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 2019
Grids within Grids, Lingrong Wang
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Misassembled Monsters, Jenn Brown
Uncanny Home, Sloan Brunner
Transformation Through Mortality, Samuel Carpenter
A Reflection of Lingering in Nature, Xinyue Deng
Learning Culture: Cultural Relationship in Masked Lanterns, Yuxuan Ding
Hauntology and The Wizard Of Oz, Harley Eaves
Four Sights of the Patient (Ophelia), Cecily Ann Fergeson
Unspooling of Experience into Space: Diary Projects, Jinhee Kim
The Vanishing Line, Jacopo Mazzoni
The Nature of My Nature; A Story About Relationships, Andrew Mcilvaine
A Meditation in Three Parts, Brent Nakamoto
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