This collection is an archive of digitized School of Art theses from 1967-early 2010s. It is only available and accessible to designated Sam Fox School administrators. The Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts was established in 2006. Previously, the fine art degrees were from the School of Art (later the College of Art), founded in 1879.

Because we do not have the express consent from the authors of these works, they are not publicly available for viewing.

Students typically retain ownership of copyright in papers, theses and dissertations written as a student to earn credit in university courses or otherwise to satisfy university degree requirements (WU IP Policy (§I(3)(b)(iii)). In most cases, any public distribution of MFA theses requires express consent of the author. .

If you are an author and would like to make your thesis publicly available, please email digital@wumail.wustl.edu.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2011

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Playing War: Art and Hyperreal Combat, John Talbott Allen

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Corporeal Consumption: Materiality, Performativity and Representation, Naralie Baldeon

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Absent Referent, Meghan Elizabeth Bean

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Rearticulating Borders Formation of a Queer Space, Shira Berkowitz

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The Institute for Progressive Humanities, Darrick Byers

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Neither here nor there, Jisun Choi

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Statement, Jody Christian

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A Second Form of Life, Zlatko Cosic

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Expedition, Evan Crankshaw

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Symbolism and the Metonymic Association, James Daniels

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Read this here paper to discover the modern commodity, Kara Daving

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Consumer Theater, Andrea Degener

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Freedom in Improvisation, Elizabeth Ferry

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Poetic Sight and Embodied Metaphor, Kristin Fleischmann

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Prairie Profiles: A Phenomenological Approach to Art, William Frank

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Artist Statement, Meenakshi Jha

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On God's Highway, Nicholas Kania

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Letter of Interest, Josef Krajnovich

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Ghost in the Machine, Jacopo Mazzoni

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Plastic Perpetuation and the Hopeful Materiality of the Fleeting, Katherine McCullough

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Collapsing the Surface, Jordan McGirk

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Sour Eye Candy: Color, Consumerism, Painting, Zachary Miller

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The Incomplete moment of anti-aesthetic judgments, Jonathan Muehlke

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in/un sights, Esther Murphy

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Anatomy of Pattern, Kathryn J. Neale

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Untitled, A Nicoletti

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Beyond Comprehension: Exploring Aesthetic Experience and Confounding Knowledge, Carianne Noga

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The Unconcealing App: Media Alchemy in the Age of Distractedness, Christopher August Ottinger

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Dialogical Portraits: Animated Conversations in St. Louis, Maia Palmer

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Strange Woods, Song Park

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Body as Matter, Body as Flesh in Contemporary Practice, Nicole Petrescu

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Eros in Pursuit of the Riven Body, Lauren Anne Pressler

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The Institute for Progressive Humanities, Bryce Olen Robinson

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My City, My Home, My Body, Whitney Lea Sage

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Breakdown: The Fissure Between Body and Mind, Donna Smith

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Application, Annie Strader

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Tacit Matter, Gillian Tobin

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Nature and Being, Vivian Zapata

Theses/Dissertations from 2010

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Working Within the Web: Contemporary Creative Practice and Ecological Reenchantment, Aaron Bos-wahl

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The Structural Fallacy of Time, Andrew W. Cozzens

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Boundaries and the Body: Towards an Understanding of Man's Place in the World, John Early

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A Space for the Self, Ryan Fabel

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Form and Structure: The Free Play of Visual Tendencies, Joel Frederick Charles Fullerton

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Untitled, Chengxun Han

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Diffused Territories, Mary Beth Hassan

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Observer/Observed, Wenting Hsu

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The Emergent Presence Within the Aesthetic Experience, John Nicholas Hutchings

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Our Vanishing Wilderness, Dani Kantrowitz

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A Brief Investigation of Masculinity, Mythology and Patrick, Larry Keaty

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Home Invasion, Mamie Korpela