Master of Fine Arts
College of Design, Architecture,
Art, and Planning
University of Cincinnati
Program Director: Katie Parker
The Master of Fine Arts (MFA) is
a two-year studio program with
areas in 2D (painting, drawing,
printmaking), 3D (sculpture,
ceramics and installation), and
Media (photography, electronic
art, and other new media
including performance) with
access to critical theory and art
history seminars. Professional
excellence is the primary goal
of graduate education in the
visual arts. Interdisciplinary
work is supported but not
required; students may change
their concentration or bridge
multiple concentrations as
their work develops. Graduate
students work together within a
dedicated building of individual
studios and are supported
by discipline-specific staffed
laboratories located throughout
the College of Design,
Architecture, Art, and Planning.
MFA students have also created
opportunities to collaborate
with students, researchers, and
faculty from other colleges
at UC.
www.ucmfa.com
College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning
Master of Arts in
Art Education
College of Design, Architecture,
Art, and Planning
University of Cincinnati
Program Director: Vittoria Daiello
The Master of Arts in Art
Education (MA ARTE) is a
boldly designed Master’s
degree in creative thought
and action in the College of
Design, Architecture, Art, and
Planning. The Master of Arts in
Art Education prepares today’s
teachers and future educators to
address ongoing social change.
Our mission is to educate
artists, designers, architects,
and creative practitioners to
teach and research visual
art in diverse settings that
include public and private
schools, museums, libraries,
community centers, corporate
settings, medical facilities, and
cross-disciplinary programs.
Graduates of the MA ARTE
program are uniquely equipped
to facilitate transformative
experiences for all learners by
activating connections between
art and design in the everyday
and harnessing the power of
imagination to address current
issues.
daap.uc.edu/academics/soa/
programs/ms-art-education
Master of Fine Arts:
Miami University
Program Director: Dana Saulnier
Graduate Students in the Master
of Fine Arts program at Miami
University study for two to three
years depending upon their
methods, personal goals, and
the development of their work.
Analog and digital processes
are incorporated throughout
the program to greater or lesser
degree depending upon a
student’s needs. The student-
centered culture of the program
reinforces the need to develop
a working practice as an artist,
while balancing studio and
conceptual horizons. Course
work in art history, theory, and a
wide range of graduate elective
options complement studio
work. Fabrication facilities,
digital production facilities,
a university instrumentation
laboratory, as well as the
Wertz Art and Architecture
Library, are ready resources.
The Department of Art at Miami
University is accredited by the
National Association of Schools
of Art and Design. Graduate
faculty are artists and historians
with diverse interests and
passions who are dedicated to
teaching.
miamioh.edu/cca/academics/
departments/art/academics/
graduate-studies/studio-art/
index.html
A special note of thanks to
the CAC and Amara Antilla,
Rebecca Roman, Elizabeth
Hardin-Klink, Shawnee Turner,
David Dillon, Joe Civitello, and
Tyler Hamilton. Thank you to
Sara M. and Michelle Vance
Waddell for partial support of
the 2020 DAAP School of Art
Graduate Student Showcase.
Thank you to the University of
Cincinnati College of Design,
Architecture, Art, and Planning
2020 FINE ART & ART EDUCATION
(DAAP) and Miami University
Department of Art.
GRADUATE STUDENT SHOWCASE
The Contemporary Arts
Center is located in the Lois
& Richard Rosenthal Center
LONG LOOK
for Contemporary Arts at the
6th and Walnut Streets in
Cincinnati, Ohio.
For directions and
details, please visit:
contemporaryartscenter.org/
visiting or call 513-345-8400
Interested in the artworks at
the exhibit? For questions
concerning artwork availability,
contact the artists directly.
At the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC)
44 E 6th St
Cincinnati OH 45202
March 20–April 5, 2020
College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning
University of Cincinnati
College of Creative Arts
Miami University
Batres/Gilvin
MFA – DAAP
batresgilvin.com
batresgilvin@gmail.com
Batres Gilvin, a collaborative
founded by Bradly Gilvin and
Karla Batres in 2018 utilizes
a multidisciplinary approach
to art making that combines
collage, assemblage,
installation, and sculpture. They
explore the hybridity, duality
and polarization that occurs
throughout their experience as
a multi-ethnic team by utilizing
iconography related to Mexican
American culture and the
American South, while also
referencing the political parallels
that exist at the regional and
national level.
Colie Kumar
MA ARTE – DAAP
coliekumar@gmail.com
Colie Kumar’s work is an
exploration into the complicated
nature of relationships affected
by domestic violence through
a focus on layering and love
letters. This work emerges from
both her art practice and her
study of feminist arts-based
research.
