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  • Sargent, Patrick
    This thesis describes the chronological process and the technical application of Social Art Practice concepts in ART-illery community workshops and subsequent themes that culminated in the work on display in my Masters of ...
  • Fussner, Emily
    eternity fleeting, the MFA thesis exhibition of Emily Fussner, was displayed at George Mason University in March of 2019. The exhibition held materializations and reimaginations of ephemeral moments: an elegy of familiar, ...
  • Fathoms 
    Zuckerman, Sarah
    Fingertip to fingertip, I stretch my arms to their fullest extension, this length, this beginning to an embrace, is a fathom. A fathom measures depth as a line cast into the sea slips through the stratum below. It ...
  • Pichocki, Jillian (2007-12-13)
    FIGHTING SPIRIT is the title of a thesis exhibition by Jillian Pichocki. It is a photographic series of large and mediumscale silver gelatin prints which focuses on the aging process of men engaged in the sport of boxing. ...
  • Ashworth, Ben
    This thesis examines the developing philosophy of practice behind my ongoing participatory public art project and MFA thesis festival FINDING A LINE, most recently exhibited September 4-13, 2015 at The Kennedy Center. ...
  • Walton, Michael
    Flash to Eternity is the title of Michael Walton’s MFA thesis exhibition that was on display in the Gillespie Gallery at George Mason University on November 7, 2022, through November 18, 2022. The exhibition was an exploration ...
  • Christensen, Curt Charles (2021)
    Chief Master Sgt. Floyd Edwards Werle was the head of the composing and arranging staff of The United States Air Force Band for thirty-two years. His lifetime output included 513 arrangements, 23 transcriptions, ...
  • Wallace, Kevin P
    Fragmented Lens of War is a visual and poetic exploration of the trauma of war. Looking both below the surface of the ocean and the surface of my own mind, this thesis searches out invisible wounds and the resilience ...
  • Christopher Troiano (2021)
    The American Brass Band Movement (1835-1892) is an important period within music history that is disproportionally and inadequately taught in collegiate music history classrooms. By learning about America’s band history ...
  • Estrella Hong (2020)
    This dissertation proposes a geometrical model of musical chords and melodies based on the molecular bonding models, exploring music through a piano performer’s synesthetic mind that integrates auditory perception with ...
  • Leigh Pilzer (2020)
    Gerald Joseph “Gerry” Mulligan (1927–96) was a highly acclaimed jazz musician in the twentieth century. One of relatively few to adopt baritone saxophone as his or her main instrument he had a nearly fifty-year-long career ...
  • Nolan, Matt
    This is the written component for The Gray Market, a Master of Fine Arts in Visual Art thesis exhibition and project. It provides a detailed description of the concept and body of work in the exhibition. The writing ...
  • Booth, Stephanie T. (2013-12-03)
    Why do many of us feel the need to connect to the past? Events that we did not experience will always partially be a mystery and our own memories are both fallible and malleable. Despite the fact that they are often ...
  • Navab, Nahideh (2014-10-07)
    In my MFA exhibition, November 2013, I’ve taken elements of politics and women’s issues into a visual portfolio. My two passions came together through the use of various complex hand print techniques and an installation, ...
  • Benge, Andrea; ANDiLAND
    THE HOLY RABBIT is an ANDiLAND short experimental film about reclaiming power over one’s body while under a constant threat of violence. A surreal hero's journey down the rabbit hole of the female grotesque to find the ...
  • Chaudhary, Asma (2013-12-03)
    This thesis serves as a literary catalogue, which documents the artistic process and critical insight into studio practice from the perspective of Asma Chaudhary, a Pakistani- American artist. It follows her journey ...
  • Christopher Redden-Liotta (2020)
    In the early twentieth century, a religious and cultural renewal movement took hold in the Evangelical Church (Lutheran) in Germany. As a result, music from the masters of the Renaissance and Baroque period saw new popularity ...
  • Rhodey, Amber (2013-09-13)
    This thesis is an examination of the subculture in the alternative world of a dive bar through the perspective of a female bartender. The examination includes a collection of colliding expressions between memory and ...
  • Bañales, Jorge E
    This thesis describes the work of Jorge E. Bañales, focusing on the conceptual basis for his MFA thesis exhibition Inertia of the Real. Installed in the Gillespie Gallery in the Arts and Design Building at George Mason ...
  • Ragsdale, Yathrib Elhillali
    This thesis describes the state of design and its future capabilities. This document focuses on the history of information design, design principles, human decision-making, psychology and perception, as well as data ...

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