Entries from Undergraduate Research Journal for the Human Sciences Weblog tagged with 'Art'
Special Edition - Interconnected Through Art: The Artist, The Land, The Community
Sheri Binkly, Sara Keller, Jenna Sogn, Marisa TenBrink, South Dakota State UniversityGuest editor and program coordinator: Dr. Leda Cempellin Full publication: http://www.kon.org/urc/v9/interconnected-through-art/ Introduction: This group project has been inspired by the theme of the 2010 Upper Midwest Honors Conference at SDSU: "Mitakuye Oyasin", roughly translated, in the Dakota/Nakota/Lakota language as "we are all related." Each student in my Honors Art Appreciation class chose an artist, whose work is connected with either the land, the community, or both. Then, he/she performed...
Textile Arts and Handcraft Participation in the Florida Parishes Region of Louisiana
Kristin McNab, Debbie Johnson* Southeastern Louisiana University Full manuscript: http://www.kon.org/urc/v8/mcnab.htmlAbstract The purpose of this study was to document textile arts and handcraft participation in the Florida Parishes region of Louisiana. Six women (of varying ages) participated in the interview-survey procedure; each interview took thirty minutes to one hour to complete. The study primarily helped to gain knowledge about five important factors related to arts and handcraft. First, the questions in the interview process were specifically directed to people who sew...
Finding Everything in the Space of Emptiness
Rose Sexton, Leda Cempellin* South Dakota State University Full paper: http://www.kon.org/urc/v8/sexton.html Where Nothing has Happened Like a pair of enormous contact lenses, two giant concave stainless steel disks stare at each other across a vacant hallway. At 200 cm, they are taller than a man. Modest industrial lights illuminate the vast chamber where they are attached to the blank concrete ceiling. No shadows offer definition to this space. Instead blank white walls descend to the immaculate concrete floor. The state...
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