Next morning the not-yet-subsided sea rolled in long slow billows of mighty bulk, and striving in the Pequod’s gurgling track, pushed her on like giants’ palms outspread. The strong, unstaggering breeze abounded so, that sky and air seemed
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Yuliya Fedorovych
Yuliya FedorovychMFA | Visual Communication Design DESIGNER BIOI am a visual communication designer from Rivne, Ukraine. In my work, I focus on exploring the art of storytelling in the context of trauma to encourage discussions around complicated social issues. PROJECT STATEMENTIn 1932-33, the Soviet Union, led by Joseph Stalin, perpetrated a genocide that killed at… Read More
Cassandra Schifano
Cassandra SchifanoMFA | Sculpture ARTIST BIOMy major is Studio Art concentration in Sculpture. I was born and raised in Wisconsin and did my BFA in Milwaukee majoring in Studio Art with a concentration in Fibers. I love to read poems and hike with my dogs. My favorite artists are Nick Cave and Xenobia Bailey. I… Read More
Ana Fleming
Ana FlemingMFA | Painting ARTIST BIOI am a third-year MFA candidate in painting and drawing, based out of South Bend, IN and Peoria, IL. My work employs illusionistic oil painting and charcoal drawing techniques to tackle questions related to speculative futures, nonhuman worlds, and entangled ecologies. Inspired by thinkers like Donna J. Haraway, Eugene Thacker,… Read More
Anna Thorne
Anna ThorneMFA | Photography ARTIST BIOMy name is Anna Thorne and I am an artist from Florida. I will be graduating with my M.F.A. in Photography this May from the University of Notre Dame. My work focuses on documenting ordinary and overlooked moments of natural light that occur in daily life. Whether I am working… Read More
Michael Scott Davis
Michael Scott DavisMFA | Studio ARTIST BIOI am a United States Navy Veteran and contemporary artist currently pursuing my Master of Fine Arts with a focus in Sculpture at the University of Notre Dame. Honorably serving as a Corpsman, I deployed on numerous worldwide operations and humanitarian missions providing critical medical aid and global health… Read More
Carly Hagins
Carly HaginsMFA | Industrial Design DESIGNER BIOBefore attending the University of Notre Dame, I taught industrial design at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston, MA. Teaching is both how I wound up in graduate school (in pursuit of a terminal degree) and has been the foundation of my graduate research (which focused on undergraduate well-being).… Read More
Sana Khan
Sana KhanMFA | Visual Communication Design DESIGNER BIOGrowing up in Pakistan inspires an artist in everyone: first is the discernment developed from living in a city that teaches you to find beauty in potholes. Then it’s the centuries-old history—from Lahore, with its Mughal frescos and colonial-style architecture, to Karachi, with its Gothic-style Cathedral and Arabesque… Read More
Coleton Lunt
Coleton LuntMFA | Studio ARTIST BIOI grew up in a geologic mecca, southern Utah, where the red sandstone seems to be deliberately sculpted by geologic forces. I was a hiking guide in this place for seven years, half of which I sold pots out of my car to clients, earning enough to put myself through… Read More
Katie Neece
Katie NeeceMFA | Studio ARTIST BIOI am a third-year MFA student in painting, living and working in South Bend, Indiana. My main interests within my work include hauntology and dead American shopping malls along with music and architectural theory. Some of my favorite artists that inspire my process are artists such as Kay Sage, Alksandra… Read More