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Senior Thesis Program & Exhibition

In your final year of study, you have the option to apply to our senior thesis program..

Thesis students participate in a year-long journey of research, writing, and art-making centered around critical dialogue with peers, faculty, visiting artists, and arts professionals.

For those students who are accepted, this program acts as a capstone to the undergraduate experience, helping them to assess the progress they’ve made and clarify the directions they’ll take next. Students work closely with dedicated Senior Thesis faculty as they plan, create work for, and mount a final public exhibition. Along the way they cultivate skills in the planning and development of ambitious projects, form bonds with their classmates, refine writing and professional presentation skills, all while honing their concept and craft. The professional practices developed during Senior Thesis serve as a platform for the development of an ongoing, independent art practice.

"My thesis has been a conduit for all the things I’m interested in to come through without feeling like any one has to be compromised or sacrificed."

- NICHOLAS PAPA, BFA '18  

Past Senior Thesis Exhibitions

2023 senior thesis exhibition:  for the record....

for the record... featured the work of twenty-four undergraduate students who completed the Senior Thesis Program

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2022 Senior Thesis Exhibition: if you draw a _____ it could be the ground

if you draw a _____ it could be the ground featured the work of fourteen undergraduate students who completed the Senior Thesis Program. 

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2021 Senior Thesis Exhibition: Proximity

Proximity featured the work of fourteen undergraduate students who completed the Senior Thesis Program.

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2020 Senior Thesis Exhibition: Outrageous Plans for Sensible Ideas

Outrageous Plans for Sensible Ideas presented the work of 14 undergraduate students who completed the Senior Thesis Program in the midst of the COVID-19 2020 global pandemic.

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2019 Senior Thesis Exhibition: Liminal Space

Liminal Space , a term to describe the transition between past and future, showcased emerging artists from different backgrounds, coming together to speak of their own experiences. 

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2018 Senior Thesis Exhibition: In Search of Coalescence

In Search of Coalescence examined the relationships that can be built between self-identity, institutional powers, perception, and the environment as they circulate through each artist's work.

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Guilford College Art Senior Thesis 2021

The Guilford College Art Department presents works by nine art majors in the 2021 Senior Thesis Art Exhibition, titled WEATHER . Exhibition held in the Bauman Galleries and McMichael Family Atrium, 2nd floor, Founders Hall, April 7th – May 8th.

The Art Department at Guilford College is a fine arts studio program, which provides an in-depth experience in making images and formulating and crafting ideas. Painting, Drawing, Printmaking, Sculpture, Photography and Ceramics are the primary focus areas. The classroom/studio is highly interactive and dynamic, and provides one-on-one instruction and guidance, as well as the support and stimulation of interchange with classmates. The distinction of the art major at Guilford College lies in the development of each student’s creative potential.

To participate in the optional honors Senior Thesis Exhibition, students must apply in their junior year and have at least a 3.25 GPA in art. Selected students partake in a rigorous program of independent work, group critiques, and a required professional practices component, which culminates in their final group exhibition. 

Participating artists and their areas of specialization are:

Julia de Wit : Born half dead in Tzaneen, South Africa, Julia de Wit now lives in Asheville, North Carolina, and explores folklore, symbolism, life and death in her analog prints. Julia’s time at Guilford College has manifested in a Bachelor of Arts in printmaking and a master of none attitude towards many things, like ultimate frisbee and theology. 

John Ellis : Born in Atlanta, GA, John Ellis is a Bachelor of Fine Arts candidate with a focus in drawing. His work explores abstraction through the addition and/or subtraction of instinctually repeated marks across a surface. In this sense, a final composition is reliant on (and serves as evidence of) his emotional state during the process. 100,000 circles or 100,000 tiny dashes, the same.   

Alana Harrelson : Born and raised in Winston Salem, North Carolina, Alana Harrelson is a candidate for a Bachelor of Arts in Photography with a double major in Environmental Studies. Her project, Generational Waste , shows the realities and consequences of overconsumption as well as the control it can have over our lives. Through her photographic work, she tells personal and familial stories of struggling with stuff.

Tim McElroy : Born and raised in Durham, North Carolina, Tim McElroy is a Bachelor of Arts candidate majoring in Art with a focus in Sculpture and a minor in Physics. His thesis combines his passion for human interaction and furniture, along with the use of found objects and basic woodworking and welding techniques. He aims for reactions outside of the norm when it comes to chairs and tables.

Emma Sarver : Born and raised in Asheville, North Carolina, Emma Sarver is a Bachelor of Fine Arts candidate with a focus in printmaking. Emma’s prints are mixed-media, using photography as a compositional starting point before incorporating collage and sewing.  By means of repetition, size, and color, her large-scale print installations become abstracted, pushing viewers to question just what they are looking at. Emma wants people to feel consumed when looking at her prints-no matter where they look, the patterns are all they will see

Willow Stevenson : Mesmerized and inspired by the landscape of Western North Carolina, Willow Stevenson started making pottery and animations to capture the magic of the Appalachian mountains she grew up in. The relationship between her animations and ceramic vessels conveys the inextricable connections between humans and nature and the ways in which people affect the land and the ways in which land affects people. Willow is a Bonner Scholar, a part of the Guilford College Honors program, and is pursuing a Bachelor of Arts with a focus in Drawing and Environmental Studies.

Hazel Wechsler : Hazel Wechsler grew up in the mountains around Boonsboro, Maryland, and is a Bachelor of Arts candidate in painting. Since childhood, drawing and painting have been her best way to make sense of things. Her large scale paintings are emotional experiences made into physical scenes, ones you could imagine stepping into. Hazel explores how art and surrealism can help move us further into the truth of confusing feelings and dynamics and help us explain them to ourselves and others in new ways. 

Lily Wieleba : Durham, North Carolina based artist, Lily Wieleba began etching in her sophomore year of college and is now a Bachelor of Arts candidate focusing in Printmaking. Working with intaglio methods Lily creates small, intricate, autobiographical prints that explore her memories of places, people, and points of time that give her a sense of comfort and sanctuary. Highly detailed nature motifs are a common element. 

