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From Both Sides of the Easel: Women as Both Artists and Models in the 19th Century
No full textThis thesis explores the interesting and complex dual identities of four 19th-century women, Victorine Meurent, Suzanne Valadon, Berthe Morisot, and Mary Cassatt, who navigated the art world as both models and artists. With the odds against them due to exclusion from formal art academies and societal constraints shaped by class and gender, these women created distinct and unique paths into the art world. For Meurent and Valadon, modeling became an economic necessity, while providing a rare entry point into artistic practice and networks otherwise closed to lower-class women. In contrast, Morisot and Cassatt, both from upper-class families, had access to more social connections and private instruction to establish themselves as artists, with only smaller associations as models. Through a comparative lens, this study examines how these women engaged with and challenged pre-conceptional narratives in order to achieve their successes as artists. Their contributions not only helped reshape the perception of women in the arts but also highlighted the barriers of class and gender that continue to inform artistic discourse today.Purchase College SUNYArt HistoryBachelor of ArtsKromm, Jan
The Real Housewives of Hypernormalisation
Get PDFIn a time where all we have functions in favor of managing the capitalist system we live under, reality television is no exception. The Real Housewives franchise contributes to a reality where audiences can critique consumerism while they continue to partake in it. Similar to Mark Fisher's concept of capitalist realism, the belief there is no alternative to capitalism, viewers reject the wealth on display, but still engage and accept its logic. Adam Curtis' hypernormalisation provides an understanding of how the franchise can blur the line between reality and fabrication to create a show that sustains itself through irony and detachment. Where criticism is absorbed into the system it attempts to challenge, leaving audiences stuck in passive engagement rather than impactful resistance.Purchase College SUNYCommunicationBachelor of ScienceRossman, Mega
Le Petit Bonhomme: Islam in Political Cartoons
Get PDFPolitical cartooning is a form of media that can inhabit a transgressive or derisive space that vehicles political persuasion. This phenomenon exists in French satire, where political cartoons are considered a social tradition, the main trait of which is the representation of le petit bonhomme in caricatures—a representation present in Charlie Hebdo's cartoons. My research of political cartoons before and after the Charlie Hebdo attacks uses modern semiotic analysis to track how le petit bonhomme fashions race and gender concerning Islam and laïcité. This leads me to pose the question: How does political cartooning vilify the image of postcolonial immigrants by using French ideology, such as laïcité, to vehicle an anti-immigration discourse? To analyze this, I first study political cartoons discussing the 2005 banlieue riots that link postcolonial immigrant status and Islam to violence. After the Charlie Hebdo attacks, I argue that the initial image of violence evolves into one of terror. Lastly, I analyze the hijab ban controversy and how political cartoons illustrate and contradict its political deliberations relating to Islam and immigration in France. Therefore, since the Charlie Hebdo attacks, the makeup of political cartooning is put into question as it became a battleground for French ideology that eventually turns into a French imperialism and anti-immigration discourse. This discourse targets postcolonial immigrants by accusing them of Islamic sectarianism and radicalism. Consequently, political cartoons are used in France to construct a message that vilifies postcolonial immigrants.Purchase College SUNYPolitical ScienceBachelor of ArtsGalloway, Samuel R
AI Takeover
Get PDFThis research explores the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in industries and its impacts
on job displacement in middle- and upper-class professions. AI continues to gain self-
sufficiency through the integration of machine learning and neural networks. Tasks
originally performed by humans are transitioning to automation, raising concerns about
stable employment and wage equality. Through case studies, this paper analyzes which
roles are more susceptible to automation and how workers adapt to the integration of AI.
The future impact of AI will largely depend on how companies prioritize adaptation
strategies and workforce management.Purchase College SUNYMathematics & Computer ScienceBachelor of ArtsTusman, Le
"The Price of a Dream: Artist Exploitation in the Modern Music Industry"
Get PDFThis research critically examines the systemic exploitation within the modern music industry, spanning from its early 20th-century foundations to the contemporary digital age. Centered on the guiding question—how has the music industry structured itself to economically, legally, and socially exploit artists over time—the paper traces a historical arc of labor abuse, restrictive contracts, and financial marginalization, particularly impacting Black, immigrant, and working-class musicians.
This project also critiques structural inequities affecting marginalized communities and outlines the broader psychological and social consequences of artist exploitation. Finally, it evaluates models of resistance, including independent production, fan-funded platforms, blockchain technology, and unionization efforts, while proposing a vision for ethical transformation through legal reform and industry accountability.Purchase College SUNYArts ManagementBachelor of ArtsRicciardi, Laura R
The Fictionalization of the Black Experience: The Presence and Absence of Black Femininity
Get PDFThis paper explains the roots of the misrepresentation of Black women in media and how this affects the Black woman's presence in and absence from the world. The paper seeks to interpret how a Black woman's marginalized state affects her consciousness and sense of self, and how the Black woman can free herself from viewing herself through the lens of her oppressors. This paper expresses that, by taking control of her essence and creating her own reality, the Black feminine can create her own sense of self separate from the caricatures made of her, most commonly the Mammy, Sapphire, and Jezebel. This paper applies women's blues as a possible route to liberation and analyzes the work of Jean-Paul Sartre, W.E.B. Du Bois, Sadiya Hartman, Angela Davis, Frederick Douglass, and other thinkers, critiquing whether their theories are broad enough to include the complexities of Black female consciousness.Purchase College SUNYPhilosophyBachelor of ArtsDiaz, Emiliano F
Seen/Unseen
Get PDFExploration of the two sides of myself as an artist–painter vs. inner critic–through looking at memories and specific works from the MFA experience.Purchase College SUNYVisual ArtsMaster of Fine ArtsKreimer, Julia
No, I'm Not Amish: Exploring the Quaker Experience in Today's World
Get PDFThis Senior Project discusses Quakerism, and what it is like being a Quaker in today's world. It dives into the concept of Pacifism as a living value and the struggles that come into play when we live in such a violent world. It also discusses faith, and how media plays into sacred, religious spaces.Purchase College SUNYAnthropologyBachelor of ArtsKim, Davi
Mirrors of the Self: Ritual of Presence in Sound, Light, and Form
Get PDFThis thesis explores the intersection of religion, spirituality, quantum theory, and reality in an experiential, multisensory installation that incorporates sculpture, digital art, and sound. Through personal experience and philosophical inquiry, the work recovers ritual as a space of presence and contemplation, and invites the viewer to participate in a moment of sacred encounter. An action at the center–kneeling–becomes a dissolver that deconstructs the border between artwork and observer, recalling the non dualistic structure of the world. Fleeting images and nested sound fields repeat the cosmic pulse of the rhythms, intuited by suggesting that self does not lie with the body but is part of an expanded conscious field. By engaging with mysticism, quantum consciousness, and violence of institutionalized religion, this work creates a new spiritual mythology that respects ambiguity, subjectivity, and poetry in technology. Installation is the altar and threshold, where surrender becomes a mode of knowledge, and presence is holy.Purchase College SUNYVisual ArtsBachelor of ScienceWalsh, Dav
Senior Thesis
Get PDFThis paper expands upon the work I have been making throughout my time in the Painting and Drawing program.Purchase College SUNYPainting and DrawingBachelor of Fine ArtsFlood, Elizabeth J