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Theses/dissertations from 2014 2014.

A Maoli-Based Art Education: Ku'u Mau Kuamo'o 'Ōlelo , Raquel Malia Andrus

Accumulation of Divine Service , Blaine Lee Atwood

Caroline Murat: Powerful Patron of Napoleonic France and Italy , Brittany Dahlin

.(In|Out)sider$ , Jarel M. Harwood

Mariko Mori's Sartorial Transcendence: Fashioned Identities, Denied Bodies, and Healing, 1993-2001 , Jacqueline Rose Hibner

Parallel and Allegory , Kody Keller

Fallen Womanhood and Modernity in Ivan Kramskoi's Unknown Woman (1883) , Trenton B. Olsen

Conscience and Context in Eastman Johnson's The Lord Is My Shepherd , Amanda Melanie Slater

The War That Does Not Leave Us: Memory of the American Civil War and the Photographs of Alexander Gardner , Katie Janae White

Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013

Women and the Wiener Werkstätte: The Centrality of Women and the Applied Arts in Early Twentieth-Century Vienna , Caitlin J. Perkins Bahr

Cutting Into Relief , Matthew L. Bass

Mask, Mannequin, and the Modern Woman: Surrealism and the Fashion Photographs of George Hoyningen-Huene , Hillary Anne Carman

The End of All Learning , Maddison Carole Colvin

Civitas: A Game-Based Approach to AP Art History , Anna Davis

What Crawls Beneath , Brent L. Gneiting

Blame Me for Your Bad Grade: Autonomy in the Basic Digital Photography Classroom as a Means to Combat Poor Student Performance , Erin Collette Johnson

Evolving Art in Junior High , Randal Charles Marsh

All Animals Will Get Along in Heaven , Camila Nagata

It Will Always Be My Tree: An A/r/tographic Study of Place and Identity in an Elementary School Classroom , Molly Robertson Neves

Zofia Stryjeńska: Women in the Warsaw Town Square. Our Lady, Peasant Mother, Pagan Goddess , Katelyn McKenzie Sheffield

Using Contemporary Art to Guide Curriculum Design:A Contemporary Jewelry Workshop , Kathryn C. Smurthwaite

Documenting the Dissin's Guest House: Esther Bubley's Exploration of Jewish-American Identity, 1942-43 , Vriean Diether Taggart

Blooming Vines, Pregnant Mothers, Religious Jewelry: Gendered Rosary Devotion in Early Modern Europe , Rachel Anne Wise

Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012

Rembrandt van Rijn's Jewish Bride : Depicting Female Power in the Dutch Republic Through the Notion of Nation Building , Nan T. Atwood

Portraits , Nicholas J. Bontorno

Where There Is Design , Elizabeth A. Crowe

George Dibble and the Struggle for Modern Art in Utah , Sarah Dibble

Mapping Creativity: An A/r/tographic Look at the Artistic Process of High School Students , Bart Andrus Francis

Joseph as Father in Guido Reni's St. Joseph Images , Alec Teresa Gardner

Student Autonomy: A Case Study of Intrinsic Motivation in the Art Classroom , Downi Griner

Aha'aina , Tali Alisa Hafoka

Fashionable Art , Lacey Kay

Effluvia and Aporia , Emily Ann Melander

Interactive Web Technology in the Art Classroom: Problems and Possibilities , Marie Lynne Aitken Oxborrow

Visual Storybooks: Connecting the Lives of Students to Core Knowledge , Keven Dell Proud

German Nationalism and the Allegorical Female in Karl Friedrich Schinkel's The Hall of Stars , Allison Slingting

The Influence of the Roman Atrium-House's Architecture and Use of Space in Engendering the Power and Independence of the Materfamilias , Anne Elizabeth Stott

The Narrative Inquiry Museum:An Exploration of the Relationship between Narrative and Art Museum Education , Angela Ames West

Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011

The Portable Art Gallery: Facilitating Student Autonomy and Ownership through Exhibiting Artwork , Jethro D. Gillespie

The Movement Of An Object Through A Field Creates A Complex Situation , Jared Scott Greenleaf

Alice Brill's Sao Paulo Photographs: A Cross-Cultural Reading , Danielle Jean Hurd

A Comparative Case Study: Investigation of a Certified Elementary Art Specialist Teaching Elementary Art vs. a Non-Art Certified Teacher Teaching Elementary Art , Jordan Jensen

A Core Knowledge Based Curriculum Designed to Help Seventh and Eighth Graders Maintain Artistic Confidence , Debbie Ann Labrum

Traces of Existence , Jayna Brown Quinn

Female Spectators in the July Monarchy and Henry Scheffer's Entrée de Jeanne d’Arc à Orléans , Kalisha Roberts

Without End , Amy M. Royer

Classroom Community: Questions of Apathy and Autonomy in a High School Jewelry Class , Samuel E. Steadman

Preparing Young Children to Respond to Art in the Museum , Nancy L. Stewart

DAY JAW BOO, a re-collection , Rachel VanWagoner

The Tornado Tree: Drawing on Stories and Storybooks , Toni A. Wood

Theses/Dissertations from 2010 2010

IGolf: Contemporary Sculptures Exhibition 2009 , King Lun Kisslan Chan

24 Hour Portraits , Lee R. Cowan

Fabricating Womanhood , Emily Fox

Earth Forms , Janelle Marie Tullis Mock

Peregrinations , Sallie Clinton Poet

Leland F. Prince's Earth Divers , Leland Fred Prince

Theses/Dissertations from 2009 2009

Ascents and Descents: Personal Pilgrimage in Hieronymus Bosch's The Haywain , Alison Daines

Beyond the Walls: The Easter Processional on the Exterior Frescos of Moldavian Monastery Churches , Mollie Elizabeth McVey

Beauty, Ugliness, and Meaning: A Study of Difficult Beauty , Christine Anne Palmer

Lantern's Diary , Wei Zhong Tan

Text and Tapestry: "The Lady and the Unicorn," Christine de Pizan and the le Vistes , Shelley Williams

Theses/Dissertations from 2008 2008

A Call for Liberation: Aleijadinho's 'Prophets' as Capoeiristas , Monica Jayne Bowen

Secondhand Chinoiserie and the Confucian Revolutionary: Colonial America's Decorative Arts "After the Chinese Taste" , Kiersten Claire Davis

Dairy Culture: Industry, Nature and Liminality in the Eighteenth-Century English Ornamental Dairy , Ashlee Whitaker

Theses/Dissertations from 2007 2007

Navajo Baskets and the American Indian Voice: Searching for the Contemporary Native American in the Trading Post, the Natural History Museum, and the Fine Art Museum , Laura Paulsen Howe

And there were green tiles on the ceiling , Jean Catherine Richardson

Four Greco-Roman Era Temples of Near Eastern Fertility Goddesses: An Analysis of Architectural Tradition , K. Michelle Wimber

Theses/Dissertations from 2006 2006

The Portrait of Citizen Jean-Baptiste Belley, Ex-Representative of the Colonies by Anne-Louis Girodet Trioson: Hybridity, History Painting, and the Grand Tour , Megan Marie Collins