Carolyn Worley : Brought up in Falls Church, Virginia, and the Adirondack Mountains in New York, Carolyn Worley began her creative journey through dance. In college she came to sculpture, and found her intuitive medium – clay. She is a Bachelor of Fine Arts Candidate with a focus in ceramics. This project highlights her process of collecting and processing her own wild clay. She sculpts this material from the images embedded in her mind from time spent in nature. Carolyn fires the pieces in a wood kiln, allowing the fire’s mark to have the final touch on her art. Through her process and creations, she hopes to show that we are all connected, that everything you touch is made of earth – including yourself. 

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Each year, Wittenberg University's Department of Art presents a Senior Art Exhibition. Traditionally, it opens with a reception in early April and seniors present publicly on their work in a culminating artist talk.

Due to the COVID-19 health crisis, in lieu of an in-person reception and presentations, each student gave an artist talk next to their work in the Thompson and Ann Miller Galleries of Koch Hall. Please take a moment to watch them reflect upon their projects, stop by the galleries anytime between 9:00 a. m. and 5:00 p.m. to see the work in person, and sign a note in our virtual guestbook.

The exhibition will run through May 16. Congratulations to the department's seniors in the Class of 2020 - we hope you enjoy their work.

Ashley Belkofer

Let’s talk about it: a campaign for social change digital and print media.

Graphic design is an influential industry, having the power to visually convey a message and provide solutions that can ease our communication. As a graphic designer I have a responsibility to help others share their messages and to create things that bring people together. Along with being passionate about graphic design, I am also passionate about mental health. One in four people will be affected by mental or neurological disorders at some point in their life but battling a mental illness can cause people to feel as if they are suffering alone.

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Joseph De Lorenzo Jenkins

Forbidden fruit: fimbulwinter graphic novella and animated short.

For my project I wanted to incorporate techniques I’ve explored and built upon when the pandemic first hit. I wrote short stories back in high school but never to this extent. I wanted to push myself to form a narrative of interweaving plot threads that’ll sow the seeds for a future expansions I have planned as the story came to fruition. I switched from traditional pencil and paper to digital not too long ago and have expanded my arsenal in terms of what I can do, from environmental concepts to character & creature design.

Paul Kirk III

What the game took from them print media.

We always hear about what the players gave to the game or what the game gave to the players, but we never hear about what the game took from the players. CTE stands for Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, which is a brain degeneration caused by repeated head trauma. Many players who play or have played in the NFL suffer from CTE. Rule changes happen every year to help protect the players but the issue of CTE is never addressed. Football is a physical sport and injuries are to be expected, but everyone could do a better job at recognizing the effects of CTE.

Ellison Kochensparger

Captured george polaroids, inkjet prints, and acrylic on canvas.

There is a tree out by Wittenberg’s observatory, it is a Flowering Dogwood that the artist decided to name George while working with it. They tend to name nameless art supplies, instruments, animals, or plants they work with. They called the tree George for so long that there was no other name for the project to be called. You could not miss its existence if you tried. This project revolves around this tree and the interactions it has had on occasions with the artist. The idea of the whole project is what you see is what you get. What people notice about the tree daily is what they get.

Casey Luther

Untitled porcelain, light fixtures, dark walnut pendant lights: $40 lamps: $100.

The work that I create is most commonly thrown on the wheel. I really love the feel of the smooth clay in my hands when throwing and this has led me to a love of porcelain. This clay is really fun to work on mastering because of its more delicate existence. It is very flexible on the wheel but cannot be pushed to make extreme shapes as easily and the drying process is much faster so it requires a lot of attention to get from a ball of wet clay to a fully fired form.

Jacob Mortensen

Century craft digital and print media.

For this project, I have designed a collection of furniture and a catalog displaying it. I wanted to combine the 3D design software that I had been using for jewelry design with what I had been learning in my graphic design classes. Due to the pandemic, I had and have been spending a lot more time indoors, thinking about how the inside of my house actually looks and feels. I realized that I simply just do not like or use some of my furniture. I decided to dive in and learn everything that I could about furniture.

Kimmey Mugford

Taste the rainbow oil on canvas $1200 each.

My oil paintings were created with equal attention paid to the material process of painting and the aesthetic statements about the final product. I enjoy seeing evidence of the creative journey that takes place when paintings are made, and they can be seen as a metaphor for the same journey that all humans experience in their daily lives. People make decisions every day, and those decisions contribute to their journey as individuals. This is similar to my paintings.

Hannah Petty

Barn quilts across ohio & kentucky artist’s book and archival inkjet prints.

In my senior thesis, entitled Barn Quilts Across Ohio & Kentucky, I use a digital camera to capture these unique designs, but I am also particularly interested in the way black and white photography contrasts with the colored photos and choose to use a film camera in my process as well. The photos on the walls are only a few from the collection I have compiled within the book below. Many of the quilts I have captured have unique stories behind them, having to do with why they were created or what they represent. Many of the quilts have rich histories that can be traced back hundreds of years, and some are only put up because someone loved the look of the design.

Devin Pieples

Untitled archival inkjet prints.

“Recovering is not linear” has my mantra for years. Recovery from mental illness is not an easy path and many struggle for their entire lives. For my thesis, I wanted to explore the ups and downs of recovery that those around me and myself have experienced. This series explores the vices used, breakdowns, hopelessness, and general impact of someone recovering from a sexual assault. I have explored different forms of portraiture to try to capture the isolation that comes from dealing with depression and sexual trauma.

Anna Lebold

Understanding others oil pastel and print media.

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Out of ideas senior show 2023, the vanderbilt university department of art proudly presents the 2023 margaret stonewall wooldridge hamblet thesis exhibitions.

The doors between the gallery spaces of Space 204 will slide open on Friday, April 14, to showcase the hard work of Vanderbilt University’s graduating studio art majors and their Margaret Stonewall Wooldridge Hamblet Senior Thesis exhibitions collectively showing under the title OUT OF IDEAS .

The 2023 Senior Shows will be on display to the public from Friday, April 14 until Friday, May 12, in Space 204, the contemporary exhibition space in the E. Bronson Ingram Studio Arts Center.

The exhibiting student artists are Portia Jones , Ben Damir , Teal Caudle , Avery Bradley , Adam Alwan , and  Won Jun Seok .

