North Georgia College & State University: Digital Commons
Not a member yet
5066 research outputs found
Sort by
The Role of Writing Clusters in Minority Students\u27 Beliefs about Writing
Get PDFReduced motivation and low self-success beliefs caused by social factors, cultural factors, and the perception of the dissertation writing process attribute to the attrition of underrepresented students from doctoral engineering programs. Minority doctoral attrition in engineering undermines the aim to diversify the engineering field in industry and academia. The Dissertation Institute (DI) is a one-week writing intervention designed to combat minority doctoral attrition. A key component of this intervention is the daily facilitated writing groups called “Writing Clusters.” The writing group sessions were recorded, transcribed, and analyzed using subjective value tasks from Eccles’ Expectancy Value Theory to determine how the writing group environment with peers from an underrepresented group affected each student’s motivation, success beliefs, and individual perception of the dissertation writing process. It was found that once the participants dismantled the cost and understood the utility and interest of the tasks required to complete their dissertation, they were able to build their success beliefs in their writing and increase their motivation to progress in their dissertation process
Your network bandwidth is low : Online Participatory Music-Making in the COVID-19 Era
No full textMy contribution is a personal account about my experiences with online participatory music-making in the first few months of the pandemic. As an old-time fiddler, I anchored a local Zoom jam and attended a Zoom-based music camp. As a Sacred Harp singer, I participated in regular singings via Facebook Live
[3] Untitled
No full textAs human beings, we are designed to recognize patterns. When that pattern is disrupted, by nature, we feel the need to fix it. What in this pattern is missing? What makes this pattern different than the others?
As artists, we are pressured by society to create everything within the eye of perfection. Blend your brushstrokes till your hand grows tired; smooth out your scribbles till they are soft.
Then, at the end of the day, we are expected to look in the mirror and be happy with what we see. We are supposed to love our jagged noses, our crooked smiles, and all of our lumps and bumps. To some, this may even seem like an impossible endeavor.
With all of this in mind, as the artist, I have created this series of self portraits in order to take that “ugly” and put it up on a pedestal. To show the beauty in vulnerability, and ultimately inspire the acceptance of who we truly are— just human.https://digitalcommons.northgeorgia.edu/seniorexhibitfall2021/1008/thumbnail.jp
Atlanta Farmers Market Display
No full textThe definition of a farmers market is “a food market at which local farmers sell fruit and vegetables and often meat, cheese, and bakery products directly to consumers.” Within this definition there is both simplicity and connection. In deciding to create branding for my market, Atlanta Farmers Market, simplicity and relational connection were the values I wanted my designs to communicate. I have grown up with an appreciation for the hardworking vendors at farmers markets and the community a market has the ability to create. Maybe it’s just the romanticism of the mundane in films, or maybe it’s a reality of the flourishing environment created when people come together to share their passions with each other. Either way, my affinity with this environment has combined with my desire to create things that look beautiful together. This is why I chose to create branding for both the market as a whole and individual vendors of honey, flowers, and bread. I wanted all of the logos, business cards, posters, pictures to speak to their own vendor’s talents and individuality, and work well together to make a successful group under the market’s umbrella.
Throughout most of my work I am interested in the human experience, specifically in relation to the impact we have on each other, and how we move through change and dealing with our past. I have used Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop in combination with photography to create my work, and I have an appreciation for both the practical side of graphic design, like branding, logos, etc. and the artistic side of graphic design like collage.
