This collection holds the research, scholarship, and creative works of Art & Design students. It includes content such as dissertations, theses, capstones, presentations, and more.
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Submissions from 2024
Unveiling Existentialism and Self-expression: Utilizing the Arts, Raquel Eduardo Nunez
Submissions from 2021
WASH: Withstanding Scrutiny, Grace Cheney
An Exploration of Identity Through Data Driven Art, Lisa O'Connor
Theses from 2020
How Human-Centered Design Affects the Workplace, Alexandra Brigham
The Impact of Research Workbooks on Assessment, Amy Felder
Customer Service in the Classroom, Teresa Lantz
The Labor of Art, Antonio Ramirez
Significant Objects as Metaphor for Home, Alison Wilcox
Small Universe: Exploring Microorganisms in Water From an Artistic Perspective, Jingying Zhen
Theses from 2019
Line As Descriptor, Adel A. Alanmi
Interweaving Traditional Features of Art from the Saudi Arabian Region of Asir into Contemporary Original Paintings, Wedad Alhazmi
Communicating Through Information Graphics: Carbon Properties and Uses, Zahra Alsukairi
Objects as Heirlooms: An A/r/tography Experience, Samantha Renee Disney-Saxton
A Woman's Experience Working in Masculine Trades, Laura Kathleen Ethridge
Microcosms, Mary Kathleen Fahrenbruch
When I Die Bury Me In This: An Arts-Based Research on Human Death, Decomposition, and Body Disposition Methods and the Taphonomy Metaphor of our Personal Belongings, Sarah Elizabeth Johnson
Exploring Artist-Mother Narratives, Amy Virginia Michael
Artistic Process Over Product: A Portrait of the High-Achieving High School Student, Kelly Pack-Scott
What a Choice-Based Classroom Teaches Students, Kathryn Beth Potter
The Art of Adventure, Sarah Aiken Revell
Doorways: A Presage, Catalina Sanchez
Action Research Projects from 2018
The Significance of the Interconnective Relationships Between Art and Sports, Micala M. Anderson
Art as Invitation: The Effects of Including Art Education in the Curriculum of a Preschool Classroom of Refugee Students, Nancy Heckmann Erekson
Vitality of Water/Vitalidad Del Agua: Our Sacred Connection to Water and How We Can Interpret the Importance of Water Through Artistic Inquiry, Jenifer Fogarty
Surface Treatments on Clay and Making Meaning, Stephanie Lynn Schmidt
Beautiful Kitsch: Kitsch Tolerance Amongst the Educated, Tiffany D.E. Yonts
Action Research Projects from 2017
Inquiry Based Art Research and the Development of Artistic Autonomy in the High School Setting, Matthew Crawford
Utilization and Transferability of Technical Skills in a Choice Based Art Unit, Sarah George
The Seven Modern Icons, Robyn Goodman
How Can the Art Making Process Foster a Stronger Sense of Self?, Claire Christine Kniveton
How Does Exploring Self and Peer-Identity Through Artmaking Strengthen Student-Peer Relationships?, Veronica Spencer Nelson
Makerspace in the Elementary Art Room, Kathleen A. Robinson
Cultivating Creative Problem-Solving Through Limitations and Constraints, Jon-Michael Willert
Who Doodles and Why?, Jeremy A. Yocum
Action Research Projects from 2016
Transforming Personal Narrative Through the Art of Dolls: An Arts-Based Inquiry Into the Power of Heuristic Expansion, Kelly Ann Martinez
Action Research Projects from 2015
Can Art Journaling and Narrative Art Benefit Students Experiencing Crisis or Trauma?, Stacia Kaye McCann
Theses from 2014
Integration of contemporary artworks into the curricula, Jennifer Crawford
Theses from 2013
Thinking through the box: the art teacher's role in setting ideationally generative assignment parameters, and expanding students' problem-finding strategies, Brad James Conklin
Influence of guided drawing curriculum on drawing development in children, Alison Paige Myers
Theses from 2011
Art of kente: history, designs, and drafts, Rhonda D. Crosman
Theses from 2010
Teaching adult students who are apprehensive about making art, Donna M. Clement
Photomicrography as an artistic medium, Nicholas James Eubank
Igniting the creative process: A contemporary approach through play, personal narrative, and contemporary themes, Jennifer Montgomery McLees
Investigation into the use of color as a device to convey memes during the Little Ice Age, Peter Allen White