Degrees and Enrollment

Master of Fine Arts Degrees Conferred, 2017

  • Olaoluwatunji Olumoroti Robert Adeniyi-Jones, Painting/Printmaking
  • Farah Fahim Al Qasimi, Photography
  • Mohammad Hussain M. Al Mohsin, Painting/Printmaking
  • Bek Andersen, Photography
  • Selva Aparicio, Sculpture
  • Chase Thomas Booker, Graphic Design
  • Bianca Joannnie Boragi, Sculpture
  • Lance Douglas Brewer, Photography
  • Lauren Britton, Painting/ Printmaking
  • Lex Brown, Sculpture
  • Michael Carr Chadwick, Graphic Design
  • Seokhoon Choi, Graphic Design
  • Laura Ann Coombs, Graphic Design
  • Charlotte Magdeleine de Larminat, Painting/Printmaking
  • Michael Jevon Demps, Sculpture
  • Christie Grace DeNizio, Painting/Printmaking
  • Michael James Eckblad, Sculpture
  • Ouliana Yurievna Ermolova, Graphic Design
  • Erik Matthias Freer, Graphic Design
  • Marta Galaz Cancio, Graphic Design
  • Benjamin Michael Ganz, Graphic Design
  • Ayham Taysier Ghraowi, Graphic Design
  • Stephanie Gonzalez-Turner, Painting/Printmaking
  • Harry John Griffin III, Photography
  • Sarah Esme Harrison, Painting/Printmaking
  • Jacob Hoving, Graphic Design
  • Isaac Soh Howell, Painting/Printmaking
  • Joseph Bouldin Hoyt, Painting/Printmaking
  • Branch Ashton Hudgins, Sculpture
  • Alexander Steven Jackson, Painting/Printmaking
  • Georgia Dare Kennedy, Painting/Printmaking
  • Hasabie Kidanu, Painting/Printmaking
  • Jong Hyek Ko, Painting/Printmaking
  • Abraham James Lampert, Painting/Printmaking
  • Wesley Fernando Larios, Painting/Printmaking
  • Young Joo Lee, Sculpture
  • Matthew Thomas Leifheit, Photography
  • Lucy Frances Verne Lindsey, Sculpture
  • Theodore Anderson Mathias, Graphic Design
  • Nicholas Mayer, Painting/Printmaking
  • Josephine Lyons Messer, Painting/Printmaking
  • Iman Mottaghi Raad, Painting/Printmaking
  • Walker Olesen, Photography
  • Asad Ali Pervaiz, Graphic Design
  • Caroline Jennings Potter, Graphic Design
  • Anastasiia Raina, Graphic Design
  • Res, Photography
  • Christopher Michael Rypkema, Graphic Design
  • Ana Heloisa Santos Fuzzo Santiago Pinto, Graphic Design
  • Gerald Euhon Sheffield II, Painting/Printmaking
  • Anna Klara Shimshak, Photography
  • Danna Singer, Photograhy
  • Vincent Carmelo Stracquadanio, Painting/Printmaking
  • Chau Mai Tran-Vi, Photography
  • Polina Vasilyeva, Graphic Design
  • Franziska Virgili Lasheras, Graphic Design
  • Ye Wang, Sculpture
  • Erica Peters Wessmann, Sculpture
  • William Dorsey Wheeler II, Sculpture