Fix , Kathryn Williams

Theses/Dissertations from 2005 2005

Ideals and Realities , Pamela Bowman

Accountability for the Implementation of Secondary Visual Arts Standards in Utah and Queensland , John K. Derby

The Artistic and Architectural Patronage of Countess Urraca of Santa María de Cañas: A Powerful Aristocrat, Abbess, and Advocate , Julia Alice Jardine McMullin

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Shelley Kopp -  Art Through a Digital Lense: A Study of the Effects of New Medias on the Museum, Its Works, and the Public Sonya de Lazzer -  The Visual Culture of Niagara Falls: From Kitsch to Keepsake Ashley Snook  -  Chthulucenic Living [and dying and composting]: Pursuing Ongoingness through Animality and Biophilia

Katie Oates  -  Women, Spirit Photography & Psychical Research: Negotiating Gender Conventions and Loss Eeva Siivonen -  Speculative Subjectivities: Essayistic Forms and Material Bodies Michelle Wilson -  Remnants, Outlaws, and Wallows: Practices for Understanding Bison

Ellen Moffat -  Strings of Sound and Sense: Towards a Feminine Sonic

Stephanie Anderson -  (End)Zones and (Out)Fields of Production: Contemporary Conditions of Labor and Artistic Critique Christina Battle -  Disaster as a Framework for Social Change: Searching for new patterns across plant ecology and online networks Julia Krueger -  Indisciplined Ceramic Outhouses and Blob-like Glass Bunnies: Four Case Studies on Canadian Prairie Ceramics and Glass

Thomas D. Baynes  -  More than a Spasm, Less than a Sign: Queer Masculinity in American Visual Culture, 1915-1955 Jessica Cappuccitti  -  Rui(N)ation: Narratives of Art and Urban Revitalization in Detroit Colin Dorward -  The Medieval Genesis of a Mythology of Painting Ido Govrin -  Philosophical Archeology in Theoretical and Artistic Practice Maryse Lariviere -  The Simultaneous Book: Women's Writing in Contemporary Art Santiago Ulises Unda Lara -  Collaborative Listening and Cultural Difference in Contemporary Art

Mark  Kasumovic -  Interfaces of Nearness: Documentary Photography and the Representation of Technology Rehab Nazzal -  Representation of Settler Colonial Violence in Palestine, A Thesis in support of the multi-media exhibition Choreographies of Resistance Helen Parkinson -  The English Landscapes in the Seventeenth Century

Heidi Kellett -  Skin Portraiture: Embodied Representations in Contemporary Art

Michael Farnan -  Representing Wilderness: Community, Collaboration, and Artistic Practice Helen Gregory -  Un-Natural Histories: The Specimen as Site of Knowledge Production in Contemporary Art

Trista Mallory -  Standing for Something Not Present: Contested Representations in Contemporary Art Jennifer Orpana -  Faces of (and for) Toronto: Community-Engaged Portrait Projects in the Neoliberal City

David Kemp -  The Things We Know but Cannot Explain Colin E. Miner -   A Photographic Ontology: Being Haunted Within The Blue Hour And Expanding Field Stephanie Karen Radu -  Making Ourselves at Home: Representation, Preservation & Interpretation at Canada's House Museums

Andrew Patton  -  A Painter's Brush That Also Makes Poems: Contemporary Painting After Northern Song Calligraphy

Janice Gurney - All Alliance of Fragments: Actor-Network-Theory and the Translation of Things Miriam Jordan - Dialogical Materialism: Bakhtin, Embodiment and Moving Image Art  Kevin Rodgers - Out of Order: Thinking Through Robin Collyer, Discontent and Affirmation (1973-1985) Matthew Smith - Relational Viewing: Affect, Trauma and the Viewer in Contemporary Autobiographical Art

Corinna Ghaznavi - Animal: A Curatorial Approach Jason Hallows - Demonstration Andrés Villar -   Latin American Visual Arts in the 1920s

Kate Carder-Thompson -  Spanning Johnathan Onyschuk -  Bone Meal Lydia Santia -  Inventory Zhizi Wang -  Absence and Proximity

Tyler Durbano -  and where is the body? Sharmistha Kar -  Next to a River: Mobility, Mapping, and Hand Embroidery Raheleh Saneie -  SuperNova: Performing Race, Hybridity and Expanding the Geographical Imagination Matthew Trueman -  Slower Than Time Itself Graham Macaulay -  Buffer

Paul Chartrand -  Gardening at Arm's Length Charles Lee Franklin Harris -  Lesser Than Greater Than Equal To: The Art Design Paradox Sarah Munro -  The Longest Way Round Is the Shortest Way Home Samantha Noseworthy -  Midheaven Quin Smallboy -  Drum Voice Quintin Teszeri -  On Coming and Going

Juanita Lee Garcia -  Beyond the Look of Representation: Defamiliarization, Décor, and the Latin Feel Mina Moosavipour -  Emphatic Tension Simone Sciascetti -  Symbiotic: The Human Body and Constructs of Nature Jason Stovall -  Thin Skin

Sherry Czekus -  Crowdsourcing Lynette de Montreuil -  Dust to Dust Michael Psczonak -  Hand-Eye Niloufar Salimi -  Tangled Hair: Uncertain Fluid Identity Matthew Tarini -   Liminal Space: Representations of Modern Urbanity

Barbara Hobot -  What Lies Behind: Speculations on the Real and the Willful Jennifer Martin -  Turning to see otherwise Tegan Moor -  Matters of Airing Amanda Oppedisano -  Liquidation Jared Peters -  Just As It Should Be: Painting and the Discipline of Everyday Life Gabriella Solti -  From 'Means to Ends': Labour As Art Practice Diana Yoo -  Across Boundaries

Kyla Brown -  Following the Turn: Mapping as Material Art Practice Jeremy P. Jeresky -  Communicative Methodologies and Mechanisms in Public Art Laura Mitrow - Felted Disruption: An Analysis of Double Coding in the Felt Works of Luanne Martineau Giles Whitaker -  Some Theoretical Models for a Critical Art Practice Thea Yabut -  Lines of Necessity

Anthea Black - Of All Possible Worlds: Mapping Queer Craft and Collaboration Liza Eurich - Latency in Process and Perception Brad Isaacs - Double Negative: Taxidermy, Photography and Hiroshi Sugimoto’s “Dioramas” Neil Klassen - The Elemental Earth: Renewed Ways of Seeing and Perceiving Kim Neudorf - Call and Response: Catachresis and Reciprocity in Painting Daniel O’Connor - The Joystick and the Paintbrush: Useless or Meaningful in the Age of Technology

Lea Bucknell -   Adhoc Folly Building in Contemporary Art Gautam Garoo - Passages (is and was): Tracing Indian Visual Culture and the Sacred through Craft and Contemporary Art Michelle McGeean - Tit for Tat: (Re) Production in Sculpture and Architecture Matthew Teigen - The Look of Math Robert Williams - We Are What We Pretend To Be: Making the case for Contemporary Painting as Gratuitous