Ashley Carrol
MFA – Miami
ctshashly4.wixsite.com/ashleyc
carrola@miamioh.edu
Carrol’s artwork explores the
diversity and multiplicity of Black
American hair. She uses found
materials and recycled synthetic
hair to emulate texture and
various hairstyles found in Black
American hair culture. According
to celebrities, media, and
business professionals, natural
curly hair is “wrong,” while
straight hair is “good.” These
recollections and personal
experiences have left Carrol
compelled to explore racialized
notions of beauty from a black
feminist point of view.
Kyle Latino
MFA – DAAP
kylelatino.wordpress.com
latino.kyle@gmail.com
Kyle Latino asks the visitor to
consider how many everyday
activities could be played
like a game. Latino uses play
to investigate the rules and
contracts that permeate society.
These games offer frameworks
for encountering life with a
sense of discovery and delight.
Visitors are invited to play with
the books and cards at the
gaming table. By placing these
into a museum context the artist
is recasting the gallery as a
space of play.
Austin Cathey
MFA – Miami
austincatheyart.com
catheyat@miamioh.edu
Austin Cathey’s current body of
work deals with the sensation
of being lost, often within a
turbulent environment. Cathey
works through the storm of
upheaval that encompasses
him, as well as larger social,
political, and environmental
worlds. Within these large-scale
works, he thinks of himself as
a cartographer. By utilizing
different languages of mapping
to construct paintings and
drawings, he simultaneously
creates and navigates
environments in a state of unrest.
Cassidy Lenos
MA ARTE – DAAP
lenosce@mail.uc.edu
The French phrase “l’esprit de
l’escalier,” coined by Diderot
in the 18th century, translates
to “Staircase Wit,” denoting
an idea or reply that occurs too
late—such as on the staircase
as one is leaving. Lenos’s
Staircase Wit is a meditation
on missed opportunities and
too-late wisdom in the form
of questions inspired by the
anxieties of student teaching.
Using evocative question-
prompts, Lenos invites us to
consider uncertainties as
transitional spaces where
reflection meets insight.
Latausha Cox
MA ARTE – DAAP
coxlh@mail.uc.edu
“Illustrative becoming” is a
term Cox created to describe
an auto-ethnographic practice
of drawing that maps an
individual’s past for the purpose
of better understanding their
artistic identity. This artistic
approach to auto-ethnography
encompasses journals and
illustrated collages. Cox shares
her personal story as a black
female through drawings about
her racial history to better
understand how her culture
influences her artistic voice and
educational practice. Through
visual methods, “Illustrative
becoming” reveals connections
and themes where identity can
be found.
Alyssa Maurer
MFA – DAAP
alyssamaurerphoto.com
alyssamaurerphoto@gmail.com
Alyssa Maurer investigates
the precariousness of home
in others by re-imagining
perceptions of origin,
displacement, and belonging.
The re-purposing of trace
materials left behind from
others showcases the ways
in which we relate objects to
identity. By examining long-
distance relationships and
the “made” family, Maurer
unravels the embedded fibers of
codependency and reinterprets
politics of belonging.
Sebra Debrecht
MFA – DAAP
sebradebrecht.com
debrecht.sebra@gmail.com
Sebra Debrecht’s research
brings awareness to the
everyday act of waste
disposal. Recycling is an
underutilized resource due to
its ever-changing and unclear
nature. She acknowledges
that this unseen system is an
imperative infrastructure for
healthy communities, but a
broken one as most participants
are confused on how to use
it properly. Debrecht aims to
demystify Cincinnati’s curb-
side collection programs by
exploring the nuances and the
lack of clarity surrounding its
waste disposal systems.
Adoria L. Maxberry
MA ARTE – DAAP
mostoutgrowing.com
Mostoutgrowing@gmail.com
Pillow Family honors the
legacy of the artist’s grandparents,
James and Alberta Pillow, and
their 58-year marriage. Stuffed
forms made from Alberta’s
housecoats represent the family
name “Pillow”. Fraying edges,
ripped seams and unraveling
are indicative of the Alzheimer’s
disease that impacted the family.
While illuminating the process
of aging, Maxberry reveals the
endurance of love and strength of
memories that sustain her personal
art and teaching practice.
Chad Eggar
MFA – Miami
chadmeggar.com
eggarcm@miamioh.edu
Noticing the small intricacies of
the world can be so intensely
beautiful and joyous. But even
at the peak of this beauty, Chad
Eggar can’t help but contextualize
it within the incomprehensible
horror of the universe. His
images are vehicles for casual
or mundane experiences;
simultaneously existential and
humorous; nihilistic, yet optimistic.
