2016 MFA Thesis Exhibition Catalog

2016

UMass Dartmouth College of Visual and Performing Arts

April 2 – May 14, 2016

2016

UMass Dartmouth College of Visual and Performing Arts

April 2 – May 14, 2016

Alec H. Andersen Amy Araujo Calvin Arterberry Kendra Conn Kelly Lynn Daniels Yinan Dong (董逸男) Meaghan Gates Marcia Goodwin Kyungsun “Ariel” Lee (이경선) John A. Middleton Mark Phelan Sara Allen Prigodich Cuong Abel Sy Brett Sylvia Andrew Tedesco William M. Vanaria Lillian E. Webster Will Wolf

University Art Gallery College of Visual and Performing Arts UMass Dartmouth 715 Purchase Street, New Bedford, MA 02740

June 1 – June 26, 2016

Bromfield Gallery 450 Harrison Ave., Boston, MA 02118

Greetings from the Office of the Dean

On behalf of the faculty, staff, and students in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, we are pleased to introduce the 2016 edition of the MFA Thesis Exhibition. This public presentation caps two to three years of ongoing creative research in a variety of visual arts disciplines in the fields of Artisanry, Design, and Fine Arts. Following individual oral defenses and completion of the MFA Thesis Report, these students will celebrate the singular achievement of obtaining the advanced professional degree in the visual arts, the Master of Fine Arts, at Commencement this May. In June, selections from this exhibit will be on display at Bromfield Gallery in the urban arts district, South of Washington (SoWa), in Boston. This will be the fifth consecutive year our soon-to-be alumni will be formally introduced to this vibrant and thriving arts scene. The exhibition will also serve to reconnect us with the UMass Dartmouth community of alumni and friends living and working in the Greater Boston Region.

We invite you to join us in celebrating the accomplishments of this talented class of MFA candidates and wishing them well in their future creative endeavors.

Adrian Tió, Dean Megan Abajian, Assistant Dean

Notes from the Gallery Director

Eighteen students, eighteen approaches, eighteen emotional and artistic worlds are yours to experience in this year’s MFA Thesis Exhibition.

The 2016 MFA exhibition consists of a wide variety of media including painting, drawing, sculpture, digital and moving images, software application design, as well as intricately made jewelry that utilizes both text and unusual contemporary materials. The range of themes is equally diverse; explorations of personal and cultural identity, feelings of loss, intimacy, memories and dreams as well as examinations of formal and conceptual space.

Welcome to this journey into colors, shapes, compositions, ideas and histories as you explore this large-scale exhibition, presented in the first floor windows and galleries of the Star Store Campus in historic Downtown New Bedford. Your visit will not only be the experience of individual works of art, but a voyage into a deeply enriching world of creative energy. Discover the creative force of each artist as they display the results of their past two to three years of artistic and personal growth during their focused graduate studies at UMass Dartmouth.

Viera Levitt, Gallery Director

Alec H. Andersen Â

BIOGRAPHY Alec Andersen is a recent graduate of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, where he also received his bachelor’s in Digital Media in 2014. Alec was raised in Pepperell, Massachusetts, and has held an interest in digital and interactive art since his since his childhood. His master’s thesis explores the psychology behind interactive experience, the history of the game industry, and the rise of the independent developer.

Alec has been equally invested in technology education and has worked as an assistant for CVPA professors and faculty members. Alec has also worked for Internal Drive over the last five years, teaching young students how to utilize software that enables their spatial relationship and logical reasoning abilities.

STATEMENT I am an artist working in three-dimensional interactive digital media with a strong focus in user experience and generative content. My body of work consists primarily of high-efficiency models streamlined to enable smooth flow through the interactive space as well as the surrounding spaces. I explore the sensations of loss and panic in my work, contrasted against ordered randomness and user memory, to create a bottled experience for the user that can be ventured into with genuine discovery time and time again.

Character Rigging Maya First Person View Unity 5

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Amy Araujo

BIOGRAPHY Amy Araujo is from New Bedford, MA. In 2012, she received her BFA from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. She is a surfer, waterwoman, and lifeguard who has traveled across the country and lived in San Diego, California. Amy is currently pursuing an MFA in Drawing.

STATEMENT

“We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.”

