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Beyond the Folds: Emergent Properties in Paper
(East Carolina University, 2023-04-28) Rhodes-Pruitt, John C; Art
In this body of work I explore the relationship between visual art, information science, and the geometry of paper in an attempt to create a unique visual language with which I make records; not unlike writing in a journal. Using cyanotype, origami, drawing, and digital techniques I co-opt the language of computers (binary) to represent aspects of myself in paper form, blending the analog and digital into a distinctive way of communicating. The work is informed by my understanding of Constructor Theory, Information Theory, and Quantum Mechanics with which I draw thematic comparisons between the fundamental nature of who I am with the fundamental nature of the universe.
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The Legend of Ayon: A Sculptural Monomyth
(East Carolina University, 2023-04-28) Prevette, Thaddeus; Jubran, Hanna; School of Art and Design
The Legend of Ayon is a sculptural representation of a hero's journey into a world of the unknown, then returning victorious after overcoming trials and tribulations. My research depicts my fascination with fantasies originating from ancient historical myths and combining them with modern mythology. I view the various forms of modern media, film being one example, as this era's mythologies. Ayon is a warrior pursuing a monster, who overcomes the trials of the wilderness and the unknown world and is guided towards a realization that community is stronger together than fractured. For me, these sculptural vessels, dragons, and objects have become a therapeutic process by using a variety of materials to fabricate a body of work that invokes a sense of permanence, structural integrity, and tranquility.
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River Rat
(East Carolina University, 2023-04-21) Zichettella, Morgan Williams; Wells, Angela Franks; School of Art and Design
The marsh; what is it about this brackish, swamp-like area that is so attractive? This environment emanates gnarly gases, is filled with death and erosion, yet has a thriving and resilient ecosystem. I began to wonder what would happen if I used the water from the areas I am photographing—if the water in the image was tied to its creation. Could the salt print process provide the connection between the concept and process I had been searching for? River Rat, a series of river water salt print photographs, depicts a glimpse of life in this complicated environment and the peace it brings to my mind and soul. Sitting on the dock to cool off from the sweltering hot sun, enjoying the bounty from a long day on the water, and how the vast openness of the water is so restless and beyond comprehension that it simultaneously makes one feel insignificant and integral to the greater web of the world. The hidden beauty of the back rivers, the secret hideaways, the elusiveness of the land that is only accessible during certain tides; the water connects and provides for this ecosystem in such a way that feels sacred to me.
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Immortal Bodies: Preserving Connections Through Objects and Rituals
(East Carolina University, 2023-04-27) Hesson, Nicholas; Lazure, Timothy; School of Art and Design
The human body is often treated as a temple, where even after death the treatment of the physical body displays its value and identity. Using inspiration from reliquaries, burials, and mourning jewelry, the objects that I create become a pathway to history as well as a manifestation of people's spirits. I create enameled urns that personify different characteristics of people by using color, form, and shape to convey the personality of whomever it would hold. In doing so I explore modern societal values surrounding death and the various mourning practices that those values encompass. The visual language I use to explore the abstract forms in my work is inspired by my long-held fascination with anatomical illustrations and human anatomy. I utilize traditional metal forming techniques and digital fabrication processes to produce these objects. The various methods serve to create a diverse lexicon of forms that would be impossible to create otherwise. I develop the surface of each object using vitreous enamel and patina to create a color, pattern, and imagery. Great care, intent, and labor is put into each vessel to make them unique and create a deep and meaningful connection between vessel and viewer.
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Assembly Required
(East Carolina University, 2023-04-27) Naimo, Anthony; Lazure, Timothy; School of Art and Design
Assembly Required is a narrative-driven project using found objects to explore themes of imagination, community, impermanence, and reinvention. The artworks encapsulated within this research are fabricated almost entirely using waste-materials: rusted metallic oddities, mildewed comic books, and found images. An alternate future is imagined using the materials of yesterday. This is a found-future setting which celebrates a scrappiness and ingenuity in people to think our way out of the impossible. I illustrate how all things exist in a cultural cycle of rising and falling value - and reflect on people's ability to enact alchemical exchange upon these material meanings to fabricate exquisite, new realities.
