Mountain Scholar

Mountain Scholar is an open access repository service that collects, preserves, and provides access to digitized library collections and other scholarly and creative works from Colorado State University and the University Press of Colorado. It also serves as a dark archive for the Open Textbook Library.

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Colorado State University, Fort Collins 28186
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Open Textbook Library Archive 25
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University Press of Colorado 1088
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Recent Submissions

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Guppy Workman: capstone
(2026-05) Workman, Guppy, artist
The artist's statement: I am a designer whose work tends to be more geometric in nature. I have always loved math as my favorite subject, especially geometry, and I often think in similar ways to an engineer or architect in the way I design. Often building using shapes and grids to achieve the necessary solution with the proper look and feel. My process involves a lot of research beforehand to understand the history, context, and nuances of the subject. Then I transition into the sketching phase where I get my ideas onto the page and start with small roughs. Next I open up a digital software to start implementing my detailed sketches and I often create many iterations to find the best path to move forward with. Finally I choose my strongest option and begin refining the final product.
Access status: Open Access ,
Tori Brunger: capstone
(2026-05) Brunger, Tori, artist
The artist's statement: My name is Tori Brunger, and I am a Graphic Designer and Electronic artist. As I was doing research on what designs and ideas I wanted to implement, I was really drawn to the designs that involved birds. I often think of birds as one of the freest living creatures with their ability to defy gravity and began thinking about how I could incorporate birds and what they symbolize into a design about human rights. Then Jason told a story about the time he saw a falcon chased out of a tree by a group of smaller birds. That really resonated with me how the power of numbers, even if the birds are small, can fight and chase off a bigger threat and how that can apply to the fight for human rights. Using doves as a symbol for peace and unity and crows as a symbol for death and oppression, I designed a tree being claimed by a group of doves as they chase off a flock of invading crows. This design is meant to show that no matter how small, when we fight for human rights, we can chase off even the biggest oppressors. I also used the colors and effect of a sunrise to symbolize the dawn of a new day on the fight for human rights.
Access status: Open Access ,
Sophie Lee: capstone
(2026-05) Lee, Sophie, artist
The artist's statement: My body of work is in the form of imaginative, graphic approach to drawing and painting on paper and canvas. I am drawn to the physical and visual process of layering marks and colors in a flexible way on to the surface. This process is both intuitive and meditative, allowing me to respond to each piece during the process. Through repetition, texture, and depth of colors, I create surfaces that speak of thoughts and emotion. Artmaking for me is a way of communicating what often feels difficult to articulate through words. It becomes a narrative where there are internal experiences and emotions. I am interested in how imagery, color, and composition can give an emotional response to the viewer. Which includes giving the discomfort and curiosity without needing verbal explanation. Every act of creation is also an act of self reflection. My work explores themes surrounding social issues, emotional states, mental health, and identity, not as fixed ideas but as ongoing questions. I navigate these subjects by blending imagination with observation, drawing from both personal experience and the broader world around me. This balance allows my work to exist somewhere between reality and abstraction. I primarily work with watercolor, gouache, ink, and oil pastel, which are mediums that offer a range of fluidity and intensity. I am interested in how these materials interact, how they bleed, flow and layer over one another. Rather than assigning a fixed narrative to each piece, I love to introduce an open ended narrative to my audiences. I invite viewers to engage with the work through their own perspectives, emotions, and experiences.
Access status: Open Access ,
Tori Brunger: capstone
(2026-05) Brunger, Tori, artist
The artist's statement: My name is Tori Brunger, and I am a Graphic Designer and Electronic artist. These stills are from my work in progress game, Storm the Castle, which is based on a dungeon crawler classic video game style and classic storyline of a knight in shining armor battling and slaying the dragon to rescue the princess trapped in a cage or dungeon cell. I find something so interesting about old timey games that are 2d and pixelated as these are the some of the types of games that I and many others grew up with and there is a sense of nostalgia and a longing for the simpler days of our youth. The concept for this game idea comes from junior year. I made a really rough draft of a dungeon crawler game with a knight going through a castle, avoiding booby traps, and fighting a dragon to save a princess. I would like to expand on this idea and maybe give it some more details such as different rooms and booby traps. I would also like to make the game a little more challenging as my first version of the game was simple and very easy to win. The final scene where you fight the dragon to save the princess will be much more challenging to finish.
Access status: Open Access ,
Aimee Campolucci: capstone
(2026-05) Campolucci, Aimee, artist
The artist's statement: As a second Bachelors of Fine Arts student at Colorado State University with a focus in printmaking, I've spent the remainder of my time here exploring and thinking about the people that have been affected the most regarding the recent activities of the current administration. People who have become this country's "The Disappeared.” The artwork that is displayed is a piece consisting of cyno-type prints wrapping a hand-made cargo ship (30W x 10H x 7D) and small matchboxes (2 W x ¼ H x 1 D) wrapped in cyno-printed muslin fabric to mimic shipping containers. The individual matchers were sporadically wrapped and placed into the matchboxes with the faces of individuals that have been sent to ICE facilities throughout the country. The cargo ship includes a small video piece of the matches with the faces of the individuals being burned away.