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The Emotional Effect of Musical Underscoring in the Play columbinus
(East Carolina University, 2018-05-03)One of the most debated political topics in today’s media is the prominence of school shootings. During a time of discourse, artists typically use this energy to enhance their work and create emotional pieces of art that ... -
THE FOUNDATION OF MUSIC
(East Carolina University, 2018-05-01)Music is a powerful tool that can be heard all over the world. It is used as a means of expressing emotions, overcoming obstacles, and establishing an identity as an individual and as a culture. I plan to create a program ... -
The Importance of Duck Hunting: Making Connections
(East Carolina University, 2022-04-21)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 ... -
The Industrial Image: Preserving a Deteriorating Identity
(East Carolina University, 2016-04-27)Reclamation is essential in preserving the history and changing identity of America's Rust Belt. This body of work uses photography and historic events as material that can be repurposed. Imagery is preserved when fired ... -
The Legend of Ayon: A Sculptural Monomyth
(East Carolina University, 2023-04-28)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 ... -
The Value of Exposure: The Connection Between International Contact, Ethnocentrism, and Intercultural Sensitivity
(East Carolina University, 2019-08-13)As higher education continues on the path of globalization, a persistent focus is placed on creating internationally competent professionals. The most prominent method used to achieve this is through the internationalization ... -
Theorems in Visual Art: Art and Math Teacher Collaboration toward Creative Leadership
(2018)An artist and a mathematician meet. The authors of this article, one an art education professor and the other a mathematics professor, collaborated to conduct research as a team, examining perceptions of K-12 art ... -
Thoughts on Temporal Perception's Relativity in Grisey's Vortex Temporum and Voss's Perspectives
(East Carolina University, 2017-07-21)This thesis centers around a comparative analysis between an instrumental work, Vortex Temporum (1995), by Gérard Grisey (1946-98), and a mixed media work by Emerson Voss (b. 1991), Perspectives (2017). This essay articulates ... -
Three Initiatives for Community-Based Art Education Practices
(2013-07)According to Lawton (2010), art educators should be concerned with teaching their students to make critical connections between the classroom and the outside world. one effective way to make these critical connections ... -
TO BE OR NOT TO BE A (ROLE) MODEL IN A GLASS (CEILING) MENAGERIE
(2015-04-28)This paper explores how famous female characters express societal views and expectations for actual females and presents ways new works can provide expanded options, liberating performers and audiences from restrictive ... -
Tools of Mass Consumption
(East Carolina University, 2015)Today, with cheaply produced plasticware introduced in the 1960s and foods that can be consumed directly out of the wrapper, our culture has essentially acknowledged the necessity for function and convenience when eating. ... -
Toward Relational Craft
(East Carolina University, 2011)This thesis report contends with the contemporary context of studio craft here in the USA. Studio craft is predicated on habits of a modern world, and the political and economic relations comprising our social landscape ... -
Towards a Method for the Analysis of Experimental Music
(East Carolina University, 2014)This paper discusses the nature of experimental music, its reception, and suggests a method for its analysis. It gives a definition for this body of music and traces its historical development. A continuum is constructed ... -
The Transformation Of Stone
(East Carolina University, 2010)In this body of work I attempt to discuss transformation on three levels: material, concept, and expression. The sculptures created for this thesis were inspired by the physical characteristics of stone as a material as ... -
Tribulation Enshrined
(East Carolina University, 2015)This research and creative activity is a series of seven interactive art shrines called Tribulation Enshrined. Using my knowledge of Judeo-Christianity, my work compares that religious visual culture with art practices ... -
TRISKAIDEKAPHILIA: 2016 GRAPHIC DESIGN SENIOR SHOW
(East Carolina University, 2016-12-06)My senior honors project is a creative endeavor consisting of an art exhibition and portfolio. The show was named Triskaidekaphilia: 2016 Graphic Design Senior Show and displayed April 17th-29th, 2016 in Mendenhall Student ... -
Ty Matson: Senior Recital, Trombone
(East Carolina University, 2018-05-24)This Senior Honors Project is entitled “Ty Matson: Senior Recital, Trombone.” The author of the project is Ty Matson. The Senior Honors Project was the preparation and performance of my senior trombone recital, with program ... -
(Un)Becoming
(East Carolina University, 2019-07-17)This document provides written support for the thesis exhibition, (Un)Becoming. The body of work uses taxidermy and specimen collection techniques to explore the relationship between the Westward Expansion of the late 19th ... -
Utilizing Multiple Design Methods to Resolve Social Problems
(East Carolina University, 2012)Richard Buchanan, co-editor of Design Issues, the international journal of design history, theory, and criticism, argued that designers possess skills that are useful to "discover new relationships among signs, things, ...