- Royce Fellowship
Kalie
Boyne
Concentration
Africana Studies
Award Year
2014
Making The Invisible Visible: Fifty definitions of the human experience through narratives and portraiture
Faculty Sponsor: Francoise Hamlin
Kalie explored and contradicted the practice of stereotyping that divides and distorts everyday interactions between humans. She drew fifty individuals and interviewed them on the subject of self-definition, values, purpose, and experiences to create a constructive fusion of academic research, oral history, and art. Through portraiture and narrative, she made visible what is so often overlooked in the rush to define others and investigated how qualitative research methods are applied to create socially engaged art. Her goal was to change the perceptions and behavior that limits opportunity and connection.