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Title

Fielding

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

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 License
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