CURRENT GRADS

The current Studio Art MFA Candidates at the School of

Art + Design at UIUC

ANIEYA CAUTHEN

meat sack?, 73"x62", vinyl, (optional) inkjet print on clear film, and archival pigment print, 2023

Interests: Identity, Race, Life (and how horrible it can be), mental health, collage, photography, painting, the mundane, rememory, mortality, permanence

https://anieyacauthen.com

QUINN KOENEMAN

Caravaggio Meets The Magic Man, Digital(sample page),9"x6" 2021

Interests: Alternative Comics, Storytelling, Neurodiversity, Kayfabe

https://www.quinnk.art/

KENDRA WARD

Strap, digital photograph, 2019

Interests: Photography, hysteria, mental health, femininity, isolation, and gender performance

https://www.kendraannward.com/

ERICA FITZGERALD

Sound Slab, Performance with porcelain, 2023

Interests: Performance, reproductive sustainability, historical gender oppression, dominance, activism & documentation.

www.elfitzgerald.com

TRAVIS KELLER

Evening Routine, oil on canvas, 54” x 72”, 2021

Interests: Painting, Cinematic Storytelling, Dystopian Futures, cinema, Expressionism

https://traviskellerart.com/

JOSEPH OBANUBI

what is a peacock personality? digital composite, 2021

Interests: Technology, Afro-surrealism, Afrofuturism, Digital, Identity, Fantasy, Delusion, New Media, Globalization, whim, Inbetweens,Metaphor and Duality, Afro Spirituality

www.josephobanubi.com

MORGAN BAKALETZ

I Will Lay Me Down, oil and acrylic on linen, 48x60 in, 2024

www.morganbakaletz.weebly.com

KOFI BAZZELL-SMITH

Manga Page Sample, ink on paper with digitally added tones, 440 mm X 310 mm, 2021

Interests: Manga, storytelling, Afrofuturism, Japanese cinema, Japanese history, Ukiyo-e, Toba-e, Black independent comics, boxing, martial arts, foreign language, cultural exchange

https://www.kofimanga.com