Enrollment, 2017–2018

Graphic Design

  • Tania Alvarez Zaldivar (B.F.A. Concordia Univ. [Canada] 2010), Mexico City, Mexico
  • Nilas Kaalund Andersen (B.A. Danish School of Media & Journalism [Denmark] 2015), Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Kyla Birgitta Arsadjaja (B.A. La Salle Coll. of Arts [Singapore] 2015), Jakarta, Indonesia
  • Micah Barrett (B.F.A. Rhode Island School of Design 2012), Providence, R.I.
  • Guillaume Pierre Louis Edouard Boucher (Dip. Univ. Paris [France] 2010), Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • Severin Aleksy Joachim Bunse (B.A. Gerrit Rietveld Acad. [The Netherlands] 2014), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Maria Laura Candanoza (B.F.A. School of Visual Arts 2013), Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • Evan Jon Charles Chang (B.F.A. Brigham Young Univ. 2016), San Francisco, Calif.
  • Ingrid Chuen-Neng Chen (B.A. Brown Univ. 2015), San Diego, Calif.
  • Hyungseuk Cho (B.F.A. Seoul National Univ. [Republic of Korea] 2012, M.F.A. 2015), Seoul, Republic of Korea
  • Dho Yee Chung (B.F.A. Fashion Inst. of Technology 2013), Changwon-Gyeongsangnam-do, Republic of Korea
  • Simone Cutri (B.A. ISIA Urbino [Italy] 2015), Conselice, Italy
  • Hicham Samir Faraj (B.F.A. American Univ. Beirut [Lebanon] 2014), Amioun El Koura, Lebanon
  • Muxi Gao (B.A. Tsinghua Univ. [China] 2014), Chengdu City, China
  • Emma Nicole Gregoline (B.A. Vassar Coll. 2015), Venice, Calif.
  • Pianpian He (B.A. Hunan Univ. [China] 2015), Changsha, China
  • Jinwoo Hong (B.Arch. Korea Univ. [Republic of Korea] 2017), Seoul, Republic of Korea
  • Zhiyan Huang (B.F.A. Parsons School of Design 2017), New York, N.Y.
  • Byung-jo Kim (B.F.A. Hongik Univ. [Republic of Korea] 2007, Ph.D. 2012), Seoul, Republic of Korea
  • Willis Carl Kingery (B.A. Hastings Coll. 2011), Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • David Edward Knowles (B.A. Vassar Coll. 2008), Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • Zhongkai Li (B.F.A. Central Academy of Fine Arts [China] 2016), Beijing, China
  • Kang Ma (B.A. Hunan University [China] 2015), Shenzhen City, China
  • Rosa Griswold McElheny (B.A. Wesleyan Univ. 2011), Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • Nathan Jeffrey Barros da Costa Pyper (B.F.A. Milwaukee Inst. of Art & Design 2012), Milwaukee, Wis.
  • Zack James Robbins (B.F.A. Brigham Young Univ. 2013), Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • Steven Francisco Rodriguez (B.A. California State Univ. [Fullerton] 2015), Los Angeles, Calif.
  • Yo-E Ryou (B.F.A. Rhode Island School of Design 2012), Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • Haeok Shin (B.F.A. Dankook Univ. [Republic of Korea] 2010), Gwangju-si, Republic of Korea
  • Soomin Eileen Shon (B.A. Cornell Univ. 2008), Fort Lee, N.J.
  • Hua Shu (B.F.A. Univ. Maryland [Baltimore County] 2013), New York, N.Y.
  • Hrefna Sigurdardottir (B.A. Iceland Acad. of the Arts 2012), Reykjavik, Iceland
  • Youngeun Sohn (B.A. Korea Univ. [Republic of Korea] 2012; M.F.A. Seoul National Univ. [Republic of Korea] 2014), Seoul, Republic of Korea
  • Katelyn Merry Spinelli (B.F.A. Rhode Island School of Design 2009), West Palm Beach, Fla.
  • Dustin Tong (B.F.A. Univ. Houston 2012), Jackson Heights, N.Y.
  • Bryce Sutton Wilner (B.A. Univ. South Carolina [Columbia] 2010), Chicago, Ill.
  • Matthew Taylor Wolff (B.A. Goucher Coll. 2014), Baltimore, Md.
  • Christine Fae Zavesky (B.Arch. Rhode Island School of Design 2008), Miami, Fla.
  • Wenwen Zhang (B.S. Rutgers Univ. 2017), Qindao, China
  • Ziwei Zhang (B.A. Mount Holyoke Coll. 2013), Shanghai, China
  • Liyan Zhao (A.B. Princeton Univ. 2013), Austin, Tex.