For the protagonist in his images,
this contradiction is a stage on
which they are constantly twisting
inward. He contemplates this
relationship and creates images
burdened by loneliness, yet
liberated by a whimsical sincerity.
Nick Reader
MA ARTE – DAAP
readernp@mail.uc.edu
Delving into the mind of the
artist, Reader studies the
iterative conventions of making
commonly referred to as “artistic
process.” Through several
conversations with artists, Reader
brings attention to the unique
characteristics of individual
artistic processes, the truths that
these phenomena reveal for the
artist, and the ways in which an
artist’s choices serve as research
methods within an artwork.
Madeline Foley
MA ARTE – DAAP
madelinefoley25@gmail.com
Madeline Foley’s Wide-Aware
explores the relationship
between artmaking and
dialogue, seeking to empower
young people to practice
creativity in everyday life.
Facilitating moments of
wide-awakeness and discovery,
her project is designed to
inspire the kind of unstructured
conversations that often emerge
around participation in small
group art activities. Foley’s
research seeks to learn how
partaking in creative exercises
could help people develop
creative problem-solving skills
and ultimately support the
dialogues needed to enable
positive social change.
Taylor Satterthwaite
MA ARTE – DAAP
satterthwaite.taylor@gmail.com
In order to learn and grow, we
must leap into unfamiliar spaces,
take up residence in uncertainty,
allow ourselves to become
uncomfortably entangled,
and tread the unknown.
Satterthwaite’s Garments for
Treading the Unknown are
physical manifestations of
the psychological equipment
one might need for venturing
into uncertainty. Facilitating
a retreat for introspection, an
armored hug, a permeable
personal bubble, and a site
for all potential choices,
Satterthwaite’s garments are
intended to mediate precarity
by design.
Katherine Gibson
MFA – DAAP
katepayegibson.com
kate.paye.gibson@gmail.com
The Gathered Stitch is a
series of protective coverings
assembled using techniques and
methods traditionally associated
with the feminine and domestic.
The quilted and embroidered
blankets and cloak are made
out of magazines read by
Gibson as a teenager. She
envisions her textiles as safe
spaces of refuge for adolescent
girls to create their identities
within, while hidden out of view.
Ryan Tinney
MA ARTE – DAAP
www.ryantinney.com
RyanTinney0805@gmail.com
Ryan Tinney seeks to utilize
people’s interests in technology
with a digital museum that
emphasizes the educational
potential of video games.
Discovering core principles that
not only serve as a foundation
of good pedagogy, Tinney also
showcases the potential of video
games as a mode of exhibition.
Exploration, creation, and
imagination are united in
Tinney’s virtual museum to invite
people to explore new ways of
experiencing objects and places
while learning in the process.
Sarah Hopkins
MA ARTE – DAAP
Sarahhopkins8495@gmail.com
Fail. Cope. Overcome. Repeat.
Living and working with mental
illness can be an exhausting
journey of trying to understand
oneself as well as getting others
to understand the struggles.
Hopkins’s “Reflections on
Madness” is an artist’s book
that documents Hopkins’s
experiences as an art education
student struggling with mental
illness. Exploring creative ways
of coping, Hopkins offers
empathetic support for students
in similar situations and a
deeper understanding for the
educators who work with them.
Emily Van Walleghen
MFA – DAAP
emilyvanwalleghen.com
evanwalleghen@gmail.com
A figure is not a representation
of data that tells the objective
truth, but instead infiltrated and
enshrouded by a hopelessly
tangled subjective reality of
sensationalism where no data
can be trusted. When fact and
fiction are intertwined, the
process of obscuring and
blowing up the data becomes
the truth and the meaning of
a figure lies in its translation
and multiplication rather than
the outcome.
Stephanie Kroth
MFA – DAAP
stephaniekroth.com
krothsm@mail.uc.edu
Stephanie Kroth’s current body
of work explores estranged
relationships based around
various types of domestic
partnerships. Her maternal line
has been made accessible
through collections of family
photographs and archives.
These nostalgic images are
translated by minimal paint
handling of controlled line
work. The image rendering
between figure and space on
raw canvas is a deliberate
metaphorical approach
to decluttering inherited
behaviors.
Sheng Yin
MFA – DAAP
ssheng5544.wixsite.com/mysite-1
ssheng5544@gmail.com
Time, Space and Memory
describes anxiety about different
stages of life in today’s highly
competitive society, nostalgia,
memories of the past, and fear
of confusion for the upcoming
future. The movie Interstellar
(2014) and its depiction of
five-dimensional time and space
theory inspired this installation.
In five-dimensional space, time
exists as a solid. Time, Space
and Memory aims to show
previous times and memories in
a physical sculptural form.