Maine College of Art & Design 2026 MFA Thesis

<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"
	
	>

<channel>
	<title>Maine College of Art &#38; Design 2026 MFA Thesis</title>
	<link>https://mecadmfa26.cargo.site</link>
	<description>Maine College of Art &#38; Design 2026 MFA Thesis</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
	<generator>https://mecadmfa26.cargo.site</generator>
	<language>en</language>
	
		
	<item>
		<title>Header — mobile</title>
				
		<link>https://mecadmfa26.cargo.site/Header-mobile</link>

		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 14:35:19 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Maine College of Art &#38; Design 2026 MFA Thesis</dc:creator>

		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://mecadmfa26.cargo.site/Header-mobile</guid>

		<description>
	
	
</description>
		
	</item>
		
		
	<item>
		<title>Main page</title>
				
		<link>https://mecadmfa26.cargo.site/Main-page</link>

		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 14:35:19 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Maine College of Art &#38; Design 2026 MFA Thesis</dc:creator>

		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://mecadmfa26.cargo.site/Main-page</guid>

		<description>
&#60;img width="4284" height="5712" width_o="4284" height_o="5712" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8dc53d9b97b32a44221d683467bb49b5d6177e3a5bb5719a8715e2832f1c888b/Ouellette-1.JPG" data-mid="247541150" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8dc53d9b97b32a44221d683467bb49b5d6177e3a5bb5719a8715e2832f1c888b/Ouellette-1.JPG" /&#62;
&#60;img width="1320" height="2346" width_o="1320" height_o="2346" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c59c28894d1c5d8416b2752408afbda23566e70d201fac3505855f4da9a2f21e/B01F4704-9D63-499B-B211-A0A66843230A.jpg" data-mid="247541147" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c59c28894d1c5d8416b2752408afbda23566e70d201fac3505855f4da9a2f21e/B01F4704-9D63-499B-B211-A0A66843230A.jpg" /&#62;
&#60;img width="2946" height="3968" width_o="2946" height_o="3968" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8f7caba22b1ddb7b568f363fff8d32f82c2bda28d281bc34091df94465f838d1/KNOBLOCH_Image1.jpg" data-mid="247541138" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8f7caba22b1ddb7b568f363fff8d32f82c2bda28d281bc34091df94465f838d1/KNOBLOCH_Image1.jpg" /&#62;
&#60;img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d4b0b05b97b1cfb9e902a6d6369ed71df0c6a0a0938198ccb395a5615e7db2b2/Genetic-Spample.jpg" data-mid="247541183" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d4b0b05b97b1cfb9e902a6d6369ed71df0c6a0a0938198ccb395a5615e7db2b2/Genetic-Spample.jpg" /&#62;
&#60;img width="2000" height="2000" width_o="2000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/617cd64392352193a3e74812e53e61f338e02b1f65848243ee2fcefc4a1bc52b/HNG_Balustrade-Panorama-Landscape-Offcut-1_detail.jpg" data-mid="247541125" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/617cd64392352193a3e74812e53e61f338e02b1f65848243ee2fcefc4a1bc52b/HNG_Balustrade-Panorama-Landscape-Offcut-1_detail.jpg" /&#62;
&#60;img width="5184" height="3456" width_o="5184" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/825d60fd27998eabaa515c9135efe25a8bbdb9e08ba7cb761270f1533bff16a7/abby-4.jpg" data-mid="247541112" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/825d60fd27998eabaa515c9135efe25a8bbdb9e08ba7cb761270f1533bff16a7/abby-4.jpg" /&#62;
&#60;img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/24af95cc897c1731cbfff536e3ab0fd983d45c952d554474093121259156db83/Perrigo_Caitlin_SharedPathways_027.jpg" data-mid="247541155" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/24af95cc897c1731cbfff536e3ab0fd983d45c952d554474093121259156db83/Perrigo_Caitlin_SharedPathways_027.jpg" /&#62;
&#60;img width="1800" height="1200" width_o="1800" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1a976ad18c58579c195ff1dbfac3320527bea5a2033351bb5cc685f894e37c83/8-Jonathan-Spath---Under-The-Bridge.jpg" data-mid="247541160" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1a976ad18c58579c195ff1dbfac3320527bea5a2033351bb5cc685f894e37c83/8-Jonathan-Spath---Under-The-Bridge.jpg" /&#62;
&#60;img width="4756" height="4082" width_o="4756" height_o="4082" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e986e5e785a778471853637c25b0be21356244a8d13ff3c119668d05fcbf5ec2/Carnaval.jpg" data-mid="247541144" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e986e5e785a778471853637c25b0be21356244a8d13ff3c119668d05fcbf5ec2/Carnaval.jpg" /&#62;
</description>
		
