We Must Grow Our Own Artists: Mary-Russell Ferrell Colton, Northern Arizona\u27s Early Art Educator

What were Mary-Russell Ferrell Colton’s contributions to the progressive education movement and the Indian arts and crafts movement in the Southwestern United States at a time when the region was still very remote? Artist, author, amateur ethnographer, educator, and curator; these were but a few of the talents of Mary-Russell Ferrell Colton, co-founder of the Museum of Northern Arizona and early art advocate on the Colorado Plateau. This study investigates how Colton contributed to the progressive education movement and the Indian arts and crafts movement through the work that she did at the museum. There, she labored to increase public awareness of the importance of art education and to revive Native American arts on the Colorado Plateau. Using an extensive collection of archival material in the Colton Collection at the Museum of Northern Arizona, as well as oral history interviews, this historical study provides a nuanced analysis of Colton’s life as an educator. Colton’s influence is not well known today, but her professional contributions merit recognition, giving her a place in the history of American education. This study reveals how Colton’s efforts fit within the context of the work of her contemporaries in Santa Fe and Taos, and within the progressive education movement, from the then relatively remote outpost of Flagstaff. Much can be learned from Colton’s work that is relevant to the field of education today. Her ideals and writings about art education will resonate with opponents of No Child Left Behind. Colton’s work as one of northern Arizona’s earliest art educators contributed to a better understanding of the culture of the various peoples of the Colorado Plateau and to the preservation of Navajo and Hopi traditions through education. Colton made notable contributions to the Indian arts and crafts movement, museum education, and the progressive education movement. A woman of firm convictions and ideals, Colton was strong-willed, and complex, a multi-faceted person with a broad range of interests which she pursued with passion and commitment. This study crosses the boundaries of several disciplines, including educational history, museum studies, women’s studies, educational biography, Native American studies, and art education

Audio Mastering as Musical Practice

This thesis examines audio mastering as musical communication. Tasks including loudness management, harmonic balance, denoising, phase alignment, monitoring, effects application, and administrative responsibilities are of central importance to mastering engineers. With the exception of administrative responsibilities, each of these tasks significantly shapes a record’s aesthetic character and physical makeup. These contributions – the final creative steps before an album’s release – demonstrate the mastering engineer’s role as a collaborative auteur in recorded musical communications

To Crown a Broccoli. Progressing on the path of Jungian individuation through animistic images in painting

This practice-led research report investigated my personal individuation journey in painting. Art has, in contemporary days, become an increasingly discursive and broad concept which contains overwhelming diversity and has a tendency to confuse not only the audience but also the artists. As a researcher as well as an artist early in her career, I faced similar questions as many others. How to find authenticity in art? How to become an individual on canvas? Inspired by Jung’s concept of individuation, the lifelong development of personality, I created a planning and analytical tool for art, the Creative and Evaluative Model of Artistic Individuation, or CEMAI. This tool consists of multiple axes of contradictions. I identified different axes on CEMAI and experimented with various visual complexities in painting, looking at Chinese (professional) and UK (liberal) art education, the interchanging identities of child and adult, and the relationship between word and image. I tried to find my position in all of this, a balanced zone among different contradictions. Inspired by the Naxi culture I realised the validity and significance of the animistic point of view. This was that middle zone, a conclusion as well as an opening of the future. Through this process, I continue to gradually progress along the path of Jungian individuation on an authentic journey of selfrealisation. The approach I have taken is largely autoethnographic, with my own stories and lived experiences acting as an integral part of and often mixed in with more methodological research

Zen and the Art of Becoming (and Being) a Lawyer

In this essay, the author discusses how law schools should be taught using the Pirsig Model. Furthermore, the author discusses how lawyers should use the Pirsig model in practice

Zen and the Art of Becoming (and Being) a Lawyer

In this essay, the author discusses how law schools should be taught using the Pirsig Model. Furthermore, the author discusses how lawyers should use the Pirsig model in practice

Trinity College Bulletin, 1931-1932 (Trinity College Chapel)

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The peak of the abyss

This studio research examines processes of collecting, arrangement and collage. It looks into the relationship between memory and collecting to consider how we order and construct meaning. It investigates how when used as a medium collage can function to bring latent content to a conscious plan