–William James

My work is about my humanity, a reflection of my human experiences. I believe there is a oneness that connects us all and enables each of us with the capacity to feel beyond our own individual experiences and connect to ones outside ourselves. Experiences can be universal. My drawings are driven from a series of events that took place in a four-year time span and evolved into a narrative. The self-portraits are an exploration of myself - a contemplation of the feelings, thoughts and emotions attached to particular memories. The drawings are a response to what has been suppressed deep beneath the surface and internalized.

Submerged Charcoal on paper, 55” x 96” Forgotten Charcoal on paper, 42” x 84” Hiraeth Charcoal on paper, 60” x 84”

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Calvin Arterberry Â

BIOGRAPHY Calvin Arterberry was born in the pre-internet age of the 1980s, but distinctly remembers the day the internet became commonplace in the 1990s. He attended the Art Institute of Phoenix and received his BS in Game Art and Design. Since then, Calvin has worked in the video game industry, tech start-ups, and the interactive design industry as a multidisciplinary designer. He is graduating from UMass Dartmouth with an MFA in Visual Design/Digital Media, with emphasis on User Experience Design and User Interface Design. Upon graduating, he plans to continue working in the tech industry.

STATEMENT I am a user experience/user interface designer, creating video games, ebooks, and web-based applications. My work process is comprised of user stories, software design diagrams, HTML/CSS templates, interactive prototypes, storyboards and icon systems. The end goal of my designs is to drive the look and feel of the application as well as inform my fellow software engineers during the development effort. If I have done my job correctly, the end product is an application that facilitates a harmonious experience between the software and end user.

User Interface, Interface Mobile tablet application User Interface, Chime in Mobile application

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Kendra Conn

BIOGRAPHY Kendra Conn was born in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. Her undergraduate work was done at Massachusetts College of Art, where she received a BFA in Ceramics and Art Teacher Education. After a successful career as a potter and teacher, she enrolled in the Program in Artisanry at Boston University, earning an MFA in Ceramics. She is a member of the International Academy of Ceramics and exhibits her work internationally. Kendra is currently completing her MFA in Drawing.

STATEMENT Portraiture is an art form as old as human existence—from the Lascaux caves to today’s selfies, we are always portraying ourselves in relation to others and concepts of self. There are layers of meaning revealed in each person - emotional and psychological as well as physical.

Each small personal gesture, piece of clothing or color subtly hints at the subject’s character. Portraiture allows me to capture the essence of a person with paper and pain; to reflect their journey through life that is etched in their face and embedded in their heart.

Nigel’s New Hat Watercolor, 18” x 18” Morning Watercolor, 26” x 27 1⁄2” Self Portrait Pencil on paper, 17” x 16” George Watercolor, 18 x 22 1⁄2”

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Kelly Lynn Daniels BIOGRAPHY Kelly Daniels is a ceramic artist and potter living in New Bedford, MA. A native of California, she moved to Massachusetts in 2013 for graduate studies in ceramics at UMass Dartmouth. Kelly was a professional potter for ten years before returning to California State University at Chico, where she earned her BFA in Ceramics. She has exhibited her work widely and has work in many private collections. Kelly has received numerous scholarships and fellowships, including assistantships at Penland School of Crafts.

STATEMENT At an early age, I learned that having a garden meant having a place of refuge, a place of solace, and a place of celebration. I am fascinated by cultivating the earth and creating a nurturing place for seeds and plants to germinate and grow. My childhood, gardens, and nature are fertile sources of inspiration and I feel compelled to express intimacy through my work. I see my surfaces as a playground for the eye while the textures entreat the fingertips to linger, explore and trace designs on the surface. I am interested in slowing down, finding balance, and taking time to notice small details. I hope that through my work intimate moments are created.

Peony and Rudbekia Vases Stoneware, slips, stencils, mishima, soda fired 12” x 9” x 3.5” Summer Dream (four of ten tiles) Porcelain, slips, stencils, piercing, soda fired 4” x 80” x 15”

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Yinan Dong (董逸男)

BIOGRAPHY Yinan Dong was born and raised in China. She earned her BFA in Animation in 2013 from Zhejiang University of Media and Communications. After two years in the illustration program, she is currently completing her MFA in Drawing, translating her own experiences into images.

STATEMENT Living in the U.S. as a foreigner, it is sometimes difficult to feel a sense of belonging; some days it’s a struggle, some days it is a blessing.