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About the Hamblet Award

Established in 1984, the Margaret Stonewall Wooldridge Hamblet Award has changed the lives of many of the recipients as well as helped to build the studio art program at Vanderbilt. The gift allows a graduating senior, who is serious about pursuing art, to travel and have time to create. In 1984, this was a surprising gift to a department without an art major although many students did thoughtful and interesting work over the years. Receiving the Hamblet Award gave most of the students the confidence and the time to build a body of work, to pursue graduate degrees, or to develop their own art studios.

In 2005, with new facilities, additional faculty and support from the administration, Vanderbilt began to offer a Bachelor of Arts degree in studio art. The Margaret Stonewall Wooldridge Hamblet Award became an important element in the development of our art major. The competition and the accompanying art exhibition have created a capstone experience for our seniors serving as a natural extension of a senior thesis. The gift also enriches the senior major experience throughout the entire senior year, with guest artist visits as well as an art-viewing trip to a city with a vibrant art community for all the majors.

A year and a half after graduation, the winner of the Hamblet competition returns to campus to mount a solo exhibition of the work he or she has completed during the award year. Happily, in 2002, the department was able to add a merit award as well. The Department of Art is grateful to the Hamblet family for providing such a remarkable opportunity for our students.

The 2023 Hamblet Jurors

The annual Margaret Stonewall Wooldridge Hamblet Award Competition is juried by three artist/educators from outside the Vanderbilt University campus. Each year these jurors is given the difficult task of reviewing grant proposals, thesis exhibitions, and conducting interveiws with senior art major students who have selected to compete for the two awards. To learn more about the jurors, click on the jurors poster .

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Space 204 exhibits contemporary art from local and national artists as well as the annual Margaret Stonewall Wooldridge Hamblet Award thesis exhibitions from Vanderbilt senior major students.

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Art Studio Majors Display Senior Theses at Zilkha Gallery

After four years of developing and honing their artistic skills, 30 art studio majors from the Department of Art and Art History have completed senior thesis projects this spring and are sharing their final works with the public.

The annual Senior Thesis Exhibition, held in the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, is the culmination of a two-semester thesis tutorial. The exhibition is critiqued by the faculty advisor and a second critic, and must be passed by a vote of the faculty of the art studio program.

The senior thesis allows the art studio majors to engage in a solo, rigorous, self-directed creative study.

“My paintings explore and aim to subvert the conventions of physical spaces and the conventional behaviors they dictate,” Nina Criswell ’22 said about her art. “I use layering and transparency to disrupt these spaces with the presence of disfigured bodies as a way of speaking to tensions between the ritualistic and the disruptive, the mundane and the violent, the public and the deeply private. The clarity of these sites is obfuscated with the presence of these bodies, and we are reminded of the fallacy of architectural permanence.”

Julia Kan ’22, who has an interest in domestic spaces and how those spaces are represented created a thesis titled   Edges Meet . She finds inspiration in the ways object are arranged, how light enters a space, and how walls meet in corners. “But I was finding there’s so many drawings you can make of rooms before it gets a little monotonous,” she said. “So I really wanted to experiment with my materials and colors and take a lot of liberties in representing space and make it interesting. I have a lot of drawings connected to each other in unexpected ways. I like to break out of the rectangle and draw on the surface my drawings are hanging on.”

Kan’s installation mimicked the size of her thesis studio at Wesleyan, which had a low angled ceiling. “I wanted to recreate that intimate space, and show [how there] were all these drawings all over the walls and ceiling.”

In her thesis Gooze , Mia Gleiberman ’22 composed her work against an entire wall space in the Zilkha Gallery.

“I felt really constrained by having to be stuck in a literal box or rectangle so I got excited by the notion of getting rid of that and not having to make a picture in a rectilinear shape,” she said. “It’s suppose to be whimiscle playful show and given the scale of these I thought it would be odd not to capitalize on how high the wall is.”

The objects—which are inspired from shapes inside the human body—slouch, navigate corners, and pile at the bottom of the wall where they can be touched and even sat on, as one gallery goer did during the show’s opening on March 30.

“There’s a non-precious aspect of these works,” Gleiberman said. “When you see a fine painting, it becomes something inaccessible—you’re afraid to get too close. I wanted something interactive and was really compelled by the ideas that this show will never look this way again. I want to make painting fun.”

Wesleyan Posse Fellow Forrest Walker ’22, who served with the U.S. Marine Corps for more than four years, focused his art studio thesis on his military experience—not only help him better understand his own experiences—but to “help widen the aperture” for those who want to talk about war.

“[This thesis] represents images that maybe create a mediated experience, a surreal experience, that would affect someone who is on the pro war spectrum and affect someone differently who’s a devout pacifist and thinks who thinks all wars are bad,” he said.

On the opposite side of a large, gestural banner, Walker crafted a life-size soldier based on a green Army man toy. The face area is a mirror.

“I thought it would be interesting to help the viewer see themselves … people that don’t have [military] experiences, to have a helmet on, or carrying gear, or pointing a weapon at somebody. … to let the viewer see themselves inside something that we don’t necessarily want to see ourselves in.”

The exhibition opened March 22 and will take place for five weeks. Every Tuesday, the work of six new art studio majors is exhibited with opening receptions taking place on Wednesdays. Zilkha Gallery is open noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday and is free of charge.

During week one, senior theses were shared by Karen Xu ’22, Romina Beltrán Lazo ’22, Jared Christopher ’22, Nina Criswell ’22, Daniela Sweet-Coll ’22. During week two, the gallery featured the works of Eli Baden-Lasar ’22, Mia Gleiberman ’22, Julia Kan ’22, Kelsey Morgan ’22, Haishi Teng ’22, and Forrest Walker ’22 .  View upcoming student exhibits online here .

Photos of the first senior art thesis exhibit are below: (Photos by Olivia Drake)

Mia Gleiberman ’22, Gooze:

Julia Kan ’22, Edges Meet:

Forrest Walker ’22, into their assigned zones :

Karen Xu ’22, Massive Power Ball :

Kelsey Morgan ’22, Tender Dissociations :

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Senior Thesis Art Exhibit

Gonzaga University encourages its students to bring the whole of their spiritual, creative and intellectual experience to the learning process.