Kelly O'Dette - Archival Nostalgia John Cushnie - Eidolon Prospects: Syncope, Peter Doig, and the Practice of Painting Soheila Kolahdouz-Esfahani - Trans-(across, over, beyond): Investigations of Cultural Translation in Visual Arts Jamie K .  Quail - DIY: Politics and Aesthetics in the Margins and the Mainstream

Katja Beneke - Exploring the Visual Representation of Teen Idols Patrick Kaipainen - No Thing in Particular John Murnaghan -   Game Over and Over Nicole Rayburn - Monstrous Propositions Jennifer Wanner - Ecosimulacra

Liv Bonli - Down the Dark Hall, Up the Stairs Chak Man Lei - Dark-Earth Manual: Approaching an Ink-Based Art Practice Brian Longfield - The Montage of Gestures Andrew MacDonald - Fragments Slavica Panic - Betwixt and Between Matthew Sparling - Military Signifiers on Clothing, Fashion and Portrait Photography

Blair Fornwald -   Between Nothing and Something. Dagmara Genda - Identity and Exile. Kathryn Immonen - Soft Cover. Stephen Lavigne - The Space Between Systems. Derek Liddington - Can I Borrow That? Investigating Strategies of Citation, Mimicry and Inspiration in Art. Conan Masterson - Kaleidoscopic. Todd Tremeer - Painting History/History Painting.

Michael Davidge - Weak Thought and the Visual Arts. Arnold Koroshegyi - Beyond the Circle of Confusion. Ayako Kurokawa - Past Memories, Present Feeling. Daniel Wong - Letters to a Young Poet.

Steven Laurie - Celebratory Angst: Performing Masculinity Brendan Fernandes - The Kenyan Safari Lodge: Fantasizing about an Authentic Vacation Culture Anna Madelska - Cosmopoeisis: World-Making Demian Petryshyn - An Amoebic Urge: A Contemporary View of Artist-run Centre System in Canada Elizabeth Phillips - Becoming Adaptation: Idiosyncratic Sketches on (Self) Portrait Painting (and Writing) Kathleen Ritter - At the Doors to the Gallery

Debra Dyer - Lost in the Details Lisa Fedorak - Tainted Strokes Amy Harrison - Childlikeness Alex Homanchuk - The City Will Recall Pamela Wilson - Appropriation and Irony: Post modern Elements in the Work of Three Contemporary Canadian Artists

Pedro Correia - By Design: Ornament and Fascism Joscelyn Gardner - White Skin, Black Kin: Theorizing the Representation of Creole Identity Sarah Peterson - RE-VIEWING A History of Landscape and Wilderness Perception Raffaela Prencipe -   100% Natural: Escape and Identity Within the Suburban Garden Dana Samuel - Archives in Action: Narrative Technologies and Interactive Art.

Sarah Beveridge - Private Intervention into Public Spaces Paul Dreossi - Blood, Sweat, and Gears: An Examination of Performed Representations of Masculine Subjectivity Robyn Foster - Escape Hatch: Escape from Everyday Lived Reality through Transitional Objects Larry Glawson - Photography, Sex and Dancing Mark Schilling - The Spectres of Brecht and Benjamin: “New” Media, Access, Resistance

Lucia M. Cipriano - Ruses Not Muses Jennifer Dorner - Between Departure and Arrival: Exploring Site Production Chris Down - "The Impossibility of Painting is Merely a Feeling" Adriana E. Kuiper - Semi-Detached Larisa MacSween - Everyday Girl Anxieties and Superhero Alter Ego Fantasies

2000 & prior

David Armstrong - Erratics and Errata: Printing between Horizons (2000) Dana J. Dansereau - One Day: Technology, Tactics and Time (2000) Toni Latour - Conflicts and Contractiions: Questions of Excess, Autonomy and Value within Artistic Production (2000) Paola V. Poletto - Moonscapes and Menus: Artistic Production, Personal Experience and the Analogy of Hibernation (2000) Maymee Ying Lum - Filum (2000) Olexander S. Wlasenko - Ethnic Limbs: Diasporic Memory (2000) Shinobu Akimoto -   L.M.R. (Last Month's Rentor Living Making Reflex) (1999) Kim Dawn Graham -   (in) between the space(s) of terror i find fragments of my memory (1999) Marc G. Lebreche - A Visual Re-Presentation of the World and the Philosophical Self (1999) Christine Shaw -   Locomotion (1999) Christy L. Thompson -   Carrying Wet Laundry & Starting Fires (1999) David Grenier - Homo Sweet Homo (1998) Franklyn George - Stories and Iyahlogues (1997) Shelley Niro - A Journey Through Iroquois Myths, Legends, Icons and History (1997) Andy Patton - Some Current Problems with Painting (1997) Kim Simon - Otherwise Than Seeing (1997) Sharon Switzer - Waltzing in Now-Time (1997)

MA - Theses and Major Research Papers

Moira McKee - “Literally, a Game-Changer”: Renegotiating the Aesthetics of the Real Imogen Wilson -  Low Resolution .JPGs and Collaborative Networks: Dreaming a Sustainable Digital Archive Etienne Lavallee - Decades of Resistance: The Performance Work of Rebecca Belmore Ashar Mobeen - Wonders of the Ancestral Puebloans: Astronomers, Engineers, and Magicians of the Four Corners Carina Pagotto - Examining Stereotypical Versus Authentic Depictions of Italian and Canadian Culture Through The Recreation of Familial Venetian/Trevisane-styled Italian Cards Asleysha Ramasamy - Bollywood Film and Art: A study on the Bollywood Art Project (B.A.P.) as a Living Memorial in India Abby Vincent - Capturing a blur, composing a glitch: Documentarism, uncertainty and slippery images in Hito Steyerl’s November (2004) & Lovely Andrea (2007)

Ioana Dragomir -   no, not forgot - were unable to reach: literary readings of desire in land art Elena Solomon -   The Embroidered Tablecloth: How Locale Influences Eastern European Jewish Textile Production Ana Moyer - “A Gift Our Ancestors Left for Us:” An Examination of Tattooing Through the Artwork of Ningiukulu Teevee and Sarah Whalen-Lunn Tessa Oxtoby - Monumental Supremacy? The Iconoclasm, Adaption and Appropriation of Monuments and Space in Relation to The Black Lives Matter Movement

Avery Lafortune - Clothed in History: Costume and Medievalism in Fantasy Film and Television Adriana Berardini - The Aesthetics of Intimacy: Viewing Nan Goldin and Zoe Leonard through Affect and Activism Katarzyna Czarniecka - Materiality of Photography from the Perspective of Landscape Representations Kimberlyn Hawkins - THEMUSEUM: A Case Study in the Role of Social Media on Museum Practices and Curation  Harper Wellman - Caught in Between: The Memorials of Diana, Princess of Wales

Nakasuk Alariaq - Sanaugavut: Art from Kinngait Claire Bartleman - Affective and Sensuous Critique in the Undergraduate Art Classroom Brianna Lagacé - Animated Art History: A Look into Disney’s Representation of Artwork in Film Leah Abaza - Aura in the Digital Iraboty Kazi - Renaissance Portraits of Dante & Florentine Civic Identity Ira Kazi Meghan O'Neill - A Staircase of Citizen Participation: Preservation of The Old Towns in Tbilisi, Tallinn and Edinburgh

