O meu projeto de pesquisa e criação artística tem como foco o desenho na minha produção pessoal. Desenhar como forma de pensamento, pensamento como ato de criação nos diários de desenhos, pinturas, gravuras, livros de artista, poemas visuais e cadernos de anotações, onde o desenho é palavra e imagem. / The main focus of my research project and artistic creation is the drawing in my personal art work. To draw as a way of thinking, thinking as an act of creation in the drawing diaries, paintings, prints, artist books, and sketch-books, where the drawing is word and image.

The focus of this thesis is to find the most modern methods to craft 3D characters for implementation in game engines. The industry is constantly adapting to new software and my study is to cover the most efficient way to create a character from an idea to fully realized character in 3D. The following is my journey in learning new techniques and adapting to the new software. To demonstrate, I will work through the process of creating a character from a 2D concept to a 3D model rendered in real time.

Investigations in Botanical Contact Printing (Where the Light Meets the Trees; Thirteen Variations) explores the process of botanical contact printing on paper, culminating in a series of thirteen handmade artist books. Each of the thirteen books contains a poem from a collection of thirteen poems written by Alice Yousef. Every element of the book: materials, structure, calligraphed text, type of botanical contact print, sometimes the enclosure, responds to the poem, providing a visual interpretation of the written word. The completely different approaches to binding structure in this series intend to not only visually support the text, but also explore the possibilities of botanical contact print imagery in the book form.

VS is a poetic exercise in rhyme and rhythm. An exercise attempting to camouflage ideas in humor, in song, in lyrical overtures, and in social media pop culture lingo to highlight the damaging effects technology and social media have on the human relationship with the earth. VS is a mirror, is an attempt to selfie the world we have lost touch with by contemplating where our role as caretakers for our planet lies. Through varying poetic forms, VS displays and critiques the limited perspective forced upon us when we socialize and experience life solely through phones and screens. In this manuscript, the speaker is fluid and mainly seen in the first person plural, or the collective, “we.” This voice includes the average media-driven American, as well as one who is considering how social media impacts their current lifestyles. In VS, the speaker represents various voices of faceless social media users who are separated from the physical world by the screens themselves and by digital avatars disguising further what is real. And yet, the speaker also represents a voiceless natural world—such as if it had the ability to forbid our modern ways of life from diminishing the world’s natural resources and curb further global pollution—while always questioning how these ways of life are being preserved on the physical land we live on and alongside.

ARTIST My work is a melding of mythology and personal experience. Growing up in the harsh desert of the Coachella Valley, I found refuge in music and art. My desire to become a drummer has leaded me to create a persona called Baby Lamb. Baby Lamb is a symbolic representation, as well as a physical manifestation of this desire and she is slowly evolving, eventually becoming my alter ego. Currently, the artwork that I create is a chapter in the life story of Baby Lamb. BABY LAMB Baby Lamb's art shows have included a collection of relics that have been made into a visual documentary of the artist's evolutionary presence. With guidance from Mama Lamb, Baby Lamb's ethereal mentor and ultimate drum Goddess; Baby Lamb is expressed through a variety of drum artifacts challenged by some of the most prominent drummers of our lifetime, John Bonham, Buddy Rich, and Jon Theodore. MAMA LAMB Mama Lamb is the original drum Goddess. She is a derivative of ancient rhythm masters from every spectrum of the universe and into the unknown. Mama Lamb is a symbol personified through earthly materials such as clay, glass, and real drum paraphernalia. Through these objects, Mama Lamb is able to help guide Baby Lamb into her authenticate self.

Le premier travail de cette thèse a consisté à envisager l'artiste, essentiellement, comme un auteur. Il nous a conduit à suggérer, quant à l'auteur, que sa mort jadis annoncée imposait de penser sa résurrection à partir d'autres catégories et outils conceptuels que ceux qui ont permis de constater son décès. Après avoir démontré, d'une part, que l'auctorité (authorship) définissait exemplairement l'artiste, et s'être acquitté, d'autre part, d'un indispensable rappel historique permettant de comprendre les conditions de son apparition, nous avons tâché de faire jouer entre eux (au double sens de mettre en relation et de donner du jeu) les éléments qui structurent le phénomène artistique, ses doctrines et ses discours associés. Nous avons cherché à déceler, dans cet espace non ajusté, propice aux paradoxes et aux contradictions, le lieu d'une possible redéfinition de l'artiste-auteur, bâtie sur une rationalité plus large que celle d'une simple causalité. / The initial task of this thesis consisted in considering the artist mainly as an author. As for the author, this led us to suggest that his death, once announced, required to think of his resurrection from other criteria and conceptual tools than those which made it possible to bury him. Having established, on the one hand, that authorship defines the intrinsic status of the artist, and put forward, on the other hand, a necessary historical reminder in order to encompass the conditions of its emergence, we attempted to clear up (in the sense of displaying interactions and leaving a clearance between) the elements which structure the artistic phenomenon, its doctrines and related discourses. We sought to uncover, in this unadjusted space full of paradoxes and contradictions, the place of a possible redefinition of the artist-author, built on a rationality broader than that of a mere causality.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the artistic identity of high school females and the relationships they have with their art teachers. The research compiled my own experience as a high school student with the reflections of five participants who graduated from high school within the past five years. Each participant was interviewed about her time in high school related to art, including relationships and events in and outside of the art classroom. The themes that emerged from each participant's experience brought about the conclusion that the high school artistic identity is comprised of action, product, space, and perception. Uncovering the artistic identity of the high school student highlights the importance of the art teacher and the physical and emotional space they create in the art room.

This is a qualitative, mixed-methods study that focuses on the experiences of pre-service teachers in an art methods for non-majors class. The purpose of this study is to describe the process of transforming pre-service elementary teachers’ apprehensive feelings and experiences about creating art. An examination of play, Thirdspace pedagogy, and contextual exploration within a humanistic approach all inform this study. The dataset exposed themes of apprehension and reluctance to art-making, community building, preconceptions about art and art-making, exploration, non-prescribed outcomes, learning from mistakes, and identity. The results of this study show evidence that explorative methods can alter the conceptions and approaches to art of pre-service teachers in an art methods for non-majors course. As a researcher, it is my hope that this study will impact art educators’ views of teaching art methods courses to non-majors.

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A limited variable editioned artist book, by measure of depicts an allegorical conversation between medieval author Christine de Pizan and a contemporary woman. It is, in essence, an exploration of edges in which the characters examine the parameters of identity, both personally and societally designated–how to define/re-define/emphasize/blur them, and what happens in the space where they meet.