2021 MFA Thesis Exhibition by Billy Dee
March 16th - March 20th, 2021
In Hidden in Plain View, MFA candidate Billy Dee explores the language of quilt-making.
2021 MFA Thesis Exhibition by Leah Junquera
March 23rd - 27th, 2021
These paintings depict remote places in nature; they are joyful, magical and help me sort my own grief. I’ve returned to these precious spaces numerous times throughout my life, as did generations before me. In this new work I have been investigating ownership in experience not landscape—exploring my identity through nature. By returning to these spaces time and time again they hold more than just a collection of memories. The past experiences are informing my understanding of present. Time is in a state of flux. The land ungraspable and fleeting. There is a borderlessness wonder to these spaces and encounters. Moments from them are immersive, interwoven and always moving. The temporal landscape is the only one I keep and call my own.
2021 MFA Thesis Exhibition by Jill Beth Hannes
March 30th - April 3rd, 2021
An investigation into how our identity is shaped through our archives of family history, media, and the stories that are handed down to us. Our memories are like dreams and they change and morph from the images that we surround ourselves with. How does this influx of constructed memory shape our identity? Where does the trauma of the past find a place to be seen within our need to archive and create a representation of the present?
2021 MFA Thesis Exhibition by Grace Clark
April 6th - 10th, 2021
Through remnants of rituals, images of influential icons, and recreations of transformative terrains, Keep In Touch acts as an evidentiary collection of the personal ephemera associated with navigating an accidental emotional education in hopes of encouraging a sensitivity to the self and one’s surroundings.
2021 MFA Thesis Exhibition by Hoan Rahlan
April 13th - April 17th, 2021
In Your Mother’s Eyes is rooted in the overwhelming peace I have found since giving birth to my first baby, Jayden. Through the display of growth, the progression of time, emotional and physical perception, I am symbolically and literally creating representations of this new life as a mother and the tensions between the good it brings and the fears of not knowing how to be a good mom or what is best for a child. Created using the Procreate app on an iPad, digitally illustrated animations showcase the movement and repetition of time as I, the mother, am living by the sensitivity of time itself.