Regan Benner - The 24-hour Death and Disaster Cycle Shayla MacDonald - Copycat Commercialism: A Marxist Critique of Louis Vuitton’s Masters collection Michelle Rosenblat - Helen Levitt: American Woman, Jewish Sensibility Jessica Sealey - Looters or Liberators? The Subjugation of the Egyptian Body Through Western Intervention, Looting, and Collecting Bruno Sinder - “Performing Citizenship, Picturing Identity: Family Photography and Post-War Portuguese Immigration” Madelaine Tripp - The Art of Nothing

Kelsey Perreault’s - Remembrance as Presence: Promoting Learning from Difficult Knowledge at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights Beatriz Asfora - Memory, Trauma, and the Act of Collecting Christie Dreise - Infrastructure Canada – A Tour of ‘Everyday’ Canadian Spaces Kylie Kelly - Exposing the Secret Museum: Perceptions of Sexuality, Pornography, and Morality in Ancient Pompeii Shelley Kopp - The Vision for Pluralism at The Aga Khan Museum: A potent tool or a paltry gesture? Caroline   Rabideau - The History of Art History at Western University Mackenzie Sinclair - Kara Walker’s The Marvelous Sugar Baby and the Activation of American History

Claude Bock - The Effects of Truth and Reconciliation on Contemporary Indigenous Art within Canada Taylor Davidson - “Life Beyond Itself”. Religion and Aesthetics in William Morris’ Printed Textiles, 1881-1888 Genevieve Flavelle - The night before utopia: queer feminist art praxis at the Feminist Art Gallery Keely McCavitt - 3D Technologies and the Future of Repatriation in Canada Kelly   McKenzie - Laughing in the Face of Apocalypse: Kelly Richardson has a Sense of Humour Katie   Oates - “A Fleeting Moment in a Floating World”: The Women of the Beat Generation Through Allen Ginsberg’s Eyes Carling   Spinney - No Vacancy: Alternative Spaces for Exhibition

Nicole C. Borland - Creative Interventions and Urban Revitalization Amy Gaizauskas - A Wishy-Washy, Sort-of-Feeling: Episodes in the History of the Wishy-Washy Aesthetic Karly A. McIntosh - Come Together: An Exploration of Contemporary Participatory Art Practices Margherita N. Papadatos - A Space Without Memory: Time and the Sublime in the Work of Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller Elyse N. Tsotsos - Presenting the Fashion Object: Analyzing the exhibition Fashioning the Object: Bless, Boudicca, Sandra Backlund

Samantha Angove - We Come in Piece: Art Exhibitions, Science Fiction & Postcoloniality Cierra Webster - Theorizing Queer: Homonationalisms and the Art Institution Stephanie Wittich - Reminiscences: The Medievalisms of Wassily Kandinsky

Stephanie Anderson - Use it or Lose it: Inuit Art and the ‘Soft Power’ of Canadian Cultural Diplomacy  Jordana Franklin - The Personal is Presentable: Transgressing the Public-Private Divide Through the Art of Sophie Calle and Tracey Emin  Stefani Klaric - Narrative Brought to Life: The Wizarding World of Harry Potter  Sophia Quick - Putting in Time: Long-Durational Performance Art Spectatorship  Laura Ritchie - Material Labour: Artistic Work and the Creative Industries  Melissa Ruhloff - Re-Inventing the Group of Seven: Appropriation and Criticality in Contemporary Canadian Art

Emma Arenson - Fragmentation and Representations of Disability in Monuments Simon Bentley - Jack Chambers and the New Spanish Realists Carrie Kitzul - en/Gendered Hierarchies: Representations of Nation, Gender, and Class in the Work of Miwa Yanagi and Yoshiko Shimada Geddesa Mahabir - The Construction of the Late-Renaissance Individual Ahlia Moussa - Point of Origin Hillary Walker-Gugan - Domestic Pleasures: The Aesthetic Experience of Eldon House

Julia Cyr - Visions of Power: The Art Patronage of Duke Cosimo I de' Medici in Sixteenth-Century Florence  Claire Feagan - Surrealist Castle Culture: Gothic Traces in Surrealist Aesthetics Rosanna Mortillaro - Built Form and Meaning in Sixteenth-Century Rome: Pope Sixtus V and the Lateran Palace Jennifer Orpana - The Visual Griots of Mali: Nation Building and Cultural Negotiation with Youth Outreach Photography Diana Poulsen - But Today We Collect Videogames: Citation, Appropriation, The Open Work and the Neo-Baroque in Videogames Stephanie Radu - Sarah Lucas's Food for Thought Erin Rothstein - Pablo Picasso and Primitivism: An Exploration of "Non-Western" and Medieval Influences in Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) Jon Sarma - Art and Artificiality: The Re/De(con)struction of "Natural" Gender in 1990s Visual Culture

Danielle Manning - Naturalism Re-visioned            Sonja Peters - Coney Island in Early Twentieth Century Photography and Film Kylie Serebrin  - Navigating Surrealist Cinemaphilia Andrea Skelly -   Containers of Electronic Art 

Krystle Copeland - The Annunciation: Visual, Spatial, and Textual Ideologies Eunjoo Lee - Unpainted Sky: 17th and 18th Century Naturalism in Korea and Europe  Melissa Smith - Sixteenth Century Developments in Emblematics  Maria Szabo - Kaleidoscope Vision: Modern Perspectives in the Work of Pegi Nicol MacLeod Rima Puteris - Performing Absense: Ana Mendieta and Janine Antoni 

Leanne Carroll - The ‘Hoax’ of Minimalism: Robert Morris and the Octoberists. Siân Evans - The Book of Kells’ Ornament and Audience. Jennifer Kennedy - Paris vu Par:  New Wave, Modernism and the Cinematic City. Andrés Villar - Espana típica: Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida’s “Vision of Spain” at the Hispanic Society of America

Adam Stead - Acting, Ausstattung and Audience in Medieval Germany. Riva Symko - Vitalizing Sounds, Visionary Sights. Iuliana Strambeanu - Cinematic Experiments in Multimedia Installations. Bettina Urcuioli - Materiality and the Aura.

Susan Edelstein - Eclipsed Environments: Redefining the Space of Home. Marina Folescu - On Stillness and Movement in Videos by Bill Viola, Mark Lewis and Stacey Lancaster. Amanda Morhart - Giorgio Vasari: Imitation and Invention in Painting and Lives. Irina Radchenko - Rembrandt's 'seeing eye' and Protestant Aesthetics. Carol-Ann Ryan - Guido Molinari, Claude Tousignant, and Geometric Abstraction in the 1960s: The Canadian Contribution.  Michael Windover - Living Art Deco Style: An Investigation of Toronto's Hybrid Modernity.

Jolaine Frizzell - Framing, Framer, Framed: A Dialogue of Psychoanalysis in the Work of Mary Scott Mark Schilling - Andy Warhol's Contaminated Modernism  Beitske Sybrandy - The Evolution of the Skate and its Representation in Dutch Landscape Painting of the 17th Century.

