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    • EAT DRINK MAN WOMAN 

      Tang, Yongqi
      Identity is both the self-image and the social construct that guides our behavior. We see ourselves through the concepts others have of us and the groups we belong to, and perform identities under the impact of the surrounding ...
    • Enantiodromia 

      Mlasowsky, Anna
      Multiplicity and the bridging of opposing realities is a central theme in my work. This multiplicity speaks to a physical disconnection between places as well as to a mental state of disassociation. Through process I enable ...
    • Evolving Definitions of Power Relations in the United States through Language as Form 

      Wilson, Caitlyn
      Each work has specific content that is derived from absorbing writing from scholars. These writings vary in specificity but relate to larger subjects of interest. My overarching areas of study include form as content, ...
    • Experience of Place 

      Norsworthy, Sarah K.
      My work in painting, drawing, and sculpture has been informed by an interest in human presence and architecture in the landscape as well as my own experiences of place. I present some of my history leading up to my thesis ...
    • Exploring the Intersection of Race, Adoption, and Evangelical Culture Through a Studio Practice 

      Quickbear-Stalder, Ryland Cameran
      Media and media consumption is based on perception. Perception comes with biases that exist from upbringing, personal belief systems, and many other things. Exploring the intersections of those ideas is even more exciting. ...
    • Eye and I: Assumptive Folly in the I and the Institution 

      Calimpong, Granite
      Following is a discussion of bias in the visual processing system and the complex, intertwined relationship between both physiologically determined and socially/culturally determined forms of bias. Through an examination ...
    • Faces of Humanity: Painting Portraits of Immigrant Workers 

      Morales, Selma Arely
      Through the years, immigration to the United States has significantly increased. Immigrants have been drawn to this country by attractive wages and pushed by the poverty in their home countries. Today, immigrant minority ...
    • Fairy Tales of the Anthropocene: Drawing Stories for a New Age of Forest Fairy Tale 

      Drapkin, Abigail
      What would a contemporary fairy tale set in the forest look like? In European folktales, the forest serves as a setting for morality lessons, social commentary, magical encounters with animals, and often violent or unsettling ...
    • Fat and Sassy A Performance Masked as a Thesis 

      Edmondson, Alyssa Page
      This thesis has taken on many forms using both technical and conceptual structures. Firstly, out of pure refusal to produce during a global pandemic with very little guidance, access, and support from any institution ...
    • Finding Value & Cutting Up Meaning 

      D'Elia, Kathryn P.
      I am allowing this written thesis to act as an explanation of my concepts and personal journey through the University of Washington's Graduate Drawing and Painting MFA program and through creating my thesis work, a series ...
    • First Principles and Ordinances 

      Groesbeck, Katherine Jeanne
      Garments/fabric are a central theme in my work. Their inherent intimacy and privacy conceals and signifies both the absence/loss and presence of the wearer. In the studio, I investigate in a ritualistic and meditative ...
    • ::: flowers unfolding ::: 

      mcnichol, quinn
      Art is a regenerative kind of healing magic. In the studio, my body works with my mind to make paintings, drawings, collages, ceramic objects, hand-written words, and multi- media instillations. Through this work, I examine ...
    • For those of you who are into cosmetics, remember that thinking ruins the face. / ... Passion?—It’s merely neurosis. / Made in Itary: All’s in Order: “Out of Order” Fashion’s Inability to Divest of Power By Christian Alborz Oldham/ Putting the Theory to the Test 

      Oldham, Christian Alborz
      Clothing—its manufacture and its point of distribution and sale—is an apt illustration for the faults and entrapment of contemporary productive society as it relates to human and ecological rights and wellbeing. Artworks, ...
    • Francesco Furini: "Paintings of Exceeding Beauty" in Seicento Florence 

      Mayer, Jena
      Francesco Furini, one of the most intriguing artists to emerge from Seicento Florence, is primarily remembered for his depictions of the female nude. A discussion of his use of the model and citation of antique sculpture ...
    • From the Ground Down 

      Sweet, Amanda Catherine
      In this thesis I examine concepts of identity, time and space as I have investigated related influences and methodologies within my studio practice, during my time of study at the University of Washington, Seattle’s School ...
    • His Crossing 

      Stevens, Maria
      In memory, the family history, the events leading up to, and the aftermath looped in on themselves, like a spiroscope continuum. His suicide was the beginning, but also the middle, and the end. As one who would witness ...
    • His Story: Reconciling the Old-Young Man 

      Barbor, Peter H.
      The history and mythology of the male form is a central concern to my practice. How it repeats and manifests throughout time fuels my work. Through a menagerie of plastic materials, stories and sculptural motifs, my ...
    • How To Make Art 

      Blake, James William
      This work describes a way of making more work. By following theloose process below, the reader is offered a guiding set of principles in order to make Art. This is a desirable outcome given the proliferation of instruction ...
    • https://workarounds.hotglue.me 

      Simek, Stephanie
      This document serves as a record of https://workarounds.hotglue.me, which is both an artwork and a thesis. It encompasses the approaches, research, and speculations of workarounds, broadly defined as the flexibility and ...
    • The identical synthronos Trinity: representation, ritual and power in the Spanish Americas 

      Storey, Ann Elizabeth (1997)
      This dissertation examines the origin and meaning of the Trinity represented as three enthroned (synthronos), identical men. Although banned by the Vatican in 1623 and 1745, it was used in the Spanish Americas until the ...