Zugunruhe is a German word for migratory restlessness used in ornithology that I found applicable to the ideas I am investigating through printmaking and textile-based techniques. In my art I am exploring landscapes both physical and mental, exterior and interior. I am looking a…
This thesis focuses on the Alternative Movie Poster (AMP) and the collecting community surrounding it, adjacent to the position of modern collecting pursuits. This field presents an opportunity to evaluate contemporary practices in a modern context, demonstrating how collectors …
I was raised on the fire and brimstone preaching and teachings of the Southern Baptist Church. The fear of God runs deep in my family. Surrounded by the monoliths and mausoleums of a dying tobacco farming industry in rural Kentucky, my childhood was fraught with lessons in rust …
With blistered hands and rope-burned ankles gripping the rope, I look up towards the peeling tape marking the daunting height of 15 feet. I loop the rough fibers over my right foot before clamping it in place with my left. My feet hold steady and I stand up to reach my arms furt…
Hittin’ the Switch presents a body of work inspired by a lifetime fascination with lowriders and lowrider culture through an amalgamation of processes including printmaking, painting, and quilting to illustrate this symbol of ChicanX ingenuity, resistance, cultural affirmation, …
Traces, presents real, traced, printed and projected marks, sourced from the communal printmaking studios at the University of Arizona. It is a combination of printmaking, glass, and light projection. The exhibition consists of three parts; 8 wall mounted, plastic drypoint plate…
Synthesizing personal narrative, sociological phenomenon, and art historical analysis, Turning Tides examines the relationship between power dynamics and sexual assault. Inequities and injustices with regard to the handling of sexual assault, and the norms that allow this issue …
In this dissertation, I use artworks created by Odilon Redon, Edvard Munch, and Loie Fuller between 1888 and 1905 to address how artists of the Symbolist movement incorporated imagery inspired by the microscope, telescope, and other specialized optical instruments into their wor…