Mary Kavanagh - Collecting Dust: Sensual Acts and Recollection as Transformative Gesture. Laura Petican - Arte Povera: The Persistence of the Baroque.

Sarah Demelo - Self Portraits without Selves: Gender Performance and Photographic Self Portraiture. Kristen Hutchinson  - The Fragmented Figure in Contemporary Art: Works of Robert Gober and Louise Bourgeois. Sarah Lippert - Gustave Moreau and the Paragone: An Investigation of the Ut Pictura Poesis Legacy in the Work of a Nineteenth-Century History Painter. Tara Wittman - Paradox and Play in Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades.

Craig Buckley - "Continuing Misfortune" Reconsidered: Automatism between Art and Science. Jessica Marshall - Viollet-le-Duc’s Writing and Reconstruction: Gothic and Otherwise. Carrie L. Vassallo - The Early Years of Art History in English-Speaking Canada: McMaster, Toronto, and Queen's Universities, CA. 1930-1945. Ryan Whyte - Charm and Subjectivity in Walter Pater: A Comparative Study.

Marco Ranjan Deyasi - Collecting & Colonialism at Eldon House: Theories of Collecting, Tourism, and the British Empire, as they relate to the Harris Collection at Eldon House, London, Ontario, Canada. (2000) Joanna Eve Schreyer - Balance of Wealth: An Economic Interpretation of a Gdansk Triptych. (2000) Dennis M. P. Zimmer - Painting as Property: An examination of the Various Influences that Transformed the collections of Édouard de Rothschild and Paul Rosenberg. (2000)  Peter Johnathan Bates - The Canadian Corporate Art Collection: The Hidden Museum. (1999) Jennifer A. Cottrill - Fortuitous Encounters. (1999) Barbara Edwards - Toronto Art: A History of Connectedness, 1970-98. (1999)  Melinda Ellison - Images of Venus in Epithalamic Art of the Italian Renaissance, 1460-1540. (1999) C. Brent Epp - Architecture and Urban Culturation in Vienna. (1999) Christine A. Sprengler - Imag(in)ing the Fifties. (1999) Claire Sykes - August Sander and the Task of the Photographer. (1999)  Catherine Ann Thomas - Trans: Intersections of Art, Life and the Art Gallery. (1999) Kimberly Anne Wahl - The Machine in Early Twentieth-Century Art. (1999) Marci Hatch - The Value of Forgeries: A Meaningful Tool of Art. (1998) Jennifer Paparao - Installation Art: Towards a Questioning of Boundaries. (1998) Joel Robinson - An Architecture of Soul-Modernity, Libeskind and the Spiritual. (1997)

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This collection contains theses and dissertations from the Department of Art and Visual Culture, collected from the Scholarship@Western Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

Theses/Dissertations from 2024 2024

“We Make Things Today For Tomorrow”: Artists’ Publishing for the Future , Ruth Skinner

Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023

The Visual Culture of Niagara Falls: From Kitsch to Keepsake , Sonya M. de Lazzer

ART THROUGH A DIGITAL LENS: A STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF NEW MEDIAS ON THE MUSEUM, ITS WORKS, AND THE PUBLIC. , Shelley Kopp

Chthulucenic Living [and dying and composting]: Pursuing Ongoingness through Animality and Biophilia , Ashley Snook

Confined By Darkness , Alyssa C. Sweeney

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

Women, Spirit Photography & Psychical Research: Negotiating Gender Conventions and Loss , Katie Oates

Speculative Subjectivities: Essayistic Forms and Material Bodies , Eeva Siivonen

Remnants, Outlaws, and Wallows: Practices for Understanding Bison , Michelle Margaret Wilson

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

Indisciplined Ceramic Outhouses and Blob-like Glass Bunnies: Four Case Studies on Canadian Prairie Ceramics and Glass , Julia Krueger

To Be Me: The contingency of the body , Sepideh Tajalizadeh Dashti

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

Disaster as a Framework for Social Change: Searching for new patterns across plant ecology and online networks , Christina Battle

More than a Spasm, Less than a Sign: Queer Masculinity in American Visual Culture, 1915-1955 , Thomas D. Baynes

Rui(N)ation: Narratives of Art and Urban Revitalization in Detroit , Jessica KS Cappuccitti

The Simultaneous Book: Women's Writing in Contemporary Art , Maryse Lariviere

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

Representation of Settler Colonial Violence in Palestine, A Thesis in support of the multi-media exhibition Choreographies of Resistance , Rehab Nazzal

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

The Longest Way Round Is the Shortest Way Home , Sarah Munro

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

Representing Wilderness: Community, Collaboration, and Artistic Practice , Michael J. Farnan

Un-Natural Histories: The Specimen as Site of Knowledge Production in Contemporary Art , Helen Gregory

Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015

Standing For Something Not Present: Contested Representations in Contemporary Art , Trista E. Mallory

Faces of (and for) Toronto: Community-Engaged Portrait Projects in the Neoliberal City , Jennifer E. Orpana

Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014

The Things We Know but Cannot Explain: an Inquiry into the Nature and Significance of Artistic Knowledge as a Subset of the Larger Category of Tacit Knowledge , David Kemp

Making Ourselves at Home: Representation, Preservation & Interpretation at Canada's House Museums , Stephanie Karen Radu

Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013

Communicative Methodologies and Mechanisms in Public Art , Jeremy P. Jeresky

Transformation, Transduction and Prolonged Formation , Laura E. Mitrow

"A Painter's Brush That Also Makes Poems": Contemporary Painting After Northern Song Calligraphy , Andy J. Patton

Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012

Relational Viewing: Affect, Trauma and the Viewer in Contemporary Autobiographical Art , Matthew Ryan Smith

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Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

ART EDUCATION IN MEDICAL EDUCATION: BENEFITS AND CHALLENGES , Sara K. Brown

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

THE TRUST-BASED CLASSROOM: AN ANALYSIS OF CURRENT TRENDS IN SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW TRUST-BASED APPROACH TO ART EDUCATION , Ellen Prasse

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

Sketch-Plan Book: A Teacher’s Planning Resource for the Secondary Classroom , Katherine M. Avra

IN BLACK AND WHITE: RICHMOND’S MONUMENT AVENUE RECONTEXTUALIZED THROUGH THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVE , Charlsa Anne Hensley

Photography, Visual Culture, and the (Re)Definition/Queering of the Male Gaze , David Nicholas Martin

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

FROM PRACTICE TO PERFORMANCE: THE IMPORTANCE OF BALLET IN DEGAS’S DANCER PAINTING PROCESS , Whitney LeeAnn Hill

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

PROFESSIONAL COLLABORATION: THE VALUE OF MEANINGFUL CONVERSATION FOR THE STUDIO ART EDUCATOR , Christopher L. Bryant

FROM BLUES TO THE NY DOLLS: THE ROLLING STONES AND PERFORMANCE OF AUTHENTICITY , Mariia Spirina

HAYASHI YASUO AND YAGI KAZUO IN POSTWAR JAPANESE CERAMICS: THE EFFECTS OF INTRAMURAL POLITICS AND RIVALRY FOR RANK ON A CERAMIC ARTIST’S CAREER , Marilyn Rose Swan

