This collection contain theses for the Master of Fine Arts in Visual Art and the Master of Fine Arts in Illustration & Visual Culture programs in the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts. This collection contains the written theses completed by students in the MFA in Visual Art program since 2014 and MFA in Illustration & Visual Culture since 2021.
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
The Wizard's Alphabet Book: Illustration as Counter-Environment to the Digital World, Stephen Barany
Un Guisado: Allí, Allá and the Space In Between, Quinn A. Briceño
Echoed Sites and the Unknowable Object, Joseph Canizales
A Perfect Escape: Fantasy, Place and Narrative in Adolescence, Cydney Cherepak
Because Potato, Candice Evers
Twisting Tales: a guide to fairytale adaptation, Tori Forster
Meet Me in the Middle Ages: Engaging with fantasy, reality, and collaborative world-building, Amanda Greene
Disorientations, Noah Greene-Lowe
The Precarity of Images: Sci-fi Worldbuilding and its Uses in Agitprop, Noah Jodice
The Ephemerality of the Living and the Persistence of the Inanimate, Erin Johnston
Home Suite Home: An Analysis of Comfort in Americana and Motel Culture, Jodi Kolpakov
Constants, Martin Lammert
Source of All Hair, Wearer of All Socks, Samantha Modder
SuperFicial: An Exploration of Decoration, Fashion, Taste, Camp, and Trends, Jillian Ohl
Necessary Myths, Jessica Ramsey
Sanctuary: The-Construction of Communion, Carlos Salazar-Lermont
Storytelling for a changing world: Comics as agitprop, Kruttika Susarla
Gumball Astronauts: Establishing a Space-Time Vocabulary for Genre Bending in Picture Stories, Henry Uhrik
The Hidden Power of Images: An Allegory of Chaos and Performance in the Digital Age, Livia Xandersmith
Fictitious Ecology, Paulina Zuckerman
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
The Garden of Extraterrestrial Deee-Lites, Jessica Bremehr
Excorio: Cursed Films, Haunted Props, and Fictional Reality, Racheal Bruce
Suture...Harm and Remedy, Amanda Casarez
Bad Baby Lich Lords: Narrative & Cartooning in Card Games, Taylor Dow
The Feeling of Foam & Other Essays, Ryan Erickson