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A felt puppet man looks down at his miniature claymation set, waiting for something to happen. The Stop Motion Animator's Cat: Kate Bonello Undergraduate The Stop Motion Animator's Cat: Kate Bonello
A model wearing a large red dress with a long train, featuring multiple layers of distressed knit and fabric strips with screen printed images of an organ scope, the model is pulling on one of the strips from off camera, representing the pain and weight of being diagnosis with an incurable invisible illness Dana Gray: Diagnosis Undergraduate Dana Gray: Diagnosis
Tapestry pinned in the middle of the photo. The top beings as yellow and then gradates down into a bright pink color. As the main color fades from bright yellow to pink, the under coloring fades from pink at the top to yellow on the bottom. Yellow tassels hang at the bottom of the tapestry. The pattern on the textile is a diamond patterning. Grace Hardy: When Paths Align Undergraduate Grace Hardy: When Paths Align
A watercolor painting of myself, surrounded by five stuffed animals floating softly in the background. The subject (myself) sits casually on a staircase in the foreground, dressed in comfortable clothes, while the blurry, charcoal-drawn imagery in the back adds depth and a sense of quiet reflection. Leila Kerr: My Friends and Me Undergraduate Leila Kerr: My Friends and Me
A graphic design poster featuring the text "First Time Feeling Like the Odd One Out" displayed in a tiled pattern. The design incorporates visuals of Dum Dums and White Rabbit candies, including their distinctive wrappers, to symbolically represent cultural diversity and the feeling of being different. Quri Kim: First Time Feeling Like The Odd One Out? Undergraduate Quri Kim: First Time Feeling Like The Odd One Out?
Katelyn is wearing a warped white sculpture that is intersecting and organic. It sits upon their head and they are looking to the side, painted all white with markings on their face. Katelyn Ma: Love as a Faith Based Practice Undergraduate Katelyn Ma: Love as a Faith Based Practice
The piece rests on a mannequin covered in a beige cloth. The armor piece has a white marble center stone. From the stone, four steel chains branch out to the right and left which then connect to two copper shoulder lapels, which both have two loops of chains hanging from them. Victoria Selektor: Warrior's Garb Undergraduate Victoria Selektor: Warrior's Garb
This image is a one page excerpt from the Dark Kastle book. It depicts a dollhouse-style exterior of the Dark kastle with various rooms and characters including a witch, trolls, person using computer, etc. Samuel Adkins: Dark Kastle Samuel Adkins: Dark Kastle
An abstract charcoal drawing on paper depicting rats sprawled out on the page in a circular motion with their tails intertwining and overlapping in a chaotic motion throughout the page. Sophia Bentley: Incubation Undergraduate Sophia Bentley: Incubation
An x-ray view of the Michigan Theater showing crowds of students holding pink paper slips, waiting to leave. Kate Bonello: After The Show Undergraduate Kate Bonello: After The Show
Printed copy of graphic novel Your Divine Judgment, with the cover showing an anthropomorphic white rabbit, with a halo and angel wings, on the back of a white and gold horse. The rabbit is holding a golden sword towards the sun in the top left corner. The background consists of an apple orchard, with a young prince rabbit wearing purple attire in front, and a serpent slithering between the trees.Everything is washed in a vibrant yellow overlay. Cama Choi: Your Divine Judgment Undergraduate Cama Choi: Your Divine Judgment
A head profile opens and fire, water, bubbles, telephone poles, a flower, and fireworks come out of it. Other things like a fish, a bird, and a pair of shoes hanging on wires can be seen as well. The top of the book cover reads That Reminds Me. The author's name is on the bottom of the page: Georgie Correa Acosta. Georgie Correa Acosta: That Reminds Me Undergraduate Georgie Correa Acosta: That Reminds Me
The image is a full view of a three-walled studio space. All three walls are painted an oof-white yellow color that gradually fades to white at the bottom of the walls. The first and leftmost wall holds four paintings all with wooden frames around them. Each painting is a painting of a family member's family photo. There is an ornate mirror in the middle of the paintings. This wall has white rectangles painted on the off-white color to show the illusion of where a painting used to be before the wall got stained yellow. The center wall holds one large painting. The painting shows the scene of a dead man laying on a bed covered in a blanket in an empty room. There is a row of empty couches in front of the man. The third and rightmost wall holds a large painting with two smaller paintings right next to it. The large painting shows a dark living room window, looking out onto a lake at nighttime. One small painting shows a bottle of Platinum vodka in a blue bottle. The second small painting below it shows a cross section of a heard with congestive heart failure. The entire wall is covered top to bottom with legal paperwork pinned onto the wall, all stacked on top of each other chaotically. Madison Dennis: I AM HIM Undergraduate Madison Dennis: I AM HIM
Image shows 3 models on a runway platform wearing historic inspired garments being filmed in a video studio Dana Gray: Worn Shapes Undergraduate Dana Gray: Worn Shapes
The images together have a very soft color pallet but when you view the imagery together you see how the content juxtaposes this initial sense of whimsy. The mood for this should be curious and a little unnerved as it's interesting to see both zombies and grief in a new way. Abigale Mason: Grief Zombies Undergraduate Abigale Mason: Grief Zombies
There is a mannequin wearing a white 3D-printed form on the stomach and a maroon and pink cloak. A monitor is displayed on the wall behind the mannequin playing a contextual video of a woman wearing and embracing the garment. A small model of the garment is displayed on a pedestal to the left of the monitor. Lindsay Mehl: Maternal Solace: Liberating Motherhood Undergraduate Lindsay Mehl: Maternal Solace: Liberating Motherhood
(from left to right) Piece 1: A brown-toned silk canvas slightly slumps along the exhibition floor. Piece 2: A luminous and thickly built up green strip separates two symmetrical gate-like panels. Piece 3: Angels flicker between descent and ascent, falling and flight, coming and going. Piece 4: A face emerges from beneath a waxy red surface. Piece 5: A murmuration of birds spill across a repeating landscape at dusk. Idris Young: Hold Undergraduate Idris Young: Hold
A life-sized self portrait sculpture of a women with dark blonde hair, laying on white sheets in a room with dark red walls and anatomical paintings behind the sculpture. The inside of the stomach is cut open, like a dissection, to reveal the internal organs. Morgan Granzow: Dissecting Beauty Undergraduate Morgan Granzow: Dissecting Beauty

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