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. ...
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. ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...