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 2023
Extracted Entities and Their Images as Spectres, Seulki Seo
My Kinship with the Trees, C. Daniela Shapiro
Proceed with Caution: Fashion and the Case for Media Literacy, Stephanie Silva
This is a Present from a Small, Distant World, Samantha Slone
Carefree Black Girl: Trope or Treasure?, Erin Williams
Every Rock Has a Soul, Karen Yung
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
La Cultura Que No Cambia, Karina Arreola-Gutierrez
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