spring 2024
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Cohen Gallery, Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Turner Gallery, & Online
Candidates for MFA degrees in Ceramic Art, Electronic Integrated Arts, Painting, and Sculpture/Dimensional Studies are featured in a series of culminating thesis exhibitions.
Electronic Integrated Arts
Being a queer person continually shapes how I approach digital media and how I chose to consume technology. I often question the influence of digital systems and the inherent biases that exist embedded within computers. When I...
View Micah Alhadeff's Exhibit
Alfred-Düsseldorf Painting
JJ Baker is an artist and educator from Cincinnati, OH. His work examines materiality and memory through visual exploration. From finding objects and surfaces as subject matter to collaging layers of paper and paint onto...
View JJ Baker's Exhibit
Ceramic Art
Joël Brodovsky-Adams is a queer ceramicist originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba. His work consists of wheel-thrown forms with highly patterned and decorated surfaces. Joël took up ceramics in 2013 at a community...
View Joël Brodovsky-Adams's Exhibit
Sculpture-Dimensional Studies
Art is linked with emotional states, and I use it to comfort others and myself. My work often comes across as childlike and homey, with themes of nostalgia and domesticity. Although the work often seems truly positive and...
View Claire Cadorette's Exhibit
Ceramic Art
My practice is both a mode of expression and investigation, existing as a way of analyzing our relationship to figurative objects, both publicly and personally, through the ceramic process. The figurine has been under...
View Spencer Cheek's Exhibit
Electronic Integrated Arts
Tianchan Chen is considered as one of the most innovative and intellectually profound cross-media artists of this time. His artistic practice merges rigorous mathematics and programming techniques with an innovative visual art...
View Tianchan Chen's Exhibit
Alfred-Düsseldorf Painting
‘Force-to-flow’ is an interdependent relationship highlighting methods of accumulating artistic research and organizing my art-making process. ‘Force’ in this context can be defined as...
View Amanei Johnson's Exhibit
Ceramic Art
Both diverse and abstract in meaning— the clay vessel-form serves as a longstanding component to our lifeways– insistent mediator between ourselves and the wider, deeper ground. At the core of my practice, I...
View Emma Kaye's Exhibit
Ceramic Art
I submerge myself in the metaphysical dimensions intrinsic to nature, aiming to uncover the deep connection between the visible and invisible. The emphasis lies in a deeply introspective and physical experience, where I...
View Chaeeun Lee's Exhibit
Ceramic Art
I utilize the stereotypical notions revolving around functional objects as my breaking point to explore practicality beyond the utilitarian identity they inherit. Creating these works to me is equivalent to the act of creating...
View Daeun Lim's Exhibit
Ceramic Art
Black material culture is filled with objects whose complex origins reflect the people they are tied to. I make objects that hold the stories, memories and everyday occurrences that are yet to become ritual. Through the...
View Chelsea McMaster's Exhibit
Sculpture-Dimensional Studies
Fire destroyed my family home initiating an artistic exploration of the complex connections we have to place, specifically those we consider “home”. My sculptural work probes the interplay between place,...
View Heidi Mortensen's Exhibit
Ceramic Art
How do we reconcile the concept of “nature” with the current ecological state of the world? In 2020, we hit a historic tipping point: for the first time, the anthropogenic mass (the total weight of all...
View Gabriel Poucher's Exhibit
Alfred-Düsseldorf Painting
I work within my own truisms. Merriam-Webster defines truism as “an undoubted or self-evident truth especially: one too obvious to mention”. I take phrases from my encounters in life and transform them into...
View Archer Rivers's Exhibit
Sculpture-Dimensional Studies
In my current sculptural practice, I feel an irresistible pull towards light and anything reflective, refractive, sparkly, or luminous in nature. Light as a medium is compelling and sensational, fills and defines volume,...
View Rhiannon Scheidt's Exhibit
Electronic Integrated Arts
Process Blue delves into the therapeutic possibilities of art as a conduit for navigating grief, drawing from deeply personal encounters with loss. Within this body of work, I explore the amalgamation of technical processes...
View Mike Schultz's Exhibit
Ceramic Art
My practice is a living evidence of me trudging through life with cautious curiosity; figurative sculpture is my primary crutch. I embrace chance and experimentation by infusing 'happenings' into my pieces, a technique term...
View Julien Tang'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 Liz Vukelich's Exhibit