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Item Adrian Piper: A Retrospective(Fine Arts Gallery, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1999) Berger, Maurice; Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture; Center for Art, Design and Visual CultureOne of the most influential artists of her generation, Adrien Piper has produced an exceptionally impressive body of work spanning a period of over thirty years. She played a formative role in the emergence of Conceptual art in the 1960-s and 1970s and an even more crucial role in the development of identity-based art in the 1980s and 1990s. Perhaps her most significant contribution has been to reaffirm the utopian potential of avant-garde art to transform society. Specifically, her reliance on minimalist and conceptualist forms generally thought by critics to be hermetic to effect social change has actually enhanced the ability of art to motivate viewers to examine intransigent attitudes about race, gender, and difference. A prominent philosopher as well as an artist, Piper has produced objects, installations, performances, videos, and soundworks that have established a direct, active relationship between artist and spectator, permitting neither to retreat to the usual defensive rationalizations that distance art from subjects as discomforting as personal bigotry and xenophobia. This catalogue, produced in conjunction with the retrospective exhibition organized by Maurice Berger, is the most comprehensive book ever published on the artist. Prolifically illustrated, it includes essays by Berger, Laura Cottingham, Jean Fisher, Kobena Mercer, Dara Meyers-Kinglsey, and the artist herself that illuminate the complex relationships between form and content in Piper's oeuvre from a variety of perspectives.Item Fred Wilson: Objects and Installations, 1979-2000(Center for Art and Visual Culture, 2001) Berger, Maurice; Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture; Center for Art, Design and Visual CultureFred Wilson: Objects and Installations, 1979-2000 explores the artist’s sustained aesthetic inquiry into the relationship between art and the museum. Wilson’s “mock” museum installations, into which he places provocative and beautifully rendered objects, explore the question of how the museum consciously or unconsciously perpetuates prejudice. If social justice is Wilson’s ultimate subject, the museum itself becomes his medium—from the use of meticulously fabricated objects to the careful selection of wall colors, lighting, display cases, and even wall labels. Sometimes the artist reconfigures and supplements the collection of an actual museum—as in his extraordinary installation Mining the Museum, for the Maryland Historical Society in 1992. Other times he creates gallery installations that imitate the look and sensibility of the museum. In the end, Wilson’s aesthetic commentaries reach across a wide historical expanse—from Egyptian and classical sculpture to African American memorabilia, “primitivism,” and the uniforms worn by the often black guards charged with the task of keeping American museums safe and secure. Organized by the Center for Art and Visual Culture, at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, the exhibition Fred Wilson: Objects and Installations, 1979-2000 consists of more than 100 objects, each configured to re-create sections of Wilson’s original installations. This catalog, the most comprehensive book published on the artist’s work to date, includes essays by exhibition curator Maurice Berger and Jennifer González, an interview with Wilson by Berger, and an annotated list of projects by the artist, as well as numerous color and black-and-white photographs.Item The Highway Pegasus: Illustrated Poems(2022-04-15) Abuhamada, Nicole; Knapp, Elizabeth; Baush, Cynthia; Angello, Aaron; Hood College Department of English and Art; Honors Tischer ScholarsThe Highway Pegasus: Illustrated Poems, consists of 45 poems and 6 oil paintings (illustrations), and is comprised of free verse as well as experimental forms. The manuscript includes pastorals, elegies, odes, and the Ars poetica. The illustrations seek to understand the relationship between text and image, and are in the tradition of surrealism, narrative, and fantasy art.Item Hiragana: A Visual Introduction(2017-05) Yasuda, Ayumi; Lempke, Paul; Scott-Nelson, Michael; Taylor, Ben; Digital ArtsHiragana is the basic and most fundamental of three Japanese writing systems—hiragana, katakana, and kanji. Hiragana is used in all forms of written communication in combination with the other two systems, or by itself for young readers and beginners. There is a corresponding katakana for each hiragana. Katakana is used primarily for foreign words. Hiragana is also used to clarify pronunciation of kanji. Kanji consists of approximately 4000 characters that are usually modified or nuanced by hiragana. Hiragana is made up of 46 phonetic letters (kana). Each of the kana is a complete syllable with its own sound, and has a set order and direction for writing strokes, which often differ from Western convention. The capstone project is an illustrated book to introduce all 46 kana. In this visual introduction, the audience—both children and adults—will meet each of the 46 kana that have been created with various elements—objects, animals, and items of Japanese culture and heritage—that start with the same sound. For example, あ [a] is made of items such as あり (ari, ants) and あめ (ame, candy). With charming, playful, and stylized illustrations, this book offers a unique, fun way of learning Japanese kana.Item Illuminating the Mission: Seeing the New Evangelization in the Saint John's Bible(2016-05) Guajardo, Natalie; Wells, Juliette; Oettinger, April; Sanders, Arnie; Brown Douglas, Kelly; English; Bachelor's DegreeThe Saint John’s Bible is the first completely hand written and illuminated Bible commissioned by a Benedictine order since the invention of the printing press. Members of St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota worked with renowned calligrapher, Donald Jackson, and several artists and scribes on the extensive project, completing the last of the seven volumes in 2011. This research recognizes the Saint John’s Bible as a marvel of artistic mastery but also draws ties between the Bible and the Catholic Church’s New Evangelization. First defining and