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Item Accessioning visions of the people.(2009-12) Goette, Susan AnnVisions of the People was a complex and influential exhibit focusing on American Indians peoples. This study examines the role of museums as cultural interpreters, explores the social nature of objects as markers of cultural ideas and values, analyzes the ways in which particular representations achieve their authority, assesses object selection processes with attention to patterns of inclusion as well as exclusion, and investigates the cultural narratives employed by museum workers as they conceptualized and created the exhibit. This work explores the understanding, meaning, and representation of American Indian art, history, and culture that was fashioned by the museum (MIA). The import of this case study rests on the assertion that images are powerful. Museums display objects and images in an attempt to convey particular ideas and interpretations to an audience. This study has the potential to serve as a primer for those interested in museums as historically situated institutions that possess the cultural authority to reproduce and interpret the stories we tell about ourselves to ourselves, as well as the stories we tell about others (C.Geertz). Each section of this study addresses a different topic, and brings together the perspectives of those people most concerned with or most impacted by each topic. Contributors to each section include: scholars, museum professionals, artists, and members of the audience. Each of these roles included both American Indian and non-Indian contributors.Item Art in the Libraries 2010: Tangible Digital Matter(2012-12-19) Wallace, Jasmine; Balik, Tonya; Boudewyns, Deborah K. Ultan; Katsiaficas, DianeThe Art in the Libraries 2010 exhibition Tangible Digital Matter celebrates digital media in the work of undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff from the Department of Art at the University of Minnesota. All of the work in some way is shaped, affected, manipulated or informed by digital technology. Digital prints, ink jet and laser pieces, mixed media works, and installations integrate simple and complex digital facets with fabric, ceramics, photography, drawing, painting, and sculpture. The theme of the exhibit is particularly timely for the University Libraries. As books and information find their way more and more in digital form, researchers are, like artists, inventing and journeying through new paths of research praxis. Not only is the path of research and discovery new, but the end products are, also, finding new form and born digital. Tangible Digital Matter is a reflective and metaphoric show for the Libraries, inviting researchers to contemplate the visual manifestations of digital information as it integrates traditional and technologically formed media.Item Art in the Libraries 2011: RESOURCE • RETURN • RECYCLE(2012-12-19) Balik, Tonya; Ostraff, Josh; Boudewyns, Deborah K. Ultan; Katsiaficas, Diane; Klug, ShannonThe 2011 Art in the Libraries exhibition features a broad range of work by U of M students and faculty. The artists explore the theme RESOURCE • RETURN • RECYCLE as questions, factors, and implications to be interpreted both literally and conceptually. In this way, the exhibition reflects the condition, process, and cycle, which establish the identity of the artists' work.Item Arts for Academic Achievement Evaluation Report(Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement, 2009-06) Kundin, Delia; Meath, JudyThis report focuses on Arts for Academic Achivement’s efforts to provide professional development opportunities to teachers using a school-based planning approach for integrating Tableau during the 2008-2009 school year. Tableau is a theater arts strategy in which students interpret stories using dramatic techniques. The Arts for Academic Achievement Program (AAA) has incorporated Tableau in Minneapolis Public Schools’ classrooms as a strategy to supplement reading and writing instruction. The main goal for students participating in Tableau is to use their bodies and facial expressions to portray the meaning of a reading passage, in a “frozen picture.” The strategy allows students to “bring thinking and reading to life.”Item The Arts Involvement in Social and Political Issues: The Minnesota Arts Community and the Same-Sex Marriage Amendment(2013-01-14) Carlson, CortneyOn November 6, 2012, Minnesota became the first state in the country to defeat a constitutional amendment to limit marriage equality. Focusing on the proposed marriage amendment, this thesis explores how the arts can be involved in social and political issues. Working together or with outside disciplines, the arts can be an asset to advocacy or campaign efforts.Item Critical response and pedagogic tensions in aesthetic space(2013-02) Petkau, Judi WarrickThis study investigates teacher and student enactment of the Critical Response Protocol (CRP) to support the interpretation of meaning from contemporary visual art in a museum gallery setting. This study focuses closely on one, situated enactment of CRP to more deeply understand its general value, its effective use and the form of learning that it may support or constrain. Learning is theorized as sociocultural, and revealed in shifting identities of participants situated within discourses (Gee, 2008). The theoretical framework for the study is Mediated Discourse Analysis (MDA) (Scollon & Scollon, 2003; Norris & Jones,2005) with methodological tools drawn from critical ethnography (Fine & Weis, 2005), educational critique (Eisner, 1998), critical discourse analysis (Gee, 2008; Fairclough, 2001) and cultural studies (Bourriaud, 2002; Ngai, 2005). The identified nexus of this study is an encounter between a 10th grade student and his English teacher practicing CRP before a large contemporary painting as part of a larger creative writing assignment. The activity surfaced within a six- year engagement as an aspect of an art museum-based literacy program called Artful Writing. During that time, a digital audio of the episode