This collection includes theses, dissertations, and professional papers from the University of Montana School of Art. Theses, dissertations, and professional papers from all University of Montana departments and programs may be searched here.
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Embody, Lillian Luna Bennett
Sweetbriar: I Wound to Heal, Megan Foster
No worries, it’s fine, Lexie E. Loader
BLOOM: A Microbial Self-Portrait, Emily Lauren Mulvaney
A tale of two working landscapes, Sage C. Sutcliffe
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Integrating Social Emotional Learning in the Elementary Music Classroom, Nicole Evans
Warmth of the Sun, Drake M. Gerber
Tree line, Eric Joseph Jensen
Strange Creature, Dagny Walton
Making Mochi!, Shannon 'owo' Crystal Webb
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
A RENAISSANCE: THE ABSURD RETELLING OF MOSTLY TRUE EVENTS, Erica R. Hitzman
Current(s), Austin Raye Navrkal
In the Landscape of her Life, Susan M. Sinitiere
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Beside| |Between, Brooke J. Armstrong
APPEALINGLY UNPEELED: THE LAYERED LEMONS IN DUTCH GOLDEN AGE AND CONTEMPORARY ART, Amanda Barr
Lost in Translation, Amanda Barr
Witch Pamphlets, Tsea M. Francisconi
Luminous Threshold, Peggy Wen
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Permutation, Ryan K. Caldwell
COALESCENT: A COLLECTION OF DEFINING LIFE EXPERIENCES, Stephanie A. Dishno
THE SPACE BETWEEN POINTS AND THEIR NAVIGATIONAL REFERENCE, Darla Pienciak
Fabrications, Molly V. Rivera
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
All Hat & No Cow, Jesse Blumenthal
NARRATIVES OF PLACE: REASONS TO LOOK UP, Dean Justice Leeper
NARRATIVES OF PLACE: REASONS TO LOOK UP, Dean Justice Leeper and Dean J. Leeper
Greetings from..., Casey Mae Schachner
What Comes After Longing, Richard Zachary Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
LIT, Tyler Brumfield
STRANGE RARITIES, Cori Crumrine
THE PRESENTATION OF THE CHASUBLE TO SAN ILDEFONSO: AN EXPLORATION OF ITS ORIGINS, Nikolyn Garner
#IOwnIt, Margaret M. Hamilton
MATRIX OF COMMUNITY, Shelby A. Hanson
Agency Panic: A Reckoning of Place, Brock m. Mickelsen
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
The Prescribed West, Evan M. Hauser
SELENE, Sarah Justice
"PERHAPS," SHE SAID, "LOOKING ITSELF COULD BE AN ANTIDOTE.", Sarah Moore
Median, Amy Petit
EVERYTHINGSFINE, Reanna Schultz
PUSHZOOMPANTILT, A LETTER TO GRANDMOTHER, Karl Y. Schwiesow
Radical Dissonance and Haunted Gestures: Rupture and Reverence in the Artwork of Aja Mujinga Sherrard, Aja M. Sherrard
The Practice of Cartography: Imagining World Art Studies After Eurocentrism, Aja M. Sherrard
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Old Wet Paint, Michael G. Hansen
Subsurface, Elizabeth J. Huhtala
cold lapse, Tressa Jones
Build-Up, Kate Lund
TIDE TO CYCLES, David P. Tarullo
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Snip, Snap, Snout: THIS TALE IS TOLD OUT, Crista A. Ames
More Is The Same, Tyler Reeves Nansen
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Once Achieved, What is it Worth?, James Paul Louks
Currents of Time and Universe, Carmen Malsch
Aporia / Interludes, Claire Melli
NATURALISM AND SUPERNATURALISM IN ANCIENT MESOAMERICA: AN ANALYSIS OF OLMEC ICONOGRAPHY, Sarah Silberberg
Just Leftovers, Sarah Elizabeth Tancred
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
PSEUDO_OP, Joshua Arnold Eck
Where I Come From/Where I Am, Dean Ramsey Foster
UNAPOLOGETIC, Ronald James Geibel
Color/Shape/Form/Space, Brett James Hargesheimer
The Shadow of Polaris: Understanding Sound and Place, Burke Travis Jam
A Synthetic Spring, John Metcalf
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Michael Flynn 2012, Michael Flynn
It Took Me Years To Get Those Souvenirs/ Fragments of a Fiction, Sarahjess Hurt
Giving the Ghost, William Hutchinson
dysfunction, Anna Kirsten Lemnitzer
Suspension of Belief, Yaro Shon Cora Neils
60 Artists, 60 Artworks, 60 Years: Celebrating the Archie Bray Foundation. A Curatorial Experience, Randi N. O'Brien
Authorship of the Ghost, Nathan Ronald Tonning
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Painting for the Eye: Carle Vanloo's Drunken Silenus and the 18th Century French Academy, Anna Buxton
The Story of Things, Lucy Elizabeth Capehart
Undercurrent, Stephanie Rasmussen Johnsen
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
DISQUIETUDE, Pamela A. Caughey
Inbetween, Cathryn Sugg
Recollection, Rebecca Gehres Weed
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
animal vegetable mineral, Eva Lys Champagne
Past Periphery, Lisa Nicole Jarrett
Materiality as the Basis for the Aesthetic Experience in Contemporary Art, Christina Murdoch Mills
The Enigma of the Everyday, Christina Murdoch Mills
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
On the Edge, Hak Kyun Kim
Kings and Courtesans: A Study of the Pictorial Representation of French Royal Mistresses, Shandy April Lemperle
Gifford Pinchot's Photographic Aesthetic, Carlie Shaw Magill
Henry Meloy: The Portraits, A Narrative of the Exhibition, Kathryn Lorraine Rodriguez
The Extravaganza Awaits, Kathryn Lorraine Rodriguez
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
An Analysis of Wars of the Romani, a Flemish Tapestry From the Late Sixteenth Century, Theodore Brooks Hughes
Glacier, Leah Katz
New Romanticism, Kendall Anne Mingey
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
Sex, androgyny, prostitution and the development of onnagata roles in Kabuki theatre, Sara K. Birk
Timeline| A sequence of remnants, fragments and memories, Orville W. Chigbrow
Derivative currents, Sarah Agnes Conway
Internal rotation, Alexandra Kraft
Tetralogue| Family communication, biology, personal myths, and identity construction, Steven Michael Krutek
Humorous contraptions, silly people & optimism, Karen Slobod
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
Mein, Diane R. Hunt
What is now is no longer| Everything has been preserved| A conversation at the Bronx Lounge, Marcy L. James
Textiles of the Chimui and Chancay cultures of coastal Peru woven during the Late Intermediate Period| A comparison of processes and techniques, Hattie Jo Lehman
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
Myths and legends, Jason Elliott Clark
Pretty pink, baby blue, Paul J. Northway
Pieter Bruegel's The Beekeepers| Protestants, Catholics, birds, and bees| Beehive rustling on the low plains of Flanders, Edgar W. Smith
Strength in understanding, Neely Vacura
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
Universal aesthetic structures, Kristine L. Backman
Alone with everybody| A critical evaluation of the pioneer American Romantic painter Albert Pinkham Ryder, William Bliss
Things that co-exist, Megan L. Bogonovich