The university's art curriculum teaches students to discipline, refine and focus their creative intellect. By exploring the aesthetic limitations and possibilities which exist within the applied rules of composition and design, students hone their skills in creative problem solving and learn effective visual communication of ideas.

The students who exhibit here will eventually pursue careers in various fields, including the visual arts. Along with the diversity of their acquired skills and knowledge, they will be equipped with the power of the creative imagination.

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The Senior Thesis project is a body of work where by graduating art and design students combine their knowledge, skills, and personal vision to create something new and unique. In this course seniors are also given the opportunity to think imaginatively about ways their future creative professional career and artistic purpose come together.

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SENIOR THESIS ART EXHIBITION 2023

This exhibition features the work of 9 practice-based art majors. It includes examples of work from graphic designers, photographers, illustrators, animators and studio artists. The breadth and scope of media and styles attest to the diversity of approaches and individual visions that are the hallmark of the art program at MMC. Join us in celebrating our students’ accomplishments.

Exhibition dates: December 11, 2023 - February 20, 2024

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Common Differences: BFA Fine Art Senior Thesis Exhibition

May 7, 2022

Cullis Wade Depot Art Gallery, Visual Arts Center Gallery, Colvard Student Union Art Gallery

Beginning on May 7th and ending on May 13th, Common Differences: BFA Fine Art Senior Thesis Exhibition is on display in three locations on MSU’s main campus: the Visual Arts Center Gallery, Cullis Wade Depot Art Gallery, and Colvard Student Union Art Gallery. The exhibition includes the work of sixteen graduating students of the Bachelor of Fine Arts program at Mississippi State University. Each artist uses art to visually communicate their personal narratives. The variety of mediums, techniques, and styles on display in the exhibition show many of the unique and common differences of students at Mississippi State University. The graduating BFA Fine Arts class of 2022 invites everyone to view the exhibition  Common Differences and celebrate the completion of their undergraduate studies at MSU.

A public reception is planned for Saturday, May 7th, 1:00pm until 4:00pm in all three of the galleries. Visitors can join the tour of all three galleries starting at 1:00pm in the Colvard Student Union Art Gallery when Professor Critz Campbell, Head of the Department of Art, will introduce all of the graduating seniors and make opening remarks. During the reception hours, food and beverages will be provided at all three gallery locations.

All of the galleries are free and open to the public. For questions about the exhibition, call the Department of Art Office 662-325-2970.

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Visual Arts Center Gallery, 808 University Drive: Monday–Friday, 1pm–6pm and Saturday 1pm–4pm

Cullis Wade Depot Art Gallery, second Floor of the MSU Welcome Center: Monday–Friday, 9am–5pm

Colvard Student Union Art Gallery: Monday–Friday, 8am–5pm

About the Artists:

Taylor Barlow is a drawing major from St. Louis, MO. Taylor’s parents are Mary and Geoff Barlow. She believes that art can be expressive, unifying each together, and providing knowledge of oneself. She feels that art can reflect personal stories, feelings, and situations that can spark conversations to deepen one’s understanding. 

Josephine Burke is a ceramist artist born in Tuscan, Arizona and raised in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. Jo’s parents are Tricia Burke and David Burke. She not only works in clay but also dedicates time to crochet. Her artwork concentrates on the materials and processes of both clay and crochet combining the two mediums into one form. 

Austin Chambliss is a ceramic artist born in Louisville, Mississippi. Austin’s parents are Brooke Hathorn and Kyle Chambliss. Austin strives to create a sense of unity between functional pieces of pottery binding them together as a unifying set. The sets that he creates serve the purpose of individuals communing with one another in some form of ceremonial practice. His work is focused on the tasks that unify one another to interact with the work rather than the physical objects. 

Gem Collins is a printmaker from Starkville, Mississippi. Gem’s parents are Eric and Jennifer Collins. Since arriving at Mississippi State, Gem made it a priority to find out who he really is and what his goals and aspirations are in life. The way that he communicates with the outside world is through illustrations, both digital and analog. By expressing his internal world through the universal language of art, Gem hopes to deconstruct the stigma around mental health.

Marika Dunne is a mixed media artist from Starkville, Mississippi. Marika’s parents are James and Demetra Dunne. Marika employs realism by capturing every beautiful flaw in her chosen subjects. Her goal is to analyze what makes the objects or individuals unique in form and depict this through her work with charcoal, oil paint, and/or watercolor. Her hope is that when others step away from her work, they can know more about the life or formation of her individual subjects, and that, through them, they come to know more about herself.

Noah Edwards is a ceramist from Philadelphia, Mississippi. Noah’s parents are Kim Neal and Dee Edwards. Noah’s work focuses on his courses in religion, philosophy, and mythology.  He takes pieces and forms them into wearable art that encompass sound and are used for representation of various quality aspect from other groups in conjunction with one another.

Lily Elliott is an artist from Oxford, Mississippi who is also minoring in business management. Lily’s parents are Kim and Michael Elliott. Lily’s thesis exhibition will showcase handmade tables, chairs, game boards, and their respective pieces. All of these (and more) will be placed within a living room setting that has also been designed and decorated by Lily. Her thesis exhibition focuses on the art of board games and the amount of sentimentality they can carry within a household. Her pieces are inspired by her family, their hobbies, and the vibrant environment that she was raised in.

Rosemary Ferguson is a printmaker born in Jackson, Mississippi. Rosemary’s parents are B and GG Ferguson. Rosemary fell in love with the idea of fine arts at the end of her high school education. She experiments with graffiti, painting, and printmaking through which she has developed a fun, radical style of art that is powerful and bright. Her hope is that her artwork will make a striking impact on those who view it. Her Instagram is https://www.instagram.com/rosie_hues_/

Tiffany Gladney is from Aberdeen, Mississippi. Tiffany’s parents are Samona Johnson and Justin Kendrick. Her thesis is a visual representation of how she views strong, powerful black women. She has been doing art for the past nine years. Tiffany hopes that her art speaks to people and sheds a positive light on the black community, the culture, and the beauty.