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Neotype: Replace what is lost
(East Carolina University, 2023-04-26) Christensen, Tim; Kariko, Daniel; School of Art and Design
"Neotype: Replace what is lost" is a photographically based project aimed at exploring the intersection of Art and Science by using historical photographic techniques to celebrate and memorialize our insect partners. This thesis documents the development of the artist/scientist as he creates different bodies of work during his MFA. The final exhibition centers on the questions of how we know the world and creates a ritual that asks the observer to engage with insects as both objects of wonder and as creatures that are disappearing from our rapidly changing world.
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Fish Dreams
(East Carolina University, 2023-04-27) Graves, Karena; Jubran, Hanna
In my family, when women dream of fish, it symbolizes that a family member or close friend is pregnant. Based on our cultural background as African Americans, our interpretation of our dreams is how we share and pass down stories within our traditions. My aim for this research and creative activity is to bring my voice as an African American woman into the conversation of dream research, which at times is not only dominated by a white male perspective but a white male perspective occupying space in the discussion of African American dream analysis. This series of artwork contains sculptural assemblages and woven textiles that express different imagery of the fish dream. The artworks are based on interviews with the matriarchs of my family that have experienced fish dreams: Sirena Manuel (mother), Elecia Satterfield (aunt), and Bernice Graves (grandmother). Interviewing my family, allows me to document the oral history of their experiences with the fish dream.
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Exploring Online Art Education: Multi-Institutional Perspectives and Practices
(2022-09) Song, Borim; Lim, Kyungeun
How can art educators transmit their passion and enthusiasm for art teaching and learning to cultivate human potential in the virtual classroom? As a collective case study focusing on our online undergraduate courses, this research examines how two instructors used instructional methods and technologies, and how their students responded to their pedagogical endeavors. Qualitative content analysis was utilized. Virtual art classes can encourage students to look into themselves and become more aware of themselves. Communicating and feeling connected to others are critical for students in online settings. As demonstrated in our course design, connectivity between students and instructors can be facilitated through a multi-layered structure, providing for more efficient communication. This study also found blurred boundaries between real and virtual learning environments. When we facilitate fluidity and conceptual flexibility as online art educators, digital technologies may expand our thinking and expression frameworks.
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Art as Radical Act: Teenagers Revisit Diversity and Social Justice through JR’s Giant Baby
(2022-08-22) Song, Borim
In this article I share ways that I have used the artworks of contemporary artists to encourage middle school students to reflect on the concepts of diversity and social justice. This paper describes my use of an artwork called “Kikito (Tecate, Mexico-USA, 2017),” a work in the Giant series by a French artist JR. When I shared images of this artwork with students, the participating teenagers discussed this public art piece verbally as well as through texting via social media. They then created artworks based on their reflections. Although the quality of student outcomes varied in both the text-based discussions and drawing activity, they clearly showed that the Giant Baby project and JR’s stories deeply engaged the students in a critical examination of the U.S./Mexico relationship and sparked their interest in the role of the visual arts as a source of social justice and systematical change.
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Anti-Asian Racism and Racial Justice in the Classroom
(2022) Shin, Ryan; Bae, Jaehan; Song, Borim
This article discusses the urgent issues and concerns about anti-Asian racism in our society and provides several pedagogical strategies to counter anti-Asian racism. We begin by discussing the history and context of anti-Asian racism in the US, from which we trace the historical origins and contexts of anti-Asian racism, violence, and stereotypes in popular culture and media. After that, we share several anti-Asian racism teaching strategies and practices, drawn from and influenced by the creative artworks of Asian contemporary artists such as Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom, Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya, and Monyee Chau, who demonstrate subverting racism against Asians during the COVID-19 global pandemic. Finally, after engaging our students in anti-Asian racism lessons, we share their art projects and written testimonials about anti-Asian racism. As a result, we strongly encourage educators to use, in their art curriculum, both history and contemporary artworks by artists to address anti-Asian racism and social justice.
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Alone Together? Fighting Student Isolation in Online Art Education
(2022-07) Song, Borim
The COVID-19 pandemic required most K-16 educators to transition to the realm of online education. Across the nation, a plethora of insights on new technologies, platforms, and secret tips for distance teaching have burgeoned. Yet one critical aspect seems be missing: our students. Aren’t they left out in these discussions? This essay recounts my personal journey as an art educator during the emergent culture of COVID-19. Sharing my stories and students’ reflections, I particularly focus on strategies to prevent student isolation within virtual art education and explain how to use synchronous and asynchronous methods to stay connected with the students.
