Master's Thesis

Evelynn Harra brings her experiences of synesthesia to her writing and research.

“Documentary Synesthesia; as a critical method” Sightlines VCS 2024

This essay considers art objects that perform what I call “documentary synesthesia,” a translation of personal internal synesthetic experience into an external form in artistic, visual, and or written formats. Documentary synesthesia is useful for displaying synesthetic qualities to non-synesthetic audiences and as a tool for understanding complex human perceptions.
California College of the Arts Master’s Publication

Thesis Director: Elizabeth Travelsight and Cindy Bello

Publications

"Museums in Evolution: Balbi’s Approach to Arts Ecosystems"

Balbi firmly stated that a museum should be part of the process of enabling artists to continue their practices. The role of a museum can be more than the final destination to display art. The purpose of a museum is to support, help, and support the creation of art uplift artists. Museums must be invested in creating systems to lend money, time, space and other resources to artists.

Publisher: Rewind Review Respond, Volume 8, 2024
Edited by Emila Shaffer-Del Valle and Vanessa Perez Winder

Reframing Accessibility: Reflections on David Gissen’s Architecture of Disability”

Gissen expresses the importance of going beyond accessibility studies; we need to make architectural decisions from the perspective of impaired people. We don’t need to make better buildings, rather, we need to reinvent ourselves in the aim of making better architects.

Publisher: Rewind Review Respond, Volume 8, 2024
Edited by Emila Shaffer-Del Valle and Vanessa Perez Winder

Sunny Smith: The Compass Rose

The Compass Rose highlights the deep interconnection between physical objects and family trauma. This genealogical exhibition re-envisions these perspectives through processing and understanding, healing can begin.

Publisher: Rewind Review Respond, Volume 7, 2023

Edited by Glen Helfand and Emila Shaffer-Del Valle

As Line, As Language, As Thread: Ana Jotta at the Wattis

“Ana Jotta, Never the Less in correspondence with Norma Cole and Adrian Lürssen’s Poetry Reading: October 12th 2023”

Jotta, Cole and Lürssen all use line to draw their worlds; Lürssen and Cole use line in the form of words and language, whereas Jotta uses line as a thread within her visual work. All draw their worlds to convey aspects of their perceptions of reality.

Publisher: Rewind Review Respond, Volume 7, 2023

Edited by Emila Shaffer-Del Valle