Ana Sofia Licona Luque is a Mexican furniture maker from Queretaro, Mexico. Sofi’s parents are Guillermo Ernesto Licona Verduzco and Elia Marcela Luque Cornado. She draws inspiration from her cultural heritage and urban landscapes that surround her. Sofi’s furniture is mostly rectilinear, complemented by the use of fibers and color. Through her body of work, Sofi challenges her audience to examine the importance of creating efficient spaces and objects that fulfill a specific function while narrating our interactions in the world.

Taylor Addison Moore is landscape painter from Columbus, Mississippi. Taylor’s parents are Earl and Julie Moore. Her thesis exhibition tells a personal narrative about battling her own obstacles through her academic journey. She uses herself as the analogy of a tree growing and maturing through winter, spring, summer, and fall. Taylor hopes that others begin to see their own personal stories through her art.

Mia Parker is a ceramist from Madison, Mississippi. Mia’s parents are Janet Parker and Stephen Parker. Mia’s art takes inspiration from taxidermy. She focuses on creating ceramic sculptural animal pieces. To bring her animal creatures to life, she adds texture, uses different firing techniques, and adds sculptural elements to her pieces. 

William Allen Pearson is a native Mississippian from Pontotoc, Mississippi. Will’s parents are Mike and Deedie Pearson. He draws inspiration from past experiences along with what he encounters in the world today. His style of work draws inspiration from his love of traveling and ties to the Gulf of Florida and southern Louisiana. He is also inspired by rhythm and colors found in those areas in which he works to convey through his style of work.

Tironn Talley is a comic illustration artist born in Kosciusko, Mississippi. Tironn’s parents are Yolanda and Terry Talley. His thesis work explores his interests of heroes and villains from comics, movies, and games. Tironn has always had an interest in drawing out characters and plans on displaying his work by presenting his own characters through his illustrations.

Justin Vowell is a ceramist from Tupelo, Mississippi. Justin’s parents are Susan and Gary Vowell. Justin creates wheel thrown pieces of pottery. His website is http://www.justinvowell.com/

Marcus Williams is from Raymond, Mississippi. Marcus’ parents are Sanana and Marcus Williams. Marcus desires to create work that is influential and grand, exploring and questioning human nature’s drive and quest for immortality. His goal is to use art to move beyond this conflict and to no longer be fixated on this dilemma.

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Art Department

Senior thesis.

The senior thesis in art may be an art historical study or a creative project.

Studio art theses also involve a substantial written component, a discussion of the development of the project and its historical and theoretical context, averaging 40 pages in length (and some pushing past 100). The latter may be installed in the Feldenheimer Gallery in the Art Building, Vollum Lounge gallery or another location on or off campus.

Studio Art Theses Gallery

Art history theses, roxie carman.

Jes Fan's Speculative Relations

Cece Chiappini Breaking the Habit: Architecture, Dress and Liminality in Early Modern Italian Convents View thesis

Emma Jane Haas Architecture, Dress and Liminality in Early Modern Italian Convents View thesis

Sophia Raccuia Googleplex: A West Coast Pathology and Corporate Utopia An Architectural Analysis View thesis

Victoria Xiao We Imagine Ourselves into Belonging: Using Nostalgia and Cuteness to Construct Asian American Space View thesis

Emma Ganger-Spivak A Poetics of Description: Alt Text and The Museum View thesis

Bailey Bast Art of Materiality: The Allure of the Body in Matter View thesis

Tatiana Zancajo-Lugo For an Aestheticization of Nausea in Virtual Reality View thesis

Eden Chinn Am I a Sterotype? Self-Representation, Social Media, and Corporate Surveillance

Caleb Codding Coming Together: Community-Building and Queer Inheritance

Zhe Li Mirror, Finger, Transformation: Understanding Relics Through Famen Temple Crypt

Ava McRitchie PARA FASHION: An Auxiliary Mode to the Contemporary Hyper Fashion System

Eric R. Bohrer Friendly confines : construction of the stadium experience

Stella C. Cilman Visualizing black and blackness : the paintings of Jack Whitten

Dylan Failla Entangled in the landscape photograph

Jack Timothy Finerty Scenes of irresponsible engagement in twenty-first century Britain

Neil Edwin Magruder Gibson Sonic abolition

Will Foster Greenberg Forms of government on Portland's playgrounds and park

Forrest James Wilson The soul that pines for eternity shall outspan death : animate corpses in art c. 1400-1980

Alexandra Aldersley John Marin: Making Sense of Place

Kaitlyn Bryan Happy Island: Artistic Responses to Fukushima Re-mediations on Superflat and Japan's Post-Bubble Society

Henry Gerba The Ecological Approach to Videogame Preception

Moira Hicks Princess Trouble: A Way of Seeing Women in Medievalism

Alessandra Leitmann A utopia for you and me and no one else: an analysis of Yokohama-e woodblock prints at the end of the Edo period

Nita McDaniel Pattern and Break: Divergent Historicisms of Watts '65

Francesca Michel Periodizing spectacular entertainment in La dolce vita and The great beauty

Chloe Truong-Jones Privacy, Legitimation and the Secret of Transaction

Mia Uribe Kozlovsky Satisfied Desire: How Two Collections Shape the Memory of Frida Kahlo

Lucy Weisner De(homo)sexualizing Germany: A Study of Triumph of the Will and Homosexual Politics

Anneke de Bont Spaces of Memory: Giulio Camillo’s Memory Theater and Lady Anne Bacon Drury’s Architext

Christopher Falcone Fascist Ecclesial Urbanism in Rome, 1936-1955

Melissa Fisher The Post-Crisis Aesthetics of Afterlife

Nora Fisher Campbell Dead Space: Fear and Creativity in the Paris Catacombs

Vita Haas Impossible Goals, Terms in Flux, and Uncommon Ground at The 9/11 Memorial Site

Kathryn Jarvinen Life in the Dreamhouse

Georgia Miller Reassembling Authenticity: The Museumification of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Houses

Dwayne Okpaise Jr. The Hour of Noise and Looking: Sadistic Performance Art in Argentina in the 1960s

