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2017-12-13

Meghan Pohlod

On Being Without is an examination of trauma related to abandonment. I explore representations of the body by investigating interior and exterior space, questioning what happens when distressing memories are triggered by image, place and time. Normalization of trauma continues to be a major risk...

2024-07-01

Raheel Malkan

In 2022, I began a creative collaboration with the Tlicho community, in the region of the Northwest Territories of Canada. As a visual communicator designer and researcher new to the country, I set out to help create an online tool for the Tlicho that would archive as well as visualize...

2022-05-01

Heather Savard

Pattern 2451 is a research and process-based exploration of a tea set that I was given from my grandmother. The project is in response to my experiences of moving and packing my own things, and the objects from my grandparent’s house. I began this work wanting to know what it means for an object...

2020-10-01

Kathleen Charlotte Anne Murray

A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Fine Arts with a specialization in Painting

2017-09-14

Michael JH Woolley

This thesis examines issues of performance art documentation. An art historical survey contextualizes performance art practice and theory, situating the contradicting nature of performance art as a medium that both requires documentation while also denying its possibility. A detailed case study...

2019-02-28

Joshua Stephen John Wade

Peripheries In this body of work, I utilize found wooden and cardboard pallets as a foundation for process-based artworks. The pieces reference their original industrial source, but are also transformed, through material manipulation, to evoke other associations. The pallets, built to move...

2016-01-19

Appelt, Kyle Terrence

Pilgrimage: being in the End Times “The gap between phenomenon and thing yawns open, disturbing my sense of presence of being in the world” –Timothy Morton In 1784 a fine layer of carbon was deposited onto the Earth’s crust as a result of human coal-fired industries. Timothy Morton attributes...

2016-12-08

Megan Warkentin

This body of work began initially with my interest in YouTube videos of people performing dangerous stunts and often hurting themselves in the process. Why would a person knowingly put their health and safety, or even their lives at risk without necessity and seemingly little to gain, and how do...

2016-06-07

Andrew C. Hellmund, Peter Hide (Supervisor)

My sculptures encourage the viewer to project their own experiences onto the work, to question the facts of visual existence with the engagement of movement, form, and texture. While I draw immense inspiration from Swing dance, Jazz music, Cubist forms, and Modernist Sculpture (including works by...

2023-03-01

Zheng, Zhiying (Peaches)

Tea culture in China has a rich history, with roots dating back thousands of years. Despite its cultural significance, there has been a decline in tea culture among the millennial generation in modern cities in China. In an effort to address this issue, this thesis explores the design solutions...