My concept for this body of work was to create simple and straightforward design that still had an artistic quality to it; I wanted the work to still communicate artistic effort behind it even if it was simple. I chose my color palette to be warm and inviting while also playing on colors that could be pulled from nature. These qualities both serve to emphasize the handgrown and handmade aspects of the products being sold in the market, and to create a simple path to connection with the company and vendors, therefore building trust. One of the most admirable parts of a farmers market is that you as the customer get to meet and interact with the person or people who have made or grown this product, are passionate about it, and are open with how they got here. This level of understanding people and why they are doing what they are doing is something that is easily accessible in the farmers market environment. The ease of getting to know someone is what I wanted my designs to communicate and make a way to happen.https://digitalcommons.northgeorgia.edu/seniorexhibspring2021/1011/thumbnail.jp
[5] Being and Company
No full textA project exploring both screen-printing and graphic design. It is a tote bag company based on environmentally friendly practices and techniques. Being and Company was created to inform users of environmentally friendly practices.https://digitalcommons.northgeorgia.edu/seniorexhibspring2021/1004/thumbnail.jp
[6] Coalescence
No full textGrowing up in Georgia, I was completely surrounded by the Appalachian wilderness and submerged myself in it with every minute of free time I had. It was always a place for me to escape the troubles I had and reconnect to a more peaceful mindset. To this day, I still turn to the forest and trees for comfort. This connection I have to nature was forever solidified when my childhood farm, Versanoia Equestrian Farm, was sold for commercial development. I had to watch as the place I called home for so many years was replaced by cookie cutter suburban houses. This event irrevocably changed my perspectives on the impermanence of nature and sparked an intense desire to protect the wilderness left on Earth and to inspire others to want the same. I am driven by this experience to create art that reflects these sentiments as a means of spreading them to a wider audience.
I create work that is about nature, but not with the typical narrative that focuses on humanity’s negative impact on Earth’s environments. Instead, my work exhibits the profundity of imperfection and chance by exploring the visual and conceptual vocabulary of the natural world. I display my work to viewers as a means of visually explaining the parts of nature that bring me feelings of solace and connection. I believe that if I can spark the idea of these feelings in people’s minds, that they would feel inspired to go into nature and experience it for themselves. It is my hopes that if enough people experience the emotional and spiritual value of the forest, then they will also be driven to protect them.
I create these works using my medium of choice, Ceramics. One of my favorite parts about the creative process is working with my hands and getting dirty. I prefer to work with clay because I can get elbow deep in Earthen material and create beautiful things from it. Another reason clay is the way is because, more often than not, my clay makes artistic decisions for me. The clay, colorants and kilns can all have a mind of their own at times, so going with the flow and incorporating happenstance events into my final pieces is all a part of the process. I choose to leave the flaws because I feel that this best reflects the imperfections in nature that I find so comforting. Most importantly, ceramics allows me to build sculptures that are large-scale, and asymmetric. The plasticity of the clay allows my work to take on a lot of weight and height, while still maintaining organic, Wabi-Sabi forms. In addition to this the raw, earthy quality of the clay allows me to emulate textures from the natural world, such as bark, moss, mushrooms, and rocks, onto the surface of my work.https://digitalcommons.northgeorgia.edu/seniorexhibspring2021/1019/thumbnail.jp
[1] Sustitch
No full textBranding project for Sustitch, a company that provides revamped goods and services to customers.https://digitalcommons.northgeorgia.edu/seniorexhibspring2021/1086/thumbnail.jp
[4] Rimba
No full textA story is an account of events that can be imaginary or true. Whether fictitious or not, stories are what connect all living beings to the past, present and to each other.
Encountering stories that provoke an emotional reaction have, in turn, motivated me to use my work as a vehicle for lesser represented narratives. In my body of work I desire to enlighten the average viewer on issues of environmental decline, social inequality, and overall life through animated tales. The emotional impact of my work is meant to inspire change throughout one’s life. Whether that change be large or small, I want the purpose of each story I tell to cling to the mind of any viewer.
Rimba is a 3D animated short film that follows a young orangutan’s day in the Indonesian jungle as he realizes the environment around him is being destroyed for the collection of palm oil. Palm oil is a versatile oil used in cosmetics, as a frying agent, and in pre-packaged food around the world. Since the 90s, the production of palm oil has increased by 600 percent and largely affects the rainforests of Indonesia and Malaysia, which house endangered species with populations under 3,000. Although the palm oil industry benefits the global economy, the resulting deforestation and inevitable destruction of endangered species is a global concern.https://digitalcommons.northgeorgia.edu/seniorexhibspring2021/1047/thumbnail.jp