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Hope For Change

Description: Work of art in ceramic sculpture, wood and bronze by artist Amy Wachal as part of a 2019 MFA Exhibition, entitled "Angelfish Prayers". The Sea Otter was hunted to near extinction in the 19th century. Now, thanks to their protected status under the Endangered Species Act & Marine Mammal Protection Act, sea otters are making a comeback in California, Washington, and Alaska. Proof that when people come together and fight for change, there is hope.
Date: 2018
Creator: Wachal, Amy
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Solace I - Detail

Description: Work of art of tea bags, bed sheet, book remnants, string, steel by artist Traci O’Dwyer as part of a 2020 MFA Exhibition, entitled "Of My Own Making".
Date: 2020
Creator: O’Dwyer, Traci
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Will She Miss Me

Description: Work of art of tea bags, string, book, Secret Life of Objects by artist Traci O’Dwyer as part of a 2020 MFA Exhibition, entitled "Of My Own Making".
Date: 2019
Creator: O’Dwyer, Traci
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Memory Beast (Installation View)

Description: Work of art in laser cut cardboard, CNC routed wood, vinyl by artist Morgan Grasham as part of her 2020 exhibition, entitled "Memory Beast".Image of installation view of 2020 MFA exhibition by artist , entitled "Memory Beast".
Date: 2020
Creator: Grasham, Morgan
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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Healing & Reassembling

Description: Working to unravel my sense of the world and challenge the narratives and beliefs I hold as truths; I have created a reimagined and surreal bathroom that offers a private and vulnerable space filled with hidden horrors. The animated, imperfect, decayed, and cracked bathroom forms bridge the gap between the impermanent fragility of memory and the ongoing beliefs of a personal narrative. I worked to overcome the assumption that, to heal, something must be completely resolved within itself. Instea… more
Date: May 2022
Creator: Potts, Emily
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Healing & Reassembling Title

Description: Work of art on porcelain and epoxy by artist Emily Potts as part of a 2022 MFA exhibition, entitled "Healing & Reassembling" in the the Cora Stafford Gallery South, 1201 W Mulberry St, Denton, TX 76201, from March 2 to March 5, 2022.
Date: 2022
Creator: Potts, Emily
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

I Just Woke Up

Description: Work of art on Bedsheet, silk, batting, epoxy, spray paint, wood by artist Emily Potts as part of a 2022 MFA exhibition, entitled "Healing & Reassembling" in the the Cora Stafford Gallery South, 1201 W Mulberry St, Denton, TX 76201, from March 2 to March 5, 2022.
Date: 2021
Creator: Potts, Emily
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Title Letters (detail)

Description: Work of art on porcelain and epoxy by artist Emily Potts as part of a 2022 MFA exhibition, entitled "Healing & Reassembling" in the the Cora Stafford Gallery South, 1201 W Mulberry St, Denton, TX 76201, from March 2 to March 5, 2022.
Date: 2022
Creator: Potts, Emily
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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Memory Beast

Description: Memory Beast was a series of experiments in multispecies collaborative storytelling. A new tool was created, a memory beast, a holotype representing our ideas of specific species, based on memories and drawings collected in participatory research. The fabricated memory beasts, placed next to their biological counterparts, made visible the conflation of living species with personal memory and cultural imagery. Using this new tool, implanted with sonic recordings of cows, the beginnings of an int… more
Date: December 2020
Creator: Grasham, Morgan
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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Legend Systems: an Escape to a Hidden Land

Description: Brief Artist Statement by Maria Villanueva as part of a 2021 MFA Exhibition, entitled "Legend Systems: an escape to a hidden land” in the Environmental Education, Science and Technology Building Atrium on the campus of the University of North Texas on March 1-5, 2021.
Date: May 2021
Creator: Villanueva, Maria
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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Modified Aesthetics on an Inner Space

Description: Brief Artist Statement by Russell Anderson as part of a 2021 MFA Exhibition, entitled "Modified Aesthetics on an Inner Space” in the Cora Stafford Gallery on the campus of the University of North Texas on March 29-April 9, 2021.
Date: May 2021
Creator: Anderson, Russell
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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Confluence

Description: My artwork dialogues with three topics: climate change’s economic and societal impact, plant genetic engineering advances, and art’s influence on scientific creativity and innovation. These intersect in my focus on the mystery and promise of plant genetic research and the creative innovation needed to advance this research. I manipulate, massage, and mix contemporary mediums and traditional sculpture, fiber and painting mediums. My sculptures often have translucent elements that interact vividl… more
Date: May 2022
Creator: Samson, Philip F.
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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Of My Own Making

Description: As we travel through life, we lose pieces of ourselves. It’s inevitable. Yet we are more than the sum of our parts. These pieces can be cast aside, lost to the wind or imply left behind. They can also be stitched back together, forming a patchwork quilt of sorts. The world is constantly changing, and now more than ever we live in a time of uncertainty. So, I feel the need to stitch together my reality. I am a Maker, and I choose to make a reflection of the world I want to inhabit; a world of my… more
Date: May 2020
Creator: O’Dwyer, Traci
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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Unicorn Magic

Description: Brief Artist Statement by Jacob Phillips as part of a 2021 MFA Exhibition, entitled "Unicorn Magic” in the Cora Stafford Gallery on the campus of the University of North Texas on April 12-22, 2021.
Date: May 2021
Creator: Phillips, Jacob
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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Visceral Reflections

Description: I am an interdisciplinary artist whose work bridges mental health, body dysmorphia, and the visual arts together through sculptures, paintings, performances, and large installations. I work with traditional and nontraditional materials through a manual and digital process to physically represent my realities of living with body dysmorphic disorder. I use padding, paper, and other fibrous objects as metaphors for the flesh and manipulate these materials in numerous ways to create exaggerations o… more
Date: May 2020
Creator: Hoskins, Heather
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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Entanglement

Description: Brief Artist Statement by Kyung Hee “Kate” Im as part of a 2021 MFA Exhibition, entitled "Entanglement” in the Union Art Gallery on the campus of the University of North Texas on April 5-22, 2021.
Date: May 2021
Creator: Im, Kyung Hee
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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Angelfish Prayers

Description: Artist Statement from the MFA Exhibition: "Through my art I strive to raise awareness towards the protection of the ocean. Plastic pollution, over-fishing, species extinction, and nuclear waste are some of the problems I symbolize in order to create conversations around the issues and do my part in starting a wave of change. The ocean is one interconnected circulatory system for our plane,t so anywhere that humans are abusing the oceans, it affects us all. I hope to remind people of the sacred… more
Date: May 2019
Creator: Wachal, Amy
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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Constructed Self

Description: Constructed Self is an exhibition of life-size forms that blur the line between photography and sculpture while being both stable and on the verge of collapse. These damaged concrete columns, slabs, and hand-formed bricks used to create walls are inspired by architecture's support structures to convey my internal psychic framework. Photographs are transferred on the surface of these forms that depict environments where I have processed and experienced my struggles with mental health. This work … more
Date: May 2022
Creator: West, Kaitlin
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Constructed Self Installation

Description: Works of art on Image transfer onto concrete, ratchet straps by artist Kaitlin West as part of a 2022 MFA exhibition, entitled Constructed Self in the Cora Stafford Gallery South, 1201 W Mulberry St, Denton, TX 76201, from April 6 to 9, 2022.
Date: 2022
Creator: West, Kaitlin
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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