	</item>
		
		
	<item>
		<title>Footer</title>
				
		<link>https://mecadmfa26.cargo.site/Footer-1</link>

		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 14:35:23 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Maine College of Art &#38; Design 2026 MFA Thesis</dc:creator>

		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://mecadmfa26.cargo.site/Footer-1</guid>

		<description>
	
	Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art &#38;amp; DesignICA Gallery hours: Wed–Sun, 11:00am–5:00pm, Thursday, 11:00am–7:00pm
	
</description>
		
	</item>
		
		
	<item>
		<title>Abigail G. Cloutier</title>
				
		<link>https://mecadmfa26.cargo.site/Abigail-G-Cloutier</link>

		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:34:52 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Maine College of Art &#38; Design 2026 MFA Thesis</dc:creator>

		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://mecadmfa26.cargo.site/Abigail-G-Cloutier</guid>

		<description>
	Abigail G. Cloutier@HelianRuby

Abigail Cloutier is an interdisciplinary artist working in Portland, Maine. She works primarily in creating installations utilizing animation with an interest in expanding how we understand time. Her work has been exhibited in various group shows including  MFA '26 thesis show at the ICA in Portland Maine, ARMOR, at Creative Haverhill in Haverhill Massachusetts, MFA Summer show in 2024 and 2025, Generations at Danforth Gallery in 2023, and her undergraduate senior thesis show Who we are, What we do at Emery Arts Center and UMF Gallery in 2022.  In 2022 she received a BA in Visual arts from University of Maine at Farmington and her MFA from Maine College of Art &#38;amp; Design in May 2026. 
I make temporal installation works that utilize the process of animation to illustrate my own idiosyncratic experience of time. As someone who grew up with ADHD, time has always been something that escaped me. I was always late or super early, could never complete chores in the right amount of time and even struggled to understand when to eat. Time is elastic, seconds stretch into hours and days into minutes. It is a Time that does not connect with clock time. 
&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Animation is a large part of my process as it becomes a tool for me to engage with time as a medium. I am interested in the use of installation and animation to create work that abstracts time and plays with how we perceive it. Using drawing, video, animation, and painting I begin to create my own clocks to measure time. 
&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Queering time becomes a goal to create a possibility of time that is outside of clocks and societal expectations. By exploring alternate expressions of time I am able to offer a redefinition of the relationship we have to time and clocks. 


&#60;img width="2474" height="1772" width_o="2474" height_o="1772" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fce0d091cfe236b249af12012504f2fdfae6abec3b19f03e8609bd65b0662b80/Abby-2.jpg" data-mid="247541194" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fce0d091cfe236b249af12012504f2fdfae6abec3b19f03e8609bd65b0662b80/Abby-2.jpg" /&#62;
&#60;img width="2254" height="1807" width_o="2254" height_o="1807" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2a7611f2dcb29de21e9bc8815f89cdd88a8379a0e4a2af07ed23d2e7f33f8ff6/Abby-1.jpg" data-mid="247541193" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2a7611f2dcb29de21e9bc8815f89cdd88a8379a0e4a2af07ed23d2e7f33f8ff6/Abby-1.jpg" /&#62;
&#60;img width="2208" height="1387" width_o="2208" height_o="1387" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f723d3f4f58f9581a68774377a03aa04cb19489ff8b69425f731d3eb7d1e977f/abby-3.jpg" data-mid="247541189" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f723d3f4f58f9581a68774377a03aa04cb19489ff8b69425f731d3eb7d1e977f/abby-3.jpg" /&#62;
&#60;img width="5184" height="3456" width_o="5184" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/825d60fd27998eabaa515c9135efe25a8bbdb9e08ba7cb761270f1533bff16a7/abby-4.jpg" data-mid="247541191" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/825d60fd27998eabaa515c9135efe25a8bbdb9e08ba7cb761270f1533bff16a7/abby-4.jpg" /&#62;


