2019 Research Abstracts ART, GRAPHIC DESIGN and ART HISTORY
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Fiscal year 2019 research abstracts College of Arts and Sciences – FY2019 Research Abstracts ART, GRAPHIC DESIGN AND ART HISTORY Gardiner Gallery Special Exhibitions Series of exhibitions in the Gardiner Gallery of Art in the Department of Art, Graphic Design and Art History. Sponsors: Oklahoma Arts Council PI: Rebecca Brienen Arts Learning at Prairie Arts Arts Enrichment camps for youth and a community mural project at the Prairie Arts Center, an OSU‐City of Stillwater Community Arts Partnership. Sponsors: Oklahoma Arts Council PI: Rebecca Brienen Art, Community, and Salvation in Colonial Mexico The project is a book‐length study devoted to the art and visual culture of colonial Mexican confraternities. It participates in an increasingly transatlantic dialogue that situates lay religious communities, Spanish identity, an African diaspora, and indigeneity within the broader theoretical landscape of early modern studies. The book is aimed at art historians, intellectual and cultural historians, anthropologies, and scholars of religion. Sponsors: Oklahoma Humanities Council PI: Cristina Cruz González Constructing Sanctity in the Eighteenth‐Century Franciscan Mission Interrogates the transatlantic construction of sanctity. Focuses on Franciscan figures who made their religious mark in colonial Mexico, became targets of local religiosity, and were ultimately celebrated by Franciscan agents on both sides of the Atlantic. Sponsors: The Helmerich Center for American Research, University of Tulsa PI: Cristina Cruz González Agent Blue / Optical Brightener Archive This project studies Optical Brightening Agents (OBAs), which are non‐archival dyes that enhance inkjet paper. Under ultraviolet light, the OBAs glow dramatically and reveal their saturation. My primary goal is to illuminate this unseen quality of inkjet paper by arranging papers with different amounts of OBAs under ultraviolet light. These abstract compositions are intended to create visual play with traditional shapes related to the source material, such as standard paper sizes and formats. A portfolio of these photographs will be exhibited and published. The secondary goal of this project is to measure and document OBA levels in many popular inkjet papers. The results will be published as a website for photographers, artists, and graphic designers to help them determine the most appropriate paper for their purpose. Sponsors: HAD Disciplines Research Grant, Oklahoma State University PI: Andy Mattern 40 Degrees North Latitude A series of drawings and screen prints were created depicting the overland silk route from Luoyang to Dunhuang, China. Sponsors: Fulbright US Scholar Program, Xiaoxiang International Printmaking Center (Changsha, China) PI: Liz Roth Problematic Pacifism: Annetta Johnson St. Gaudens’s WWI Lunette Salvation This article analyzes the earliest large scale, pacifist sculpture of the World War I period‐‐ Salvation, sculpted by Annetta Johnson St. Gaudens in early 1918—within its socio‐political context. Created during the escalation of the U.S. involvement in WWI, Salvation was a feminist pacifist’s dramatic plea for peace and a socialist’s call for reform. Its reception, furthermore, reflected the socio‐political complexity of both the woman‐led pacifist and preparedness wartime movements. Sponsors: College of Arts and Sciences, Oklahoma State University PI: Priscilla Schwarz Annetta Johnson St. Gaudens: Narratives of a Family Legacy This exhibition at the Los Angeles Fine Arts Building, Sept. 12 – Nov. 10, 2019, is the first to focus on Annetta Johnson St. Gaudens (1869‐1943), one of a family of acclaimed American sculptors originally trained in the Beaux‐Arts/Naturalist style. Johnson St. Gaudens personal “impressionistic” style is highlighted here by her small terra cotta sculptures and water colors (accompanied by didactic labels). Displayed are original artworks and copies of archival photographs from family and the Saint‐Gaudens National Historical Park in Cornish, NH. Sponsors: College of Arts and Sciences, Oklahoma State University PI: Priscilla Schwarz “Good pictures are a strong weapon”: Laura Gilpin, Queerness, and Navajo Sovereignty A book‐length study of the place of American photographer Laura Gilpin (1891‐1979) within the history of Navajo sovereignty and the broader cultural milieu of the American Southwest, illuminating the intersectional politics of photography, indigeneity, and queerness as they developed over the course of the twentieth century. Sponsors: American Studies, Oklahoma State University; Oklahoma Humanities; College of Arts and Sciences, Oklahoma State University PI: Louise Siddons Centering Modernism: J. Jay McVicker and Postwar American Art Centering