Harrison Salton The Introverted Eye: Modeling Böhmean Visual Systems

Genevieve Ward Historical Veils in the Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp

Samuel Yehros Militarized Architecture and Mutable Landscapes

Anna Baker The object of Moscow conceptualism

Jessica Wong Camhi Basket cases : ahistorical display of American Indian art objects in North American museums

Eleanor Ford The ambient and visual arts : a study of gallery space, web browsers, and unproductivity

Benjamin Phillip Friars-Funkhouser Camouflage : imaging poetic landscape, 1480-2006

Kathryn Isabelle Lawrence Cyber corpus

Alexandra Park Performance and mental illness in the art and life of Yayoi Kusama

Maxwell Smith-Holmes Objects of laughter : Ad Reinhardt, Claes Oldenburg, André Cadere

Vladimir Vince Group EXAT-51 and performance of alternative forms of socialist collectivity in communist Yugoslavia

Caleb D Allen On second thought, let's not go to Camelot. It's a silly place : Eric Rohmer and the postmodern medieval

Marvin Hamor Bernardo The continuity and evolution of Chinese design

Chandler French The Museum of Modern Art and the exhibition of futurism : the founding years through 1961

Nicholas C Irvin On diagrams and diagrammatic aesthetics : Mark Lombardi, Hanne Darboven, Thomas Hirschhorn

Allison King Infringement : a study of the impacts of copyright law on new media art

Elizabeth Bidart Walid Raad : the fantastical encounter and the possible community

Margaret Abreu Cárdenas The mythic narrative of the Los Angeles residence : a study on the architecture of Charles Moore and Rudolf Schindler

Mary Emily O'Hara Occupational aesthetics : the history and resurgence of the Art Workers Movement

Charlie Renison To be re-presented anew : into the time of Walid Raad's oeuvre

Rebecca Ellen Ryan Roberts Modernism in post-war Los Angeles : "Arts and architecture" and the Case Study House Program

Gena Naomi Beam Fashioning the renaissance body : dress, identity, and space in sixteenth-century Italy

Anna De Filippi The difficulty of the artists' multiple : positive ambiguity and aspirations of mass reception in "shit must stop"

Solomon Salim Moore Out of the cauldron : witchcraft in the artwork of Hans Baldung Grien and David Teniers the Younger

Lara Pena Picturing the past : the photographic visions of Chin-San Long

Rebekah Sternbach Politics and religion in Shitao's (1642-1707) early work

Allison Woodward Tepper Discerning dust : alchemy and cartographic possibility in Melvin Edward Nelson's "Photo Genetics"

Laura I Fisher The golden haggadah : visualizing history and the Passover holiday in 14th-century Spain

Olivia Rose Maki Reification of nature : New York City earthworks

Sara O'Keeffe Fractured and whole : light and the cinematic spaces of Frederick Kiesler and László Moholy-Nagy

Alexandra Lane Sax on The body presented : grotesque imagery and the transcendence of performance art in the work of Leigh Bowery

Diana Van Wagne r Tomorrow never knows : issues in the conservation of modern and contemporary art

Lauren D White Visualizing nature : the artistry of scientific images

Kelsey A Ziff Egyptian enigmas and papal power : the Pamphili Obelisk in Rome's Piazza Navona

Europa Christina Babbin i The dawn of morphological empiricism : Vesalius' methodology of image reception in "De humani corporis fabrica libri septum"

Zarina Bell Good bye Lenin : the fate of political monuments in the German Democratic Republic during the revolution of 1989

Angela Kimberly Frey Beloved reconstruction : our tenuous yet powerful relationship with objects as seen in the Bargello's exhibit of Donatello's bronze "David"

Owen Reed Kolasinski Forging purity : food photography and the mythology of American cuisine

Natalie Pellolio Reality check : vision and truth in Walker Evans' subway portraits, 1938-1941

Leah Christine Peterson Fantasy and control in the Forbidden City : the "Trompe-l'oeil" theatre murals in the "Juanqin zhai" or lodge of retiring from hard work

Zoë Roller Beyond reality : the fantasy worlds of Simon Rodia and Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Alexandra Schmidt Abject internet : the new natural : an analysis of Ryan Trecartin's "A family finds enternainment" (2004)

Greg Vielhaber INTERROGATION : "Harvey Birdman, attorney at law" and the semiotic expansion of Hanna-Barbera cartoons

Ashley Cribbins Cultures and context : Asia in the American museum

Lily Jean Goldberg Realms of the real : appropriation, imagination and weather in Henry Darger's panoramic watercolors

Ryan Holm On the margins of their world : Lloyd Reynolds and the transformation of classroom content into cultural capital

Ryland James Ianelli Modernity and sequential art : the American comic book

Lucy Kang Magic in Black Rock Desert : space and time at the Burning Man Festival

Caitlin Kirkpatrick Rescuing the image from history : the art of witnessing the 1989 demonstrations in Beijing

Lindsey M Maser The imaging of abundance : food and status in a society of plenty

Nansi Ada Singh Cries of pain, cries of pleasure : rock icons and abject bodies

Alivia-Anne Zappas The empire strikes back : Italian visual vernacular representations in Italian colonial Africa

Maya Jenny Bartel The 1960s American body through sculptural movement and static dance : the work of George Segal, Allan Kaprow and Yvonne Rainer

Sheena Margaret Campbell Constructing subjectivity : the adolescent body and female sexuality in the art of Suzanne Valadon

Christopher Drelich The Uruk vase

Jesse Boardman Kauppila Robert Davidson and Wole Soyinka : aboriginal experience in "Third spaces"

Kristen Lavavej Fit it then knit it : a revolutionary knitting pattern system

Eleanor Ray Politics and old lace : iconographic innovations of the Vologda school of lacemaking in the 1930s

Emily Elizabeth Rohrabaugh The changing representation of experiments in art and technology and its implications for the study of new media art

Joseph Willis Pop media : purveyor of culture

Michelle David Sequential art and cyclical trauma : "In the shadow of no towers"

Megan Driscoll Picturing sex : art and pornography in contemporary visual culture

Brian Michael Hyman Der zeitgeist der zukunft : Andreas Gursky beyond the postmodern condition