</description>
		
	</item>
		
		
	<item>
		<title>Harley Ngai Grieco</title>
				
		<link>https://mecadmfa26.cargo.site/Harley-Ngai-Grieco</link>

		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:34:55 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Maine College of Art &#38; Design 2026 MFA Thesis</dc:creator>

		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://mecadmfa26.cargo.site/Harley-Ngai-Grieco</guid>

		<description>
	Harley Ngai Griecoharleygrieco.com
@helloharl

Harley Ngai Grieco (b. State College, PA) is a lens-based artist with an interdisciplinary practice combining photography, drawing, and sculpture. She is an educator specializing in analog and alternative photography practices. Harley earned a BFA from The Cooper Union School of Art in 2013 and an MFA from the Maine College of Art &#38;amp; Design in 2026. Her work has been exhibited at The Bard Graduate Center, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, En Foco Inc., The Griffin Museum of Photography, The Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, The Tides Institute &#38;amp; Museum of Art, and The Rankin Arts Photography Center. She has been published through Artefuse, Manifest Press, and Tussle Projects. Harley presented at The Art of Experimentation International Online Conference hosted by Women Alternative Photography Group &#38;amp; Folk House Darkroom in 2025. She has served as a photography technician and adjunct instructor at The Cooper Union School of Art since 2017 and is based in Brooklyn, NY.  
I am a lens-based artist with an interdisciplinary practice combining photography, drawing, and sculpture. Using analog film processes and sculptural techniques, I examine how images and surfaces shape perception. My practice spans digital and analogue photographic prints, collaged sculptural forms, and architecturally sensitive installations. I propose a dual function of the image, where photographic depth and sculptural surface engage visual and haptic perceptual systems. My work investigates the material and conceptual connections between decorative arts, landscape photography, and architectural theory.

As a Chinese American artist, I explore histories of eastern landscape and archaeology to question the afterlife of photographic and familial memory. My most recent work explores the historical and technical structures of traditional Chinese architecture in tandem with re-printing photographs of my family’s ancestral home in Taishan, China. I am interested in comparing the western and eastern concepts of archaeological ruins, where eastern architecture is rooted in a state of re-building replicas. Through alternative photographic printing methods and sculptural installation, I am making new architectural approaches to my family photographs.


&#60;img width="2153" height="2152" width_o="2153" height_o="2152" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d58a431376f11f6bccae044d608fed8e2c65bc7ad84e2e33b0f9b48c3c561ef1/HNG_Ceiling-Coffer-Replica_01.jpg" data-mid="247541208" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d58a431376f11f6bccae044d608fed8e2c65bc7ad84e2e33b0f9b48c3c561ef1/HNG_Ceiling-Coffer-Replica_01.jpg" /&#62;
&#60;img width="2000" height="2000" width_o="2000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/617cd64392352193a3e74812e53e61f338e02b1f65848243ee2fcefc4a1bc52b/HNG_Balustrade-Panorama-Landscape-Offcut-1_detail.jpg" data-mid="247541204" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/617cd64392352193a3e74812e53e61f338e02b1f65848243ee2fcefc4a1bc52b/HNG_Balustrade-Panorama-Landscape-Offcut-1_detail.jpg" /&#62;
&#60;img width="2000" height="2000" width_o="2000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/58eb4a823f9e67b46f96a9f9be8856eb6f6ac9d30cb73c7e52abcb0cf927312b/HNG_Balustrade-Panorama-Landscape-Positive-Offcut_detail.jpg" data-mid="247541207" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/58eb4a823f9e67b46f96a9f9be8856eb6f6ac9d30cb73c7e52abcb0cf927312b/HNG_Balustrade-Panorama-Landscape-Positive-Offcut_detail.jpg" /&#62;
&#60;img width="729" height="729" width_o="729" height_o="729" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cacb4dcc83d497c4f044643f1534abfddc66b350d03593c901e96d7c9c5be9b2/HNG_Fresco-Threshold-Panel-1_detail.jpg" data-mid="247555973" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/729/i/cacb4dcc83d497c4f044643f1534abfddc66b350d03593c901e96d7c9c5be9b2/HNG_Fresco-Threshold-Panel-1_detail.jpg" /&#62;
&#60;img width="2083" height="2083" width_o="2083" height_o="2083" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/52a81ab98d040dc8abf41e48f2b32e3b89d583cd9aa7afe2c7eaeb267d30c38d/HNG_Ceiling-Coffer-Replica_02.jpg" data-mid="247541206" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/52a81ab98d040dc8abf41e48f2b32e3b89d583cd9aa7afe2c7eaeb267d30c38d/HNG_Ceiling-Coffer-Replica_02.jpg" /&#62;