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

Reimagining Needed Funding for Elementary Art Programs in Fayette County Public Schools , Lori M. Barnett

A Study on Student Learning in Higher Education: Art Exhibition Motivation , Olivia M. Lussi

Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015

The Truth of Night in the Italian Baroque , Renee J. Lindsey

Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014

FROM GEOLOGY TO ART HISTORY: CERAMIST ALEXANDRE BRONGNIART’S OVERLOOKED CONTRIBUTION TO THE DEVELOPING SCIENCE OF ART HISTORY IN THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY , Julia A. Carr-Trebelhorn

The Image of Antinoös: Sexy Boy or Elder God? , Ashlee R. Chilton

LEARNING TO RETELL STORIES THROUGH COMPARATIVE TEACHING: WRITING AND DRAWING , Rachel L. Lindle

Edward Steichen and Hollywood Glamour , Alisa Reynolds

Looking to the Future, Selling the Past: Churchill Weavers Marketing Strategies in the 1950s , Cassandra White-Fredette

USING VIDEO BASED INSTRUCTION TO TEACH ART TO STUDENTS WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER , Anthony W. Woodruff

Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012

FROM CELLULOID REALITIES TO BINARY DREAMSCAPES: CINEMA AND PERCEPTUAL EXPERIENCE IN THE AGE OF DIGITAL IMMERSION , Edwin Lloyd McGuy Lohmeyer

APPLYING SPECIFIC ARTS ACTIVITIES TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE AND DEMENTIA , Ann Christianson Tietyen

Theses from 2011 2011

PRAGMATIC MODERNISM: PROJECT [ PROJEKT ] AND POLISH DESIGN, 1956-1970 , Mikolaj Czerwinski

DEFYING THE MODERNIST CANON: MIKHAIL LARIONOV’S ARTISTIC EXPERIENCE BEYOND THE CANVAS , Ella Hans

THE ART OF NOTHINGNESS: DADA, TAOISM, AND ZEN , Erin Megan Lochmann

CONSTRUCTING THE REAL: THE NEW PHOTOGRAPHY OF CREWDSON, GURSKY AND WALL , Melissa A. Schwartz

Theses from 2007 2007

FROM EXCEPTION TO NORM: DEACCESSIONING IN LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY AMERICAN ART MUSEUMS , Julianna Shubinski

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The Blue Horizon , Shir Bassa

Touch the Earth: Integrating Biophilic Design and Nature Rx Therapy Initiatives at Georgia State University , Kennedy L. Burks

Cross-stitched Stones: Untangling Gender and Ritual from the "Simple Lattice" Motif at Uxmal , Cassidy Cannon

The New College of the Arts: Forming a Collaborative Community at the College of the Arts at Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA , Peter Huesemann-Odom

It's Not Me, It's You , Amanda G. Platner

Decorum , Corran Shrimpton

The Highway Between , Bronwyn M. Simons

Preemptive Mourning , Rachel Warren

Theses from 2023 2023

Terra Multa , Emily A. Albee

Addressing ecoanxiety through the lens of children’s literature in the elementary art classroom , Dara E. Andre

Interference : Interwoven , Sally C. Garner

Three Tries , GETSAY

Ascension , Alyssa Ann Hood

Cultivate , Katie Kearns

Shapeshifter , Kate Kosek

Homo Ludens , Kengel Maysonet

Class of Beauty: Schooled in the Culture , Azya Lashelle Moore

Pledging Allegiance: The Use of American Flag Imagery by Faith Ringgold and Emma Amos , Santana E. Nash

Relatives , Leeza Negelev

Sending Love Through A Barrel: Investigating the Immigrants’ Experience, From Belonging To Assimilation , Kandi-Lee J. Reid

Design Thinking Process: Visual Art Curriculum Design Tool For Students With Severe and Multiple Disabilities , Kendall LE Siddiqui

Olfactory Vision: Recollection of Visual Information Through Smell in Graphic Design , Monica Suarez Argudin

Into That Resonant Dark , Adam G. Winnie

Life and Death Beyond a "Pre-Invented Existence": The Subversive Possibilities of Abjection in the Work of David Wojnarowicz , Gillian Yee

Theses from 2022 2022

Menudo and Lucky Charms , Felicia Ann Castro

Do you remember the sun...? , Travis Dodd

Unseen , Bethany Grabert

Choose Your Own Adventure! , Jordan Gum

Sin With Me , Nicholas Kakavas

Wax and Mortality: A Transhistorical Study on Wax in Artistic Depictions of Death , Mary Kirkpatrick

The Seven Valleys , Darya Mojtahedzadeh Fard

Artifacts of Industry , James D. Robertson

Sky Garden Graduate Student Housing , Maria Paula Saavedra Rios

Marriages, Mistresses, And Mockery: Gender Roles And Power Dynamics In The Saint-Aubin Livre De Caricatures Tant Bonnes Que Mauvaises , Madison Short

a wheel inside a wheel , Elizabeth Storm

Theses from 2021 2021

The Bold and the Beautiful: Portraiture in Pakistani Truck Art , Farah Ali

Laborare, Vivere, et Ludere , Nathalia Arruda Silva

Fullness , Jamaal Barber

Material Intelligence , Soude Dadras

Nostos , Diane Hiscox

I'm Your Perfect Girl , Melissa Anne Huang

Representation and Participation in Anime , D. Lasseter

Gathering Galax , Albert Lebron

At Work , Kylie Little

Everything and Nothing , Andrew Lyman

Dawn , Hanna Newman

Between what exists , Madeline Pieschel

Knowing Together With An Other , Jessica Self

So It Seems , Kourtney Stone

Eternal Summer , Christina Teruel

Zoetrope Blues , Andrew Tetz

The Kitsch Masterpiece: Odd Nerdrum and the Problem of the New Old Masters , Jordan Walker

Theses from 2020 2020

Heads Up/Heads Down: A Pattern Language for Fostering Thinking in the Workplace , Jill Blass

Airports - Cultural Ambassadors , Valentina Caver

Advenus , Ana M. Coello-Amado

Art-Making as Self-Care in Studio Practice and in the Art Classroom , Shauna Delong

Endless Exuberance , Coorain W. Devin

Hiraeth Never Fades , Jeffrey R. Kuratnick

Abroad , Constanza Loustalet Lopez Aranguren

The Manual for Neocadia , Jack Michael

At Odds , Robert Sturgess

Foundational Curriculum: Integrating Art, Literacy and Social Emotional Learning , Rosie Tempka

Animus , Parker Grace Thornton

Absurd Vessel , Michael Jess Tolley

Theses from 2019 2019

Class Clown , Andrew Adamson

A Series of Quiet Decisions , Aaron Artrip and Aaron C. Artrip Mr.

