I hope you have had a nice travel and back with new energy to your thesis. It would be nice to see the projects as you mentioned hope you could combine it with your study.
You are right recently not much activity on Steemit and we noticed that Art dep-t get more quite too. So we have started a new project that is just a week old and we hope to get support from as many people as possible, it is a curation of young artists whose works undervalued and that we are doing together with other Steemians but with our own financing. Would be great to hear your thoughts about it, Cheers @art-venture