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Economy

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The humorous illustration depicts people behaving poorly at dinner. There is dialogue written above the heads of the diners.
Date: May 1816
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Ground (C iii)

Work of art in porcelain shown in the exhibition "Concurrencies," by artist Hanna Pettyjohn.
Date: May 2019
Creator: Pettyjohn, Hanna
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library

Geese, Anti-Clerical Caricature

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Six clergy are seen in profile behind the silhouettes of nine geese.
Date: May 17, 1902
Creator: Jossot, Henri-Gustave
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library
Perceived ease of use and usefulness of sustainability labels on apparel products: application of the technology acceptance model (open access)

Perceived ease of use and usefulness of sustainability labels on apparel products: application of the technology acceptance model

This article explores consumers' perceptions of sustainability labels on apparel products and examines sustainability labels as an effective means of determining consumers' purchase intentions using the technology acceptance model.
Date: May 28, 2017
Creator: Ma, Yoon Jin; Gam, Hae Jin & Banning, Jennifer
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
One Thing at Least is Certain (open access)

One Thing at Least is Certain

Diana Rojas explores the hidden and invisible through interdisciplinary collaboration and conversation across fields such as Philosophy, Music Composition, Physics, Material Science and Visual Art. The tools and environments she creates - by utilizing the archaic and contemporary, the digital and sculptural, known and unknown, and the minute and immersive -culminate in experiential works that prompt viewers to slow down and inspire introspection. The slowing down that these works provoke raises questions about existence, reality and being. By combining materials and elements of theories and devices of exploration, she references their antecedents, but creates new opportunities for viewer investigation. This includes utilizing creative coding, video, 3D modeling, welding steel, kiln forming and soldering glass, and cutilizing sand as projection screens. Additionally, she utilizes sound and light to create captivating installations, inspired by interest in the influence that immaterial forces have on human minds and decisions.
Date: May 2023
Creator: Ponce, Diana Rojas
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
From Every Depth of Good and Ill (open access)

From Every Depth of Good and Ill

Titled after a poem by Edgar Allan Poe, From Every Depth of Good and Ill, is an exhibition composed of vignettes created with ceramic sculpture, ephemeral installation works, and printmaking. The work primarily references domesticity and antiquated subjects to illustrate the process of coping with past trauma and the resultant feelings of shame, inadequacy, and incompleteness. Marked by a palette of warm rust and sepia, aged patterning, and worn textures, the tableau of objects presented within the space mimic old familial photographs. Each resulting work serves as a dirty looking-glass for the viewer to peer through.
Date: May 2023
Creator: Gibson, Jacob Tylor
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Candalaria Paredes and Delores Martinez (open access)

Candalaria Paredes and Delores Martinez

My work explores my identity as a Latino, veteran, and father, and counteracts the lack of positive representation of men of color in society. While they are similar to traditional piñatas in their design and construction, my sculptures are based on abstract representations of my internalized identity. These anthropomorphic forms stand rather than being hung, enacting ownership over their space. This allows them to take on a newly assigned identity and presence. These forms allow me to display, articulate, and communicate. the struggles I have experienced throughout my life because of systemic oppression.
Date: May 2023
Creator: Martinez, Saxon
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rainbows, Stones & Ghosts (open access)

Rainbows, Stones & Ghosts

Rainbows, Stones and Ghosts is a two-part exhibition of multi-dimensional drawings about the almost and the not-yet-made. My Project-in-Lieu-of Thesis exists physically as a series of oil paintings, works on paper, and a site-specific sculptural installation. With recurring imagery of rainbows, stones, and construction debris, the works reimagine their subjects as icons and objects of potential. Highlighting time, labor, and material, my project questions the creation of value, status, and the concept of the ‘ideal’. My drawings dissolve the boundary between the absence and presence by continuously breaking down, expanding, and reimagining their surfaces, subjects, and sites. Rainbows, Stones and Ghosts is an invitation to navigate the ‘almost’ as an immersive space of possibility.
Date: May 2023
Creator: DePetris, Sarah
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oil People (open access)

