{"id":13468,"date":"2010-04-30T08:31:52","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T12:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=13468"},"modified":"2011-05-31T12:42:35","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T16:42:35","slug":"class-of-2010-nicole-white-ma-school-of-fine-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2010\/04\/class-of-2010-nicole-white-ma-school-of-fine-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"Class of 2010: Nicole White, MA, School of Fine Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"<p>Nicole<\/a>
Nicole White. Photo by Jessica Tommaselli<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Growing up around family members with artistic careers, Nicole White became interested in art early in life. Yet despite pursuing an undergraduate degree in photography and finding satisfying work in the art world, she felt she could only go so far.<\/p>\n

\u201cI interacted with a lot of curators, people who specialized in the history of photography and who had this understanding that I didn\u2019t have,\u201d White says. \u201cThe only way to move forward was to get my master\u2019s in art history.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now nearing completion of her master\u2019s thesis in art history at UConn\u2019s School of Fine Arts<\/a>, White says she values the range of disciplines she was encouraged to explore during her two years at UConn.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe program is structured in a way that\u2019s very flexible,\u201d says White, a landscape photographer. \u201cI had the chance to tailor it to my specific interests, tak[ing] courses outside of the department to help inform my thesis.\u201d<\/p>\n

For White, one of those classes \u2013 a history course about land and society in America \u2013 helped spark the basis of her graduate research. \u201cThat got [me] thinking about people in America specifically, and how their relationship to land has changed over the past 200 years,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019m trying to relate those changes, then, to how landscape is depicted in artwork.\u201d<\/p>\n

Besides sharpening her research skills, White says her work at UConn has been instructive in other ways. \u201cNot only has it really informed my understanding of the history of photography, but it\u2019s informed my personal work, too,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019m hoping that all of this will then translate into making art as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

In her own photographic work, White often depicts the destruction caused by environmental disasters, shooting such sites as New Orleans\u2019 Lower Ninth Ward following Hurricane Katrina and the regions of Tennessee deluged in 2008 by a massive spillage of coal ash.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m very interested in how moving large portions of land and removing and stripping things \u2026 permanently, indelibly, changes what the land looks like,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Headed next to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for a master of fine arts in photography this fall, White anticipates ultimately teaching or working in a museum, while continuing to write about photography and undertake her own photographic projects.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s very important, if you\u2019re making artwork, to be informed about what it is you\u2019re doing,\u201d she says. \u201cI just want to keep taking stuff in \u2013 the more the better.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Already a seasoned photographer, master\u2019s degree student studied the history of photography.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[49],"class_list":["post-13468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 06:30:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13468"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37499,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13468\/revisions\/37499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13468"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=13468"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=13468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}