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Item Open Access Decoding Artifacts for the Museum Viewer: Case Study of a Virtue from the Cathedral of Notre Dame in the Nasher Museum of Art(2015) Pissini, Jessica MarieDecoding Artifacts is a project that explores the ways in which technologies and interactive media enhance the museum visitor’s learning experience with art. The digital components of the project include a website and a mobile application, both hosting historical content, educational videos, images, 3D models, and an augmented reality experience. These virtual tools offer information to the viewer beyond the museum label, and aim to create a multi-sensory learning environment through an interactive dialogue between the public and the work of art. The thesis paper discusses how and why art museums are adapting to modern technological trends and the affordances of digital tools in museum education and outreach. The Decoding Artifacts project will use the example of medieval sculpture and the process of stone carving as case studies which discuss and demonstrate the effectiveness of virtual technologies in museum experiences.
Item Embargo Making and Being Made: Children’s Art, Anarchism, and Prefigurative Politics in the Modern School (1911-53)(2024) Klaus, Robin S.Popular conceptions of anarchists as bomb-throwing saboteurs overshadow the central role of educational reform projects and artistic engagement with radical politics within anarchism’s program for social transformation—especially during the height of its popularity in Western Europe and the United States at the turn of the last century. My dissertation spotlights the critical intersection of radical pedagogy and artistic practice at the heart of anarchist praxis by highlighting how adults and children alike expressed, and thereby reinforced, anarchist ideals in a range of pedagogical and artistic practices within the longest-running anarchist educational project in United States history: the Modern School of New York and Stelton, New Jersey (1911-53). Although scholars have contributed a robust social and political history of the Modern School—most notably Paul Avrich’s The Modern School Movement: Anarchism and Education in the United States (1980)—my research emphasizes the key role of children, children’s art, and anarchist notions of childhood in modernist praxis, which remain unexplored aspects of Modern School scholarship. Ultimately, the interplay of anarchist politics and creative praxis at the Modern School was a ground-up phenomenon in which children were not just a subject for anarchist artists or a stylistic influence within an anarchist context—but makers of an anarchist art whose creative processes performed the labor of anarchist politics.