Oil People

My ceramics are composed of two bodies of work poised against one another, one rendered in porcelain and colored inclusion stains combined in processes rooted within the practices of laminating clay, and the other made of brutal metallic black stoneware. The first are made of landscapes and abstractly depict them, while the latter represent ways in which we consume oil literally and metaphorically. Within myself are conflicting desires for convenient access to my environment and the loss of biodiversity caused by my unsustainable use of it. This is the core of the conflict between my pieces and my intention in making work is to embody my relationship with nature as influenced by my familial context in the US. All of the vessels are designed to be functional, but to serve used motor oil instead of food or drink. If the purpose of the objects is to represent my relationship with nature and the iteration of days, then the performance of them is meant to invoke the recognition of multiform oil consumption and the effect it has on my life.
Date: May 2023
Creator: Grasham, Eric
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Inside, Outside, Under (open access)

Inside, Outside, Under

My ceramic works utilize a heightened sensory perception to encourage a prolonged engagement with the handcrafted objects. With an emphasis on repetition, I create individual rings from clay coils and interlink them in complex, radial configurations to produce a malleable, geometric network designed to respond to the user's movements. The work revolves around dichotomies: hard/soft, delicate/strong, inspired by clay's chemical alterations in the firing. Each malleable pattern preserves the fluid movement the pliable clay begins with. Overall, the abundance of ornament elevates the object, transforming an everyday object into something intended for special occasions or moments for the self.
Date: May 2023
Creator: Segrest, Courtney
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Times-Mu-Ta-Tion (open access)

Times-Mu-Ta-Tion

My work as an American artist (Korean diaspora) reflects the interplay of diverse cultures and locations that have shaped my experiences. Through the exploration of photo and video archives from my travels, I uncover patterns and images that symbolize both place and transition. Utilizing digital technology, I fragment and reconstruct visual elements, evoking a sense of longing and disconnection. I also investigate the relationship between the body and space, using multi-modal responses. My work aims to capture dualities and stimulate contemplative meditation through the juxtaposition of tangible and intangible, clear and hazy, large and small, and intimate and distant elements.
Date: May 2023
Creator: Suh, Jae-Eun
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Maternalia (open access)

Maternalia

I combine maternal feminist experiences with hand-built ceramic vessels to create functional ritual objects. Pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood transformed me. I am not just “mother" but also “artist” and “woman:” this multiplicity is intersubjectivity. I reconciled my conflicting priorities through my art with authentic testimony, memorialization, and activism. Rich red earthenware is clothed with rhythmic, radial pinch marks and stylized floral illustrations. Pottery has a strong association with the body, combining naturally with corporeal forms. My installation and performance pieces use the pot's function as a conceptual vehicle. Perhaps a little solemn reflection kneeling before Vessel of the Female Spirit or listening by Fountain will make my viewers better stewards of their selves, the mothers in their lives, and this precious planet.
Date: May 2022
Creator: Henson, Amy
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
…And Still I Wander South (open access)

…And Still I Wander South

In my work, I explore the ancient occult concept of the egregore or collective thought-form and its continued relevance in contemporary life. One might not think of the systems that we operate in today as ritual in nature, especially those that utilize new technology. We may imagine cyberspace as the ultimate rational and objective realm where all things can be categorized, quantified, and monetized. However, it is a place saturated with ceremonial situations upon close inspection. I seek out these ceremonies of niche digital communities and reconstruct them in new forms operating adjacent to their original stream.
Date: May 2022
Creator: Harper, Nathan
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bellows of the Beast (open access)

Bellows of the Beast

My artwork uses the traditions of printmaking, photography, and fiber arts to dissect the myths, history, and current moment of American culture. My methodology includes photographing sites where governmental and capital power is most present. Photography is my tool for documenting the present, while quilting and printmaking are my way of reflecting on and digesting ideological concepts that are present in our culture. The quilt is a symbol of comfort in our personal ideologies. My work aims to destigmatize direct action and encourages the viewer to reevaluate how meaningful change can be made today.
Date: May 2022
Creator: Pozos, Aaron
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Healing & Reassembling (open access)

Healing & Reassembling

Working to unravel my sense of the world and challenge the narratives and beliefs I hold as truths; I have created a reimagined and surreal bathroom that offers a private and vulnerable space filled with hidden horrors. The animated, imperfect, decayed, and cracked bathroom forms bridge the gap between the impermanent fragility of memory and the ongoing beliefs of a personal narrative. I worked to overcome the assumption that, to heal, something must be completely resolved within itself. Instead, I offer that healing is an undescribed area, that is unmeasurable, and it is forever evolving and never finished.
Date: May 2022
Creator: Potts, Emily
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Floating Life (open access)

