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CRENULATION & TENTACULARITY: An exploration of ceramics as a tool for communicating marine conservation topics
(East Carolina University, 2022-05-02)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 ... -
YOU WILL ALWAYS HAVE A PLACE AT MY TABLE
(East Carolina University, 2022-04-22)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 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 ... -
A Printmaker’s Field Guide: A Chronicle of Artistic Succession Through Printmaking
(East Carolina University, 2022-04-20)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 ... -
Developing My Archive: on being
(East Carolina University, 2022-04-12)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 ... -
Escapist Ideations
(East Carolina University, 2022-04-22)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 ... -
A Mixed Methods Critical Review of the A+ Schools in North Carolina: An Argument for High Standards in Implementation
(East Carolina University, 2021-06-07)This study provides an update on the effectiveness of the North Carolina (NC) A+ Schools Program, a program focused on integrating the arts disciplines into the core curriculum to bring about more effective and engaging ... -
Internal Landscapes
(East Carolina University, 2021-05-03)After years of self-reflecting on my emotions, I can now express a fuller range. Internal Landscapes represents different emotions that come with dismantling learned value systems. Black paint, recurring textures, and gold ... -
FOR THE NOTETAKERS
(East Carolina University, 2021-05-03)" ... for the notetakers ..." was a favorite and oft used phrase of a beloved teacher of mine. It was his cue to his serious students that this was one of the really juicy, important bits to capture. The way he said it ... -
From Wasteland to Praxis: Uncertainty and Control in the Creative Process
(East Carolina University, 2021-04-22)This document provides written support for the thesis exhibition, From Wasteland to Praxis: Uncertainty and Control in the Creative Process. This body of work consists of a collection of prints that represent evidence of ... -
Metempsychosis & Reincarnation
(East Carolina University, 2021-05-03)A flower's beauty does not last forever; the leaves wilt, and the petals fall to the ground until next season when the cycle begins. The moment a flower blooms is the beginning moment it starts to fade away. Metempsychosis ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Korean contemporary art as an educational resource for the American secondary art classroom
(2012)Focusing on the artwork by Korean-born artist Shin il Kim, this chapter examines Korean contemporary art as a resource for teaching and learning in the American secondary art classroom. Kim utilizes digital technology ... -
Redefining cultural identity in digital art practice: Artistic journeys across cultural boundaries and ethnic borders
(2009)During the past several decades, globalization has blurred the borders among cultures, to some extent. The development of computers and the Internet has accelerated the collapse of cultural boundaries and changed the ... -
Re-imaging traditions: Comparison of John Ruskin and Kim Chong-hui
(2003)This research is intended to focus on theories and beliefs of Ruskin and Kim Chong-hui, as they appear in their writings, paintings, and other scholars’ studies on them and to compare these two figures in the historical ... -
An Obligation to do One’s Best
An Obligation to do One's Best is an exploration of myth and reality at home in a small southern town. The artist is calling into question whose history we are referencing when it comes to art, economics, and culture. In ... -
A Collective: Working Towards a Better Place
This body of work, A Collective: Working Towards a Better Place, is comprised of points along my timeline that embody the way I have come to connect with people face to face. I realized these connections are important for ...