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

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

Amelia MendelsohnMFA | Painting & Drawing ARTIST BIOI grew up along the coast in Kingsland, Georgia. I received my BA in studio art and art history from Sweet Briar College. I currently live in South Bend, Indiana and recently earned my MFA in painting and drawing at the University of Notre Dame. I love running,… Read More

James J. OstranderMFA | Painting & Drawing ARTIST BIOI identify as a Frankenstein’s subject – the monstrous aggregate of ill-fitting cultural forms, stitched together with cognitive dissonance, and haunted by the accumulated sins of millennia of bad actors, well-intentioned though some may have been. In absurd vignettes, I parody my struggles as a navel-gazing self-portrait… Read More