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A Wind From Noplace: Using visual art as a lens for understanding humanity, emotion, and the changing earth through ecological intimacy
(2022)
Presented at the Stamps Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan in March 2022, A Wind From Noplace is an interdisciplinary body of visual artworks and creative research surrounding my attempts to understand human ecology through a ...
Cuando hay santos nuevos los viejos no hacen milagros
(2023)
This thesis investigates the potential of artistic processes in seeking alternative knowledge, while acknowledging the inherent limitations of attaining complete understanding of any given subject. It critiques the role ...
Far Too Much And Not Nearly Enough: A Queer Photo Journey of Nature and Nudity.
(2023)
This MFA thesis explores the artistic practice of Peter Matthew Stack during their time at the University of Michigan. It details the methodology and context of an artistic research trip that Peter conducted during the ...
the tide pool room: a love story
(2022)
the tide pool room: a love story uses durational film, an immersive hammock installation, and creative essays about swimming to create emotional crosscurrents between love, loss, friendship, water, and tide pools. The film ...
Equally Empty
(2021)
Categories of spatial experience and inner experience are explored through an inquiry into phenomenology, phenomenal art, spatial theory, contemplative practice, and eastern philosophy. An intuitive research process guides ...
Sanctuary, Purgatory
(2022)
Sanctuary, Purgatory is the result of research in South Korea on a small group of Yemeni refugees who arrived there in 2018. The com- pleted project is a short documentary film that combines elements of cinema verite while ...
Undoctrination
(2022)
In a letter to his father, Nick Azzaro explains the question he's looking to answer, which is: How can artwork and engagement counteract the impacts of racism, privilege, and unequal distribution of resources in the American ...
Screaming Yellow
(2021)
Screaming Yellow is a social-practice platform, a video installation and a campaign vehicle, which examines dialogue between racially margin- alized people . The work embodies critical race theory, and histories of ...