This collection contains Honors in the Major theses completed in Visual Arts and Design.
Theses from 2023
The Significance of Art Education: Creating a Digital Classroom Advocating Art Education, Keri K. O'Connell
Theses from 2022
Women in Post-war Japan: Bodies of the Avant Garde, Cassidy P. Boulanger
Revealing the Black Form: Black Bodies in Nineteenth-Century French Orientalist Visual Art, Nathanael Amir Justin Lapierre
Theses from 2021
The Role of Placemaking in Universities and Their Surrounding Communities: A Literature Review, Natalie R. Verdiguel
A Third Culture Kid's Quest for Belonging: Ephemeral, Eternal, and the Space in Between, Simona Darshani Wiig
Theses from 2019
Displays of Medici Wealth and Authority: The Acts of the Apostles and Valois Fêtes Tapestry Cycles, Madison L. Clyburn
Of Martyrs and Minstrels, Trevon J. Coleman
Women's Work: Materializing Feminist Thought in Lucy Lippard's c.7,500 Exhibition, Francesca Felicella
Artful Bionics: Pushing the Limits of Visual Expression in Prosthetic Design, Anna Kester
An Exploration of Teacher Perceptions of the Presence of Cultural Reproduction in Two Middle Schools, Kaitlyn Montcrieff
Willingness to Communicate and International Students' Use of L2, Michelle Verbitskaya
Theses from 2018
Leviathan: Ontogeny of Salvation, Faren L. LeJeune
Theses from 2017
Teaching Strategies for Students with Exceptionalities in the Secondary Art Classroom with a Focus on Students with Autism, Down Syndrome, and Visual Impairment, Cheyanne Maree Fannan
American Viragos: Depicting Heroines in Public Art, Cara Henry
Metamorphosis of Love: Eros as Agent in Revolutionary and Post-Revolutionary France, Jennifer N. Laffick
Subjects of the Gaze: Rubens and his Female Portraits, Gabrielle C. van Ravenswaay
Theses from 2016
To Be Magic: The Art Of Ana Mendieta Through an Ecofeminist Lens, Elizabeth Ann Baker
Destabilizing Identity: The Works of Dorothy Cross, Aileen Dowling
Slough: Revealing the Animal, Clay Dunklin
Exploring Preservice Teacher Attitudes toward Black Students, Audra L. Greuel
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
The Nature and Importance of Art Criticism and Its Educational Applications for k-12 Teachers, Tia Blackmon
Controlling Randomness: Using Procedural Generation to Influence Player Uncertainty in Video Games, Travis Fort
Between Psyche and Reality: An Investigation of Contemporary Landscape, Shanna Stiles
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Bringing John Green to Schools: Incorporating Young Adult Literature in a Secondary English Language Arts Classroom, Emily Adams
The Search for Truth in the Digital Cinematic Space and Green Screen Performances, Kade Dalton
The Accompanied Experience and the Aesthetics of Memory, Allyson Dickerson
Investigating Flow, Presence, and Engagement in Independent Video Game Mechanics, Jon Dunaj
Cohabitation: Looking Through a Keyhole, Mary Joy Torrecampo
An Art Teacher's Guide to a Cognitive Teaching Process: Prompting Student's Creative Thought, Kristen Warskow
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Threads of Identity: Marisol's Exploration of Self, Emily Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
The pastel medium communicating sexuality and promiscuity in late nineteenth-century Paris, Adee S. Benartzy
An examination of technology and its influence on reading in struggling students and an autoethnography of a preservice teacher, Megan Campanile
An examination of academic dishonesty in secondary online english education, Marissa Middleton
Pestilence and prayer saints and the art of the plague in italy from 1370 - 1600, Jessica Ortega
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
A comparative review of the works of Feldman, Sternberg, Gardner and Eisner and the resulting practical application for the secondary art classroom, Heather Denmark
Art in the light of knowing a cognitive approach to the creative process, Victor M. Knoe
Art teacher preparation does the path to certification in Florida matter?, Deanna Jean Price
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Pagans, prefects, and emperors : a reexamination of the sarcophagus of Junius Bassus, Lauren Elizabeth Astafan