Modernism (exhibition at the OSU Museum of Art) takes a close look at the innovative artwork of Oklahoman J. Jay McVicker (1911‐2004) in the context of international modernism and the coastalization of American art criticism after the Second World War. Sponsors: National Endowment for the Arts PI: Louise Siddons CHEMISTRY PFI AIR‐TT: Transitioning Explosive Sensing Technology to the Marketplace This Accelerating Innovation Technology Translation project aims to develop a real‐time explosive sensor that is highly selective and sensitive for peroxide‐based improvised explosives and the hydrogen peroxide that is used to manufacture them. There is a major societal need and market opportunity for sensing technologies for peroxide‐based improvised explosives. This need will be addressed by the targeted innovation, a sensor prototype based on technology from a past NSF project. Thus, the goal of this project) is to transition explosive sensing technology developed from the knowledge gained from a funded NSF project, Award 0731208, “EXP‐SA: Development of Metal Oxide Bronzes for Detection of Military and Improvised Explosives,” into a high‐reliability and selective sensor for peroxide‐based improvised explosives agents and their precursors. Sponsors: National Science Foundation PIs: Allen Apblett, Nick Materer Extracting the Photonic Spectrum for the Long Range Exploration of Space: A Hybrid Photovoltaic Photon Upconversion and Biological System for Energy Production and Life Support” We are developing a novel biologically‐based life support system to sustain long‐range space travel. This system allows for increased biomass production using normally unused wavelengths in the solar electromagnetic spectrum by coupling photosynthesis with up and down conversion of photons. Cultures of microalgae will provide a source of oxygen and nutrients for manned space exploration, while simultaneously removing waste carbon dioxide Sponsors: National Aeronautics and Space Administration PI: Allen Apblett Resin Compared to Portland Cement as a Sealant for OCS Wells Various resin‐based compounds are being evaluated as sealants for petroleum wells in the OCS. All aspects of resin application as a well bore sealant are covered including sealant chemistry, performance properties, design, material transport, mixing, placement, and long‐term seal durability. The impact of resin application on operations, HSE, cost and long‐term well bore integrity are being compared to those of Portland cement. Sponsors: Bureau of Safety and Environmental Performance PI: Allen Apblett Variable Selection for Remedying the Effects of Uncontrolled Variation in Data Driven Predictions This project is an effort aimed at investigating fundamental issues important to chemical modeling in modern measurement science, specifically: (1) stabilizing calibration and classification relationships in the presence of unexpected contributions, and (2) making calibrations and classifications as robust as possible to additional sources of background. Methods for automated identification of the portions of the chemical responses that best model the system are being investigated. The broader impacts of this project include the improvements in efficiency and performance from improved and more reliable chemical models for production and quality assurance, as well as the training of graduate and undergraduate students in data analysis, a skill in very high demand. Sponsors: National Science Foundation PI: Barry K. Lavine Application of Raman and Infrared Microscopy for the Forensic Examination of Automotive Clear Coats and Paint Smears All too often, a clear coat is the only layer of automotive paint recovered from a crime scene. Current approaches to identify clear coats have been unsuccessful because the FTIR spectra of clear coats are too similar to generate accurate hit lists by searching clear coat IR spectra alone. Recently published studies of pattern recognition methods applied to IR spectra of clear coats have shown that information about the line and model of the vehicle can be obtained from these spectra. To further enhance the general discrimination power of clear coats, Raman spectroscopy and pattern recognition techniques are being investigated as a potentially better solution to the problem of extracting investigative lead information from clear coats. In addition, a procedure to simulate the type of paint smear generated in vehicle‐vehicle or vehicle‐pedestrian hit‐and‐ run collisions is also being developed. Sponsors: National Institute of Justice PI: Barry K. Lavine Development of agents to treat ovarian cancer The development of new agents to treat ovarian cancer and/or prevent ovarian cancer is the focus of the research. Such compounds must be as specific as possible to attack the cancer directly with very low toxicity and