Ashley Knudsen and Professor W. Wayne Kimball Jr., Visual Arts. I had a hard time getting started on this project when I first arrived on the Tongan islands. My body was trying to acclimate to the immense humidity it was being drenched in. Our whole group vegged around the fan as if all energy had […]
The Development of Student Creativity Through a Comprehensive Art Curriculum
Robin Shinsel Jorgensen and Professor Donna Kay Beattie, Visual Arts My purpose in designing a comprehensive art curriculum is an attempt to elicit and foster creative thinking, and creative art production. This project was inspired by two months that I spent in China and Thailand studying their art education system. I observed their techniques, based mostly […]
ORCA Scholarship Report
Joe Jackson and Professor Linda Sullivan, Visual Arts Studying the visual and written literacy of high school kids has proved interesting and has lead to a couple of interesting conclusions, as well as sparked my interest into further study and research in the field of semiotics. What I discovered is the inseparable link between word […]
Art Health Therapy
Jordan Inouye and Dr. Mark Magleby, Visual Arts Think about the process of painting a picture. Is it possible to use only an intuitive approach to achieve a work’s composition, proportion, and color scheme? No, an art work always requires a minimal amount of rational thought. Now think of practicing medicine. Can a doctor cure […]
Analog/Digital, Pencils and Compact Discs
Isaac Howard and Professor Peter Everett, Visual Arts I sometimes fall into patterns where I continue to make art even though I’m not really interested in what I’m doing, simply going through the motions of art making. I generally find my way out of these slumps when I re-examine what is important to me, what […]
Elizabeth Baumann Jerichau and Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid”
Elizabeth Cramer and Dr. Mark Magleby, Visual Arts Denmark was not immune to the Orientalist trend which swept Europe in the nineteenth-century. The famous fairy tale writer, Hans Christian Andersen and his artist friend, Elizabeth Baumann Jerichau, both lived in Copenhagen, and were heavily involved in the current interest in the art, people, and culture […]
Post-Colonial Interpretations of Role Reversal as Illustrated in Le Radeau de la Meduse by Theodore Gericault
Megan Kramer Collins and Dr. Martha Peacock, Visual Arts Art historians employ various methodologies in analyzing works of art. Most commonly scholars take a socio-cultural/historical approach to understand the works. We all admit that no work of art was created in a vacuum. In studying the circumstances surrounding the culture and history of the artist, […]
The Specific Object
Jared Lindsay Clark and Professor Brian Christensen, Visual Art Studio “The history of painting may be characterized in terms of the gradual withdrawal of painting from the task of representing reality – or of reality from the power of painting to represent it – in favor of an increasing preoccupation with problems intrinsic to painting itself…painting […]
Photographic Processes in Printmaking
Todd Chilton and Professor Gary Barton, Visual Arts The advent of photography brought about a change in the world of art. Many artists felt that they no longer needed to adhere to academic standards in rendering traditional subjects such as the figure, landscape, or still life. They even felt that it was necessary to separate […]
Tonga
Sunnie Bybee and Professor Joseph Ostraff, Visual Arts To whom it may concern, I’m writing to report on the results of my research and ORCA grant project. As my proposal explained, I was asked to participate in a project involving children’s artwork from Tonga by my professor, Joseph Ostraff. This project involved traveling to Tonga […]
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