</description>
		
	</item>
		
		
	<item>
		<title>Molly Knobloch</title>
				
		<link>https://mecadmfa26.cargo.site/Molly-Knobloch</link>

		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:34:57 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Maine College of Art &#38; Design 2026 MFA Thesis</dc:creator>

		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://mecadmfa26.cargo.site/Molly-Knobloch</guid>

		<description>
	Molly Knoblochwww.mollyknobloch.com
@mollyknobloch

Molly Knobloch is an artist living in Portland, Maine who explores nonsense, confusion, possibility, and the body through painting and painted sculpture. She grew up in Arlington, Massachusetts with a northern dad and a southern mom and has evenly split her life between the two regions as a result, interrupted by some side quests in France.
Molly studied painting at Tulane University in New Orleans (BA, 2013). She worked as an artist, designer, educator, and administrator for nine years in Austin, Texas before moving to Maine to pursue her master’s at the Maine College of Art &#38;amp; Design (MFA, 2026). In 2021, Molly had her first solo show at Goodluckhavefun, and her first duo show at Contracommon, both in Austin. While working toward her MFA, her work has evolved from mostly painting to include sculpture and installation work, though painting each sculptural object remains a key step in the process.
 
The intentional abstraction of functional objects highlights the absurdity of the impulse to order our daily lives, while prompting the possibility of unexplored alternatives, and presenting the fertility of sitting in the discomfort of the unknown.
I recreate recognizable and obscure objects, abstracting and personifying them. In this absurd recreation, I break these objects down to their formal elements in order to distort them and experience them in a new way. I draw inspiration from the utilitarian objects and infrastructure I see around me in the city – parking meters, fire hydrants, fire escapes, plastic tags, road signs – and remove their primary utility to give them a new, aesthetic purpose, or lack thereof. Playing with dimension, perception, shape, and surface, these redundancies interrupt the viewer’s expectations and alter how they perceive the world around them.
Looking at these hyper-specific shapes in a new context draws out curiosity, humor, and levity. We can take our everyday surroundings for granted, the symbols we interact with everyday are far from objectively, eternally, or universally legible. Out of context, we see how unique and culturally specific the symbols we take for granted are. Like these objects, our reality is highly subjective. If we can change the way we view a road sign, we can change the way we view ourselves and others, release certainty, and become comfortable holding multiple identities or meanings at once.


