in beauty in life, and spatial disorientations and other-worldliness, I have created three works that render blurred, mysterious, ethereal, and ...
    • Broken Forms and Empty Spaces: Bearing Witness to Destroyed Landscape after the Iowa 2020 Derecho 

      Hazelton, Holly
      Tierratrauma, solastalgia, and ecological grief are terms that help describe the feeling of the deep emotional pain one experiences from negative environmental change. With weather events and natural disasters occurring ...
    • Building Resonance 

      Gale-Schreck, Benjamin Ralph
      Ben Gale-Schreck April 6th 2016 Abstract My art practice is greatly influenced by my familial relationships. Using sculpture and performance, the interaction between my work and its audience is essential. As a tributary ...
    • Camera Evolution 

      Blalock, John Miles
      Examining the process of evolution by building cameras using the methods of natural selection.
    • Catch/Trap 

      Clark, Nathan A
      This work began as an exploration of technology that is timeless but forgotten or ignored, though still poignant and useful today. Nets are ubiquitous, made and used by humans worldwide throughout history. The net can trap ...
    • Changing images of women: Taisho-period paintings by Uemura Shoen (1875-1949), Ito Shoha (1877-1968), and Kajiwara Hisako (1896-1988) 

      Morioka, Michiyo (1990)
      Uemura Shoen, Ito Shoha, and Kajiwara Hisako were Nihonga artists in Kyoto who specialized in bijinga, or paintings of women. This dissertation discusses the lives and art of these three women painters with a particular ...
    • Christina the Astonishing 

      Valenzuela, Christina
      What is the nature of pain and suffering? How does the body define the human condition? How does psychological makeup affect our identity and perception? The objective of my studio practice is to use painting and drawing ...
    • Comorbidity 

      Foster, Rowen Kilian
      ABSTRACT This thesis document analyses and contextualizes my solo thesis exhibition, Comorbidity, through providing photo documentation of the work, a reflection on personal experiences, social phenomena, contemporary art, ...
    • Coping with life in the Absurd 

      Mora, Daniela
      This thesis outlines the art practice and ideas of Daniela Mora. Her work investigates the role of audience and art in relation to tourism, cultural practices, and authority. Through the use of video installation, theater, ...
    • Crossing the Border: Identity Issues in the Scope of Representation 

      Yin, Shuo
      After photography first emerged in the early 19th century, it has developed as a technology that enhances human ability to preserve visual information and challenges the tradition of painting as the fundamental apparatus ...