My work captures the reflection and contradictory states of culture with a touch of poetic sensibility. Through self-portrait drawings, I materialize intimate moments of my thoughts that convey a pure emotional and abstracted cultural identity. The sensitivity of human emotions transcend into a concrete portrait. I incorporate patterns, as cultural iconography, to shape a deeper personal content in the conscious or subconscious. Through my work, I want to depict a kind of beauty, one cultivated by the country that has been my home and also a connection that goes beyond borders.

Lotus Blossom Graphite, pastel, digital prints, gessoed on paper 22” x 30” Lotus Blossom (detail)

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Meaghan Gates

BIOGRAPHY Meaghan Gates was born and raised in Northern California and is currently attending UMass Dartmouth as a Distinguished Art Fellow in ceramics. At the completion of her undergraduate work, she worked at the Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Center in Denmark as an assistant and resident artist. She was also the recipient of a Windgate Fellowship that allowed her to work with a production potter in Seto, Japan, participate as a resident at the Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park and at the Sanbao International Art Institute in Jingdezhen, China. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions across the country and internationally. While attending graduate school, she has been aiding in the creation of a ceramic-based curriculum that will be used by the Empowering Women Project in Kerala, India.

STATEMENT There is an interconnected quality that species and the environment have with one another, and these symbiotic relationships can lead to creation, mutation, or destruction. I am creating abstracted biological sculptures that embody the natural world and the way I empathize with it. Each piece is made out of hundreds of hand-built and wheel thrown elements that are assembled to evoke emotion through their gesture. I use movement as referenced from existing organisms to create sculptures that read as though they are cringing, reaching out to grab, leaning as though pushed, or attempting to heal. My forms are fictitious biological organisms that I utilize to express various scenarios and possibilites.

Introduction Ceramic, glaze, and paint 20” x 13” x 18.5” Compensate Ceramic, glaze, and paint 19” x 17” x 14”

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Marcia Goodwin

BIOGRAPHY Marcia Goodwin was born and raised in Waltham, MA. She began her higher education as a math and science major, shifting her interests to fine arts in the late 1960s. She graduated from Southeastern Massachusetts University’s (predecessor of UMass Dartmouth) Painting program. After that, she studied printmaking and became a founding member of the Monotype Guild of New England. She has taught classes in printmaking and creativity at the Fuller Craft Museum, and participated in residencies at the Contemporary Artists Center and at Gravity Press in North Adams, as well as at the Red Gate Artist Residency in Beijing, China. Her work is included in the corporate collection of the DeCordova Museum, and in other public and private collections. Marcia has shown internationally in Australia and China.

STATEMENT I am my art. Four words-one statement is the simple answer I use to describe myself and my art. I constantly strive to connect my diverse interests in order to create my personal visual language. As a maker, my goal is to create art that can be seen on many levels - the physical, spiritual, scientific and medical. Work that is alive, art that is vibrational, that transmits energy and spiritual in that my art becomes my prayers. Scientific in that I use my interests in biology and physics and their concepts to explore and translate to a visual interpretation.

Medical in the respect that I consider my art to be vibrational medicine, a concept that has evolved through studying alternative healing modalities.

Matrix Frequency Watercolor, mixed media 11” x 8” Earth Song (detail) Watercolor, mixed media 11” x 8”

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Kyungsun “Ariel” Lee (이경선)

BIOGRAPHY Kyungsun “Ariel” Lee was born in Seoul, South Korea. Painting has always been a part of her life; she feels that painting is what she can do best and it serves as the fundamental theme of her life. She still remembers the time when she said that, “I will become an artist” during a public speaking class in kindergarten. From her childhood to elementary school, middle school, art high school, college, and now to graduate school, Ariel has pursued one path to being an artist. For her, painting is something so natural that she will take it throughout her life.

STATEMENT If you want to find out someone’s true feelings and true self, you have to look at his/her untruthful sides first. These descriptions embody the foundations of my work: contradiction and ambiguity. These feelings, which are expressed visually on my canvas, serve as my own communication window and my key to enlightenment. In my work, humans and animals go through my own interpretation and become newly created in the chaotic space of my imagination. On canvas, I break, partially erase, and take away these re-interpreted images. I aim to evoke profound emotions; deeply hidden feelings that would ultimately help us recover from the wounds caused by a chaotic world.

