Sarah Charlton, artist Michael Mergen, faculty advisor This was all an accident. Luckily I had my camera when I went on a walk and discovered this house. It is the white house on the corner that people walk and drive by everyday but ignore it due to the overgrown plants and broken glass windows. I … Continue reading →
Mollie Andrews, artist Michael Mergen, faculty advisor Modern women are fascinating subjects and their journey in America over time has been well documented in the art world. There was a specific artist that caught my eye, American painter William Merritt Chase from the late 19th century. He made portraits, a gallant gentleman with a mustache … Continue reading →
Carson Reeher, artist Michael Mergen, faculty advisor awarded third place in the visual works category This is a series about Farmville, VA. On the surface it may speak of a town aging, a town filled with people, buildings, ideas that are stuck in the past, not moving or changing, slow. Slow like my summer days … Continue reading →
Amelia McConnell, designer Chris Register, faculty advisor awarded first place in the visual works category My objective was to design an info-graphic that educates a specific audience and to package that information in a unique way to engage that audience. My target audience was graphic design seniors preparing to enter the job market. The info-graphic … Continue reading →
Rowan Davis, artist Michael Mergen, faculty advisor This series of photographs includes a continuing study of romanticized images of horses using natural light. The enigma behind these photographs is in the significance that they are all horses in rehabilitation. These horses were unwanted, mistreated and malnourished. My focus, however, is not on their misfortune but … Continue reading →
Rachel C. Lombardi, author Introduction Over 728 billion cubic meters (bcm) of dry natural gas was consumed in the United States (U.S.) in 2013, and 24% of U.S. household energy is produced by natural gas (USEIA, 2013; Jaramillo et al., 2007). Due to a growing demand for natural gas, Dominion Inc., in partnership with Duke … Continue reading →
Rebecca E. Dey and Skyler T. Carpenter, authors Abstract Cabbage white butterflies, Pieris rapae, are agricultural pests that lay their eggs on plants of the Brassicaceae (cabbage) family. Upon hatching, the caterpillars then feed on the plants, causing contamination and yield reduction. Female butterflies may identify suitable host plants through the detection of various chemicals … Continue reading →
Anna Bultrowicz, author When Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was buried at Cambridge in March 1882 (Candido 103), he was one of the most influential poets of the 19th century both in the United States and across the Atlantic. Longfellow had achieved an unprecedented proto-celebrity status as a poet, responding to as many as twenty letters a … Continue reading →