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Fear Not This Body
(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 ...
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 ...
Amerikorean
(East Carolina University, 2020-06-22)
"Amerikorean" is a project that utilizes imagery to elucidate the struggles of an immigrant from South Korea attempting to adjust and define a sense of identity in the United States. The image-making process represents an ...
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 ...
WISH YOU WERE HERE: LEGENDS OF THE GREAT PLAINS
Wish You Were Here: Legends of the Great Plains is an image-based project examining the reality of how the Great Plains romanticizes its history through legends, histories, and roadside attractions. This region, often ...
Nine to Five
(East Carolina University, 2020-06-22)
Nine to Five is a series that is inspired by the high stress levels of office workers and perceived shortcomings of the contemporary office environment and their furnishings. The main focus of Nine to Five is to observe ...
The Art of Provisionalism
(East Carolina University, 2020-06-22)
Art is in itself meaningless; the significant thing to consider is the social formation and how it is reproduced. If an artwork is assigned a value, it is due to the iterative ability of the subjects involved. The most ...
No Added Sugar!
(East Carolina University, 2020-06-22)
Artists are encouraged to challenge the status quo -- to question social norms. My artwork focuses on women's rights, challenging both obvious and "hidden" forms of sexism and misogyny. Using candy as the central medium, ...
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 ...
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 ...