Leela Outcalt Manet, Flaubert, and Modernism as a delayed symptom of modernity

Sirius Bonner Too other : black women in French art of the 19th century

Ashley Elizabeth Bowen Politicizing the everyday : the role of the "Arbeiter-illustrierte zeitung" in interwar Germany

Dhyana L Cabarga Death, photography & Sally Mann

Brianna Dahlberg Prophecy and witchcraft in Rosso Fiorentino's "Allegory of salvation"

Emily Susan Hamilton Reading the "Vie de St. Denis" manuscript as a historical document : urban representation, social reality, and historiography in 14th-century Paris

Robert Justin Holt Theatricality in the art of Barnett Newman

Ariel Stuermer Jacobs Intertwining images : art's role in Qianlong's vision of Sino-European relations

Kathryn Reid Moore Naïve genius : understanding the work, ideas, and implications of Umberto Boccioni's futurism

Debra Rolfe  Picturing the metropolis : representations of urban space in the photography of Rut Blees Luxemburg

Kathleen Moir Tahk (Re)building a nation : architecture and memory in post-Soviet Latvia

Laura Eileen Weiser A reconsideration of the Wiener Werkstätte and Adolf Loos and the place of women's fashion in turn-of-the-century Viennese design

Laura Diamond Demolished and rebuilt communities : Leonard Nadel's photographs of Aliso Village and Pueblo del Rio

Amanda Fray She is risen : the shameful Magdalene made shameless in Titian's "Penitent Saint Mary Magdalene"

Jennifer Rose Hughes Refiguring the past : three case studies of postmodern appropriation

Michelle A Kollmeier Refashioning the advertisement : the art of Benetton and Diesel

Molly A  E Sjöberg Where practice and theory converge : Guo Xi's "Early Spring"

The Senior Thesis

In the final year of study, each student will develop a focused body of work, and mount a solo exhibition in our beautiful Zilkha Gallery. That exhibition is the culmination of a two-semester thesis tutorial, and is developed in close critical dialogue with a faculty advisor. The exhibition is critiqued by the faculty advisor and a second critic, and must be passed by a vote of the faculty of the art studio Program. The senior thesis exhibition provides a rare opportunity for the student to engage in a rigorous, self-directed creative investigation and in a public dialogue about his/her work.

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Welcome to the library course guide for your class, Senior Thesis .

This library guide is an great place to start your research because it represents a curated collection of resources just for your needs. 

Your Research Paper: A Map to Success

Use the USF Libraries website to locate:

• USF Libraries' Catalog: Advanced Search Locate print and e-books using the Advanced Search in the USF Libraries Catalog.
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• Grove Art (Oxford Art Online) An encyclopedia like Oxford Art Online is a great starting point, it provides overviews & images.
• ARTstor ARTstor is a valuable online resource of more than 2.5 million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences.

Cite the sources you have used in your paper:

You are required to create a bibliography with either footnotes or endnotes.

Citing your sources proves that you did research, and gives credit to the thoughts and ideas you gathered while researching. 

• Use the Notes and Bibliography system from the Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition .

Label at least one image of the art object or monument you are writing about as a    at least one image of the art object or monument you are writing about as a Figure (see Chicago Manual of Style )

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‘The Commons presents ⍰⍰⍰’: a tribute to the art of community spaces

The Commons presents ⍰⍰⍰ installation in the in the Lucas Gallery.

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“Do you have an iPhone? The idea behind the question marks was when you haven’t updated your phone, and the emojis won’t show up,” Petr Karpov ’24 said as I sat on the human-sized scanner’s glass pane, waiting to be scanned. I watched as a normal-sized scanner roved underneath the glass. The smaller scanner systematically makes its way across the whole pane, and a computer program then puts these small scans together to piece together one large image of whatever is sitting on the glass—in this case, me.

Karpov continues to explain the title of the senior thesis he developed in partnership with Luke Shannon ’24. “The question mark emojis are what Luke wanted to call the scanning part of it. The Commons is this thing,” he said gesturing at the wooden, bleacher-like seating around us. At first glance, the exhibit as a whole resembled a mini concert venue, with its curved, wooden benches arching around a life-sized black scanner positioned to resemble a small stage. A gap in the middle of the wood seating is just large enough to frame projections of recent scans, one of which is now of me. Karpov explains that the similarity to a concert venue was his and Shannon’s intention, as they plan to put on small concerts and parties in the space. “So put together, we have The Commons presents ⍰⍰⍰. It can also present other stuff, like The Commons presents Old Nassoul.”

Every spring, seniors in Princeton’s visual arts program create and present their own exhibitions, a creative analog to a thesis, to show the work they’ve done in the department. This year was the first in which seniors could put on collaborative exhibitions. Karpov and Shannon chose to put on an exhibition together called The Commons presents ⍰⍰⍰. The exhibition is located in the Lucas Gallery at 185 Nassau St., home to the visual arts program, and is open from March 25 to April 5. Karpov and Shannon are in the gallery from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. every day, manning and guiding viewers through their creation.

Though they have different majors with differing artistic focuses, Karpov and Shannon wanted to create a truly collaborative exhibition rather than one that resembled two distinct, side-by-side exhibitions. Indeed, the exhibition feels like one, cohesive space. Karpov, an architecture major, created the wooden “Commons,” while Shannon, a computer science major, put the scanner together. Even though the exhibit presented as one complete work, Karpov’s and Shannon’s individual contributions are evident upon closer inspection.

What gives the exhibition both its charm and its ingenuity is that Karpov and Shannon not only celebrate their own individual artistic visions, but they actively encourage visitors to make their own mark on the space.  With the press of a button, visitors to the exhibition can easily create their own scans. The most recent scans are projected onto the wall behind The Commons, such that visitors’ creations become seamlessly integrated into the installation. The Commons was purposefully made of unfinished, unpainted wood to act as a blank canvas, according to Karpov. They envision The Commons to be a kind of physical manifestation of memory, capturing and displaying the marks visitors unintentionally make as they sit, dance, and otherwise interact with the wood. Even the wiring of the scanner is strategically exposed, such that visitors can easily trace the scanning system’s electrical internal components.