outlining goals of the New Evangelization, this project goes on to show how the intentions of the Bible’s creators, its message, and its audience align with the greater evangelical goals of the Catholic Church. This research also includes possible shortcomings for the Saint John’s Bible as a tool of evangelism and suggestions for solutions and further study.Item Melpomene & The Trinity of Mourning: Surf & Surrender(2019-01-01) Michaels, Leah Clare; O'Dell, Kathy; Visual Arts; Imaging and Digital ArtsAs an artist, historian, feminist, social Catholic, and lover of the ocean, I pursue feminist mystical storytelling practices and traditions as a form of social justice. In my theses exhibition, I seek to subvert traumatic patriarchal narratives by connecting the rape of the ocean in ecology to violence against women. I invoke Melpomene, Greek muse of sorrow and tragedy, as a symbolic presence, while I appear in the projected video as a surfer and priestess. In these roles, I perform last-rite rituals for the ocean, accompanying the sea as "she” is dying. As viewers move through and around the video installation, which serves as a contemporary altarpiece, they create metaphoric currents, acting as bodies of water, while bearing witness to the rituals and mourning the ocean’s impending passing.Item Meta Spherical(2018-07) Miller, Alexander; Brennan, Eric; Joyce, Michaud; Berneburg, Philip; Ceramics; Ceramic ArtsMeta Spherical is a sculptural exploration of the search for truth at the intersection of science, faith, and human perception. Interconnected matrices of smaller clay components come together to form abstract sculptures referencing the sphere as a metaphor for absolute truth. The depth and texture of the forms are highlighted through eroded slips, stains, and underglazes, or through the effects of an atmospheric soda firing. The opposing qualities of positive and negative space, of construction and deconstruction, are integral in expressing themes of the human search for comprehension within an enigmatic universe. Through variations of the spherical forms, the artist examines a personal deconstruction of fundamentalist religious belief and the embrace of questioning, doubt, and scientific explanations for our existence. The result is sculptural ceramic work that addresses a metacognitive approach. The work illustrates the mystery and beauty of our search for answers.Item Reducing Math Anxiety Through Art(2021-05-01) Pruitt, Mercedes; Hecht, Allison; Bowman, Christina; Masters of EducationThe purpose of this study was to determine if reduction of math anxiety through an art-related therapeutic session would improve accuracy on a math-based assessment among eighth grade students. Previous research demonstrates that consistently used mindfulness activities that involve the arts have been successful in alleviating anxiety and improving assessment scores; however, teachers often lack time to complete mindfulness activities. Eighth grade math students were administered pre and post assessments of basic math facts in a virtual environment due to COVID-19 closures. After baseline data was collected, the experimental group (n = 19) was provided a 5-minute free draw art session prior to administration of the post assessment; the control group (n = 13) received a 5-minute return to school safety presentation. The mean score on the post-assessment was not significantly different between the children in the control group (Mean = 78.54, SD = 23.97) and the children in the experimental group (Mean = 71.68, SD = 21.82) [t(30) = 0.84, p = .41]. There was no significant evidence in this study that a one session art therapeutic improved assessments scores by reducing math-related anxiety. Further studies should consider changes in physical environment, types of art (free draw, specify drawing, color, complex designs), and frequency of intervention.Item Visual Thinking Strategies in User Experience(2023-12) Buser, Leo; Kohl, Deborah; DeGeal, Jacob; University of Baltimore. Division of Science, Information Arts and Technologies; University of Baltimore. Master of Science in Interaction Design and Information ArchitectureUnderstanding the perspectives of other people is a common goal in the field of user experience (UX), but it is not a guaranteed experience. The design thinking process aims to generate a lot of ideas and possible solutions to a problem at hand. This paper discusses the state of psychological safety for participants and team members in a UX setting and a design thinking process. This study measured the psychological safety of UX participants who participated in a facilitated discussion method called Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS). This study will inform the creation of a VTS module to be used in special topics courses for the Interaction Design and Information Architecture (IDIA) master’s program. The IDIA program at the University of Baltimore is the most relevant program to the UX field. In this study, seven UX participants experienced a VTS discussion. After the VTS discussion, participants were given a questionnaire and asked to rate their experience, including how comfortable they felt sharing ideas during the discussion. While not statistically significant, quantitative and qualitative results in the study suggest that the VTS discussion was favorable and would be recommended to others UX professionals and students.Item WISPOBISH: FOREST OF GHOSTS, TOWER OF VOICES(2018-01-01) Aslanbeik, Parastoo; Durant, Mark Alice; Visual Arts; Imaging and Digital ArtsWispobish is a powerful tree in Persian mythology. The tree contains the nest of the Simurgh, a mythical phoenix-like bird, representing benevolence. In Persian, the word Wispobish means ‘the cure of every disease.' I am employing the symbol of the Wispobish in response to the attempts to ban Iranians and other Muslims, from the United States, regarding to the recent Executive order 13769 Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry. I utilize the old photographic technique of wet plate collodion in combination with tree branches to create a ghostly forest. A fragile yet monumental structure constructed from white-washed cardboard boxes, is inscribed with ancient Persian poems and silhouettes of branches. In this piece, I hope to evoke the voices of those who have been demonized and offer healing through collective strength.