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 2017
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
DoDo Rose: The Radiant Twin, Edo Rosenblith
Adaptive Strategies in a Slow-Motion Apocalypse, Allana Ross
Creatures of Play, Melissa Shelton
My City Limits, Maggie Tarr
The Lost Voices of Women in Poverty and Feminist Discorse, Anna Maria Tucker
The Record in Question, Kari Varner
To Name a Thing: Painting Liminal Space, Chloe West
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Thrills, Spills, and Unacknowledgments, Caitlin Aasen
Mr. Jonathan P. Berger: Gentle Conflations, Jonathan Patrick Berger and Mr. Jonathan P. Berger
I Do Not Pray, So I Paint, Candice J. Block
Filter Feeding, Sam Boven
Fixing Broken Shit: How We are Always Cleaning Up Some Mess, kendall L. Brown
Untitled (A Masculine Reader), Jackson Bullock
Rhetoric: the art of using language effectively, Eric Burwell
The Vital Ambiguity of Surface: Culturally Determined Notions of Metaphor and Performance in Contemporary Building Material, Christopher T. Campbell
Disposition, Garrett J. Clough
The Untitled Mapping Project: Case Study Trauma, Wyndi A. DeSouza
Drifting / Mooring: On Home, Travel, and Identity, Nicole Fry
Damaged Goods: Reconstructing the Perceived Perfect, Sarah E. Harford
Interspace Encounters: Parkview Gardens, Madeline Marak