&#60;img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b108087700c4b8e417e7dab457430e3cc44910731ae442fb3042d942ccb1ff03/KNOBLOCH_Image4.jpg" data-mid="247541218" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b108087700c4b8e417e7dab457430e3cc44910731ae442fb3042d942ccb1ff03/KNOBLOCH_Image4.jpg" /&#62;
&#60;img width="2946" height="3968" width_o="2946" height_o="3968" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/273e2876da40436aeff7ded128096babc014c5f336584df3fa4b8cdf569247c1/KNOBLOCH_Image1.jpg" data-mid="247541221" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/273e2876da40436aeff7ded128096babc014c5f336584df3fa4b8cdf569247c1/KNOBLOCH_Image1.jpg" /&#62;
&#60;img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/db2051821813f4ece597cf875d199d6929310b15a3511cd05186e5ac1d0d7402/KNOBLOCH_Image2.jpg" data-mid="247541219" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/db2051821813f4ece597cf875d199d6929310b15a3511cd05186e5ac1d0d7402/KNOBLOCH_Image2.jpg" /&#62;
&#60;img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/37253819799da42ee3b5e4a369004da6b063c5d16544e145b8e26c0e088fc6ec/KNOBLOCH_Image3.jpg" data-mid="247541222" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/37253819799da42ee3b5e4a369004da6b063c5d16544e145b8e26c0e088fc6ec/KNOBLOCH_Image3.jpg" /&#62;


</description>
		
	</item>
		
		
	<item>
		<title>Stephen Medeiros</title>
				
		<link>https://mecadmfa26.cargo.site/Stephen-Medeiros</link>

		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:35:00 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Maine College of Art &#38; Design 2026 MFA Thesis</dc:creator>

		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://mecadmfa26.cargo.site/Stephen-Medeiros</guid>

		<description>
	Stephen Medeirosstephenmedeirosstudio.com
@stephenmedeiros
Stephen is a research-based interdisciplinary artist exploring beautiful disruptions through materiality, pattern, and performative acts as a means of making space to identify himself within his Portuguese heritage. He is the grand prize winner of the Lincoln Center’s 2025
Contemporary Art Survey in Fort Collins, Colorado, and an associate artist with the Boston Sculptors Gallery. Stephen’s work has been exhibited in group shows, including Beautiful Disruptions at Boston Sculptors Gallery in Boston, Massachusetts; MERGE at Dorrence
Hamilton Gallery in Newport, Rhode Island; Prologue to Spring at 82 Parris in Portland, Maine; and Maine College of Art &#38;amp; Design’s 2026 MFA Thesis exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Portland, Maine. He has taught in the Art and Design Departments at University of New Haven, Salve Regina University, and CT State Community College’s
Gateway Campus. He has given artist talks at Salve Regina University and served as a guest critic during their undergraduate portfolio reviews. Prior to building his studio practice, Stephen cultivated a long-standing 20-year career as an Art Director across multiple New York City advertising agencies. Stephen earned a BFA in Graphic Design and
a minor in Art History from Boston University in 2003. He was born in Swansea, Massachusetts,&#38;nbsp;and currently resides in Providence, Rhode Island. 
I am a research-based, interdisciplinary artist. My practice explores beautiful disruptions
as a methodology to self-identify within my Portuguese heritage and its traditional
practices. I make non-traditional Portuguese Azulejo tiles with wood, ballpoint pen,
tempera, beads, neon colors and pattern; I create time-based performative video works
to explore Catholic rituals; and I use reflective materials, rosary beads, and objects to
explore sculptural abstractions of tile and repetition. These materials grant me agency to
participate in traditional Portuguese practices through acts of disidentification. They allow
me to fold in joy, humor, and tension into my examination of cultural perception. Some see
disruptions as interferences. I view them as a powerful reclamation of one’s sense of
belonging and a reinvigoration of tradition.


