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1	Attempting To Adequately Position Elements as Analogies within a Defined Field Griffin, Kojo 10 May 2014 (has links) The purpose of my Thesis is to further develop an artistic practice that involves a thoughtful, drawn out engagement with culture, utilizing immediacy, temporality and improvisation through the formal manipulation of different mediums. My research focuses on these ideas as a continual thread that runs through my work of the past twenty years and gives conceptual unity to the range of stylistic experiments that have come with my growth as an artist. The end result is collage, painting, video and installation that utilizes both the literal and parabolical tearing, cutting and pasting of elements together as analogies within a defined field. The defined field being both the formal area of the work, as well as the conceptual representation of my individual consciousness as expressed through my process. Moving between abstraction and representation allows me to sample my thoughts and present them through a methodology that is consistent with the cognitive interplay of abstract and representative thought. Black art Post-colonialism Post-Post-Modernism Pseudo-Modernism Post-Black Momentism Self-taught artists Abstraction Graffiti Collage
2	In Search of the Ooey Gooey Good Clay, Lauren Ashley 01 January 2007 (has links) This thesis explores ideas of everydayness, the mundane, and the repetitive emptiness of consumer culture. It looks at the malaise that plagues everyday life and examines several attempts throughout history to break from its grips which revolve around a search for a more ideal state. This research includes utopias of modernism, the transcendental, the communal living of Shakers and Early Christians, ascetic monks and The Desert Fathers. These ideas have shaped my studio practice as I construct installations based on worlds which allude to the eternal, the otherworldly, and the fragility of our physical world when compared to more eternal spiritual archetypes. exhibit mixed media polymer clay acrylic paper self-taught artists The Shakers asceticism monasticism Japanese cute culture paper sculpture everydayness Walker Percy suburbs sprawl transcendence Art and Design Arts and Humanities
3	Personal Puzzles: Exploring Meaning in a Printmaking Workshop Rydalch, Sally Jayne 01 March 2018 (has links) In an effort to assist self-guided artists in constructing meaning and creativity through the technique of printmaking, the author has compiled a curriculum to engage these artist/students in thoughtful research, discussion, art-making, and critique. In this qualitative case study there are eight participants from age 14 to 79, with varying educational and art experience, who enrolled in a relief print workshop with no recompense other than participation. The particular benefits of learning relief printing are described. The author's goal is exploration of student responses to a curriculum centered around constructing meaning and engaging in introspective and informed discussion. In fostering open inquiry and analysis, the author was able to cultivate a place of personal discovery in a community class and gain insights into teaching, learning, and curriculum design. constructing meaning personal meaning printmaking case study workshop community relief print self-taught artists multi-age class reverse approach Sandy Utah Art Practice

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