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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
I am looking at the notion of contingency and how random events construct the self at any given time. The concept of the contingent self is centered on the amalgamation of experiences that one undergoes throughout one’s ...
The thesis project, impulse Present, was a site-specific work presented in two
separate public performances. The first performance was on September 22, 2008, as part
of the George Mason University’s Fall for the Book ...
Isang Yun (1917–1995) was the first successful Korean-born composer in Western classical music. His students, Sukhi Kang (1934–2020) and Byungdong Paik (b. 1936), have been leading composers and educators in South Korea ...
The purpose of this dissertation is to reintroduce Isaac Mikhnovsky (1914-1978) to a new generation of scholars and musicians. Not only was Mikhnovsky a brilliant pianist who gave the Russian premiere of Rachmaninoff's ...
This dissertation explores John Philip Sousa’s The Last Days of Pompeii and its relationship to two preceding artistic treatments of the same title, a novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton and a painting by Karl Bryullov. Each ...
Liminal Glyphs, MFA thesis exhibition of Kate Fitzpatrick, was on display at Gillespie Gallery at George Mason University in Fall of 2020. The exhibition provided a space to explore the nature of language, meaning, and ...
The luxury of exploration that was afforded me during my time at George Mason
University and my pursuit of investigating the use of live organisms in conjunction with
symbiotic systems and audience involvement, led me ...
Motherscape, the MFA thesis of Jayne Matricardi, explores the psychological landscape of motherhood through paintings, video, mixed media and poetry. The exhibition shines light on hidden struggles of motherhood, investigates ...
Our identities and gestures are transferred from our cultural memory. Photography, movies, and more recently, virtual reality, are cultural and social markers that juxtapose the "ideal image of self" with the self as ...
This dissertation describes the current state of analysis of film music with the intent of finding connections between ideas on narrative analysis and film music. I posit an approach from Almén that overlays Micznik’s ...
The purpose of this study was to gain a better understanding of music educators’ perceptions of ways in which marching band and college music education curricula connect. By examining the music educators’ perceptions, the ...
This thesis describes parallels between the realm of internet, specifically virtual reality
and the subconscious domain of dreams. The observation of how slowly and steadily
humans become digitalized and migrated into ...