For my thesis work, I have created an animation video with poetry as the narration. Each voice heard in this film, depicts the people I considered home, my family and my friends. I chose a specific color palette for this film, I wanted to have one primary color, yellow. It is the color that makes [...]

LOUD LIBRARY: FREE BOOKS, FREE MUSIC, FREE VIBES  The Loud library is a community-driven idea to reconnect people with knowledge through books, good music, and create a community around them. I wanted to be able to help people reconnect with their love for reading books, listening to music, and having fun. Some people work so [...]

I was born in a rural area that was entrenched in a deeply rooted patriarchal tradition. At the time, China’s one-child policy had a profound impact on society. My project is a reflection of this era, encapsulating my memories of childhood and the pain I endured as a girl. My thesis work is a collection [...]

As an installation artist and printmaker, I employ woodcut, monotype, and screenprint in combination with sound, animation, and projection to create immersive environments for my audience to inhabit. I utilize woodburning techniques to create the woodcuts because the act of woodburning can be ritualistic and meditative. I use monotype and screenprinting for their painterly and [...]

Object Drag: Mancrafts in the Garage, features objects that are conventionally associated with regional masculine activities in the North American Midwest. During my personal exploration into the perceived space of gendered craft, I coined the term ‘mancraft’, a call back to the “mancave”, to describe these regional masculine activities. Aspects of mancrafts such as making [...]

As a multimedia artist and designer, I specialize in utilizing illustration and graphic design to communicate complex ideas in visually striking and thought-provoking ways. I believe that the interplay between color, composition, and storytelling is essential to creating unique and captivating pieces that leave a lasting impression. To achieve this goal, I continuously stay up [...]

Simple, obdurate scenes of harmonized confusion. Constant, yet continually unique. A one liner in three acts. An infinite game played for the purpose of continuing the play. Always falling, always making a sound, whoever may or may not be around. This is the second act. There is a stillness in motion, and palpability without tangibility. [...]

My thesis exhibition project is a viewing kiosk for the movie, A Project for You. The audience can watch the movie, Picnic Day, which the characters, Summer and Ernest, made, and read their statement on an iPad attached to the wall. The statement from the characters talking about the movie they made also directs the [...]

Ever since I was a kid, I have been drawing as a way of documentation and exploration. Over time, I have developed my pictographic language – a code that transforms the silhouette of everything around me and a tool I use to narrate stories just like written language. My pictographs compose semi-abstract and highly detailed [...]

Page through our ‘MFA 2023 Thesis Exhibition Publication’ online! In these pages, each MFA 2023 graduate describes their overall artistic concerns and practice. [See our series of posts about the Thesis Exhibition – one post per student on the homepage – as well!]