2020 Graduate Achievement Award recipient
“We Show Up Together: Connecting Art and Activism in a New Black Arts Organization” took Tierney months of ethnographic field work, hours of participant observation, and a dozen in-depth interviews to compose what Kirk Johnson, associate professor of sociology and African American Studies, describes as “one of the first master’s theses on African American participation in an urban arts scene, a project that bears her passion for the arts as well as trademark concern for equity.”
Bamrick’s study of access to the arts builds on her experience as a professional arts administrator and master of music student at the University of Colorado.