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Isolation, Connection, and Embracement: Exploring Students’ Perspectives on Virtual Art Education During the Pandemic
(2022-05) Song, Borim; Lim, Kyungeun
Utilizing storytelling, two art educators explore how their undergraduate students experienced the transition to online education after the outbreak of COVID-19. Three themes are examined based on the students’ reflections: 1) new characteristics of and experiences within virtual learning, 2) isolation and connection, and 3) embracement and adjustment. The participating students shared their course experiences, with regard to the changes in course design and structure made due to the abrupt transition to online instruction. The participating students felt some loneliness due to isolation and social distancing. They experienced multilayered connections purposefully made through learning communities, small groups, student pairs, and student-instructor communication using discussion boards, emails, group chat, personal webpages, and Canvas messages and feedback. We suggest that exchanging narratives about students’ learning and art making experiences helps educators build their own teaching communities and serves as a strategy to overcome challenges and develop resilience in uncertain times full of changes and transitions.
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Virtual reality and augmented reality technologies for art education: The perceptions and responses of undergraduate students
(2021-12-01) Song, Borim
The emergent culture of COVID-19 underscored a gap among generations with regards to their responses to new innovations in the education field. This article explores the educational potential of VR/AR for the secondary art curriculum through the perspectives and responses of undergraduate art students. The paper examines the writing outcomes of a discussion board forum activity that I created to invite the students to share their responses to and reflections on the use of VR/AR technologies in visual art and art education. I share the students’ perspectives on VR/AR use for studio art making under the following three themes: 1) excitement about the new art medium, 2) strengths and risks, and 3) educational potential for K-12 curriculum integration. In discussing the students’ reflections, contemporary artists’ use of VR/AR is also explored as a resource for art educators. I end the paper by providing suggestions for art educators interested in incorporating VA/AR into their art lessons.
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Insights From Three Online Art Educators: Strategies for Instruction, Interaction, and Assessment
(2021-06-11) Song, Borim; Lim, Kyungeun; Kwon, Hyunji
Currently, the entire world is experiencing an unprecedented threat due to the outbreak of COVID-19, which requires the majority of K-16 education to be temporarily taught online. The three authors have been teaching virtual courses with a studio art focus for a number of years. We share our collective insights for approaches to instruction, interaction, and assessment in virtual courses that might help other art educators to achieve successful learning outcomes for their students. We learned that building a learning community and peer connections is of the utmost importance; we propose mixing asynchronous and synchronous methods and providing prompt and comprehensive feedback on students’ artwork. The authors encourage other art educators to stay open-minded to new and flexible teaching environments, transforming this crisis into an opportunity to incorporate innovations into their teaching that even more effectively meet every student’s needs.
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CRENULATION & TENTACULARITY: An exploration of ceramics as a tool for communicating marine conservation topics
(East Carolina University, 2022-05-02) Beblo, Julienne; Tisnado, Jim; School of Art and Design
The ocean is a fascinating, three-dimensional environment that contains diverse organisms and unique interactions. It is also a common source of inspiration for aesthetics. Unfortunately, marine ecosystems have been negatively impacted by human activities. Art can be a powerful tool for communication, especially when being utilized to translate scientific ideas. The body of work presented in this paper represents the use of clay as a medium for communicating the beauty of the ocean and the need for marine conservation.
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YOU WILL ALWAYS HAVE A PLACE AT MY TABLE
(East Carolina University, 2022-04-22) DelBrocco, Lauren; Lazure, Timothy; School of Art and Design
It's time to eat is a simple phrase that holds a privileged comfort for satisfying hunger and a time for bonding, gathering, and reflecting. I write these words as I make homemade cavatelli pasta in my parents' kitchen; the flour has specked the computer screen, my clothes, and floor. The enjoyment of rolling the dough to make these small, ribbed delights will last several meals as it is dried, then frozen, to be later taken out and enjoyed again. These same notions of blissful family memories enter my smithed objects. My art series, "You Will Always Have a Place at My Table" is a collection of one-of-a-kind, sensory-provoking cooking and serving tools inspired by my childhood memories of family dinner time. My thesis is influenced by Western 18th and 19th Century elaborate tableware that curate a landscape of personal identity rooted within objects, and traditions derived from rituals. Aristocratic dining slowed down the eating process to allow for establishing connections between the guests as the meal was intended to be long lasting with appreciation for the food and tradition. Like an event-filled dinner party from the past with consideration for etiquette and culture, a DelBrocco family dinner is filled with the sounds of vocal communication, the clattering of kitchen tools, and lively music in the background. Meanwhile, preparation is like a series of systematic gears operating in harmony as the meal unfolds. Like the many objects we assign a value, my art, while on display will absorb and collect the numerous fruitful memories spent at the table. Welcome to my table.
