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HAMBRE DEL ALMA:NOURISHING THE HUNGRY SOUL

Tuttle, Megan K.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1258336622

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2009, MFA, Kent State University, College of the Arts / School of Art.
I spent the decade preceding graduate school working a corporate job, all the while denying myself the creative life that I wanted. I chose “hambre del alma,” a phrase taken from scholar Clarissa Pinkola Estes which means “soul famine,” as part of my title to describe that past. This recent series of work represents breaking free of that cycle and coming into my own. For my thesis show, I decided to explore the relationship between my love for narrative and my sculpture. A universal dilemma in storytelling—where to begin and where to end—is the same problem faced by the writer and the visual artist. The creation of the four massive heads that comprise this exhibition, and treating their surfaces as canvasses for words and images, allowed me to document my thoughts as I worked. This permitted the incorporation of autobiographical elements into the sculptures in ways that I had not anticipated.
Kirk Mangus, MFA (Committee Chair)
Janice Lessman-Moss, MFA (Committee Member)
Brinsley Tyrrell, MFA (Committee Member)
Fred Smith, PHD (Committee Member)
22 p.
Fine Arts
ceramics; ceramic sculpture; figurative sculpture; heads; graffiti art; stream of consciousness; narrative

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  • Tuttle, M. K. (2009). HAMBRE DEL ALMA:NOURISHING THE HUNGRY SOUL [Master's thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1258336622

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Tuttle, Megan. HAMBRE DEL ALMA:NOURISHING THE HUNGRY SOUL. 2009. Kent State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1258336622.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Tuttle, Megan. "HAMBRE DEL ALMA:NOURISHING THE HUNGRY SOUL." Master's thesis, Kent State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1258336622

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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