Painting/Printmaking

  • Camille Alice Altay (B.F.A. Concordia Univ. [Canada] 2007), Los Angeles, Calif.
  • Kimberly Altomare (B.F.A. Tyler School of Art 2013), Philadelphia, Pa.
  • Felipe De Jesus Baeza (B.F.A. Cooper Union 2009), Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • Braeden Alexander Bailey (B.F.A. Southern Methodist Univ. 2016), Plano, Tex.
  • Natalie Marie Ball (B.A. Univ. Oregon 2005), Chiloquin, Ore.
  • Ana Faye Benaroya (B.F.A. Maryland Inst. Coll. of Art 2008), Jersey City, N.J.
  • Jacob Broussard (B.F.A. Univ. Louisiana 2010), Carencro, La.
  • Ernest Arthur Bryant III (B.F.A. Minneapolis Coll. of Art & Design 2005), Minneapolis, Minn.
  • Lauren Kyung-Mee Chun (B.F.A. New York Univ. 2013), Ridgewood, N.Y.
  • Gabrielle D’Angelo (B.F.A. Cooper Union 2011, M.Arch. 2012), Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • Edwina Dai (B.A. Univ. California [Irvine] 2010), Los Angeles, Calif.
  • Kenturah Davis (A.B. Occidental Coll. 2002), Altadena, Calif.
  • Alexander Meyersohn Gibson (B.F.A. Cooper Union 2013), Ridgewood, N.Y.
  • Daniel Joseph Ginsburg (B.F.A. Coll. of Saint Rose 2014), Coram, N.Y.
  • Ian Mavor Goldsborough (B.F.A. Maine Coll. of Art 2014), Falmouth, Mass.
  • Phoebe Kass Helander (B.A. Hampshire Coll. 2011), Amherst, Mass.
  • Adam Robert Higgins (B.F.A. Memphis Coll. of Art 2012), Nashville, Tenn.
  • Clare Kambhu (B.F.A. New York Univ. 2010), Croton on Hudson, N.Y.
  • Kathryn Brett Kerr (B.F.A. Cooper Union 2007), Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • Antonia Lu-Yi Kuo (B.F.A. School of the Museum of Fine Arts [Boston] 2009), Sag Harbor, N.Y.
  • Wyatt Lasky (B.F.A. Minneapolis Coll. of Art & Design 2014), Lino Lakes, Minn.
  • Lyndsey Alexandra Marko (B.F.A. School of the Art Inst. of Chicago 2012), Seminole, Fla.
  • Leslie Ann Martinez (B.F.A. Cooper Union 2008), Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • Emily Ann Mausner (B.F.A. Univ. Central Florida 2017), Winter Park, Fla.
  • Alexandria Lyn Mento (B.F.A. Temple Univ. 2011), Bethlehem, Pa.
  • Amaryllis DeJesus Moleski (B.F.A. California Coll. of the Arts 2014), Oakland, Calif.
  • Rebecca Ness (B.F.A. Boston Univ. 2015), Boston, Mass.
  • Kent Isaac O’Connor (B.F.A. Maryland Inst. Coll. of Art 2011), Los Angeles, Calif.
  • Johnathan Robert Payne (B.A. Rhodes Coll. 2012), Memphis, Tenn.
  • Esteban Perez (B.F.A. California. Inst. of Arts 2017), Pasadena, Calif.
  • Dominic Phillips (B.F.A. Milwaukee Inst. of Art & Design 2016), Milwaukee, Wis.
  • Estefania Puerta (B.A. Univ. Vermont 2010), Burlington, Vt.
  • Lauren Quin (B.F.A. School of the Art Inst. of Chicago 2015), Los Angeles, Calif.
  • Julia Ann Rooney (A.B. Harvard Univ. 2011), New York, N.Y.
  • Tajh-Jamal Rust (B.F.A. Cooper Union 2011), Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • Ilana Savdie (B.F.A. Rhode Island School of Design 2008), Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • Leila Seyedzadeh (B.F.A. Univ. of Science & Culture [Iran] 2014), Tehran, Iran
  • Michael Lynwood Shultis (B.F.A. Pennsylvania Acad. of the Fine Arts 2012), Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • Vaughn Spann (B.F.A. Rutgers Univ. [Newark] 2014), New York, N.Y.
  • Maya Grace Strauss (B.F.A. Cooper Union 2012), New York, N.Y.
  • Emma Beatrice Gambier Webster (B.A. Stanford Univ. 2011), Encinitas, Calif.
  • Blair Mitchell Whiteford (B.F.A. Ringling Coll. of Art & Design 2013), Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • Chase Alexander Wilson (B.F.A. Cornell Univ. 2012), Los Angeles, Calif.

