Shyla Villanueva BFA Printmaking Thesis Spring 2017

Deep Time and Radical Slowness

Deep Time and Radical Slowness exhibits Indigenous craft and thought. What many would call materials are referred to as beings in this work. The shift of thought that materials do have agency over the artist is one of the factors of Re Indigenization that occurs in this work. Re Indigenization can occur by connecting with the land as a form of healing from cultural displacement. It also becomes a form of resistance through radical slowness.

This work acknowledges marginalization that is the result of cultural loss. Concurrently, it also enacts cultural reconnection which includes reuniting with the landscape. By reentering the Indigenous landscape, the displaced are able to heal from both physical and emotional ailments caused by historic trauma and contemporary colonization. In this case, connecting with the landscape includes working with the beings of stone, water, cedar, and clay. The forms in this work include the basin, bowls, basket, and the stand, who act as protectors and navigators for Indigenous individuals in a colonized space. The beings and forms resist and defy the western art canon as vessels for Re Indigenization that refuse the marginalization of Indigenous art. They do this by showing that Indigenous art, thought, and being is contemporary and not artifact. That it operates on a time line parallel to Deep Time; that it will outlive us all.

Accessibility, ceremony, and forgiveness of the human thought is equalized by asking permission to gather, transport, grind, mix, and weave. Energy disperses, the connection with these beings becomes a collaboration instead of one sole artist responsible for all aspects of the piece. This work has woven not only a basket but an Indigenous community that surrounds this ceremony. This work is about the curing of materials, being realized as beings, as the artist herself cures from displacement. The sun, water, cedar, limonite, clay, and stone collaborate with the artist to examine marginalized Indigeneity.

Shyla Villanueva BFA Printmaking Thesis Spring 2017

Matthew Layng BFA Writing Thesis Spring 2017

Justine Highsmith BFA Intermedia Thesis Spring 2017

Aimee Sitarz BFA Photography Thesis Spring 2017

Alden Rodgers BFA Photography Thesis Spring 2017

Jesse Blalock BFA Photography Thesis Spring 2017

Andrew Saxon BFA Photography Thesis Spring 2017

Molly Carlson Animated Arts BFA Thesis Spring 2017

Cai Veronda BFA Animated Arts Thesis Spring 2017

Caitlin McIntyre BFA Animated Arts Thesis Spring 2017

Evan Stephens-Tiley BFA Animated Arts Thesis Spring 2017

Chaz Stobbs BFA Video + Sound Thesis Spring 2017

Tandy Kunkle BFA Illustration Thesis Spring 2017

Kaitlyn Nelson BFA Illustration Thesis Spring 2017

Colin Luton BFA Illustration Thesis Spring 2017

Elisabeth Young BFA Illustration Thesis Spring 2017

Joshua Hughes BFA Sculpture Thesis Spring 2017

Sage Cortez BFA Sculpture Thesis Spring 2017

John Wood BFA Sculpture Thesis Spring 2017

Kathryn Sifford BFA Sculpture Thesis Spring 2017

Hilary Hartner BFA Sculpture Thesis Spring 2017

Jamaali Roberts BFA Painting Thesis Spring 2017

Ashlin Bush BFA Painting Thesis Spring 2017

Valentino Quijano BFA Painting Thesis Spring 2017

Anna Marl BFA General Fine Arts Thesis Spring 2017

Cassandra Lankford BFA General Fine Arts Thesis Spring 2017

Lindsey Walker BFA General Fine Arts Thesis Spring 2017

Corey Ondrey Hernandez BFA Communication Design Thesis Spring 2017

Jourdan Simmonds BFA Communication Design Thesis Spring 2017

Mariah Currey BFA Communication Design BFA Thesis Spring 2017

Sydney Fort BFA Communication Design Thesis Spring 2017

Alexandra Gregory BFA Communication Design Thesis Spring 2017

Ellen Skiff BFA Communication Design Thesis Spring 2017

Elizabeth Karras BFA Communication Design Thesis Spring 2017

Alexander Roebling BFA Communication Design Thesis Spring 2017

Seth Lathrop BFA Communication Design Thesis Fall 2015

Vance McDermott BFA Illustration Thesis Spring 2017

Meredith Bardo BFA Illustration Thesis Spring 2017

Christina Brister BFA Illustration BFA Thesis Spring 2017

Hope Darby BFA Illustration Thesis Spring 2017

Subin Yang BFA Illustration Thesis Spring 2017

Bryson Kaps BFA Illustration Thesis Spring 2017

Brandon Gould BFA Illustration Thesis Spring 2017

Clive Hawken BFA Illustration Thesis Spring 2017

Samantha Fowler BFA Illustration Thesis Spring 2017

Zoe Kimball BFA Illustration Thesis Spring 2017

Joaquin Golez BFA Illustration Thesis Spring 2017

Grace Murphy BFA Illustration Thesis Spring 2017

Tess Rubinstein BFA Illustration Thesis Spring 2017

Seaerra Miller BFA Illustration Thesis Spring 2017

Joshua Bone-Christian Animated Arts BFA Thesis Spring 2017