Senior Theses
Every Carthage student is required to submit a senior thesis or capstone project to demonstrate their mastery of their chosen area of study. Here is a look at some of the original work that Carthage art students have created for this requirement.
Studio Art Senior Thesis Exhibitions
- Jacob Del Negro: “MACHINE MADE”
- Analisa Follensbee: “(I) Walk The Line”
- Emily Trecrioci: “Stacked”
- Miranda Gort: “The Junk Drawer”
- Clare McCauley: “How to Glaze Your Dragon”
- Katie Schram: “It’s All in Your Head”
- Paul Salsieder: “Meaningful Symbols in Meaningless Sequence”
- Victoria Preston: “Dot Dot Dot”
- Courteney Taylor: “Paper Doll”
Art Education / Student Teaching
Art Education students complete their student teaching at local school districts.
Art History Senior Theses
- Paul Salsieder: “The Ideal Screen: Digital Art as Object and Window”
- Marisa Matheson: “Breaking Boundaries: Thematic Curation for a Changing World”
- Michelle Drag: “The Invalidation of Modernism: Banksy’s Challenge to Duchamp”
- Marissa Wilson: “Michelangelo’s Struggle: Gender Identity in Renaissance Italy”
- Laura Cole: “Sellout or True Artist: Bansky in a Consumer’s World”
- Marlee Meyer: “Hayao Miyazaki: Crossing Cultural Boundaries Through Anime Film”
- Joanna Cruey: “Leo Steinberg’s Endgame: Les Demoiselles d’Avignon and Its Critics”
- Amelia Windt: “Monet and Seurat: Ideological Adversaries in the Wake of Scientific Progress”
- Catherine Rogers: “The Right to Display and Interpret: Repatriation of the Elgin Marbles”
- Jeannie Christofalos: “Shamanism and the Nok Terracottas”
- Georgia Garcia: “Toulouse Lautrec: A World of His Making”
- Kayleen Hannigan: “Aelbert Cuyp: Humanity in the Landscape”
- Michelle Fehr: “Bringing Susan Watkins Back”
- Melissa Thomas: “Credit Where Credit is Due: Rembrandt’s Unacknowledged Student”
- Bree McMahon: “Graphic Design and Its Rightful Place in the World of High Art”
- Jessica Collins: “Images of Autism: Andy Warhol”
- Ryann Ward: “Madame X: Cosmetics, Portraiture, and Death in the Victorian Era”