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Danielle Van Dam 2025
No full textThe Clown is a formal investigation of iteration, technique, and endurance in my artistic process underpinned by an exploration of interpretation and meaning in painting. I have created seven smaller-scale paintings all representing the same subject that read together as one body of work. I made a conscious choice to refrain from prescribing a narrative to the work, allowing my viewer to reach their own conclusion, rather than preemptively assign it for them and follow with a supplemental written explanation. With The Clown series, I attempted to invoke an atmosphere of irresolution through representational oil painting, in this case, using a small porcelain clown figurine as my only reference. My motivation to disrupt some logical function or compulsive intellectualization in the process of viewing paintings is a reflection of my studio practice as well as my reverence for the enigmatic. This paper will explore how I’ve chosen to approach my time in this program, as well as for my thesis project—with a self-designed curriculum centered on a technically focused material study in oil painting
Jaivon Freeman 2025
No full textI created this work using adobe software like Premiere Pro and Audition for recording and video and sound editing. I went with these materials because they are materials that I’ve used for previous video projects. To create this video I started the research process and created a script as well as recording the audio. I also decided to include archival footage as well as my own footage from attending wrestling shows. I planned to make the video a mix of entertaining and informative, but decided to keep this one informative because I believed it fit this topic more
Izza Pollacek 2025
No full textCircuitboard is an illustration-based skate brand that explores creative freedom, interconnectivity, and the subconscious mind. I’m using the human body as a vessel to express these ideas. Circuitboard expresses new avenues of design and illustration working together through 2D and 3D realms. Through various mediums such as carpentry, painting and digital illustration, I’ve constructed a series that brings illustration and skateboarding together. In this project, I’ve abstracted the body to explore the layers that shape who we are—memories, regrets, inspirations—all the things we carry. My work invites vulnerability and acceptance, embracing the intricate parts that make us whole and letting our guts spill out figuratively. Skateboarding is deeply physical, and I imagine the skateboard as an extension of the body. If our experiences left marks, etched into us, the board would carry those too—becoming a part of both body and mind
Piper Haswell 2025
No full textBlind Dragonfly is a 2-minute stop-motion animated silent short film. It adapts the story of ‘The Gift of the Magi’ by O Henry, featuring two anthropomorphic bug characters, Scarlett and Iris. Its primary focus was to experiment with non-verbal communication, using the techniques of silent era film and early stop-motion animation to convey this to an audience.
The animation follows Scarlett, a crimson marsh glider, as she realizes she forgot about her anniversary. This results in a scramble in order to get her partner, Iris, something memorable to show her care.
The film includes 4 stop-motion sets and 2 fully articulated wire puppets. It was animated entirely in the program Dragonframe, using 24fps on 2s. It has animation shot on both down shooters and 3D sets, and all shots are composed based on 4:3 ratio, calling back to silent film. It uses both replacement animation and erasure animation techniques for facial expressions. The film was edited using both Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro. A score of music was chosen after animation was complete, to emulate an aspect of old silent films.
Blind Dragonfly takes inspiration from several places, but primarily early stop-motion animation and silent film. The characters were directly influenced by the film The Cameraman’s Revenge, reflecting in their bug origins, as well as the general imperfectness of early animation, the implied hand of the artist. Its composition also takes a lot from silent films, including the aforementioned aspect ratio and music choices, as well as the use of intertitles.
Blind Dragonfly was primarily created as a way to build experience in a variety of stop-motion animation techniques, as well as to become a portfolio piece for character animation
Yvette Kinyon 2025
No full textDisappearing Stories refers to the unseen impact we have when we lose individuals in our lives
and nature. When an animal loses a loved one it impacts them in similar ways we are impacted