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 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
Hunkidoree Resort, Stephanie Gobby
Pero...Maybe, Adrian Gonzalez
unmentionables, Madeleine F. Grotewiel
Demystifying the Penny Valley Files, Austin Ickes
Fantastical Creatures: Folklore, Fact, and Fantasy, Leah Kurth
Art and Empathy: Self Discovery in a Dark Forest, Younser Lee
Fine/Not Fine: A Cancer Intervention, Erin Lewis
From Disconnect to Connect: How to Critique the Objectification of Animals through My Photography, Gaoyuan Pan
Songs in the Gutter: Writing and Authorship in American Comics, Jonathan Marshall Smith
The Digital Grimoire, Benji Snyder
But They Are Not Real, Takura Suzuki
The Freakiest Dungeon in the Castle: The Interiority of Confinement, Madeline Valentine
Restoring Connection, Alexa Velez
Blessing, Liu Weike
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
The Work of Art in The Age of Surveillance: Towards A Society of Civil Power, Grace Eunhae Cho
The Darkness Needs to Cry, Damaris Dunham
The Complexities of Intimacy, Brie Henderson
In Search of Place, Aleida Hertel
Perception Play Through Glass Reflection, Yeeun Kang
My Favorite Things, Alexander Klein