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The Importance of Duck Hunting: Making Connections
(East Carolina University, 2022-04-21) Johnson, Madison; Tisnado, Jim; School of Art and Design
My work shines a light on the values of hunt-to-table while also showing the many connections made. Hunting is knowing where your meat comes from, the importance of local, sustainable, and ecologically conscious meat, and acts as a reminder why hunting is so important to our world. Hunters make connections to the land and to the people they hunt with. The hunt starts in the morning at dawn and continues until dusk. During the hunt, you are surrounded by connections to the land and to your loved ones who are out in the swamp with you. Duck hunting is full of traditions that are passed down from generation to generation. I am showing these connections through a series of table settings. Walking the viewer through the day of the hunt starting with breakfast and ending with dessert. The imagery on my work displays the connections and memories made out in the field during our annual hunt. Each ceramic piece has an important place in the day, a function to serve the connections. Breakfast, a quick meal. Lunch, a refuel meal. Dinner, a meal to supply the meat to the ones you love. Lastly, dessert, to sit and make memories of the connections made with the ones you love. The wares glazes represent the colors that are seen in the swamp as well as they sky during the different times of the day. Images that are taken during the hunt are individually hand painted onto the pieces, creating a connection through me and the work. I want my work to remind the viewers of memories they have made while supporting my personal research on connections I have made through duck hunting.
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A Printmaker’s Field Guide: A Chronicle of Artistic Succession Through Printmaking
(East Carolina University, 2022-04-20) Berman, Adam Noah; Egan, Matthew; School of Art and Design
This series of prints highlights the intricacy, inherent beauty, and ecological importance of plants in a format that bridges our indoor, synthetic tendencies with the complexity and beauty of the natural world. This work connects viewers with the natural world through my deeply rooted curiosity by using techniques that mimic natural processes, propagation, and artistic succession to depict the interactions between the environments and these plants.
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Developing My Archive: on being
(East Carolina University, 2022-04-12) Earl, Briana Nicole; Wells, Angela Franks; School of Art and Design
My current visual research examines personal experiences surrounding homesickness and nostalgia. For most of history, nostalgia and homesickness have been linked together even though they differ. Nostalgia is a longing for a time, while homesickness is a longing for a place. Where we come from is an integral part of our being, but what we become nostalgic for also shapes what we become. My work explores the idea of photographs existing as a substitution for memory and how photographic manipulation can change how we remember events. Photography lets me explore and recontextualize my exalted memory surrounding my transition from South Dakota to North Carolina. This method allows me to reclaim control over what I want to remember. Centering imagery around home and routine allows viewers to connect openly to various physical and emotional landscapes. Viewers are encouraged to participate in the transfer and re-constructions of these personal memories. My work challenges us to focus on and appreciate small moments we are surrounded by and how they shape our outward attitudes and understandings of what we consider home.
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Escapist ideations
(East Carolina University, 2022-04-22) Hutchinson, Katya Lee; Egan, Matthew; School of Art and Design
Escapist Ideations is a series of intaglio etchings exploring personal anxieties around global and systemic crises. Visualized as a series of escapist fantasies, each print represents a theme which is explored using representative objects staged throughout the scene. In the tradition of classic printmakers like Max Klinger, Bertha Lum, Mary Cassatt and Francisco Goya, this series of prints is contemplative and critical. With an emphasis on environmental and social issues, Escapist Ideations focuses on the role of the passive participant in a climate of reckoning and realization. Executed through traditional printmaking processes, the series is built upon an amalgam of influences from science fiction literature and film, and visually influenced by traditions of classicism. Escapist Ideations reflects a contemporary take on both fiction and process.

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