BA/BS Senior Show

Memory is a complicated thing. We often long to hold unto the past, but struggle to actually remember it accurately. We place such importance on memories that we continually collect artifacts to remember things by. We take pictures to remember moments. We hold onto personal items to remember people. We often display these artifacts and spend so much time with them that we place more importance on the objects than the memories associated with them. The relationship with our past and our past selves is complicated. It is both the same person we are now, and a completely separate person from who we are now. We tend to romanticize our past selves even though our memory of that self is inaccurate. In my work, I focus on reconnecting those objects to the memories, and addressing the attachment we have to them. I break down the process of memory, and depict the lack of clarity we have around memory. I also address the relationship we have with our past selves and how we have changed. I tend to use simplified figures and bits of color to obscure memories, in the same way our memories and self are distorted over time. I paint on frames and other storage items in order to communicate our tendency to store and sort our memories in a safe place to be accessed later. I also paint on other found objects to portray our inclination towards connecting our memories to random yet specific objectshttps://digitalcommons.murraystate.edu/art499/1053/thumbnail.jp

No Real Memories

Memory is a complicated thing. We often long to hold unto the past, but struggle to actually remember it accurately. We place such importance on memories that we continually collect artifacts to remember things by. We take pictures to remember moments. We hold onto personal items to remember people. We often display these artifacts and spend so much time with them that we place more importance on the objects than the memories associated with them. Hang photos and display momentos, and constantly live in the past. In my work, I focus on reconnecting those objects to the memories, and addressing the attachment we have to them. I break down the process of memory, and depict the lack of clarity we have around memory. I tend to use simplified shapes and connected patterns to obscure memories, in the same way our memories are distorted over time. I often use more muted and desaturated colors to further the narrative of our memories being different from our reality. I paint on frames and other storage items in order to communicate our tendency to store and sort our memories in a safe place to be accessed later.https://digitalcommons.murraystate.edu/art399/1066/thumbnail.jp

Intergovernmental Relations Under the Federal-Aid Highway Program

Whenever the appearance and life of contemporary urban America is discussed, transportation receives a major share of the credit for what people cite as good and bad features of this scene. This proposition is readily accepted in the abstract by both readers and writers; having stated it, most writers on the subject attempt to give it a sense of urgency by citing some statistical measurement of a particular aspect of urban life not ordinarily thought of. Thus, in one of the first speeches which Alan Boyd made on the subject of urban transportation after his appointment as the country\u27s first Secretary of Transportation, he challenged his audience with the revelation that slightly more than 50 per cent of the total land space in Los Angeles is used for streets, highways and parking facilities. The Secretary made his point, for, at least in the mind of this listener, there was thereafter no further doubt that the construction of streets and highways and the handling of traffic thereon affected urban growth and urban life in an overriding degree

A Marketing and Distribution Entrepreneurship Curriculum for Virginia

To answer this problem the following objectives were established: 1. Select a curriculum development model to insure the development effort would be systematic and complete; 2. Outline the foundations which guide the curriculum development effort; 3. Identify the competencies and tasks that must be performed to accomplish entrepreneurship responsibilities; 4. Identify the content that would insure that the skills, knowledge, processes, and values important to successful entrepreneurship would be covered; 5. Identify a curriculum format that would be acceptable to the Virginia Vocational Education Curriculum Laboratory for publishing marketing and distributive education curricula