Living Hysterically , Jessica Caldas

Art Making as a Means of Self-care for the Art Teacher , John Chase Campbell

Using the Visual Arts to Support the Development of Young Refugee Children: A Puppet-Making Workshop , Ghenwa El Souki

Inclusive Art Education as a Tool for Art Museum Experiences , Sonja Fasen

The Devout Griot, Emotional Keeper. , Shanequa S. Gay

Deep Reminding , Amin Ghasemi

In Situ , mohammadjavad Jahangir

The Plastic Ocean: An Art Educator’s Interpretation , Rochelle B. Johnson

Ambiguous Criteria , travis c. lindquist

I know now...I am here , Ana meza

My hideous progeny , Nathaniel Mondragon

The Whole of the Hidden Thing , Linda Maria Ojeda

Dignity , Carla Powell and Carla Powell

Abstract Forms/Explicit Intent: Modernist Monuments of Socialist Yugoslavia in Service of the State , Aaron Kagan Putt

Theses from 2018 2018

A Survey of No Place , Amelia Carley

Home: A Process Based Visual Exploration Of The Sentiment Of Attachment , Demi G. Chandler

Loose Larry: A Binding of Non-Blood Story , Tyler Scott Cieplowski

A thing among things , Kelli Couch

Noble Taste, Noble Style: Exploring the Concept of Vivre Noblement in the Hours of Engelbert of Nassau , Ceallsach VonEhren Crouch

The Elles Series: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s Unusual Approach to Prostitution , Anna Dobbins

Cut + Paste | An Aesthetic Exploration , Kristin Ferro

Yours Truly MF , michelle e. florence and Michelle E. Florence

DONT FEEL TOUCH , Vanessa Jagodinsky

Good Girl: Sweaty Palms and the Smile , Nuni Lee

Sherbet House: Designing Iranian Culture for the United States , Atena Masoudi

GAGA! Interdisciplinary And Integrated Education: Geography, Art, and Global Awareness , Lieu Nguyen

Folded Mystery , maryam palizgir

Antediluvian , Judy Parady

Another Failed Attempt , Aaron Kagan Putt

#Moment: Creating Moments of Truth Through Experiential Interior Design , Jennifer Refsnes

Dwelling on Things , Kirstie J. Tepper

Theses from 2017 2017

Asunder , Rachel Ballard

Vernacular Notions of Reverie: St. EOM’s Pasaquan as a Utopia , Victoria L. Cantrell

Visual Art Curriculum Framework For Small Group High School Instruction: An Art Teacher's Reflections , Penny Lee Colangelo MS

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2024 MFA in Visual Art Thesis Exhibition: Slingshot

Slingshot: 2024 MFA in Visual Art Thesis Exhibition features thesis projects by the Master of Fine Arts in Visual Art candidates in the 2024 graduating class of the Graduate School of Art in Washington University’s Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts.

The exhibition title holds a variety of associations for the candidates, including references to childhood and play, gravity, movement, tension, and release. The artists explore such themes as the body, identity, the built environment, and technology through a range of aesthetic practices and mediums that include collage, drawing, painting, sculpture, and photography.

The exhibition is organized by Leslie Markle, curator for public art at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.

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Emily Elhoffer Jordan Geiger Joni P. Gordon Mad Green Sophia Hatzikos Micah Mickles Sarah Moon Samantha Neu Lynne Smith

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Slingshot: 2024 MFA in Visual Art Thesis Exhibition

Slingshot: 2024 MFA in Visual Art Thesis Exhibition features thesis projects by the Master of Fine Arts in Visual Art candidates in the 2024 graduating class of the Graduate School of Art in Washington University’s Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts.   

The exhibition title holds a variety of associations for the candidates, including references to childhood and play, gravity, movement, tension, and release. The artists explore such themes as the body, identity, the built environment, and technology through a range of aesthetic practices and mediums that include collage, drawing, painting, sculpture, and photography.     The 2024 MFA in Visual Art candidates are Emily Elhoffer, Jordan Geiger, Joni P. Gordon, Mad Green, Sophia Hatzikos, Micah Mickles, Sarah Moon, Samantha Neu, and Lynne Smith.   

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School of Visual Arts MFA Thesis Exhibitions Feature Work by 61 Artists

Five shows by graduating students in painting, graphic design, sculpture, print media and photography, and visual narrative on view on and off campus through April 20

This article was originally published in BU Today on April 9, 2024. By Sophie Yarin. Photo by Cydney Scott.

As the academic year draws to a close and commencement season approaches, there’s no shortage of reasons to celebrate at the College of Fine Arts. Not only does 2024 mark the school’s 70th birthday— CFA was founded as the School of Fine and Applied Arts in 1954 —but it’s also a year of exciting firsts for the School of Visual Arts and its five Master of Fine Arts programs: painting, sculpture, print media and photography, visual narrative, and graphic design. 

This year marks the first that the print media and photography and the visual narrative MFA programs, both launched in 2022, will graduate a class. The 2024 exhibitions also mark the largest cohort to date—61 graduating MFA students—in the school’s history. And for the first time, this year’s shows include an off-campus venue: the sculpture exhibition is being shown at 1270 Commonwealth Ave., where what was once a CVS pharmacy has been transformed into a pop-up art gallery. 

All of the exhibitions, on view through April 20, are free and open to the public. Collectively, they offer a sense of the breadth and depth of work being done by MFA students across a range of mediums. For those who cannot make it to all five of this year’s shows, we’ve pulled together some works from each program for your viewing pleasure. But remember: there’s plenty more to see in person.

The visual arts are often compared to a written language, notes  Josephine Halvorson , a CFA professor of art, painting, and chair of graduate studies in painting, in the 2024 painting thesis exhibition catalog. “Reading, literacy, and lexicons are terms we frequently cite in critique,” she writes. “Students [have turned] to language, either materially or analogically, to help them navigate meaning in their work.”

James Gold, Mosaic Excavation with Carpets. Egg tempera, India ink, acrylic gouache, and pigmented gesso on panel.

Abbi Kenny, Atlantic Cranberry Sauce (courtesy of Weight Watchers). Acrylic, molding paste, acrylic gouache, black pepper, glitter, glass beads, muscovite mica, glass flakes, and yupo collage on canvas.

Some works in this year’s exhibition speak plainly, relying on a strong instinct toward realism and representation. James Gold (CFA’24) imbues his canvases with a photographer’s sense of discovery: his subjects—ancient tapestries, mosaics, and scrolls—are rendered so as to capture every detail and texture.

Paintings by Abigail Kenny (CFA’24) share Gold’s photorealistic sensibility, but her concerns are more outlandish, less rarefied. Vivid-hued reproductions of illustrated recipe cards, from Kenny’s own family collection, comment on Andy Warhol’s iconic soup cans from the early 1960s.

see more works by MFA painting students

The MFA Painting Thesis Exhibition is at the Faye G., Jo, and James Stone Gallery, 855 Commonwealth Ave., through Saturday, April 20. Hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 11 am to 5 pm.

Graphic Design

The theme for this year’s graphic design thesis show,  Side B , refers to the flip side of a record, and “a willingness to defy expectations, explore uncommon tools, and present a multifaceted expression of craft,” write thesis advisors  Christopher Sleboda , a CFA associate professor of graphic design, and  Kristen Coogan , a CFA associate professor of graphic design and chair of the MFA graphic design program, in the catalog for the show. 