Finding True Definition of Feelings in Humans: Contradiction and Duality #1 Oil on herringbone 68” x 50” Finding True Definition of Feelings in Humans: Contradiction and Duality #2 Oil on linen 54” x 48”

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John A. Middleton BIOGRAPHY John A. Middleton was born in San Francisco and raised in Kansas City. He received his BA in English and History at the University of Kansas, and his PhD in English from Indiana University, with a dissertation on Moby Dick. He was an assistant professor of English at Georgia State University, Atlanta, where he specialized in American Literature, and where he received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He currently lives near New Bedford, where he has pursued a career in sales and marketing, owning and operating his own business. He is now retired and is completing his MFA in Artisanry at UMass Dartmouth.

STATEMENT Time, tides, wind, storms, marine organisms, and the sun transform objects that are lost or discarded in the water in ways that can render them strange and beautiful. Accidents and hurricanes break up boats. Their parts, once clean and functional, are scraped and scoured into new forms that obscure their original history. Paint weathers and fades, leaving behind only hints at what it used to be. Metals rust and develop patinas. Glass shatters; sharp corners are smoothed away; surfaces cloud. Worms drill and colonize wood and bone. Things change and change again. My work is to collect these objects along the shoreline and to bring them together in works that call attention to the dignity, beauty, and uniqueness of their transformations, and offer them the opportunity to tell their stories.

One Tale from the Harbor (detail) Found objects, paint 33� x 76�

Another Tale from the Harbor (detail)

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Mark Phelan

BIOGRAPHY Mark Phelan was born in 1969 and raised in Massachusetts. He grew up on a street where his extended family had houses that bordered a river. He enjoyed the great freedom provided by the forest, gardens, fields, and lawns. He could most often be found building treehouses and lean-tos in the woods, or building dirt ramps to jump his BMX bike. On rainy days, he would be inside drawing or building with Lincoln Logs and LEGO. Toys have now given way to cars, and he divides his creative time between painting and building hot rods. He is still a kid.

STATEMENT My paintings are an entry to a point of inquiry. I am interested in examining within myself that which makes me feel compelled to paint.

This compulsion I call Painter’s Punctum. Roland Barthes defined punctum as the aspect of an image which contains meaning beyond the formal description of the image’s contents. Painter’s Punctum is the drive to find out why I paint. Why do I continually return to a subject, a theme, or a way of image building again and again? What is it about the way I draw or what I paint that drives me to investigate it over and over? With the aid of the antiquated apparatus of diving and space exploration and other props, I suit up to explore the inner and outer reaches of body and soul, time and space.

Open Ended Question (detail) Acrylic, charcoal, conte, oil on panel 96” x 216” Four Feet High and Rising (detail) Acrylic, oil, shellac on panel 83” x 61”

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Sara Allen Prigodich

BIOGRAPHY Sara Allen Prigodich was born and raised in Connecticut. In 2010, Sara graduated from the Hartford Art School at the University of Hartford with a BFA in Ceramics. After completing her BFA, she spent two years as the Ceramics Department Technician and adjunct faculty at Bard College at Simon’s Rock in Great Barrington, MA. Sara spent one year as a studio and production manager at a moldmaking and slip casting company before attending UMass Dartmouth to seek her MFA in Artisanry/Ceramics.

STATEMENT The process of creating and recalling memories can lead to the transformation of information and the potential for duality and ambiguity.

The act of reflecting upon our intimate experiences can often become an investigation—a system of discovering multiple layers where there appeared to be only one. My sculptures are physical representation of our psychological incongruities: the doubts, questions and shifts in perspectives that exist in our memories.

Wait Porcelain, oxides, wooden bench 19” x 10” x 12” on 29” x 12” x 27” bench Corner Porcelain, wooden platform 22” x 16” x 17” on 50” x 36” x 16” platform Corner (detail)

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Cuong Abel Sy

BIOGRAPHY Cuong Abel Sy’s family immigrated to the United States in 1981 as a result of the Cambodian Genocide. On his family’s 6th and final year as refugees, Cuong was born inside a refugee camp clinic located in Indonesia. He enlisted with the US Air Force as a weather forecaster and spent his last year of service in South Korea. Following his military career, he remained living abroad and moved to England. In 2010, he moved to Cranston, RI and received his BA from Rhode Island College in Metalsmithing & Jewelry Design.

