On display February 2022 in the Hammond Hall Gallery Artist talk with Juror Tommy Perez Accepted Works
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MFA Candidate Bethany Battles Wetzel presented her thesis exhibition on November 17, 2021. South 2 South: Connections in the Ordinary highlights connections between South Korea and Alabama. Inspired by her trip to Seoul in 2019, the show is a designed sensory experience to encourage travel, increase empathy, and lessen travel fears by introducing similarities between […]
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MFA Candidate Taylor Weaver presented her thesis show “Where Are All the Women?” on October 28th, 2021. Her show presented an alternative museum experience by taking the existing cultural discourse on art and revealing how history and museums perpetuate the story of women as objects rather than contributors to art. Taylor created a field guide […]
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MFA Candidate Carol Record presented her thesis design show on October 1st. Carol designed and produced Lumen, a card game that can be used as a teaching tool to help introductory photography students learn professional terminology used in critiques. Lumen fosters a casual, game based environment with the hopes of reducing student anxiety leading up […]
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MFA Graduate James Johnson completed a successful thesis show in April 2021. Black Men Design was created by James as a way to promote and encourage interest in graphic design among young black boys. He created a book called Design Thinking: Teen Beginner’s Guide to introduce design ideas and principles to young teens.
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In the Spring 2021 semester, MFA candidate Karine Parker presented her thesis exhibition “Curiosity with the Familiar”. This show explored the field of User Experience (UX), and what makes an experience intuitive and invisible. During the show, attendants were able to interact with different activities that related to various UX principles including Occam’s Razor and […]
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Public Lecture in Design & Photography McCandliss & Campbell, the award winning art direction team of Nancy Campbell and Trevett McCandliss and Jurors of JSU’s National Juried Student Design Show: WORK, will give a public lecture to coincide with the opening of the show.In this lecture, you’ll get a look at the work and process of this […]
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MFA Alumnus Stefanie Cobb has received a Silver National ADDY Award for Packaging design in her thesis work “Ex Libris: Reimagining the Literary Experience through Artifactual Storytelling and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451.” Stefanie created and curated objects inspired by the classic novel Fahrenheit 451 presenting to reader’s a new way of interacting with stories through design in order to […]
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MFA Graduate student, Carol Record, was selected to be in the Top 50 entries in the Hahnemühle Student Photo Competition entitled Show Us Your Series. Carol’s photography series #metoo was selected as a top 50 finalist out of 700 entries in this international competition. Artist Statement The #MeToo movement went viral in October of 2017 and prompted […]
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Crisis Hour – Decoded Escape Room was an pop-up interactive design project created by MFA candidate Karine Droulers Parker in Graduate Design Studio class. Inspired by her love of escape room games, Karine designed everything from the logo and the room to the actual game itself. Participants were sent on a mission to help an […]
