This collection includes theses and dissertations from the Department of Fine Arts, in the College of Arts & Sciences. It is not exhaustive since most paper theses and dissertations have not been digitized. Generally, paper copies of theses and dissertations published prior to 2014 can be accessed in the University of Louisville Libraries. If you would like to add your thesis or dissertation to this collection, please fill out the Electronic Theses & Dissertations form.
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
That limbless sign the thesis document., Donna R. Charging
Alabaster glory., Chloe Cheng
Origin stories., Danielle Deeley
Art justice: The Nazi aesthetic, cultural theft, and restitution in the 21st century., Kathryn Elaina Jacob
Authentic fake: Authenticity and authentication., Suyun Son
As the night is lit: The nocturnal urban landscapes of Childe Hassam., Diana M. Wilder
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Perception is reality! How perception shapes our world., Nicole Clay
Someone, stop her! The musical (the gallery show): The thesis document., Hannah DeWitt
Spirits in my studio., Katelyn Gabbard
Second nature: Impressions of place., Trish Korte
The landscape does not care it is a landscape: A utopian pessimist journey in Kentucky., Shachaf Polakow
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Di•as•po•ra: Displaced, not erased., Betty Álvarez
Meat the future., Xin Chen
Betwixt & between., Xuanyi Wang
Transformation., Jingshuo Yang
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
But also full of seeds for a future that could have turned out differently., Megan Marie Bickel
Letting the days go by: an Investigation into the artistic and functional nature of calendars., Elise Alexandra Blankenship
The uncanny desire in American animation and film., Kristen Hankins
Witness and testimony: the role of race and community in forming Black Aesthetics., Cathy Smith Shannon
Shifting sands., Rachid Tagoulla
-rhiza., Katherine E. Watts
Love labor: literal symbols and true abstractions., Karen Weeks
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Analysis of twenty-first century zines., Anna Blake
Women of pop., Jourdan Cunningham
An exploration of provenance and ownership history and the critique of curatorial practice., Sacra J. Fallen
Invocation., Shae Taylor Goodlett
American nocturne., Zahid Saeed
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Send nudes : art on social anxiety and human connection in an internet driven society., Lauren A Bader
Thinging : powerful objects., Tammy M. Burke
Exploring place as a producer of localized art styles and its role in a contemporary global art world., Alexis Doerr
The house that credit built: How advertising shaped a culture of borrowing in the decade of prosperity., Morgan Folden
Waiting room., Helen Payne
It's a mad world after all: the influence of stoic thought in Goya's Los Caprichos., Jennifer Anne Steward
All the better to see you with., Monica Stewart
Trace., KCJ Szwedzinski
Leonora Carrington : A Bestiary., Stephanie Wise
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
The history and signification of the Navicella Mosaic at St. Peter's Basilica, Rome., Eston Dillon Adams
The mosaics of Ciudad Universitaria : Mexican muralism at the crossroads., Annemarie Elizabeth Carney
Frederic Lindley Morgan : gentleman architect and reluctant modernist., Lisa Grace Carpenter
The disjointed moment : marking, mapping, and making the real in William Eggleston's election eve (1976)., Joel Darland
North American indigenous collection and curation and its impact on market arts., Adelaide McComb
Title., Douglas Miller
Common ground, diverging paths: eighteenth-century English and French landscape painting., Jessica Robins Schumacher
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
A fly has died a splendid death in a pool of strawberry ice cream., Miranda L. Becht
MAN/BOY., Nick Hartman
Traces of the (un)familiar : family, identity, and the return of the repressed in the photographs of Ralph Eugene Meatyard., Hunter Martin Kissel
Challenging the self : an examination of the media's role in creating idealized bodies and the artists that challenge them., Jessica Oberdick
Transplantar : los frutos de sus labores Transplant : fruit of their labor., Marie-Elena Ottman
Transversal approaches and ecological artwork., Madison DeAnna Sevilla
Farmscapes : picturing land transformation in nineteenth-century America., Eileen L Yanoviak
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Site responsibility : eco-art and environmental ethics in the anthropocene., Nicholas Flint Collins