Following undergraduate studies, he entered UMass Dartmouth’s Artisanry program where he is currently completing his MFA in Jewelry/Metals.

STATEMENT My necklaces express and glorify difference and otherness, in hopes that the elements of other-worldliness found within my necklace forms can balance or offset stigmas associated with the vulnerability of being an immigrant refugee. The main components to my jewelry consist of armored robot parts and mechanisms that I have adapted from objects found in my apartment, such as kitchen tongs and bicycle cantilever brakes. Repetition is expressed as a means to convey that wholeness has been achieved, because it is only through repetitive attempts that we come full circle, and are able to realize that our identities belong in the realms of difference and otherness. Each new piece offers me hope and a profound sense that if I can make new pieces, then I can surely invent a new way of thinking about life.

The Gatekeeper Silver, bronze, 14k gold, lab sapphire 10” x 5 1⁄2” x 1 1⁄2” The Gatekeeper (detail)

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Brett Sylvia

BIOGRAPHY Born in New Bedford, Brett Sylvia imagines the three-dimensional form in presence of the fourth dimension, complete with animation and a story of its own. Brett’s creative journey was influenced by the glamorous performing world of Las Vegas, where his family moved when he was twelve, and the seven years he spent working as a puppeteer for Walt Disney World in Florida. His diverse experience ranges from creating large-scale puppets to teaching and lecturing fine arts at the college level.

STATEMENT I am inside my artwork and can see you, but you can’t see me. I still have memories of being a little boy cowering in darkness in my bedroom sometimes never falling asleep. This was a common nightly ritual for a while. Not understanding a situation or object when I dream scares me. Through this I become and overcome that which I fear most. By recreating a situation and putting others in my troubling unconscious experiences, it allows manifestation into a tangible reality and externalizes my fear. A potent consistency of the “sphere” shape appears within my dreams and nightmares. This is coupled with fur and hair, both primitive effective fibers that communicate movement and life. I assemble an installation for my performance where some viewers respond like playful or scared little children, and others react in a more analytical and practical way, wanting more to figure out the truth without being led astray into absurdity.

Hatch Shell Form from Spherical Lucidity Performance (detail) Wood, hardware, stain 42” diameter Sphere Form from Spherical Lucidity Performance (detail) Hair, faux fur, dye, mixed media 10” diameter

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Andrew Tedesco

BIOGRAPHY Andrew Tedesco was born in Brockton, MA. He has lived throughout the South Coast of Massachusetts his entire life, and completed his BFA in Painting and 2D Studies at UMass Dartmouth. The drive to advance his technique compelled him to pursue his MFA in Painting. He has exhibited in group shows in Boston, the Southeast Massachusetts, Beijing, and an invitational show at Raven Tooth Gallery in New York. After completion of his degree, Andrew plans to pursue teaching at the university level, while being open to residency opportunities.

STATEMENT How do we truly intellectualize loss, something that penetrates so deeply into our core? In a state of darkness, some may feel that it is a weight, a burden that body re-feels with every anniversary. The visceral testament of the experience as subjective as it is, will be carried with us. My work is an embodiment of the loss of my mother, an experience that is universal yet subjective. Clinical spaces housing mythological figures, a dead culture within a dead space.

Undertow Charcoal, aerosol, oil, and oil stick on canvas 65” x 96” Footprints Acrylic on canvas 60” x 48”

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William M. Vanaria Â

BIOGRAPHY William Vanaria was raised in Waltham, MA. He received his BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2012; his concentration was in Jewelry and Metalsmithing. Afterwards, he spent time working within the jewelry industry and volunteering as a teacher’s assistant at various art institutions. He found that the latter was much more fulfilling (and significantly less soul-sucking), so he went on to pursue a career in teaching and further his education within the arts. He is currently completing his MFA at UMass Dartmouth, once again with a concentration in Jewelry/Metals.

STATEMENT I believe that jewelry is important, both as an artistic medium and as objects of adornment and self-expression. However, despite everything that I find to be compelling about jewelry there are certain aspects that I believe should be challenged such as the hierarchy and accepted canon of its materials. I find that a strict adherence to these standards can stifle creativity and impose a set of artificial limitations for both the maker and the wearer. The jewelry that I create utilizes traditional metalsmithing techniques in conjunction with non-traditional materials to question and challenge this established hierarchy, and the systems of belief that they represent.

