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MFA Candidate Taylor Weaver presented her thesis show “Where Are All the Women?” on October 28th, 2021. Her show presented an alternative museum experience by taking the existing cultural discourse on art and revealing how history and museums perpetuate the story of women as objects rather than contributors to art. Taylor created a field guide […]
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MFA Candidate Carol Record presented her thesis design show on October 1st. Carol designed and produced Lumen, a card game that can be used as a teaching tool to help introductory photography students learn professional terminology used in critiques. Lumen fosters a casual, game based environment with the hopes of reducing student anxiety leading up […]
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MFA Graduate James Johnson completed a successful thesis show in April 2021. Black Men Design was created by James as a way to promote and encourage interest in graphic design among young black boys. He created a book called Design Thinking: Teen Beginner’s Guide to introduce design ideas and principles to young teens.
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MFA Alumnus Stefanie Cobb has received a Silver National ADDY Award for Packaging design in her thesis work “Ex Libris: Reimagining the Literary Experience through Artifactual Storytelling and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451.” Stefanie created and curated objects inspired by the classic novel Fahrenheit 451 presenting to reader’s a new way of interacting with stories through design in order to […]
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This past fall, MFA student Brandon W. Vernon presented his thesis show entitled Once Upon Another Time. Brandon’s illustrations, which focus on gender identity in classical fairy tales, recently won two Addy awards. Below is a description of Brandon’s thesis work, as well as, his work entitled Shakespeare Kills Everybody!, original works based on death […]
Patrice N. Anderson is a recent Jacksonville State University Visual Communication Design M.F.A. graduate. Her thesis show Design Prep, focused on local outreach to high school students interested in art and design. Patrice organized a summer camp to give high students an opportunity to experience first hand what a career in design has to offer. […]