was promoted to practitioners and students as a model of successful CRP practice. The study reveals unexamined tensions between teaching goals of critical thinking, critical literacy and aesthetic processes. Intending to support critical literacy, this CRP practice was constrained by both teacher and student assumptions surrounding aesthetic response, the artist's intention and artistic voice, and by a persistent, normative classroom discourse valuing calm, sequenced and reasoned interpretation.Item Exhibit Catalog for, "Ritual of Reading: Religion and the Illustrated Book," March 22-May 14, 2010(2010-03-22) Sienkiewicz, EmilyThroughout history, the illustrated book has served a significant role in the practice of religion and the expression of religious beliefs. Ranging from bibles to codices to examples of great literature and reproductions of master paintings, the books in the Francis V. Gorman Rare Art Book Collection and the University's Special Collections demonstrate the key role art and artists play in the cultivation and promotion of religion, faith and spirituality.Item Exhibit Catalog for, "SEM, GiGi, and Caricature," February 3 - April 19, 2015(2015) Boudewyns, Deborah K. Ultan; Keating, Lindsay; Otten, NikkiThe exhibition, "Sem, GiGi, and caricature," celebrates the new thirty-foot long acquisition, "Sem au Bois," accompanied by other special collection materials contextualizing caricature during la Belle Epoque in France, and as expressed in the comedic novella, "GiGi," written by the French author Colette. On display are late 19th and early 20th century illustrated journals, books, prints, and newspapers from the University of Minnesota Special Collections, in particular, the Francis V. Gorman Rare Art Book Collection.Item Exhibit Guide for, "Paradise and Purgatory," February 14 - April 4, 2008(2013-05-31) Boudewyns, Deborah K. Ultan; Freeman, Travis; Wong, MichaelTwo art exhibits—one of works by University of Minnesota graduate students, and one of images from the University's Gorman Rare Art Book Collection—explore themes of salvation and damnation in art. Work ranging from the 4th century to the present informs viewers of possible routes to spiritual redemption and the disasters that might befall moral transgressors.Item Exhibit Guide for, "Visual Spaces, Literacy Places," March 11 - May 5, 2011(2013-06-06) Sienkiewicz, Emily; Wertheim, Laura; Boudewyns, Deborah K. Ultan; Klug, Shannon; Terpstra, Darren; Peters, JenSelections from the Francis V. Gorman Rare and Special Art Book Collection have been highlighted in annual exhibitions since 2003. These exhibitions have focused on themes such as celebrity culture, graphic design, the history of exhibition catalogs, and the ritual of reading, to suitably and beautifully reveal the rare materials in the collection. By extending the curatorship to especially appointed graduate students, the exhibits serve as a scholarly and collaborative opportunity between faculty, students, departments, and the Libraries. These curatorial contributions will be showcased in this year's retrospective.Item Finding Home: A Qualitative Study on Healing Homelessness through Expressive Arts Engagement(2019-07) Bueno, JoséThis phenomenological study seeks to expand the understanding of the impacts of expressive arts engagement on the mental health and trauma among homeless youth through the experiences of professionals working with those populations. Organizations across Massachusetts and Minnesota were selected based off their organizational mission statements for helping the homeless youth population, as well as referrals. This study demonstrates expressive arts engagement as one of the many tools in working through trauma and mental illness seen in the homeless youth population. Organizations should work towards the successful integration of the arts and healing mental illness found among youth homelessness.Item Gifts in motion: Ottoman-Safavid cultural exchange, 1501-1618(2012-08) Arcak, SineBetween the sixteenth and mid-seventeenth centuries, the Shiite Safavids of Iran and the Sunni Ottomans of Turkey--two of the greatest Islamic empires in history--developed a complex relationship in which tenuous peace alternated with bloody conflict, often with dizzying speed. This dissertation is the first systematic study of this relationship from the perspective of visual culture, and focuses specifically on the objects exchanged, through gifting, by the royal courts of these two empires. These objects--ranging from lavishly illustrated books and exquisite silk carpets to richly embroidered tents, chandeliers and even live birds of prey-- enriched the visual culture of each court, and led to the formulation of two distinctive artistic canons with a lasting legacy in the artistic traditions of each empire. This study aims to deepen our understanding of this cultural exchange and the role it played in the relations between these two rival empires. It argues that the movement of luxurious objects functioned as a primary mechanism for the expression of competitive interaction between the two courts. This thesis focuses primarily on gifts received by Ottoman sultans from Safavid shahs from the early sixteenth century to the early seventeenth century. Specifically, the exchange of gifts between the two courts is explored at certain key moments in the development of their relationship, each of which forms a separate chapter in the dissertation. Through an examination of the elaborate ceremonies that typically accompanied the exchange of objects at these moments, I investigate the ritual use of material culture to project both political power and cultural influence in the early modern world. The four chapters are organized in rough chronological order, with each one focusing on a specific exchange or a set of ceremonial exchanges that provide visual and material clues about how objects functioned in the early modern Muslim world. Each case study takes as its unit of analysis a group of routinely exchanged objects on the one hand, and one-of-a-kind objects on the other. I examine both the actual gifts