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 2016
Shady Ladies: Femininity Across the Gender Spectrum, Holly McGraw
A Borrowed Language, Yvonne Osei
EASY READING MNEMOSYNE ROAD ATLAS, Danica M. Radoshevich
[Unknown], Shirin Rastin
Of Ghosts and Garage Sales: The painted realizations of reflective nostalgia, Rachel Ahava Rosenfeld
Toward an Evicted Avant, Adam Charles Turl
The Science of the Concrete: A 21st Century Bricoleur, Julie Weinberger
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
"Am I Winning?", Diana J. Casanova
Fabricated Images and Bodily Failures, Andrea Coates
Breaching, Margaux Crump
Artificial Infinite, Brandon Daniels
Building Belonging: Assertions in Marginalized Spaces, Addoley Dzegede
Talking to Boxes, Hugging Robots, vita eruhimovitz
Some of these are not images, Carling Hale
Objects of Loss, Amanda C F Helman
extraction from the essence of pure power, Michael A. Helms
Transitory States: Becoming and Continuity in the Drawing Process and Object, Ming Y. Hong
It Begins with You and Me, Sea A Joung
Fame Gone Wild (2015: An Era of Self-Invention), Stephanie E. Kang
Art and..., Dayna J. Kriz
Chimeric Realities, Thomas C. Moore
On Thresholds, Jacob Muldowney
Gesture as Revelation, Laurel Panella
Pageant: Manufactured Beauty, Caitlin Penny
Presence-at-hand, Eric Lyle Schultz