Prints--Kentucky--Louisville--Exhibitions; Painting--Kentucky--Louisville--Exhibitions; Art quilts; Block designs; Screen process printing; Feminism and art
This thesis explores pattern juxtaposition using traditional American quilt block designs as the compositional basis for nine works pieced from screen printed paper. In the 1970s, the quilt was celebrated for its apparent connection to Modernist...
This thesis presents an overview of my current work in context with my entire body of painted quilts created over a span of twenty-eight years. From its foundation in Feminism, my work reflects the quilt as an art form and a metaphor for my life...
Amish--Books and reading; Amish--Ohio--Social life and customs; Literacy--Ohio
Following in the tradition of scholars who treat literacy in context such as Deborah Brandt, Shirley Brice Heath, and David Barton and Mary Hamilton, I conducted my dissertation research not in an academic classroom but in the valleys of Hanley, a...
"A moving tribute to her mother, this work combines the personal and the political. The quilt includes a narrative - the witty story of the family of Aunt Jemima, most familiar as the stereotypical black 'mammy' but here a successful African...
A woman sitting on a chair inside a cabin in Harlan County, Kentucky. Behind her are three beds with quilts, shelves on the wall with folded linens, and petticoats hanging from the ceiling.
From the MOMA website (http://www.moma.org/) (11-2011): Bed / Robert Rauschenberg (American, 1925-2008) / 1955. Oil and pencil on pillow, quilt, and sheet on wood supports, 6' 3 1/4" x 31 1/2" x 8" (191.1 x 80 x 20.3 cm). Gift of Leo...
Men; Women; People; Religious facilities; Welfare facilities; Quilts; Beds
Address: 314 S. Hancock Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Beds and makeshift room dividers adorn a room for refugees at the Presbyterian Colored Mission. Two men and two women sit in the room. The men wear suits and have placed their hats on one of the...
A group of women stand near display booths of textiles and needlework. A United States flag hangs from above as do blankets and quilts. Part of the table is also dedicated to an educational display with a light bulb and model plane.
Art museums--Collection management; Rowling, Charles, 1935-2008; Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft
This Curatorial project examines issues that museums face in the documentation of permanent collections, using the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft (KMAC) and its piece Angel, by Charles Rolwing, as specific examples. The project focuses on museum...
English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers; Reading; Second language acquisition
Teaching reading in the mainstream classroom is a challenge. This challenge is
compounded when trying to meet the needs of English language learners. Recently,
Response to Intervention (RTI) has been suggested as a framework for classroom
teachers...
Inspired by William Butler Years and his theory that "A poet...never speaks directly as to someone at the breakfast table…" from "A General Introduction for My Work" this poetic thesis examines everyday occurrences in an often...
Federal Art Project; Art and social action; Politics in art
This thesis project exhibition brought together Works Progress Administration prints
from the University of Louisville collection, as well as the University of Kentucky Art
Museum and Murray State University. The thirty-three works were...
Rosie (possibly Rosie Day), left and Elizabeth Flatt, right, unfurl a quilt created to honor the Allied victory in the Second World War in front of Jean Thomas' Traipsin' Woman Cabin on Mayo Trail near Ashland, Kentucky. Title supplied by cataloger.
Rosie (possibly Rosie Day), left and Elizabeth Flatt, right, unfurl a quilt created to honor the Allied victory in the Second World War in front of Jean Thomas' Traipsin' Woman Cabin on Mayo Trail near Ashland, Kentucky. Title supplied by cataloger.
An unidentified woman, left, holds a quilt created to honor the Allied victory in the Second World War as Jean Thomas, right, in coat and tam, watches from the steps of her Traipsin' Woman Cabin on Mayo Trail near Ashland, Kentucky. Title supplied...
Men; Boys; People with disabilities; Log cabins; Litters; Quilts
A child is carried past a log cabin by two men on a stretcher made of logs and a quilt, as a boy on crutches, wearing overalls and apparently missing his right leg, looks on. The children were likely selected for treatment at Stephenson orthopedic...
