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Norah Ruth Amstutz

Norah Ruth AmstutzMFA | Ceramics ARTIST BIOI am a ceramic artist based in South Bend, IN. My family moved to the US from Ukraine when I was three years old and I grew up in Goshen, IN. I have been working with clay since 2015. I serve as the Treasurer for the Northern Indiana Clay… Read More

Emma McKay Ryan

Emma McKay RyanMFA | Painting & Drawing ARTIST BIOI am an artist currently living and working in South Bend, Indiana, where I am teaching and pursuing my MFA in Studio Arts with a minor in Visual and Material Culture at the University of Notre Dame. I grew up on a farm outside of Minden, Nebraska… Read More

Yuming “Griffin” Liu

Yuming “Griffin” LiuMFA | Sculpture ARTIST BIOI am a sculptor from China with an expertise in miniature making. I choose to be a maker because I have too many feelings to carry, and too burdensome memories to live with. I am the living manifestation of my work, and my work is the living pulse of… Read More

Thomas Callahan

Thomas CallahanMFA | Photography ARTIST BIOI’m a photographer who moved from Bozeman, Montana (where I received my BFA from Montana State University) to attend grad school at Notre Dame. I mainly point my camera to landscapes and the mundane intersections between interiors and exteriors. Over the course of my time at Notre Dame, I found… Read More

Nik Swift (tiwonku)

Nik Swift (tiwonku)MFA | Visual Communication Design DESIGNER BIOYooo! I’m Nik, a human who consistently tries (and fails, and succeeds, and fails again) to live in the present, and to design things that align with the way that I see the world. I love human connections, music, nature, and even the internet (despite its flaws),… Read More

Joe Matty

Joe MattyMFA | Photography ARTIST BIOI am a photographer from Pittsburgh, PA, focused on the exploration and application of historical photographic processes. Drawing from 19th-century photographic practices, my most recent photographs are created as documents that explore virtual worlds we inhabit in video games. By using the process of wet-plate collodion, I create a physical… Read More

Jacob Lehmann

Jacob LehmannMFA | Painting & Drawing ARTIST BIOSwelling up from the mud of the Blue Ridge Mountains, I am a multi-media artist from Clemson, South Carolina. While I am currently based in South Bend, Indiana, I am interested in investigating my own upbringing as a queer person within southern Appalachia and how the intersections of… Read More

Hans Miles

Hans MilesMFA | Ceramics ARTIST BIOI’m a potter and sculptor from a small town nestled in the craggy granite, shivering pines and listlessness of central Arizona. My work pertains to the livingness of objects, the magnitudes that exist within them and the body’s interplay with the other.  I received my BFA from Arizona State University… Read More

Riley Fichter

Riley FichterMFA | Sculpture ARTIST BIOI am from Baraboo, Wisconsin, and I grew up alongside the Wisconsin River. The watershed of the river was the catalyst for my imagination to flourish. With my brother and friends, we built forts, castles, and designs of grand childhood magnitude.  My experiences here convinced me to become an artist.… Read More
Compression Molding Samples. Ground Wheat Straw, Corn Starch Bioplastic, Rice Starch, Paper, Gelatin Bio-Resin, 2022.

Jason Carley

Jason CarleyMFA | Industrial Design DESIGNER BIOI am an Industrial Designer focusing on sustainable product development, circular economies, and consumer behavior. My work examines our relationships with resources and how whole-system design can enable empowering experiences with dramatically lower environmental footprints.  My love for learning “how the world works” has led me to explore a… Read More