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Item Aesthetics thinking(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Education, Health & Human Development, 2019) Home Gun, Melanie Ann; Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Priscilla LundThis mixed-methods phenomenological study explores aesthetic education and the visual arts as an intervention for students who have learning disabilities to enhance reading as measured by standardized test scores, self-concept scores, and through interviews that investigate students' self-esteem, self-concept, motivation, and self- efficacy. Participants range between the ages of 10 and 11 and are in grades four and five. The study investigated seven children's feelings about themselves and towards reading before and after the intervention. The research study is aimed to determine whether using the visual arts and an aesthetic education intervention in reading helps children with learning disabilities read more effectively by having the opportunity to express themselves artistically. Moreover, the visual arts and the use of an aesthetic education in the core curriculum is not readily available for children in the elementary grades in most public schools in the United States. The focus of this study is on children in a small rural town in North Eastern Montana of mixed demographics and socio-economic status. While not intended to be an exhaustive literature review, this research highlights important findings that correlate aesthetic education and the visual arts with reading acquisition within this small and rural community of children with learning disabilities. Further, the study explores self-concept through the authentic expression of individuals and the phenomenon and lived experiences from the intervention of their cohort. From this research, I hope that educators and policymakers will reconsider how aesthetic education and the visual arts can influence educational practices and policies and use the arts in the public schools again as part of a core curriculum.Item Integrating biology subject lessons into a high school visual arts classroom(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Letters & Science, 2019) Walsh, Edmond B.; Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Walter WoolbaughStudents at Thunder Ridge High School in Idaho Falls, Idaho were having difficulty integrating compelling subject matter into their artwork, often copying ideas from Google or Instagram. Topics in biology were introduced to create inquiry surrounding the selection of subject for student projects. The literature base for this project strongly supports the integration of art and science as a means of building relevance and interest among students in science and art topics. This study was developed to determine if student work improved when provided artistic subject in biology topics compared to projects where students developed artistic subject independently. Students in either Art 1 or Ceramics 1 visual arts classes were expected to complete four projects over the course of a trimester. Students created two projects related to subjects in biology and two projects were developed by students independently. Qualitative surveys and interviews were employed alongside quantitative project rubrics and biology content assessments to determine the effect on student perceptions and performance during biology and art integration.Item Deep Now & The Seed Bank Project(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Arts & Architecture, 2018) Jones, Rachael Marne; Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Jeremy HatchThe Deep Now & The Seed Bank Project critically examines flaws in Western Society's tendency towards singular perceptual and singular analytical ways of constructing reality. The exhibition is built from cultural signifiers of both loss and hope, expanding on the belief that what we leave behind is an indication of the future. I am among one of the first generations to expect a future in flux, and in order to adapt, our methods of problem-solving need to expand to include both analytical and automatic thinking strategies. As a relatively new civilization that has expanded its influence globally, the instigation of metacognition between the head and the heart could ignite the fundamental psychological shift to understanding deep time within Western Society. Only with a sense of empathy, as well as deep humility for reconciling our place within the larger eco-system of the earth, will the future look brighter for future generations of all life forms. Looking at both analytical and automatic thinking patterns exhibited within Western Society's evolutionary trajectory, this paper posits that both are valid problem-solving strategies depending on context and flexibility. This involves understanding our reality as a construct, fabricated from both cognition and phenomenological experience. Accepting that this construct will demand flexibility in interpretation as the future changes insures a more cognizant relationship with our environment. Deep Now & The Seed Bank Project was formulated with a rich recognition of cultural signifiers that relate how the 20th and 21st century established Western Society's values as well as a self-consciousness of our era. Through flow state drawing processes, artefactual sculpture and ritualistic, reliquarizing seed banks, the work hopes to deviate from apocalyptic visions, while recognizing an eminent paradigmatic shift in the future of Western Society. The exhibition harks to focus clearly on the clues from the past to rebuild a more interconnected and sustainable intention for our projection into space and time.Item An international art museum, London, England(Montana State University - Bozeman, 1991) LeClair, Chere; Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Thomas R. WoodItem An urban college for the arts, Seattle, Washington(Montana State University - Bozeman, 1991) Beal, James R. (James Robert); Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Clark E. LlewellynItem MONA(Montana State University - Bozeman, 1987) Young, Wilbur E.Item Museum of Montana art ; Missoula, Montana(Montana State University - Bozeman, 1984) Wilson, Randall S.Item Formalism in gallery design(Montana State University - Bozeman, 1982) Mosher, J. BruceItem An art museum, Billings, Montana(Montana State University - Bozeman, 1977) Wilde, William F.Item A civic art gallery for Vancouver, B.C., Canada(Montana State University - Bozeman, 1979) Whittle, Dawn Marie