If Not Home, Then Where? An Act of Queer Healing

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dc.contributor.advisorMcConnell, Walter
dc.contributor.advisorKelleher, Matt
dc.contributor.advisorSikora, Linda
dc.contributor.advisorHopp, Johnathan
dc.contributor.advisorWillard, Adero
dc.contributor.advisorSmythe, Meghan
dc.contributor.authorGreene, Noah
dc.date.accessioned2022-09-30T18:29:22Z
dc.date.available2022-09-30T18:29:22Z
dc.date.issued2022-05
dc.descriptionThesis completed in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Fine Arts degree in the School of Art and Design at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, NY.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis 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 an preliminary intersectional examination of queer identity conducted during this two year program. By exploring queer identity through the different lenses of art, history, language, and space one can begin to understand the wide and complicated ranges of the queer experience told from a queer point of view. So much is lacking in academic institutions when it comes to supporting queer identifying students especially with faculty, classes, and availably taught subjects. “Queer studies” is often religated to the study of Sex, and when looking at the Arts we see the cis/het majority’s sway. Queer art often puts queer bodies, hypererotizied, at the center showcasing queer identity purely by the sex the community has or by the genitals so often demanded to be put on display. Often queer students and artists are made to bare their bodies and their intimate moments. Their work is not authentic enough to be queer if those ideals, set historically by the cis/het majority, are not met. I contest these ideals by refusing to showcase my body or any other queer body in a way that puts their sex or sexuality on display. The focus rather is to attempt to dig deeper into the queer experience, looking to themes dealing with isolation, loneliness, homelessness, abuse, and the act of searching for ourselves when the world seems to deny our existence time and time again.en_US
dc.format.extent38 pagesen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10829/24860
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.relation.ispartofScholes Libraryen_US
dc.rightsThe author has granted Alfred University a limited, non-exclusive right to make this publication available to the public. The author retains all other rights.en_US
dc.rights.urihttps://libraries.alfred.edu/AURA/termsofuseen_US
dc.subjectMFA thesisen_US
dc.subjectHandicraften_US
dc.subjectSexual minority cultureen_US
dc.subjectInstallations (Art)en_US
dc.titleIf Not Home, Then Where? An Act of Queer Healingen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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