For her thesis project,  Between Waves , Bella Tuo (CFA’24) literally crowdsourced a new font. Over the course of a day, she encouraged strangers to contribute a hand-drawn line, curve, or serif until each letter of the alphabet was complete .

Bella Tuo, Between Waves project feat. Rainbow Hui. Digital media.

Arjun Lakshmanan, The Grand Tour-50 Iterations. Digital media.

Arjun Lakshmanan (CFA’24) was inspired by a NASA mock travel poster that imagined interplanetary tourism. With the same retro futuristic style, he produced a series of 50 similar postcards that emphasized three-dimensionality and warped perception. 

Lindsay Towle (CFA’24), whose design sensibility is informed by the graphic imprint of basketball and other facets of urban street culture, devised new aesthetic associations that make room for visual subcultures within the dominant narrative. A poster of her thesis concept,  Backcourt , mixes graffiti lettering, a hallmark of elements of street culture, with classic typography and handwritten elements.

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The MFA Graphic Design Thesis Exhibition is at the 808 Gallery, 808 Commonwealth Ave., through Saturday, April 20. Hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 11 am to 5 pm.

Visual Narrative

The first graduating class of the MFA visual narrative program has created a collection of work that runs the storytelling gamut, crafting work that’s “humorous, poignant, and thought-provoking,” writes  Joel Christian Gill , a CFA associate professor of art and chair of the visual narrative program. 

Sadie Saunders (CFA’24) and Ella Scheuerell (CFA’24) both opted to create graphic memoirs, and although their methodologies differ (Saunders uses digital drawing while Scheuerell relies on collage and mixed media), their stories are grounded in their experiences as young artists coming of age in the pandemic era. Scheuerell introduces readers to her uncle, whose art she discovered among his effects after his death by suicide. As she comes to terms with his loss, the drawings and his invisible presence keep her company. Saunders’ work reads more like a memoir-slash-sitcom, a self-deprecating tour of her barista job and the cast of characters who challenge her to find her voice. 

Sadie Saunders, pages from Spilled Milk and Other Reasons to Cry at Work. Digital drawing.

Ella Scheurell, Heavy Shoes, Colored pencil, watercolor sharpie on paper.

Avanji Vaze, page from Vrindavan House. Digital drawing.

Works by Avanji Vaze (CFA’24), Sandeep Badal (CFA’24), and Ariel Cheng Kohane (COM’22, CFA’24) have created stories that revel in invented universes and complex plotlines. Vaze’s graphic novel combines a Utopian fairytale (where Earth is run by a species of benevolent mushrooms) and MTV’s  The Real World , centering a lovable-but-dysfunctional crew of artist roommates as her main cast. Badal’s thesis work is a comic within a comic; his protagonist, a graphic novelist, shares the stage with his own invented character, a trans-femme superhero who begins to feel like the world is treating her like a villain. And Cheng Kohane’s world is a reimagination of classic Western flicks, but populated by a cast of Asian and Jewish characters to match her own blended heritage.

see more works by MFA visual narrative students

The MFA Visual Narrative Thesis Exhibition is at the Commonwealth Gallery, 855 Commonwealth Ave., through Saturday, April 20. Hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 11 am to 5 pm. Students will present their thesis work on Wednesday, April 10, and Friday, April 12, from 3 to 5 pm at the Howard Thurman Center, 808 Commonwealth Ave.

Print Media & Photography

This year’s graduates of the print media and photography MFA program have created work that “disrupt[s] the viewer’s sense of the familiar and, in turn, prompt[s] more questions than answers,” write thesis advisors  Lynne Allen , a CFA professor of art, printmaking,  Toni Pepe , a CFA assistant professor of art and chair of photography, and  Deborah Cornell , a CFA professor of art and chair of printmaking, in the show’s catalog. The four graduates whose work is in the thesis show have subverted the expected with their thesis work, in the process highlighting a core principle of printmaking: that it’s a medium of endless possibilities.

The photographs of Sofia Barroso (CFA’24) have been processed to the point of distortion, incorporating fabric, paper, thread, paint, and processes like cyanotype and silkscreen printing.

Sofia Barroso, Exploration of Possibilities. Cyanotype on fabric.

Julianne Dao, Walking Shadows. Collagraph, Chiné-colle archival inkjet print.

Julianne Dao (CFA’24) creates prints that play with negative space; each of her prints began with an object from nature, which she then processed through woodcut, embossing, and other techniques to create a bold design full of light and shadow.

Emily Taylor Rice (CFA’21,’24) and Delaney Burns (CFA’24) injected messages of social activism into their works: Rice creates prints that reflect the emotional turmoil of substance use disorders, using found textiles and colored pigments to reflect the chaos of alcohol dependence and utilizing embossing techniques to replicate emotional scars and ripped-and-torn sections to represent a process of deconstruction and rebirth. 

see more works by MFA Print media & Photography students

The MFA Print Media & Photography Thesis Exhibition is at the 808 Gallery, 808 Comm Ave., through Saturday, April 20. Hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 11 am to 5 pm.

The pieces in the MFA sculpture exhibition may have little in common visually, writes  David Snyder , a CFA assistant professor of sculpture and chair of graduate studies in sculpture, “but what they have built together is…a conversation, a culture, a language, a heart.”

The works by the five students included in this year’s show respond to one another, playing on unconventional uses of space.

Yolanda He Yang, section of Sand Floor and Two Holes to the Basement and Happenings on the Wall. Piano strings, sand, LED spotlight and motor, glass, projector, wood, plastic sheet, mylar, telephone wires, marble.

Helena Abdelnasser, I think it’s dying. Wood, hinges, screws, white paint, soil, grass seeds, plastic bag, water, unfired clay, baby monitor.

In one area, a section of a piece by Yolanda He Yang (MET’21, CFA’24) shares room with a pillar constructed by Helena Abdelnasser (CFA’24). Yang’s sprawling narrative installations include materials that evoke personal significance, and the artist has painstakingly cataloged the origins of each object. The result: an annotated roadmap of a memory. Looming nearby is one of Abdelnasser’s sculptures: an obelisk made of whitewashed picket fences planted in a patch of earth—an untouchable idealization. In one corner of the work, blurred by decay and dirt, is a reproduction of a dead bird—a gruesome reality.

Alyssa Grey (CFA’24) is fascinated by the relationship between art and its modes of display—walk past one of her entries and a motion-sensing camera will project you onto a small television mounted on a plywood pedestal. Mae-Chu Lin O’Connell (CFA’24) injects a self-deprecating, almost paranoiac sensibility in each of her works, making liberal use of claustrophobia, clutter, sensory discomfort, and haphazardness in her installations and videos.  Boxmaker , a scattered assemblage of objects in the shadow of an assembled piece of box furniture, brims with frustration, while her videos create an eerie sound collage out of the banal act of eating.

see more works by MFA sculpture students

The MFA Sculpture Thesis Exhibition is at 1270 Commonwealth Ave., through Saturday, April 20. Hours: Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, 11 am to 5 pm, and Mondays and Thursdays by appointment.

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