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My proposed MA in American Dance Studies thesis analyzes the power and reach of the online dance world in the 21st Century. The project specifically engages with the past decade’s trend of dance spectatorship’s online presence, fueled by...
Three issues were discussed in this paper exploration of an Art Coordinator who directs a community-based art program within the nonprofit Sojourn House. The paper's first issue was the identification of the role and responsibilities of...
During the Post-World War II construction boom homes in the United States began considering durability, energy conservation, comfort, security, and aesthetics in housing design. These factors, within the residential sector, did not...
Incarceration is a major problem in the United States. It is a very complex system influenced by politics, ethnicity, poverty, social justice issues, and collective human experiences. Despite it complexities, its understanding by the...
Scholars have hailed David Cox (1783-1859) as one of the pillars of English landscape painting of the early nineteenth century, together with John Constable and J.M.W. Turner. Working primarily in watercolor, Cox celebrated the English...
The purpose of this study was to examine the potential of a digital awareness workshop with preservice art education participants to develop art curricula and instructional strategies designed to promote positive dispositions, digital...
The field of art therapy has gained momentum in its collaboration with neuroscience in the quest for greater empirical evidence for the efficacy of the field. While there have been a few studies testing the applicability of salivary...
Repossessing Spectatorship in Immersive Theatre and Virtual Reality proposes that material constructions borne by the ambitions of “immersion” do not fulfill their intended purpose: total passage to the reality of the performance. These...
After numerous obstacles and the inability to establish a placement in which to conduct my thesis, I decided to reframe my topic in order to explore the challenges of conducting art therapy research as a graduate student. Previous...
Engagement among adolescents is a crucial factor for identity formation and positive youth development (Barker, 2015; Kegan, 1994). To help address disengagement, socially engaged art education (SEAE) practices have emerged, combining...
Globalization and modernization since the discovery of oil have greatly affected the built environment of the twenty-first century Saudi Arabian city. These changes span all aspects of life and impact the social structure of residential...
The present qualitative study explored college student responses to personal clay use or mindfulness-based art therapy (MBAT) twice a week for stress reduction. Participants were recruited from a larger art therapy study, in which the...
Mixtec codices are sacred books folded like accordions and composed of strips of deer hide or fig-tree bark that visually narrate activities of deities, supernatural culture heroes, and the actions and genealogies of historical Mixtec...
ABSTRACT The brick and mortar environment has for many years been the cornerstone of the process to acquire goods. As a cornerstone of the process to acquire goods, the brick and mortar environment has undergone several evolutions each...
Considerable research has been conducted regarding how the built environment affects the physical aspects of a person’s well-being. However, surprisingly little research has explored the psychological side, and even less research has...
With art programs becoming more prominent in medical environments, this research seeks to investigate the way art materials are being used and perceived in these settings. Through observation of one pediatric unit and information...
The objective of this research is to elicit and analyze the use of visual response created by art therapists and its implications for their resiliency. As part of the mental health community, art therapists are exposed to trauma...
This arts-based dissertation explored an art teacher and her students’ interactions and movements through a high school art class using visual maps. Art as research by way of visual mapping methods emerged as a tool teachers can use to...
Throughout her time as a member of the famed Provincetown Players, for which she penned three successful plays, playwright Djuna Barnes simultaneously wrote twelve short closet dramas, none of which saw the light of the stage. Despite...
Inspired by the plays and performance art pieces of many Latina/o and African American artists who seek to resurrect indigenous beliefs as a method of political resistance, this thesis seeks to imagine possibilities for male individuals...
The experiences encountered during combat and military service can have lasting effects on mental health, physical health, and well-being for our nation’s veterans. Older veterans make up a large majority of the U.S. veteran population...
The purpose of this study was to explore the issue of social class in art education. As mentioned in my theoretical framework underlying this study, Bourdieu (1973/2000) used the term cultural capital as forms of knowledge, tastes, and...
During the past 50 years, a decline of the third place has been observed across the United States (Oldenburg, 1999). Third places are those places, other than home or work, that serve as informal gathering places. People know fewer and...
Ek’ Balam’s ceremonial precinct offers what appears at first glance to be an interesting bricolage of architectural styles and anomalies. In this dissertation I examine the amalgamation of styles through the concept of placemaking and...
The purpose of this study is to qualitatively explore the art therapist's perspective of working with victims of disaster and implications of art therapy after a disaster experience. Empirical research in disaster relief is limited, ...
The seemingly elusive connections between a West African ceremony and a Southern blues scape is this thesis’s central focus. In Unmasking The Blues: Gẹlẹdẹ And The Creation Of Blues Alchemy, I explore the blues culture phenomena of...
