Recent and In Progress MA Theses

Author Thesis Title

Semester

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Virginia CastenedaNational Bodies in the Photographs of Edward Weston, Lola Álvarez Bravo, and Graciela IturbideSpring 2020
Andrea GuerreroThe Being/Becoming Object: Strategies in Unfolding, Disrupting, and Becoming in Contemporary Latin American and Latinx ArtSpring 2020
Randel KingEnabling Engaging Experiences in the Bowers Museum China ExhibitSpring 2020
Fabiola RuizMexican and U.S. Identity in Siqueiros' Tropical America and Orozco's Epic of American CivilizationSpring 2020
Ariana Rizo[De]Constructing the "Real" Through the Photo Still: Asco's The Gores and David Lamelas's Rock Star (Character Appropriation)Summer 2021
Sierra Carrington ScottArtemisia Gentileschi and the Florentine Court: The Magdalen as the Model of Positive Penitential EmotionFall 2021
Marina VilhenaA Critique of Osgemeos' Grafitti Reception in the US: Challenging Stereotypical Notions of Latin American Art as "Fantastic Others"Fall 2021
Alan QuanCanterbury Cathedral: The Creation of Sacred Space Through Architecture, Art, and RitualSummer 2022
Nina KangYoung-Il Ahn (1934-2020): Transcending Borders and BoundariesFall 2022
Vanina d'AmbrosioFlorentine Statecraft: Sensuality, Emotion, and Violence in the Patronage of Cosimo I De' MediciSummer 2023
Alitzah OrosMi Cuerpo, Mi Territorio: Performing Land-Body Entanglements in the Works of Carlos Martiel and Regina José GalindoSummer 2023
Katie HolmesNon-Conforming Strategies: Dora Maar's "Queering" of New Vision Photography and Surrealism Spring 2024
Cami KellerAn Artist's "Delirious New York": Georgia O'Keeffe's Skyscraper PaintingsSpring 2024
Nichole Saul“Pictures Made of Wool”: Gunta Stölzl Weaving Abstraction at the BauhausSpring 2024
Breeann StreleckiBeyond Wire: Ruth Asawa's Collaborative Printmaking at Tamarind Lithography WorkshopSpring 2024
Danielle FrankLita Albuquerque’s Cosmological Mapping Land, Body, HorizonsSummer 2025
Isabel ClineThe First Darmstadt Haggadah: Illuminating the Lives of Medieval Jewish Women Spring 2025
Michaela MaguinRoma Aeterna: Manifestations of Vergil's Golden Age in the Art of Michelangelo and Raphael Produced in RomeSpring 2025
Morgan McIntoshPilgrimages to Transcendent Places: May Alcott Nieriker’s Early Artistic Oeuvre in Concord, MassachusettsSpring 2025
Alessandra SolomonHumanizing the Machine: Cybernetic Legacies in Contemporary Artistic PracticesSpring 2025
Meagan WhalenWomen, Wonder, and the Wilderness: The Ecology of Female Copyists in 19th-Century American Landscape PaintingSpring 2025