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ORCID
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8431-3420
Access Type
Open Access Thesis
Document Type
thesis
Degree Program
Art
Degree Type
Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)
Year Degree Awarded
2019
Month Degree Awarded
May
Abstract
Existence Stories is an interactive activist art project that gathers personal narratives from people about the ways in which their lives have been impacted by the current political climate in the United States, particularly surrounding the 2016 Presidential election and its aftermath. The project harnesses first-person narrative and audience participation as tools for humanizing the “Other” and building connections between people through the act of sharing stories. As the project has progressed over time, it has evolved in multiple directions and come to incorporate a variety of media, primarily comics, animation, printmaking, and zines. The roles that reproduction, distribution, and communication play in all of these media are also explored within this body of work.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.7275/14369344
First Advisor
Shona MacDonald
Second Advisor
Coe Lapossy
Third Advisor
N.C. Christopher Couch
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Keaton, Althea, "Existence Stories" (2019). Masters Theses. 812.
https://doi.org/10.7275/14369344
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/812
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