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 2018
Observance | A Passage, Charis Schneider Norell
Strange Woods, Song Park
If My Grandmother Had Wheels She'd Be A Trolley Car: The Accumulation of Objects, Encounters and The Passage of Time, Sara Weininger
Militainment, Riley Williams
It's pink and nice but we are done with it, Taylor Elizabeth Yocom
Across the Line (Mapping the Margins), Jon Young
Lost & Found, Ronald Young
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Phenomenal Marks, Ruptured Spaces, Relearning Language, Crossing Cultures, Meelee Ahn
Distraction and Community: The Magic of Playtime, Heather Alfaro
Prosaic (dis)appearance, Waller H. Austin
Satan's Beach Surf Them Webs 666, Shawn Burkard
Contemplation of a Place, Slow and Constant, Colton R. Carter
Fighting Domestic Terrorism: Art's Role in Social Activism, jonathan cornell
Whistle While You Hum, Ryan Doyle
the significance that cause and effect might have, Sara Fleenor
The Approaching Singularity: Toward the Ongoing Extinction of the Individual, Wei Huang
Black Matter, kahlil Irving
Ten-der-ness, Brittany Jasin
Liminal Space: Representation of My Living Experience, Moonkyung Kim
Indoor Landscape, Xizi Liu
Time Passing: Image of Reality and Reality of Image, Yihuang Lu
A Catalogue of Thoughts, Whitney Meredith
Flesh and Blood, Clayton Petras
Teleterrestrial: The Universe of Technological and Natural Scenes, Nat Rainer
Meaning in Perception: Metaphor in Figurative Sculpture, Tommy Riefe