exchanged, as well as manuscript paintings depicting and describing their ritual presentation and reception. The textual evidence ranges from treasury records and court chronicles to epistolary sources and first-hand ambassadorial accounts in Ottoman Turkish, Persian and Italian. The purpose of each chapter is thus to understand the potential and actual movement of objects in illuminating the convoluted relationship between two rival empires.Item Greed-OxyContin-Addiction-Death(2022) Hilleboe, Cody JA supporting paper to fulfill the Master of Fine Arts degree requirements Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Department of Art University of Minnesota By Cody Hilleboe In partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Master of Fine Arts Degree in Art 2022 Committee: Rotem Tamir Christina Schmid Emily Jordan Jensen Tetsuya YamadaItem I'm Not Yelling(2024-04-06) Polikoff, WhalenItem Interior Impressions: Printed Material in the Nineteenth-Century American Home(2018-10) Michelon, ChristinaThis dissertation considers how makers, especially women and children, were using mass-produced images clipped from periodicals, advertisements, and other printed sources to assert their own agency and individuality via collage-like practices in their homes during the nineteenth century. I use a wide array of “printcrafts” – my term for objects made from prints – that mediate between uniqueness and mass production, handicraft and industrialization, destruction and creation. My case studies include scrapbooks, decoupaged (print-covered) furniture, chromolithography, and board games. The project grapples with domestic craft’s relationship to affluent white femininity while using print to understand the relationship between the home, industrialization, and creativity in the modern era. By focusing on the ingenuity and “making” done by nineteenth-century homemakers, this project recovers an artistic past that has been overshadowed by more canon-driven studies of art and emphasizes the innovation and importance of centuries-old craft practices, such as collage, years before they were co-opted by twentieth-century avant-garde art movements.Item Intersections of Art and Politics: Clemenceau, Monet and Republican Patriotism from Commune to Nymphéas(Journal of Opinions, Ideas & Essays (JOIE), 2015-10-01) Munholland, John KimIn the aftermath of France’s defeat in the war of 1870-71 and the Commune uprising of 1871, the French sought a new political identity and sense of unity, which brought a new political regime, the Third Republic. At the same time, a younger generation of French artists began experimenting with new forms and techniques that came to be known as Impressionism. The Third Republic was born at the same time that a new generation of artists were emerging. While there was always a distance between the artistic and political worlds, two representative figures, the politician Georges Clemenceau and a leading Impressionist, Claude Monet, found themselves joined in a common cause, despite Monet’s dislike of political conflicts, in defending the newly formed republic from its opponents during three crises in France at the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. This paper examines this curious alliance of two friends and patriots during times of crisis during the formative years of the French Third Republic.Item Jacques Callot's Miseres de la guerre as narrative: 18 etchings from 1633(2020-12-01) Cherbuliez, Juliette; cherbuli@umn.edu; Cherbuliez, JulietteThe etcher/engraver Jacques Callot printed the second state of Les Misères et malheurs de la guerre in 1633. These images are in the public domain and the originals are held by Minneapolis Institute of Art. They are presented here in their entirety and in order, because viewing them together and as an ordered series shows that they form a narrative. It is being released now in advance of publication of my more extensive findings.Item Layering Time and Motion: Paintings and installation by Joonja Lee Mornes(2012-12-19) Mornes, Joonja Lee; Boudewyns, Deborah K. Ultan; Klug, ShannonArtist, Joonja Lee Mornes, draws inspiration from watching nature in various lights through the seasons. Seasonal, temporal, and phenomenal changes were a constant part of Mornes’s observations while growing up in Korea. Since then her observations have turned from the rice fields to the prairie landscape. Selected paintings and new window installation pieces will be featured in the exhibit, Layering Time and Motion: Paintings and installation by Joonja Lee Mornes, in the Architecture and Landscape Architecture Library at the University of Minnesota, February 7th through April 29th, 2011.Item MERGE: Materials Methods Minds(2012-12-19) Carlson, Anna; Boudewyns, Deborah K. Ultan; Klug, ShannonA juried exhibition of University of Minnesota student and faculty work that showcases the creativity and boundary-breaking taking place within this academic community. The exhibit coincides with the International Surface Design Association conference, where much discussion revolves around the value, use, and merging of materials. By removing dividing lines between campuses and disciplines, the work submitted for this show exposes a cross-section of the multidisciplinary approaches artists and designers are using to combine materials and techniques to produce objects that speak of process, conflict, and reciprocity. The artists and designers used a variety of tangible materials including yarn, paper, ink, and thread to manifest the complex conceptual material derived from memory, contrast, environment, and ecology.Item Monuments of Trash Art Project (MoTAP)(2013-05-28) Gravening, Tanya; Boudewyns, Deborah K. UltanTanya Gravening makes art that focuses on the problems caused by plastic pollution. Monuments of Trash Art Project (MoTAP) is a series of paintings, sculptures, and functional art objects to raise consciousness of plastic pollution. The creative process of MoTAP includes an opportunity for people to participate in the project by collecting plastic trash, which is then used to construct the art work.