Welcome to the blog for THEMERICA™. My name is Dave Gottwald, and I will be using this space to document, annotate and otherwise comment on my MFA thesis at the Academy of Art University as it unfolds and develops over the next year and a half. This blog will serve as a repository of articles and things of interest I find on my topic, as well as ‘notes from the field’ as I embark on research trips that will take me from Walt Disney World to Europe to Asia to Dubai.