Category Archives: thesis

Hot Air Balloon

by Emily D. Adams (MFA 2011)Paradise is the Persian word for Garden. Its literal translation is a ‘walled enclosure,’ and has been handed down from sometime around 4000 BCE through the Egyptians and the Moors, to the Spanish medieval cloister and the Italian Renaissance, changing in styles and scope like the English Gardenesque, the botanical, and the mighty National Park…. Read More

Action, and Traction

by Aliene de Souza Howell (MFA 2011) Self-portrait, Till Fog and Clear of Midnight  The life of an industrious artist trying to make something of herself requires a lot of back and forth! But all good things, I was in a show with two other artists in Philadelphia. The exhibit opened Saturday evening at the Mural Arts Program’s gallery…. Read More

Another week into the semester, ideas are action.

by Aliene de Souza Howell (MFA 2011) I re-incarnated a piece from Leipzig about a business man walking past a flooded city street into a mock-up diorama. I also did a drawing for the next in my series of catastrophe meets quotidian, incorporating the Guatemalan sinkhole into a supermarket scene. For my Thesis, I am launching into a new endeavor,… Read More