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Kendall has a long-standing history as a reputable art and design school. As a college within Ferris State University, Kendall College of Art and Design prepares students for leadership in the visual arts, design, art history, and art education; provides innovative, collaborative education that fosters intellectual growth and individual creativity; and promotes the ethical and civic responsibilities of artists and designers, locally and globally.
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(2021-12-08)This qualitative analysis intends to answer: how do I, as an artist, use paint for my development and healing? As a contemporary portrait artist, I seek to capture the character and essence of my subjects. My paintings ...
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(2020-12)This Thesis is a qualitative, critical-visual analysis of the National Hockey League’s Chicago Blackhawk’s mascot, Chief Blackhawk. Through a decolonizing-deconstruction of various Indigenous stereotypes, this Thesis will ...
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(2020-05)In 2018, hip-hop artist, writer, and comedian Donald Glover (1983), who also performs under the name Childish Gambino, released his “This Is America” video, which quickly became a viral sensation. Gambino used his racialized ...
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(2020-05)Critical animal studies is a growing field. Our cultural marker of humanness and therefore distinction is at last being questioned with authority in scholarly conversation. Ideology coming through eco-feminist and ideas ...
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(2020-05)The focus of this thesis is assessing museums as representational cultural institutions and the ethical responsibility these institutions have in regard to accessibility and inclusivity of artifacts and information for the ...
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(2020-05)The sublime has been noted as an outmoded concept, particularly in relation to contemporary art theory. Yet discourses around the sublime still exist today and are mediated by museums, galleries, curators, and philosophers ...
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(2020-12)According to the recent study “New Americans in Kent County”, commissioned by the New American Economy, the top two countries of origin for immigrants living in Kent Co. account for one-third of the entire immigrant ...
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(2021-03-14)My most recent work has been exploring my own experiences as a combat medic/flight medic and my own relationship to traumatic injury, war, and death. I desire to show the hopeless futility of the never-ending cycle of human ...
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(2021-03-19)This graduate thesis serves to explain both the conceptual and formal aspects of my creation process. After a brief narrative introduction that defines my overarching impetus to paint in the first place and explains the ...
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(2021-04)I work with paint, canvas, photoshop, and photography to create installations and individual pieces that blend the genres of painting and conceptual art. Two oppositional philosophical objectives guide my practice. The ...
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Meow Wow (2021-03)By creating paintings, which challenge assumptions concerning depth and space, in conjunction with harking to aesthetics associated with the notion ofcuteness, I explore the following: how is one to challenge perceptual ...
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(2021)This paper examines gender representation prepared by Bux Dhyne as part of their Master of Fine Art in Painting. It explores the history that built the concepts of what gender means today and discusses how these ideas are ...
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(2020)Before Google, Siri, and Alexa, there were librarians; if you wanted accurate information you would have to leave the comfort of your own home and head to your local public library. In New York, it is still possible to ...
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(2020)Every generation has encountered mental illness and anxiety but statistics show a shocking increase in anxiety that is exponentially affecting Generation Z. Mental health and emotional stability is crucial in guiding ...
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(2020)Survival of the human species has always relied on social connectedness; in an increasingly isolated world positive socialization and emotional empathy is more important than ever before. Empathy is not a single part of ...
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(2020)The human brain is a complex system, which requires multiple moving parts to operate in conjunction with one another in order to produce healthy cognitive processes. This thesis is meant to examine the impact of trauma in ...
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(2020-08)For the past forty years, American public schools have been fundamentally transformed under the influence of a set of educational initiatives that have come to be known as the reform movement. The reform movement is a loose ...