• Beyond Perception 

  Zhu, He (2022-05)

  My thesis consists of several major pieces about a profound experience of encountering an ash tree. The tree is in the Kanakadea Park, in front of Almond Lake, in Hornell. These visiting experiences bring me strength, ...
• Attritional Yeast 

  McLearn, Brady (2022-05)

  The following is a supporting document for my ceramic art MFA thesis exhibition in the Turner Gallery at Alfred University in April of 2022. The purpose of this document is to articulate the language that my work uses to ...
• I Thought the Future Would be Cooler 

  Ngo, Jolie (2022-05)

  I am revitalizing the metaphoric potential of the vessel form by utilizing technologies of clay 3D printing and rapid prototyping, to create bright cyborgian pottery objects that acknowledge early ceramic traditions while ...
• Reading the Landscape 

  Barnes, Emma (2022-05)

  Surface is a topsoil, an epidermal layer inviting us to wonder what is beneath and what came before. Likewise, painting is what we read on the outermost layer, an exterior where we pause to consider the residue of the brush ...
• Hidden in Plain Sight 

  Lee, Jinee Siennie (2022-05)

  This thesis presents the formal, conceptual, material, and aesthetic aspects of my studio practice which are rendered in three ways: painting, sound, and installation. Society can be seen as an independent being and ...
• Distance 

  Lai, Nina Yushan (2022-05)

  This series of paintings documents the development of learning about my family from an outsider’s perspective on the internet while searching for my identity and origins. As an international student of 10 years away from ...
• Shifts in our Constellation(s) 

  Monti, Isabel (2022-05)

  My painting practice is an act of mourning. Mourning is a necessary externalization of the internalize grief that everyone will face, perhaps continuously face, during their life time. Mourning of the decease presents a ...
• Lath & Key 

  Speicher-Willis, Madeleine (2022-05)

  My work, acrylic paintings on varied concrete surfaces, deals in the language of pattern and reproduction. These patterns come from decorative interior sources, such as mid-century fabrics or 20th century woodblock-printed ...
• Resonating Spores 

  Wiechert, Samantha (2022-05)

  My works strip away the fundamental qualities of time as a medium for exploring the body and how it reacts to fluctuations of space-time. In my work, I use a structured indeterminacy to find the meaning within the liminal ...
• Fade Into Oblivion 

  Radley, Stephen (2022-05)

  Planned obsolescence, surveillance capitalism, throw-away culture, and the readymade are all interconnected. Boundaries, layers, colors, shapes, and the relationship between these aspects are concepts I consciously think ...
• Sugar Maple Tree, Terracotta Brick, O Computador, e Eu 

  Machado, Felicity (2022-05)

  Through a conversational interview format “Sugar Maple Tree, Terracotta Brick, O Computador, e Eu” discusses post-humanist perspectives, defines multidimensionalism and aims to begin conversations concerning local ...
• Solastalgia 

  Lund, Corwyn (2022-08)

  The ceramic sculpture and installation work in my thesis exhibition, titled SOLASTALGIA, explores uncanny relationships between architecture, photography, climate change, and war. The exhibition is imbued with a sense ...
• Dissolve Coagulate 

  McKinley, Mollie (2022-05)

  In both human bodies and ecology, healing is a layered experience known by its transformative outcomes. My work translates the slow, invisible process of healing into textural, visual meditations. I make the invisible ...
• Of Mice and Men 

  Baker, Tony (2022-05)

  Throughout my research, I have been researching how to express the ways in which environment, culture and society make an impact both internally and externally. Powerful cultural, political, and socio-economic forces shape ...
• Reverberations 

  Claude, Margeaux (2022-05)

  My work is shaped by the discarded tools of 20th Century American ceramic factories. I embrace historical practices of ceramic industrial design, including turning, sledging, and jigging plaster. Conceptually my work is ...
• If Not Home, Then Where? An Act of Queer Healing 

  Greene, Noah (2022-05)

  This paper in consortium alongside the MFA Thesis exhibition “If Not Home, Then Where” and the art history paper “Hidden Voices - The ancient lives of the LBGTQ+ community seen through ceramics and sculpture”1 completes ...
• Tease 

  Head, Jackie (2022-05)

  I create wall installations that are coated in sugary glazes, velvety engobes, and other sensual surfaces that are splashed methodically onto walls. These installations, composed of modular components, are rooted in my ...
• Past Carries Present 

  Fee, Katie (2022-05)

  I make ceramic forms at the intersection of individual, ecological, and geologic meaning. As the common ground between body, living system, and terrestrial environment, clay emphasizes the relationships between all three. ...
• Hyper Visible 

  Jackson Spieker, Henry (2022-05)

  Hyper Visible is an exhibition that explores perceptions of light and space through both a physical and philosophical lens. Within the exhibition are site responsive installations highlighting societal influences within ...
• Sodium carbonate vapor firing 

  Zamek, Jeff (1974)

  Anyone who has observed a salt firing knows the white cloud which covers the immediate area with sodium chloride and hydrochloric acid. These pollutants directly and quite dramatically affect the refractories and metals ...

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