Due to the closing of University of Wisconsin-Madison and a halt on research that cannot be performed at home by the threat of COVID19, my MFA exhibition Turnips, Like Skulls, Are Heaped House High is now deferred, potentially until the Fall (more news on this as I get it).

A few of the pieces remain in my now-abandoned studio, unfinished. However, the UW-Madison Art Department made accommodations for all MFA students who have not had their exhibitions yet to submit and defend online. I did, and I passed officially on April 1st, 2020! Very grateful for that.

It is not the conclusion I could have imagined in my most surreal nightmares, but it is reality. I miss my peers, my mentors, and the space I grew and worked these past two and half years. I still have not fully processed this truncation of my graduate experience, but I am doing my best to maintain my practice and health in this new time of social distancing. That being said, artists, art institutions, and their allies have realized the pained and unique situations that many graduating artists now find themselves in and are providing exposure and support for their capstone exhibitions and work.

In the past week I was featured in a wonderful article by Scott Gordon for Tone Madison on my own and some of my select peers’ cancelled MFA exhibitions, which you can read here. In addition to this, Foundwork featured my work on both their Instagram and Facebook pages. So very grateful for these bits of press - they are a glint of light in an otherwise dark time. UW-Art has also been showcasing the work of their current third-year grads in light of the situation, and has highlighted “Resonance with Evil” the essay Amber Rose Cederström wrote about my thesis work. You can check that here as well.