Thesis

Emmaly Crimmel

A Horse is a Horse Unless of Course: An Interview with Paul Kenneth

Paul Kenneth is a trickster, a painter, and that theatre kid we all think we know. Barn-yard-styled with room to roam, UIUC’s South...

Sydney Vize

Embodying the Labor of Remembering: New Work from Tamar Segev

Tamar Segev’s paintings explore connections between generational memory and architecture. The painted, cut, and sewn surfaces enable a...

Abigail Holcombe

MEtrology: Conor Murphy on Measuring Against the Self

Conor Murphy creates work that explores and challenges systems of measurement, asking viewers to reconsider and reorient themselves...

Abigail Holcombe

Photography and the Post-Disaster Landscape: An Interview with Max Heller

Max Heller employs techniques such as burning and bleaching to physically manipulate photographs that capture sites he has visited. His...

Sydney Vize

The Screen is a Structure: Jake Foster on Webcam Aesthetics & New Projects

Sydney Vize sat down with Jake Foster to discuss his artwork in the 2021 Art+Design MFA Thesis Exhibition at the Krannert Art Museum.

Sara Kramer

ECSTATIC ESCAPE | Cartoon Gore and Confronting the Destruction of the Body

{I always worry too much about what if my heart stops in the night. Every time I have a stomach ache I am afraid I’ll have a heart attack.

Christopher Jones

[violin]

Before my violin became a thing, it was an idea. As a child, my mother would read to me The Musical Life of Gustav Mole-the enchanting tale

Katie Netti

Animal Bodies in, and as, Art

In the Anthropocene, concerns for wildlife (natural) are overshadowed by the desire for personal comfort (human). The current infrastructure

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