Date of Award
Spring 6-1-2024
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
Graphic Design
First Advisor
Lucy Hitchcock
Second Advisor
Nancy Skolos
Third Advisor
Alicia Cheng
Abstract
Never Real Historians is a graphic inquiry into how surfacing hidden histories can lead to a liberatory and layered design practice. It is both a record of my process and a template for future making and future ancestors. Mining inheritance can be an ambiguously murky territory, full of contradictions, collisions, and tension between the past and present. My hope is that this thesis functions as a model of navigating that terrain, by interacting with storied objects and ephemera, in order to revive forgotten and marginalized histories. By re-examining my own shared and personal inheritances, as an American woman designer living and working between Providence and New York (2021-2024), the work is a visible commitment to elevate matrilineal history and integrate historically dismissed practices of craft, collection, and decoration....
Recommended Citation
Bluedorn, Emily, "Never Real Historians" (2024). Masters Theses. 1303.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/masterstheses/1303
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