Coprolite Amulet Sterling silver, coprolite, garnets Amulet: 62 x 52 x 10 mm, Chain: 45.72 cm Asphalt Pendant 2 Asphalt, sterling silver, red brass, and machine screws 2.7 cm diameter x 4.6 cm

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Lillian E. Webster

BIOGRAPHY Lillian was born and raised in the small coastal community of Duxbury, MA. She attended Smith College, where she received her BA in English and Spanish Literature. She went on to complete her MA in Spanish Literature at the University of Virginia. While working in Los Angeles, she took a class in jewelry fabrication and discovered her passion for metalsmithing. Lillian plans to pursue a Certificate in Museum Studies upon completion of her MFA. STATEMENT My work attempts to evoke a point of transition; the moment when curiosity crosses into imagining; the instant when we glimpse something familiar, yet strange, and then we are pulled toward it—lured to investigate further. Through dichotomies, layers, and juxtapositions; through sensory stimuli, text(ure), and depth, my jewelry-objects beckon. To engage with these objects is to step across the threshold that divides the here-and-now from the elsewhere.

And what I dreamed...

Sterling silver, fine silver, copper, enamel, graphite, diamond 15.5” (chain) x 2.75” x 1.25” And what I dreamed... (detail – open)

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Will Wolf

BIOGRAPHY Will Wolf was born in 1988 and raised in Pottstown, PA. He received his BFA in Painting from Edinboro University. After receiving his degree, he maintained a studio practice and taught private art lessons to adults and children. He moved to New Bedford, MA to pursue an MFA in Painting from UMass Dartmouth.

STATEMENT In my current body of work, space is my primary concern. The two kinds of spaces that I am concerned with are personal and formal.

My memories, thoughts, and life form the personal, conceptual space. Formally, I am concerned with breaking the rectangle and working on expanded forms. Conceptually, this creates the sense that it is space but not the whole space. It is a part of a whole, fragmented and transplanted into a space where it doesn’t belong.

What’s Underneath Mixed media on spray form and paper 80” x 50” x 4” What We Don’t Do In Heaven Mixed media and rope on spray foam and paper 84” x 61” x 4”

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Index Alec H. Andersen

Yinan Dong (董逸男)

Amy Araujo

Meaghan Gates

Calvin Arterberry

Marcia Goodwin

Kendra Conn

Kyungsun “Ariel” Lee (이경선)

Kelly Lynn Daniels

John A. Middleton

Visual Design - Digital Media Ahandersenmail@gmail.com

Fine Arts - Drawing amyaraujo77@gmail.com www.amyaraujoart.weebly.com

Visual Design - Digital Media calvin@interfaceawesome.com www.interfaceawesome.com

Fine Arts - Drawing kendraconn@comcast.net

Artisanry - Ceramics dancingclay@gmail.com www.kellylynndaniels.com

Fine Arts - Drawing www.yinanfish.com

Artisanry - Ceramics gates.meaghan@gmail.com www.meaghangates.com

Fine Arts - Painting mstaro@comcast.net

Fine Art - Painting lkscoco@gmail.com www.painterariel.com

Artisanry - Wood jmidd42@gmail.com

Mark Phelan

Andrew Tedesco

Sara Allen Prigodich

William M. Vanaria

Cuong Abel Sy

Lillian E. Webster

Brett Sylvia

Will Wolf

Fine Arts - Painting mphelan7@gmail.com www.markphelanart.com

Artisanry - Ceramics sara@sarallen.com www.saraallenprigodich.com

Artisanry - Jewelry/Metals cuongsy@gmail.com cuongsy.wix.com/jewelry

Fine Arts - Sculpture ganmarr@hotmail.com www.brettsylvia.com

Fine Arts - Painting atedesco87@gmail.com www.badandyart.com

Artisanry - Jewelry/Metals WMVanaria@gmail.com WMVmetalsmithing.com

Artisanry - Jewelry/Metals lewebster@gmail.com metalurgesimagined.wordpress.com

Fine Arts - Painting will_wolf_art@hotmail.com www.willwolfstudio.com

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