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Kendall Carnell 2024
No full textCafe Mocha, is young adult graphic novel series that follows the story of about Moka and Kohi navigating through everything young adulthood has to throw at them. After moving to a new town for college, Moka, our kind yet nervous bundle of joy, struggles to adjust to her new surroundings and make new friends. That is until she meets and falls in love with Kohi, the town’s most eccentric inhabitant. What makes him eccentric? Oh you know, he’s just a bit of an obsessive compulsive boy who doesn’t understand basic boundaries. Thankfully, Moka can see through his social awkwardness and find the good in him; while Kohi learns to let go of his bad habits as he develops a healthier relationship with his new girlfriend. On top of dealing with college, jobs, friendships, and romance; I’m sure everything will work out just fine.
I decided to mix two of my favorite mediums; digital and watercolor, to produce these 12 pages of sequential comic work. I’ve also mixed elements of photography for some parts of the background. I am acquainted enough with Clip Studio Paint that I can bring unique materials into the comic book pages
Kendall Carnell 2024
No full textCafe Mocha, is a young adult graphic novel series about navigating the chaos of
adulthood, while also exploring themes of relationships, mental health, and family.
After moving to a new town for college, Moka, our kind yet nervous bundle of joy, struggles to adjust to her new surroundings and make new friends. That is until she meets and falls in love with Kohi, the town’s most eccentric inhabitant.
Cafe Mocha, will be a graphic novel series consisting of a total of four books. Presented at thesis was the first chapter of the series, which follows the story of Moka trying to get to work on time and Kohi coming to her rescue. This chapter consisted of 12 fully colored pages that mixed digital media and traditional media, mainly watercolor for the backgrounds. I took the watercolor backgrounds and scanned them into Clip Studio, to correct any imperfections, and tweaked them to fit the style of the comic. I have printed a prototype of the comic to be presented as a proof of concept to be pitched to a publisher or to be used for a kickstarter
Mr. Guzmán Sharing a Few Words
No full textPhotograph of Mr. Alfonso Guzmán speaking to attendees during his dedication ceremony
Maizy Zeringue 2024
No full textSPR.MRKT is a multi-media animated short teasing a much larger story. We follow two characters who have also been thrown into a confusing situation. I utilize the backgrounds to show the setting and establish it's quirks. I would like to imagine the story being adapted into a comic with about 20-30 chapters, or an isolated series of 10 to 12. The narrative at large follows the two protagonists, Mel and Ryan, as they share the challenge of scaping a horribly constructed purgatory meant to ensure they both get sent to hell or oblivion. The 'trials' in this purgatory are expressed as a poorly run grocery store, with only the two of them, and their overworked 'manager', Quinn. This visual shorthand lends itself to plenty of metaphors about capitalism and individuality, and a central theme of my story is learning to value yourself and your labor despite engaging in systems that may not, like employment, school, and government. I chose to use a wide variety of mediums in this project because I am confident with traditional and digital mediums, and I was eager to further integrate the two in my work; as well as get some good portfolio material
Dr. Teresa Hernández Addressing Attendees at Mr. Alfonso Guzmán's Dedication Ceremony
No full textPhotograph of Dr. Teresa Hernández speaking into a microphone while undergraduate students Itzel Garibay Cervantes, Ananya Gupta, Tania López Flores, Lydia Hoffner, Vera Sieck, and Merry Smith listen during Mr. Alfonso Guzmán's dedication ceremony
Francis Bagby 2024
No full text“The Urban Adventures of Pigeon Girl” is a 24-page black-and-white comic strip zine which marks the starting point for an ongoing series. It’s written first and foremost to be a satirical young-adult comedy, while touching on themes of anxiety, social awkwardness, and queer romance. The titular Pigeon Girl must deal with everyday problems while living in downtown Port Detritus circa the early-2000s; it’s a city teeming with monsters, mutants, aliens, and everything in-between! But other than that, it’s pretty normal. Her escapades toe the line between ordinary and absurd, with the setting and surrounding characters exaggerating mundane experiences like buying a CD into over-the-top chaos. She’s often pushed into new scenarios by her outgoing friend Kitty Cactus; Kitty doesn’t know it, but Pigeon Girl has a massive crush on her, which helps motivate the plot in their stories together. While the comic is based on my personal experiences with young adulthood, it’s intended for a broader audience including readers from ages 14 to 25 who value unconventional and lighthearted perspectives on the subject
Erin Boberg Doughton, 2024
No full textThe written thesis Now it’s a Party explores the tensions and possibilities of performance in visual art spaces, with a focus on why and how artists create ephemeral, embodied work in spaces designed for the care and display of objects. The title is taken from a common phrase exclaimed after a glass is broken at a house party. Like a good party, a performance often involves breaking something - a glass, a rule, a social code. Performance relies on a shared (if temporary) belief in the value of process over product, people over objects and the collective over the individual.