Floating Life

Photography, as a way of recording, is often high-definition and highly descriptive. Therefore, photography has a close relationship with visual perception. In my soft and abstract photographic images, the particularity of time and place is deliberately diluted, and the traditional objects in the photographic images are eliminated to challenge the viewer to locate themselves in relation to the photographs. The ambiguity of the photograph stimulates the viewer's self-consciousness to the greatest extent, while also spurring profound examination of the particular ways one expects photographs to affect them.
Date: May 2020
Creator: Ning, Siyu
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fractured Terrains (open access)

Fractured Terrains

Since my youth in Ukraine, I have been inspired by the first cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, who went to outer space in April 1961. Since then I have been imagining the fragments of an unknown space that is divided into a variety of different felt locations. I am interested in envisioning fractured terrains, where the intrusion of sharp elements interact with a soft transparent and atmospheric space. I want to create a sense of discord as a metaphorical reflection on the absurd, political situation in Ukraine where I am originally from. For me, navigating or transitioning from one imaginary space to another through the act of making painting feels equivalent to experiencing a new place for the first time.
Date: May 2020
Creator: Vasyutynska, Laura
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fragmenting Time (open access)

Fragmenting Time

Brief Artist Statement by Shellita Tow as part of a 2021 MFA Exhibition, entitled "Fragmenting Time” in the Cora Stafford Gallery on the campus of the University of North Texas on April 15-20, 2021.
Date: May 2021
Creator: Tow, Shellita
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Heeding the Underbelly (open access)

Heeding the Underbelly

Black’s work presents The Ubiquitous, an entity that propagates into subhuman beings that ravage the deserts in search of sacrificial circles or homing beacons. Their physical nature is heavily influenced by: Languid, liquid human body language; the otherworldly visage and tenacity of plant life; the heaving monstrosity of mountains and rock formations; and the joyous allegory of movie monsters, puppets, and pulp fantasy. The Ubiquitous is explored in Black’s whimsical writings and intensive drawings which are characterized by her mark’s immediacy; and her work seeks to understand this Being’s purpose, function, and correlation to her own life..
Date: May 2020
Creator: Black, Jordan
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Interiority (open access)

Interiority

Brief Artist Statement by Randal Robins as part of a 2021 MFA Exhibition, entitled "Interiority” in the Cora Stafford Gallery on the campus of the University of North Texas on March 15-25, 2021.
Date: May 2021
Creator: Robins, Randal
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Into a Spacious Place (open access)

Into a Spacious Place

My artwork is a record of mundane yet impactful experiences of everyday life. The subject of memory and my interest in pictorial space create a visual narrative of the physical and metaphorical ways I navigate the world. I envision space as sometimes a place of comfort, or at times a souvenir of a distant event. Through my paintings, I process and rediscover the past through the intimacy and tactility of mark-making. Each work presents a bittersweet narrative where I examine the complex circumstances that have brought me to a specific moment in time.
Date: May 2022
Creator: Gonzales, Victoria
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Always Girls and Forever Boys (open access)

The Always Girls and Forever Boys

Brief Artist Statement by Sean Lopez as part of a 2021 MFA Exhibition, entitled "The Always Girls and Forever Boys” at Sweet Pass Sculpture Park in Dallas, TX on April 17-18, 2021.
Date: May 2021
Creator: Lopez, Sean
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
11,009km (open access)

11,009km

Brief Artist Statement by Jihye Han as part of a 2021 MFA Exhibition, entitled "11,009km” at the Goldmark Cultural Center in Dallas, TX on April 9-May 7, 2021.
Date: May 2021
Creator: Han, Jihye
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Legend Systems: an Escape to a Hidden Land (open access)

Legend Systems: an Escape to a Hidden Land

Brief Artist Statement by Maria Villanueva as part of a 2021 MFA Exhibition, entitled "Legend Systems: an escape to a hidden land” in the Environmental Education, Science and Technology Building Atrium on the campus of the University of North Texas on March 1-5, 2021.
Date: May 2021
Creator: Villanueva, Maria
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library