My thesis argues that a critical study of the gay themes and issues in Finn’s work – both obvious and otherwise latent – elucidates historically specific and significant queer texts and subtexts, along with queer modes of reception....
Design Practitioner Perceptions, Attitudes, and Barriers: The State of Natural Environment and Human Sustainability Building Practicies in Saudi Arabia
Sustainability is a broad concept that encompasses social, economical and environmental aspects. Many countries around the world have recently adopted this concept due to the worldwide concern that human behavior is causing long-term...
The focal cohort in this study is the Millennial generation, the group of people born between the years of 1982 and 1999. Research shows that many Millennials are delaying marriage and having children, which significantly impacts how we...
This study forms a meta-narrative exploring the educational experiences of Black and Brown elementary students in public schools. The goal is to decenter and dismisses racism and mis-education frequently found in majoritarian stories...
Distinguishing a company or product through a brand has become increasingly significant as competition and similarity of products have amplified. Fundamental brands, still in existence today, characterized the forward-thinking that has...
Across the globe, as many as 5 million women become victims of sexual trafficking at any given time (Hardy, Compton & McPhatter, 2013). The traumatic experience of sexual trafficking frequently results in severe and complex symptoms of...
This qualitative, soft-systems case study examined the digital strategy development process at a large Midwest art museum in the United States. The study explored the process of working together to create the strategy, the role of...
Edward Gorey (1925–2000) is primarily known as an enigmatic artist, author, and personality. All told, Gorey wrote and illustrated over one hundred books during his lifetime and designed book covers for countless others. He has an...
Community mural projects exist in a medium of high visual payoff, illustrating desired subject matter meant to serve a specific audience. While the result is indeed an important element, it is not the only point of emphasis. This...
People tend to gravitate toward nature. Edward O. Wilson (1984) stated that human beings are biologically connected to the psychological, the physical, and the spiritual through nature, establishing the definition for biophilia. Specific...
Exploring Relationships between Arts Administrators in Appalachian Kentucky and Tennessee and Their State Arts Agencies: A Qualitative Narrative Inquiry
This dissertation explores the relationship of arts administrators in isolated Appalachian communities in Kentucky and Tennessee with their respective representative state arts agencies. Using the narrative inquiry methodology, I...
As museums continue to shift from being object-centered to visitor-centered, they also need to reconsider their exhibition development practices to become more relevant to their communities. In alignment with this premise, this double...
Children from low-income backgrounds face multiple obstacles throughout their life including inadequate nutrition, exposure to environmental toxins, and homelessness (Brooks-Gunn & Duncan, 1997). Exposure to these stressors can affect a...
Research indicates that there is a disconnect between public perception of the interior design profession and the actualities of the profession. This disconnect has influenced, and is influenced by, the two predominate factors. The first...
This dissertation examines anatomical images in Early Modern Spain and their corresponding texts as critical material agents in the reorganization of the human body in print. My research shows that Spanish artists and anatomists under...
To improve employee well-being, reduce healthcare costs, and meet the desires of a younger workforce, this study used frameworks of holistic wellness to identify which well-being amenities, services, and programs (i.e. those aimed at...
Today, with three generations – Baby Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials – working side by side within the workforce, miscommunications, and every day annoyances take place (Glass, 2007). These three generations, each shaped by...
This research investigates how arts based research methods contribute to the development of a positive disability identity for a person living with invisible disabilities through the act of un/covering. Through the theoretical framework...
This Masters in American Dance Studies thesis addresses the performance of asexual identity in the neo-burlesque performance art. With a heavy emphasis on autoethnography, I present neo-burlesque as a genre that creates space for queer...
In this dissertation I investigate The National Museum of Anthropology (NMA) in Mexico, and the Museum of Painting and Sculpture (MPS) in Turkey to examine the important role they played in the construction and projection of a national...
Devotional sculptures and their attendant ritual interactions allow for pointed critical engagement with the very nature of images, both formally and in the intersection of art and sacra. Within the visual systems employed by the city...
This dissertation provides the first comprehensive study of Les Costumes Grotesques, a group of one-hundred black and white single-figure etchings of elegantly-posed characters wearing or composed of items related to a specific...
A recent study identified that approximately one in four women in the United States has experienced physical violence by an intimate partner during her lifetime, equaling approximately twenty-nine million women (Black, et al., 2011)....
The retail industry, and in turn store design, has always been affected by the economy and technological advances (Mayo, 1993). In recent years, the advancement of the internet has proven to be one of the major factors in the retail...
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