&#60;img width="2366" height="3436" width_o="2366" height_o="3436" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/57fd2f1c857410ab1c4736a774f3e7b26b3abcdcc4778231ee47b6e1bcf69834/Onda.jpg" data-mid="247541228" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/57fd2f1c857410ab1c4736a774f3e7b26b3abcdcc4778231ee47b6e1bcf69834/Onda.jpg" /&#62;
&#60;img width="2366" height="3857" width_o="2366" height_o="3857" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d258c929dcc3ece087e44e276bb5fe51a199b38524dc67051493fed63d15ad2e/Constellavity_2.jpg" data-mid="247541236" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d258c929dcc3ece087e44e276bb5fe51a199b38524dc67051493fed63d15ad2e/Constellavity_2.jpg" /&#62;
&#60;img width="4756" height="4082" width_o="4756" height_o="4082" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e986e5e785a778471853637c25b0be21356244a8d13ff3c119668d05fcbf5ec2/Carnaval.jpg" data-mid="247541233" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e986e5e785a778471853637c25b0be21356244a8d13ff3c119668d05fcbf5ec2/Carnaval.jpg" /&#62;
&#60;img width="3808" height="8160" width_o="3808" height_o="8160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1ccd9888469e68f3864d47855421d9ffc3c05413d38ad70c08dabc31557cdaf0/Force_Quit_Detail.jpg" data-mid="247541237" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1ccd9888469e68f3864d47855421d9ffc3c05413d38ad70c08dabc31557cdaf0/Force_Quit_Detail.jpg" /&#62;
&#60;img width="7067" height="3963" width_o="7067" height_o="3963" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bc9bc20f407ba7029b8f0d4658edf580bff9f73208f3fbbb2c246bc970b2ba46/Knead.jpg" data-mid="247541235" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bc9bc20f407ba7029b8f0d4658edf580bff9f73208f3fbbb2c246bc970b2ba46/Knead.jpg" /&#62;
&#60;img width="3300" height="1357" width_o="3300" height_o="1357" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4e9f845e636bda5fd8051ba4691478663924fa9ab10e568e08adfdafefb51250/Future_Detail.jpg" data-mid="247541234" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4e9f845e636bda5fd8051ba4691478663924fa9ab10e568e08adfdafefb51250/Future_Detail.jpg" /&#62;
&#60;img width="3106" height="5642" width_o="3106" height_o="5642" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d9d37a18bfd341f938bd5c548ab3449e275fad620f44fe77a14b4271aba93a6a/Constellavity.jpg" data-mid="247541232" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d9d37a18bfd341f938bd5c548ab3449e275fad620f44fe77a14b4271aba93a6a/Constellavity.jpg" /&#62;
&#60;img width="2885" height="1812" width_o="2885" height_o="1812" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/863fafced4678c3b6785122116e2cfb164bc01bd6b4bcea0bc2326644d8cf1b0/Streak.jpg" data-mid="247541230" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/863fafced4678c3b6785122116e2cfb164bc01bd6b4bcea0bc2326644d8cf1b0/Streak.jpg" /&#62;


</description>
		
	</item>
		
		
	<item>
		<title>Darby Miller</title>
				
		<link>https://mecadmfa26.cargo.site/Darby-Miller</link>

		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:35:02 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Maine College of Art &#38; Design 2026 MFA Thesis</dc:creator>

		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://mecadmfa26.cargo.site/Darby-Miller</guid>

		<description>
	Darby Miller@miss___extremophile_

Darby Miller (b. Baton Rouge) began her art practice out of a deep necessity to understand her place in the world. She earned her B.F.A. from Louisiana State University in 2023, focusing on painting and drawing, and began exploring sculpture as she neared graduation. Currently pursuing further studies at Maine College of Art &#38;amp; Design (MFA, projected 2026), her work has evolved to incorporate found materials, particularly concrete, plaster, and personal residues. This expansion into sculpture reflects her ongoing engagement with self-portraiture, color, and composition, approached through a systematic, fluid lens rooted in assemblage. Miller has exhibited in shows like Peach Fuzz (MECA&#38;amp;D, Portland, ME) and Rising (82 Parris, Portland, ME), and collaborated with ICA director Iris Williamson on the 2025 exhibition otherwise. Her written work has been published in Catacombs Press (2024) and the Institute of Contemporary Art: otherwise (2024). 
I am an interdisciplinary artist working with concrete, plaster, and found materials - e.g., the innards of my vacuum, spilt coffee, or misplaced phone numbers. Together they are solid formations which synthesize my susurristic presence in my surroundings. This is articulated through text based research on existentialism, phenomenology, and assemblage as core theories of my conceptual practice. This process is an abstracted creation of self-portraiture and personal space, a parameter set to explore how the sensible and identity take shape through touch, time, and transformation.