Photography

  • Sara Abbaspour (B.Sc. Ferdowsi Univ. Mashhad [Iran] 2013), Mashhad, Iran
  • Genesis Baez (B.F.A. Massachusetts Coll. of Art & Design 2012), Philadelphia, Pa.
  • Molly Amanda Berman (B.A. Bard Coll. 2012), Sherman Oaks, Calif.
  • Dannielle Nicole Bowman (B.F.A. Cooper Union 2011), Los Angeles, Calif.
  • Jennifer Helene Calivas (B.A. Evergreen State Coll. 2008), New York, N.Y.
  • Penn Chan (B.A. Bard Coll. 2011), Freeport, Maine
  • Felix Davey (B.A. Edinburgh Napier Univ. 2012), New York, N.Y.
  • Jillian Germaine Freyer (B.F.A. Massachusetts Coll. of Art & Design 2014), Jamaica Plain, Mass.
  • Brian Galderisi (B.F.A. Montserrat Coll. of Art 2012), Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.
  • Kathryn Elizabeth Harrison (B.F.A. Ringling Coll. of Art & Design 2015), Larchmont, N.Y.
  • Lacey Lennon (B.A. Temple Univ. 2010), Montclair, N.J.
  • Rodrigo Lopez Gomez (B.S. Univ. Iberoamericana [Mexico] 2006), New York, N.Y.
  • Kaitlin Elizabeth Maxwell (B.F.A. School of Visual Arts 2016), Loxahatchee, Fla.
  • Chase Catherine Middleton (B.F.A. RMIT Univ. [Australia] 2016), New South Wales, Australia
  • Lucas Libera Moore (B.F.A. Cooper Union 2012), Hyde Park, N.Y.
  • Angel Pedro (B.A. DePaul Univ. 2014), Pueblo, Colo.
  • Kaisi Peng (B.F.A. School of the Art Inst. of Chicago 2016), Beijing, China
  • Evelyn Louise Pustka (B.F.A. Univ. Texas [Austin] 2014), Houston, Tex.
  • Daniel James Swindel (B.F.A. California Coll. of the Arts 2011), Oakland, Calif.

Sculpture

  • Kristoffer Anton Ala-Ketola (B.F.A. Univ. of the Arts [Helsinki] 2016), Helsinki, Finland
  • Sula Fay Bermudez-Silverman (B.A. Bard Coll. 2015), Altadena, Calif.
  • Shikeith Cathey (B.A. Pennsylvania State Univ. 2015), Philadelphia, Pa.
  • Nicole Catherine Cherry (B.A. Univ. Chicago 2014), Chicago, Ill.
  • Kerri Ann Conlon (B.F.A. Rhode Island School of Design 2009), San Francisco, Calif.
  • Brian Dario (B.F.A. Univ. Southern California 2015), Monrovia, Calif.
  • Alfredo Dominguez Diaz (B.A. Univ. California [Los Angeles] 2016), Los Angeles, Calif.
  • Azza Salah El Siddique (B.F.A. Ontario Coll. of Art & Design 2014), Ontario, Canada
  • Nicholas Erik Gaby (B.F.A. California State Univ. [Long Beach] 2015), Long Beach, Calif.
  • Emily Louise Gossiaux (B.F.A. Cooper Union 2014), New York, N.Y.
  • Petra Hjartardottir (B.F.A. Hunter Coll. [CUNY] 2017), Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • Justine Melford-Colegate (B.A. Univ. of Arts [London] 2011), London, U.K.
  • Catalina Ouyang (B.F.A. Washington Univ. 2015), Saint Louis, Mo.
  • Ian Page (B.A. Oberlin Coll. 2008), Los Angeles, Calif.
  • Diego Palacios (B.F.A. California State Univ. [Long Beach] 2017), San Gabriel, Calif.
  • Raul Jose Romero (B.A. Univ. South Florida 2008), Philadelphia, Pa.
  • Coral Saucedo (B.F.A. Art Center Coll. of Design 2016), Pasadena, Calif.
  • William Scott Stewart (B.F.A. Cooper Union 2016), Gallatin, Tenn.
  • John Drue Scott Worrell (B.F.A. Indiana Univ. [Purdue] 2011), Los Angeles, Calif.
  • Suzanna Zak (B.F.A. Maryland Inst. Coll. of Art 2012), Los Angeles, Calif.
  • Valentina Maria Zamfirescu (B.F.A. School of the Art Inst. of Chicago 2013), Chicago, Ill.