The exhibition Now it’s a Party extends the thesis to the gallery as an open studio where visitors are invited to share meals, practice simple magic tricks and experiment with creating and recreating documents of performance. Unlike traditional magic - where the magician does not reveal their tricks, everything in the gallery is real and revealed. Visitors are offered a menu of solo and collaborative scores to be performed with domestic objects including tables, chairs, tablecloths, dishes and brooms, revealing the often invisible labor of art-making and caretaking. The objects and actions vary from day to day, documented in an accumulative archive of photographs and ephemera. The documentation includes two primary scores - Do Over (tablecloth trick) and Ghost Broom. The performers in the photographs are Erin Boberg Doughton, PNCA Alum Crimson Ravarra and PNCA student Malique Pye. All photos by Mario Gallucci
Sally Jablonsky 2024
No full textThrough oil painting, clay sculpture, and a self published magazine, I explore the experience of being a body and an animal on the Earth. I use the body as a source of information to reveal the human fantasy while at the same time creating a new framework to live within–one that shows the human experience in the greater context of the natural world. My work explores: the experience of time and being a body relating to disability, what it is to be a human animal, art making as tool use, aesthetics and care as resistance, and nature as the appropriate context for chronically ill people’s (and maybe everyone’s) experiences. I am interested in undoing hierarchical values assigned to species and in looking to nature, not as a metaphor, but as a place to find commonality among the living beings of this planet. By allowing myself to move between a range of styles within the paintings, I show a respect for a number of things: the physical, the pleasure of looking and of making, and the importance of questioning aesthetics as an essential part of resistance and survival. As it is a part of the fantasy of ableism, I throw away mastery, and instead am guided by the pure fun of making as well as a questioning of my own aesthetic tendencies. Imagery in paintings (a shadow person resting on a floral couch, a tree at night, a doctors' visit, a waterfall scene, and a cat person) come from experiences I've had that have given me a certain kind of awareness of my body–a new perception and relationship involving care and maintenance, physical feeling, and mental picture of who and what I am. I invite viewers to unlearn that we are separate from nature, and to witness a journey through the kingdom of the sick
Brady Wolchansky 2024
No full textMANIC PIXIE DREAM GIRL SYNDROME, A Micro-Cinematic Experience features the premier of an experimental short film I wrote, co-directed, and starred in called, Manic Pixie Dream Girl Syndrome, an adaptation from a comedic monologue of the same name I performed at an all-female group art show in 2023. This tangential monologue begins with, “you guys ever hear of the expression ‘all beautiful women are crazy’?”
The 5-minute short screens at looped intervals in a makeshift microcinema constructed alongside a pop-up museum of “artifacts”; a behind-the-scenes look of the filmmaking process, including but not limited to props, costumes and images from the film’s set.
The complete installation revolves around my investigations of the “Manic Pixie Dream Girl” (MPDG) character archetype, as seen in popular romantic films such as, Some Like it Hot with Marilyn Monroe, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and 500 Days of Summer with Zooey Deschanel.
In cinema, the MPDG is portrayed as an artsy independent woman who often rejects societal expectations of classic womanhood and domesticity. While the MPDG is presumed to be free-spirited and independent, she is still defined by the expectations of a predominantly male protagonist and is mostly restricted within the confines of said male protagonist’s own personal goals and growth, and rarely displays any self-actualization or true personhood. This exhibition aims to recreate my own version of the MPDG, examined from a modern, feminist lens. Through the aesthetics of filmmaking, stand-up comedy and intermedia installation my hope is to show empathy with those who can relate and rouse awareness of the MPDG trope’s negative effects in others