Browsing School of Art and Design by Author "School of Art and Design"

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  • A Mixed Methods Critical Review of the A+ Schools in North Carolina: An Argument for High Standards in Implementation 

    Wheeler, Kate (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 ...

  • A Printmaker’s Field Guide: A Chronicle of Artistic Succession Through Printmaking 

    Berman, Adam Noah (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 ...

  • Adverse 

    Culbertson, Brian James (East Carolina University, 2018-04-27)
    The role of the photograph in the conversation of mental illness is fraught with misrepresentation. Since its infancy the photographic image has been used as a means of portraying those living with mental illness as frail, ...

  • An Explanation of Sympathetic Magic 

    Banks, Greg (East Carolina University, 2017-04-27)
    These supernatural stories come to life from my research as new photographs appropriated from my family albums and vernacular images to create visual folklore about the Appalachian Mountains of Eastern Kentucky. The images ...

  • ANAMNESIS 

    McFadyen, Barbara (East Carolina University, 2017-05-03)
    The beauty of nature and the experience of awe that it evokes can serve to remind us of our place in the world. This thesis examines that beauty, love and loss, remembering, and finding solace through reflections of the ...

  • Choice Based Art in the Middle School Classroom 

    Usewicz, Catherine (East Carolina University, 2017-08-21)
    The purpose of this paper is to examine the engagement of students when they are presented choices in the art classroom. This method follows the vision of Maria Montessori who created a boundary choice program promoting ...

  • CRENULATION & TENTACULARITY: An exploration of ceramics as a tool for communicating marine conservation topics 

    Beblo, Julienne (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 ...

  • Cultural Mansters 

    Wells, Andrew Ross (East Carolina University, 2017-05-03)
    This document is written in support of the thesis exhibition, Cultural Mansters, which represents and supports the idea of using satire and non-threatening imagery as tools to create a discourse on sociopolitical topics. ...

  • de Materia Medica 

    Reyes, Carolina Sephra (East Carolina University, 2019-05-01)
    Until the development of conventional medical practices, more commonly known as Western Medicine, or Allopathy, the practice of herbalism has been used for thousands of years throughout many cultures around the world. ...

  • Developing My Archive: on being 

    Earl, Briana Nicole (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 ...

  • Distant Transmissions 

    Zuercher, Christine (East Carolina University, 2016-04-19)
    Shortwave radio and the Space Race technology of the 1950's and 1960's cultivated intensely individual and collective cultural experiences that encouraged us to explore the unknown. My research on shortwave radio and space ...

  • Dreamscape 

    Harvell, Sarah (East Carolina University, 2016-05-03)
    Inspired by the allure of nature, I perpetually seek to surround myself with flowing organic forms, specifically seedpods. I form copper sheet into three-dimensional forms that mimic the sensuous shapes and curving lines ...

  • Escapist ideations 

    Hutchinson, Katya Lee (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 ...

  • Evolution of Relationships Through Time 

    Morgan, Chris Richards (East Carolina University, 2018-04-23)
    My careers in dance and Medicine have shaped my concept of form and philosophical ideas on modern Humanism. Through figurative sculpture, I present an autobiographical representation of the interconnection between me and ...

  • Fear Not This Body 

    Buss, Carolyn Adda (East Carolina University, 2019-11-26)
    Body shame is an insidious part of Western culture. As a fat woman, I am intent upon expressing and sharing the beauty of bodies that are commonly vilified in an effort to combat that shame. In my MFA thesis exhibition, I ...

  • Flourishing Hope 

    Hutti, Patrick Stephen (East Carolina University, 2016-12-15)
    Flourishing Hope displays the strength of positivity within the human spirit using floral-based ceramic sculptures. The work is assembled out of various ceramic bulbs, shoots, and blooms, all of which are fragile and push ...

  • FOR THE NOTETAKERS 

    Massoud, Nadia (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 ...

  • Fracture: Representing Identity 

    Harris, Katya J (East Carolina University, 2018-04-27)
    This document provides written support for the thesis exhibition, Fracture: Representing Identity. The body of work presented in the exhibition seeks to provide more accurate images of people, counter to the limiting ...

  • Fragile: Handle with Care 

    Rubio, Hosanna (East Carolina University, 2017-05-03)
    Memory has always been dearly held in my family, and easily lost. I watched as my loved ones surrounded themselves with objects that acted as physical anchors to the full lives they had lived, the places they had been, and ...

  • Fresh Tracks 

    Mannino, Joe (East Carolina University, 2016-04-25)
    Fresh Tracks is inspired by my life and my upbringing as a hunter. I am creating this body of work for the same reasons I hunt: for the connection to my environment and my food, because I have a vested interested in the ...