by Thesis Mentor | May 6, 2021 | blogs, Faith DeRuiter, gender studies, position papers, thesis2021, Uncategorized
The common trope of portraying crafts like knitting, crocheting, andembroidery as “grandma crafts” is a harmful stereotypebecause it devalues the work, writes them off as easy, and makes way for the discrediting of artists in these mediums. Within film and...
by Thesis Mentor | May 5, 2021 | blogs, Faith DeRuiter, thesis2021
As I’m writing this final blog, it really is the middle of crunch time. This launch is at the end of this week and I have a few loose ends that I still need to tie up. The skeleton of my thesis site is finished, but formatting is proving to be more frustrating than I...
by Thesis Mentor | May 5, 2021 | blogs, Faith DeRuiter, thesis2021
We’re heading into the homestretch, with the thesis day launch growing closer every day. There are still last-minute poems to be revised, and it’s Time to get the rest of the art finished to put it onto the website. The website is coming together slowly, and reaching...
by Thesis Mentor | May 3, 2021 | blogs, Faith DeRuiter, thesis2021
With my creative project completely changing from a collection of poetry videos to a cultivation of written poetry with accompanying visuals, the refinement process is needed to begin. poems need to be written and rewritten to now fit into not only the pre-established...
by Thesis Mentor | Apr 6, 2021 | blogs, Faith DeRuiter, thesis2021
With time winding down and every day inching closer to the day but my whole thesis has to be finished, I found myself pivoting on what my whole project was going to be. As I was writing the poems and picking apart exactly what I wanted from them, I started to realize...
by Thesis Mentor | Mar 7, 2021 | blogs, diaries, Faith DeRuiter, thesis2021
My thesis is going to be a series of loosely connected poetry videos, with the goal being 11 total videos. Each video is going to have vastly different subject matter, but they’re all going to be tied together by one common theme: the universe. Each planet –...
