spring 2021
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Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Turner Gallery, & Online Below
MFA exhibitions were held on campus with limited in-person viewing due to COVID restrictions. Faculty, staff and students in the School of Art & Design were able to visit exhibitions during open hours. Below is an online catalog of graduate student work form the class of 2021.
Ceramic Art
From early childhood I developed a fascination to clay. I realized that working with clay enlightened me spiritually and emotionally, which in turn influenced my ideas; Clay became the media in which I could express thoughts...
View Uriel H. Caspi Jr.'s Exhibit
Ceramic Art
My current art practice articulates itself around a site-specific approach to installation art which evokes the human perceptual relationship with nature and makes plain an attentiveness to the agency of the natural...
View Marianne Chenard's Exhibit
Ceramic Art
Through a ceramic lens, I’m exploring the concept of civilization’s authority over landscape and record of construction as a form of time materialized. The geographical layered strata represent fragments or...
View Justin Donofrio's Exhibit
Ceramic Art
Candidates for MFA degrees in Ceramic Art, Electronic Integrated Arts, Painting, and Sculpture/Dimensional Studies are featured in a series of culminating thesis exhibitions.
View Lukas Easton's Exhibit
Ceramic Art
My work embodies the intersection of both the compounding material and subject, clay and horse. It is not my goal to illustrate the romantic or heroic image of the horse. Instead, I aim to reconfigure the equine icon as a...
View Shauna Fahley's Exhibit
Electronic Integrated Arts
Michael Masaru Flora is a multidisciplinary artist working within the intersections of art, music, and science. As an artist entangled in an ever shifting set of relationships with materials, human collaborators, energies, and...
View Michael Flora's Exhibit
Alfred-Düsseldorf Painting
Hollow Myth The thesis exhibition, “Hollow Myth”, by painting graduate Josh Green which will be in the Fosdick-Nelson Gallery May 1 – 4. Josh will be showing alongside ceramic graduate...
View Josh Green's Exhibit
Sculpture-Dimensional Studies
Rooke Hyde’s work explores the disjunction between the body and self, and how identity is shaped, or distorted, by societal systems. Society has built an environment that erases and deforms queer bodies;...
View Rooke Hyde's Exhibit
Sculpture-Dimensional Studies
Through the investigation of my life I have discovered central practices that contribute to my flourishing wellbeing, or what I now call Full Sparkle. The practices of Full Sparkle are connection with community, liberating...
View Misty Long-Donoho's Exhibit
Electronic Integrated Arts
Candidates for MFA degrees in Ceramic Art, Electronic Integrated Arts, Painting, and Sculpture/Dimensional Studies are featured in a series of culminating thesis exhibitions.
View Tammy McGovern's Exhibit
Ceramic Art
As the physical and digital worlds increasingly intertwine, through clay and other mediums, I explore the transformations that occur between the two. Technologies such as scanning and 3D printing find their way into...
View Erin Smith's Exhibit
Electronic Integrated Arts
In the spring of 2020, I was looking through journals of project proposals and there was one written down in 2017 about the use of cyanotypes to make videos. It was never tested due to the lack of equipment. The project was...
View Yunda Sun's Exhibit
Ceramic Art
Growing up as the youngest child of a conservative Hong Kong family, my voice was not welcomed. The ability to speak faded away. At 12, I moved back to Canada, where a series of traumatic issues were created by the...
View Sami Tsang's Exhibit
Electronic Integrated Arts
My thesis work examines how the filters that we look through to see the world — a window, a mirror, a computer screen, the human eye— impact our perceptions of the world and of ourselves as viewers and...
View Isabella Uliasz's Exhibit
Sculpture-Dimensional Studies
Traumatic events and hereditary elements play a role in how our identity and body take shape but, are these factors also inescapable: is our parents' history a prophecy of what will also limit us? I am interested in how the...
View Kimberly Willcox's Exhibit
Electronic Integrated Arts
My work has included video, printmaking, digital prints, motion graphics, interactive art and virtual reality. Working across 2D and 3D modeling, from abstract to concrete, expanding beyond into 3D motion, alternative modes of...
View Di Zhu's Exhibit