In pamphlets placed at the entrance, visitors have even more access into how the exhibition was put together and executed. The pamphlet, drawn simply in black lines on a white background, lays out the modular components that make up The Commons and also has a flowchart to guide viewers through the scanner’s technical workings.

“We really wanted to let people know exactly what processes are making it happen,” Karpov explained. 

Karpov and Shannon still have plans for their exhibition to change and grow throughout the duration of its installation. They plan to print the scans made by visitors, hanging them up on the walls to further highlight the work of exhibition attendees, cementing them and their participation as a part of the exhibition. Shannon wants to make the scanner motion-sensor activated, so that any curious people investigating the scanner automatically start and make a scan. 

In the exhibition’s open invitations to visitors, Karpov and Shannon have crafted their senior thesis into a tribute to all those who visit their installation. It is a fun and worthwhile visit, regardless of one’s attitude towards what they consider traditional or conventional art. Their art is not just something to look at, but something to interact with and be a part of. Due to the exhibit’s continual evolution, both in its artist-driven design and its community-driven markings, it’s one to return to again and again.

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Note that these guidelines are updated each year.

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SENIOR ESSAY KEY DATES AND DEADLINES 2023-24

FALL 2023 Sept. 11           Senior Essay Proposals Due @ 12:00 pm Sept. 20         Senior Thesis Essay Workshop 1 (5:00-6:30 pm) (HoA Dept Conference Rm) Oct.   06        Project outline and annotated bibliography DUE Oct.   23         Senior Thesis Workshop II 5:00-6:30 pm (HoA Dept Conference Rm) Oct.   24         Senior Thesis Workshop II 5:30-7:00 pm (HoA Dept Conference Rm) Nov.  10         Complete draft of essay due Nov.  15          Senior Essay Colloquium: 5:30-7:30 pm (HoA Dept Conference Rm) Nov.  16          Senior Essay Colloquium: 5:30-7:30 pm (HoA Dept Conference Rm) Dec.  08         SENIOR ESSAYS DUE (to nicole.chardiet@yale.edu and DUS @12:00 pm)

SPRING 2024 Jan. 26           Senior Essay Proposals Due (to nicole.chardiet@yale.edu and DUS) Jan. 30           Senior Thesis Essay Workshop 1 (5:00-7:00 pm) (HoA Dept Conference Rm) Feb. 20          Project outline and annotated bibliography DUE Mar. 5            Senior Thesis Workshop II 5:00-6:30 pm (HoA Dept Conference Rm) Mar. 6            Senior Thesis Workshop II 5:00-6:30 pm (HoA Dept. Conference Rm) Mar. 27         Complete essay draft due Apr. 2             Senior Essay Colloquium: 5:30-7:30 pm (HoA Dept. Conference Rm) Apr. 3.            Senior Essay Colloquium: 5:30-7:30 pm (HoA Dept. Conference Rm) Apr. 19          SENIOR ESSAYS DUE (to nicole.chardiet@yale.edu and DUS @12:00 pm) 

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First senior art thesis exhibition open through April 8

• March 28, 2024

The first thesis gallery show of the spring is open now through April 8 in the Hastings College Jackson Dinsdale Art Center (JDAC). This exhibition features work from Anna Bryan of Lincoln, Nebraska; Jay Caskey of Council Bluffs, Iowa; Carley Davis of Prescott, Arizona; Rhys Maxey of Kersey, Colorado; Veronica Pinkerton of Beatrice, Nebraska; Miley Prine of Valley, Nebraska; and Ethan Ruff of Grand Island, Nebraska.

The JDAC galleries, located at 700 E. 12th Street in Hastings, are open from 9:00 a.m. through 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday, and noon to 3:00 p.m. on Saturdays. The galleries, lecture and reception are free and open to the public.

Bryan’s collection of trompe l’oeil watercolors are a variety of literal and metaphorical timestamps that signify the fear of forgetting, celebrating life and preserving the memory of people they love through significant or everyday objects like receipts, wrappers and other mementos.

Caskey’s “A Head, Yet Behind” is a collection of five ceramic busts with elementions of different media. The pieces create a display of the emotional conflicts of those who are not well understood by general society.

“Creating Identities” by Davis ties in her background knowledge in both graphic design and marketing. Her body of work showcases personal and local business’s brand identities that she created based on current market research and aesthetic theories that help draw a viewer’s attention.

Maxey’s “Reflection” is a collection of mixed media pieces centered around the idea of self reflection. The multiple mirrored surfaces bring together the idea of seeing yourself from multiple perspectives. She said she hopes to invite others to the table to sit with themselves and look at their reflections through the installation.

“Cards of Connection” by Pinkerton explores how art can nurture relationships through the exchange of cards. Every design tells a story waiting for the viewer’s personal touch through a handwritten message.

Prine’s art exhibition features graphic design work of three different businesses as they would be presented to a client. Together, these pieces demonstrate her versatility and skill as a graphic designer, showcasing a diverse range of styles and aesthetics to enrich her portfolio.

Ruff’s installation is a collection of india ink prints of spirituality by contrasting surreal ethereal landscapes, geometric structures, and human forms. It explores peace, connection, and hope in a higher power.

Two additional thesis shows are scheduled for the spring — April 12-25, with the lecture and reception set for Sunday, April 21; and April 29-May11, with a lecture and reception set for Sunday, May 5.

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Photography BFA Thesis Exhibition: Contact S.24

April 5, 2024 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm, about this event.

Graduating Mississippi State senior Nathan Jones of Louisville, Kentucky, will have his work presented in Contact S.24, an exhibition running April 5-19 in the Colvard Student Union Art Gallery.

A public reception with refreshments will be held 5-6 p.m. April in the gallery, located on the second floor of Colvard Student Union. Regular gallery hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.

Under the direction of the Department of Art's Photography Concentration Coordinator Professor Marita Gootee, Jones created a portfolio of photography exploring the effects of anxiety. According to Jones, "My work seeks to illuminate the interplay of internal feeling and external surroundings, offering viewers a glimpse into the profound depths of the anxious mind."

For more information on this exhibition or any gallery programs, contact the Department of Art at 662-325-2970 or email Lori Neuenfeldt, gallery director at  [email protected] .

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