ScholarWolf
Welcome to ScholarWolf, the institutional repository for the University of Nevada, Reno. Managed by the University Libraries, ScholarWolf is an open access database and the home of scholarly works by University members, including the electronic theses and dissertations of our graduate students, journal articles, conference presentations, and more.
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Item AIEI Webinar Series on Balanced Mix Design (Session 3 of 5): Specimen Fabrication(4/7/2025)This webinar explores key insights from across the country on specimen fabrication for Balanced Mix Design (BMD). It highlights the critical role of proper specimen preparation in minimizing variability in BMD testing. Topics include effective practices for laboratory operations aimed at reducing variability, along with the latest findings on the impact of lag and dwell time on BMD results.Item Land Lines(5/5/2025)Our personal and collective histories are not only transmitted by our communication tools but shaped by them. Once we phoned, corresponded, and read the paper; today we text, follow, and stream. We measure the mysterious mycorrhizal exchange of trees and record the songs of bats, birds, and whales and their full meanings elude us. We struggle to make deep connections with each other despite a growing rubbish pile of promising devices. My project Land Lines questions the cost of our relentless drive to solve communication problems via technology and explores the value of embodied communication. Does a human touch add meaning to communication? I embrace the handmade, engage directly with the more than human world. I hike sand dunes examining tracks and traces. I wash, card, felt, braid, and dye raw wool. I collect objects that are forgotten but not gone, and I join all these stories with mine. Low tech processes and materials connect me to other histories, communities, and traditions. Communicating well is neither quick nor easy. Some voices of human and more than human communities are soft, even mysterious. Yet meaning is made, since long before cables gridded the sky, landscape, and ocean floor. I invite viewers to slow down, listen carefully, and consider the complexity of communication, perhaps even make some new connections.Item Artifact & Inheritance(4/17/2025)Any kind of making is an act of remembering, a way to reconstruct what is fragmented, to hold onto what might otherwise be lost, and to stitch back together narratives and ideas that shape identity. Artifact & Inheritance explores personal and familial history, and themes of memory, preservation, and reconstruction. Through painting, printing, and fiber art, Artifact & Inheritance engages with the ways in which images and materials can be layered, altered, and pieced together to create a tactile record of experience. Working with and archiving family photographs preserves not only a documentation of a moment, but a record of a relationship. Photographs serve not only to chronicle moments in time, but can also influence memories and feelings retrospectively.Item Paper Trails(4/11/2025)Paper Trails is my exploration of the native plant life of Nevada through the medium of handmade paper. Originally not from Nevada, I found the stark landscape and the lack of trees and greenery extremely depressing. In response, my art practice became an intentional search for the flora of the desert during my walks, seeking to uncover the beauty in the seemingly hostile environment. Inspired by pattern-focused artists such as William Morris, I incorporate patterns in my compositions, both natural and curated, to mirror the repetition in the act of physically searching out these plants. All paper in this exhibit was created out of office paper shreds that underwent a process of soaking, blending, dying, couching, drying, and finally being crafted into the final product. I value the meticulous and labor-intensive process of creation because I feel that human touch is lost in a society that only values speed in production. My use of handmade paper, instead of ready-made paper, is my way of fostering a deep connection with both the materials and the artistic forms they become. Through my practice, I highlight the resilience and quiet elegance of the desert plants that I had previously overlooked.Item AIEI Newsletter, April 2025(4/10/2025)
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