Penelope, the legendary queen of Ithaca, has long been regarded by the public as a faithfully waiting matron and astute wife of Odysseus. This project is designed to present the viewer with different Penelopes as seen through the eyes of the nineteenth and twentieth-century arti…
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The time of irony, cynicism, fragmentation and loss of meaning is over. We reap the benefits of the deconstruction of failing institutions but suffer the aftermath left in its wake. Now it is time to clean up the rubble and rebuild with new cultural foundations of truth, trust, …
This dissertation examines the shift in contemporary African art in the 1990s. By focusing on the Dak’Art Biennial as an important context of analysis, it argues that the genesis of this shift was the economic and political failures of the postcolonial states in the 1980s, which…
The thesis will analyse the evolution of the Chinese film industry between 2010 and 2016. During this period, the Chinese film industry experienced rapid development and underwent massive structural change and expansion. The years 2010 to 2016, also gave rise to a number of impo…
The second half of the twentieth century was a period of rapid urbanization in Istanbul. During this time, the city witnessed the development of a consumer society, the expansion and cultural ascendancy of the middle class, and the development of modern techniques of image mass …
Art education and exposition of the colonial and immediate post-independence eras continue to influence how art in Niger is made, exchanged, and displayed. One form of contemporary Nigerien art that mostly clearly demonstrates this is weaving, and other relevant media include le…
This project works to disassemble a tragedy into its parts, both in terms of stagecraft & composition by staging the biography of The Dowager Empress Cixi as an exhibition. This is a text written in lieu of a physical exhibition that could not happen, in preparation for one that…
This research lays the groundwork for an initial contextualization of a newfound collection of academic classwork completed in 1904 by public school children in the city of New Bedford, Massachusetts. Hidden in the attic of a former schoolhouse for 114 years, the collection of 7…
Exhibits concerning problematic or looted collections are rare, primarily due to the artifacts’ lack of archaeological context and uncertain life-histories. Collections such as the C.W. Riggs Collection at Cincinnati Museum Center offer the opportunity to co-develop educational …
Palimpsest is an exhibition of large drawings, artists books, and monotypes which considers the social influences of colonialism, geographic bias, authority, and nationalism amongst shifting global cultures. It is abstract cartography with a primary focus on the physical world m…
I make ceramic and mixed media objects that embody interaction with material. Translated from the simple utterance of the hand the material articulates the labor. As in any relationship there are miscommunications and disagreements; Desperation, struggle, and honest interaction …
This dissertation examines the Canadian National Exhibition and its site, Exhibition Place in Toronto, to explore the changing constellation of meanings surrounding public architecture over the past century. It reveals the cultural, financial, spatial and emotional dimensions of…
This document consists of two parts. Part I is entitled “120 Beats per Minute: Music Pacing Exhibitions” and explores the thesis related to the use of music as a design tool to not only regulate the pace of visitors but also as an interpretive tool to add texture to the storylin…
After decades of calls for museums to engage in more critical and transformative practices, this study seeks to investigate the position of a Texas museum in its presentation of colonial Latin American art, looking specifically at the interpretive texts in the exhibition and how…