An analysis of the graphic novel adaptation of the Iliad by Homer for use in the secondary classroom, Christopher Baltazar
Between Near and Far: Somewhere in Between, Molly Bender
An eddy of self discovery, Stephanie Tyler Cafcules
Art, avoidism, and automation, Jon Didier
Behind closed doors : new images of manhood, Wesley Harris
Using Meyer's Twilight in the secondary classroom, Tierney Miller
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Spiritual seascapes : finding God in the waters of John Frederick Kensett, Amanda C. Banacki
The votive experience : from Brazil to the global perspective, Natalia da Silva Marques
The unification of portraiture and genre in paintings by Sofonisba Anguissola, Jessica Louise Duby
In the name of Saint George : ivory saddles from the fifteenth century, Robyn Dora Radway
Rest in peace : a study in solo performance, Kelli Rose Sleigh
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Personal personnel : the effects on teachers and administrators of a failing school due to high-stakes testing, Carley Lyn Blades
Roman women : a study of public sculpture and its significance in the autgustan program of cultural reform, Stephanie Ann Jordan
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Covers : social significance of apparel in portraiture, Amanda Farrell
Do you see what I see? : a visual artist's exploration of African American women and obsessions with visual appearance, Leah R. Gipson
A Curriculum Guide for Integrating Literary Theory into Twelfth Grade Florida english Language Arts, Helen Philpot
Interpreter of Maladies: Analyzing Current Young Adult Indo-Caribbean Literature for Inclusion in Today's High School Canon, Reshma Ramkellawan
Working for Play, Jonathan E. Scarboro
Ideas of space, Carson A. Wampler
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
James Ensor: Northern European Art and the Carnivalesque, Bryce Dwyer
Willing Participant: The Emergent Sexuality of Post-Feminist Women, Ashley Ford
African Art in Western Museums: Issues and Perspectives, Nancy Petty
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
Likeness: Empathy in Art, Daniel Coeyman
Constructing a Memory House: Preserving the Past through Personal Relics, Shannon Collier
Between Modernism and Postmodernism: Examining Epochal Markers, Robert Grassel
Life Support: Sustaining a Personal Aesthetic, Jennifer O'Malley
At Home: Representations of Identity through Portraiture and Narrative, Stefanie Storm
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
The Role of Contemporary Artists and Mathematics in the Art Classroom, Katherine Blair
Exploring Life Through the Depths of the Subconscious Mind, Urszula Blaszak
Channeling Aesthetics in the Digital Realm: Designing Virtual Homes for the Artists of Folkvine.org, Chantale Fontaine
Significance of Masking Traditions in Mesoamerica, Erin Garrett
The Absurdity of Honor, Tuong Anh Millspaugh
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
In search of the sublime, Sarah Lange
Theses/Dissertations from 2002
Whistle while you work, Karen Breneman
The visualization of the creative experience, Christopher Davison
Imarill of the star : an illustrated children's novel, Carolyn Fleetwood
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
Migraine auras and hypergraphia and their connection to Hildegard Von Bingen, Megan Paquette
Theses/Dissertations from 2000
Glass houses: the end of privacy, Angela M. Sinkovits
Theses/Dissertations from 1999
All the king's horses (a 3-dimenslonal fine art piece), David Edwal Jones
Civil uprising, Michael P. Kloss
Theses/Dissertations from 1998
The song of Athena, Beverly D. Ervin Frazier
Mor' better, mor' worse : the effects of marriage on the valuing of art, Lindsy Riepma
Theses/Dissertations from 1997
Totems : a comparison and contrast of four totemic sculptures in northern exposure with Northwest Coast Native American totem poles, Meredith Harper Moody
Theses/Dissertations from 1994
Sky Woman was Pushed: How the European Influence on Iroquoias Spirituality Changed the Social Structure of the Iroquois Confederacy of Nations, Jessica P. Maguire