Putting Christians on the map : topographic mosaics from late antique Jordan as representations of authority and status., Tracey Elizabeth Eckersley
Murakami-ego : collective culpability and selective retention., Yun Kweon Jeong
Let's keep in touch : conversations about access and tactility., Whitney E. B. Mashburn
Claude Cahun, Marcel Moore, and the collapse of "surrealist photography"., Elizabeth Ann Driscoll Smith
Top Drawer : 150 years of Bittners in theory and practice., Wesley Elizabeth Spencer
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
The process of curating Trace of a Body : creating relationships and building experiences., Bailey Marie Mazik 1990-
Traces of the hand., Molly F. Passafiume 1989-
Displacement : a reckoning of internal affairs : curatorial practice following artist praxis., Stacey Reason 1987-
Corporate history and curatorial practice at Buffalo Trace distillery., Stephanie Rose Schmidt
Body image., Emma Sharps 1989-
Iconoclastic fervor : Sally Hazelet Drummond, abstract expressionism and curatorial practice., Hillary Sullivan
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Public art in urban parks., Taylor Crush, 1990-
The formation of a sacred political site : the birthplace of Mao Zedong at Shaoshan, Zhe Dong 1988-
Not even or pretty : improvisational textiles from recycled clothing., Karen Anne Habeeb 1974-
Hugh Haynie and the art of opinion : examining history, memory and controversy in museum exhibitions and interpretation., Jessica Bennett Kincaid
Women of the 1913 Armory Show : their contributions to the development of American modern art., Jennifer Pfeifer Shircliff
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
The founding of the Art in Embassies program and the misrepresentation of American art., Zachary Scott Distel
The sea empress's garden., Brandon Dyer 1980-
Art museum deaccessioning : conflict between museum professionals, donor intent, the public, and living artists., Megan Elizabeth Kociscak 1987-
Knitting as art., Deborah Levine
Seeking Bob Thompson : dialogue/object., Slade Stumbo 1971-
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
The adytum., Lexi Bass
The Dome of the Rock: the historical, political and religious motivations behind its construction., Greg Clark 1962-
Studies in the image of the Madonna lactans in late medieval and Renaissance Italy., Cecelia M. Dorger
Maidens, matrons, and magicians : women and personal ritual power in late antique Egypt., Meghan Paalz McGinnis
The impact of Edward Perry Warren on the study and collections of Greek and Roman antiquities in American academia., James Murley 1947-
Dames, doilies, & divorce., Tenille Novinger
Visualizing female agency : space and gender in contemporary women's art in Mexico., Jamie L. Ratliff
Unearthing Charles Rolwing : the problem of documentation in the small museum., Elizabeth A. H. Rue 1988-
P.A.I.N.T. : a case study in engaging the community through public art., Katherine Jo Sowada
Ibrida., Dawn N. Struck
Collections care and management at the Howard Steamboat Museum, Inc., Katherine LeClerq Wanke 1988-
Finding the brutal aesthetic., Marcy R. Werner
The Paramount Ballroom in the 1930s : a modernist social and architectural space., Xi Zhang 1987-
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
A reconsideration of the apse of Hagia Eirene., Eston Adams 1979-
Addressing identity/redressing the museum., Sarah Guadalupe Cassidy
Pattern play : pieced works on paper., Gweneth A. Dunleavy 1954-
Leo Wrye Zimmerman : return to Main Street., McKenna Graham
Counter-Reformation agenda in the paintings of the Virgin Mary., Sharon Lynne Heaphy 1987-
Power in plaster : the installation of stuccowork during the late antique and early Byzantine periods., Kaelin Merritt Jewell
The dialectic of trauma in Charlotte Salomon's Life? or theatre?, Brooke Leeton
A social networking space : a study on the productivity of Twitter in museum practice., Cara C. Lyons
An exploration of the earthen feminine : the vessel., Sharon Madison 1955-
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Vincent van Gogh, a formal and psychological analysis of the final years at Arles, Saint-Remy and Auvers., Sue Ann Grey 1943-
New Deal printmaking : politics and protest., Andrew Joseph Hardin
Difference as identity in "The other story" and the 1993 Whitney biennial., Vanessa Faye Johnson
The gorilla and the cuttlefish., Nick Karl 1982-
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
The quilt as concept., Denise Mucci Furnish