Summary of Enrollment

General Summary

Admissions Information, Fall Term 2017

Applicants 1,065
Applicants admitted 67
Matriculants 65

Student Profile

Graduate students 124

Graphic Design

34

Painting/Printmaking

43

Photography

19

Sculpture

21
Preliminary-year students 7
First-year students 58
Second-year students 59
Female students 69
Male students 55
Age range of students 22–47
Average age of students 28
Mean age of students 28
Undergraduate degrees in fine art 108
Undergraduate degrees in other areas, e.g., anthropology, architecture, history of art, literature 16
Institutions represented 86
States represented 19
Foreign countries represented 14

Institutions Represented

One student from each institution unless otherwise indicated.

  • American University of Beirut [Lebanon]
  • Art Center College of Design
  • Bard College (3)
  • Boston University
  • Brigham Young University (2)
  • Brown University
  • California College of the Arts (2)
  • California Institute of the Arts
  • California State University [Fullerton]
  • California State University [Long Beach] (2)
  • Central Academy of Fine Arts [China]
  • College of Saint Rose
  • Concordia University [Canada] (2)
  • Cooper Union (11)
  • Cornell University (2)
  • Danish School of Media & Journalism [Denmark]
  • Dankook University [Republic of Korea]
  • DePaul University
  • Edinburgh Napier University [Scotland]
  • Evergreen State College
  • Fashion Institute of Technology
  • Ferdowsi University of Mashhad [Iran]
  • Gerrit Rietveld Academie [The Netherlands]
  • Goucher College
  • Hampshire College
  • Harvard University
  • Hastings College
  • Hongik University [Republic of Korea]
  • Hunan University [China] (2)
  • Hunter College [CUNY]
  • Iceland Academy of the Arts [Iceland]
  • Indiana University [Purdue]
  • ISIA Urbino [Italy]
  • Korea University [Republic of Korea] (2)
  • La Salle College of Arts [Singapore]
  • Maine College of Art
  • Maryland Institute [College of Art] (3)
  • Massachusetts College of Art & Design (2)
  • Memphis College of Art
  • Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (2)
  • Minneapolis College of Art & Design (2)
  • Montserrat College of Art
  • Mount Holyoke College
  • New York University (2)
  • Oberlin College
  • Occidental College
  • Ontario College of Art & Design
  • Parsons School of Design
  • Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
  • Pennsylvania State University
  • Princeton University
  • Rhode Island School of Design (6)
  • Rhodes College
  • Ringling College of Art & Design (2)
  • RMIT University [Australia]
  • Rutgers University (2)
  • School of the Art Institute of Chicago (4)
  • School of the Museum of Fine Arts [Boston]
  • School of Visual Arts (2)
  • Seoul National University [Republic of Korea] (2)
  • Southern Methodist University
  • Stanford University
  • Temple University (2)
  • Tsinghua University [China]
  • Tyler School of Art
  • University of Arts [London]
  • Universidad Iberoamericana [Mexico]
  • University of California [Irvine]
  • University of California [Los Angeles]
  • University of Central Florida
  • University of Chicago
  • University of Houston
  • University of Louisiana
  • University of Maryland [Baltimore County]
  • University of Oregon
  • University of Paris [France]
  • University of Science & Culture [Iran]
  • University of South Carolina [Columbia]
  • University of South Florida
  • University of Southern California
  • University of Texas [Austin]
  • University of the Arts [Finland]
  • University of Vermont
  • Vassar College (2)
  • Washington University
  • Wesleyan University

Institutions represented, 86

Geographical Distribution

One student from each state or country unless otherwise indicated.

United States

  • California (26)
  • Colorado
  • Florida (5)
  • Illinois (3)
  • Louisiana
  • Maine
  • Maryland
  • Massachusetts (4)
  • Minnesota (2)
  • Missouri
  • New Jersey (3)
  • New York (34)
  • Oregon
  • Pennsylvania (5)
  • Rhode Island
  • Tennessee (3)
  • Texas (3)
  • Vermont
  • Wisconsin (2)
  • States represented, 19

Foreign Countries

  • Australia
  • Canada
  • China (7)
  • Denmark
  • Finland
  • Iceland
  • Indonesia
  • Iran (2)
  • Italy
  • Korea, Republic of (6)
  • Lebanon
  • Mexico
  • The Netherlands
  • United Kingdom
  • Foreign countries represented, 14