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Title
ORCID
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6964-9946
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
Fielding is an ongoing exploration of place-making, spaces of learning and relationship building in formal and informal learning environments. The project is comprised of a series of events and workshops that are embodied, multimodal, olfactory and engagement-focused and a mobile cart that helps to facilitate these happenings both in and out of the formal gallery space. I regard my art practice as pedagogical, a blurring of art and life into intentional ways of being in the world; an experience of sharing practices with others and a form of what is regarded in institutionalized art as social practice. I find art to be a powerful lens through which to see, and I strive to demonstrate how it can be applied in all matters of living. The practices of making enable me to contribute towards a more equitable, care-ful, empathic, connected and beautiful earth.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.7275/14450179
First Advisor
Susan Jahoda
Second Advisor
Young Min Moon
Third Advisor
Robin Mandel
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Recommended Citation
Tareila, Emily, "Fielding" (2019). Masters Theses. 801.
https://doi.org/10.7275/14450179
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/801
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