	
&#60;img width="1440" height="1368" width_o="1440" height_o="1368" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7813884b9ac1956df78c2db50910434e06b2536dceb98c1c549035a02aceaefd/6164FF78-2A24-4A28-BDC1-68F396D14489.jpg" data-mid="247556968" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7813884b9ac1956df78c2db50910434e06b2536dceb98c1c549035a02aceaefd/6164FF78-2A24-4A28-BDC1-68F396D14489.jpg" /&#62;
&#60;img width="1320" height="2346" width_o="1320" height_o="2346" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c59c28894d1c5d8416b2752408afbda23566e70d201fac3505855f4da9a2f21e/B01F4704-9D63-499B-B211-A0A66843230A.jpg" data-mid="247557007" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c59c28894d1c5d8416b2752408afbda23566e70d201fac3505855f4da9a2f21e/B01F4704-9D63-499B-B211-A0A66843230A.jpg" /&#62;
&#60;img width="4284" height="5712" width_o="4284" height_o="5712" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c6238e6bde120903223e6e2674601b64b033b9e4e12eda0abdf00045db7c7df1/IMG_4637.jpeg" data-mid="247556969" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c6238e6bde120903223e6e2674601b64b033b9e4e12eda0abdf00045db7c7df1/IMG_4637.jpeg" /&#62;
&#60;img width="2826" height="3768" width_o="2826" height_o="3768" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a3995872be917149309e8575f3d099ecfedf644387986ca55b99ad79f4496ea5/IMG_4652.jpeg" data-mid="247556970" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a3995872be917149309e8575f3d099ecfedf644387986ca55b99ad79f4496ea5/IMG_4652.jpeg" /&#62;


</description>
		
	</item>
		
		
	<item>
		<title>Dylan Ouellette</title>
				
		<link>https://mecadmfa26.cargo.site/Dylan-Ouellette</link>

		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:35:07 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Maine College of Art &#38; Design 2026 MFA Thesis</dc:creator>

		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://mecadmfa26.cargo.site/Dylan-Ouellette</guid>

		<description>
	Dylan Ouellette@Dylan_is_kiln_it

Dylan Ouellette is a ceramic artist based in Maine. In 2024, he earned his BFA from the University of Maine at Presque Isle and is currently pursuing his MFA at the Maine College of Art and Design. Dylan has exhibited work at LightsOut Gallery in Norway, ME, Common Gallery in Presque Isle, ME, and Waterfall Arts Center in Belfast, ME. He is preparing for a solo exhibition abroad at the Saint John Arts Centre in Canada in 2027.In 2020 and 2024, Dylan received grant funding from the Maine Arts Commission. Dylan currently serves as a board member of the Wintergreen Arts Center. In collaboration with Wintergreen and the University of Maine at Presque Isle, he revived the now annual Empty Bowls fundraiser in 2025 after a seven-year hiatus.Since 2024, he has served as instructor of ceramics, sculpture, and foundations at the University of Maine at Presque Isle. 
Hunger is biological. It is an innate physical and cognitive response to the conditions of the body. Food is a universal conduit for understanding reality and through this I explore the multidimensionalization of an identity driven by eating. My work explores food narratives through clay which rematerializes its physicality to explore ideas of eating and self. The tension between the material and immaterial oscillates between representation and abstraction; these works employ form and surface as tools for narration.Combining wheel-thrown and hand-built forms, food facsimiles and surreal depictions of self blur the lines between tool and object, between hunger and humor. Utilizing a refrigerator as a relational entrypoint it becomes a mouth, a daily site for navigating the discourse between object and self. The sculptures and refrigerator work together to create a place to learn and transform our experiences surrounding food.Through the making process, the immaterial idea of food has merged with an inedible form to transform eating into a cognitive response, redirecting how we think about food and its place in building identity.&#38;nbsp;


&#60;img width="4284" height="5487" width_o="4284" height_o="5487" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e45c5f6eab99327ecb6fba764d30c6f2479917e13b336a18dea88b8495daf135/Ouellette-2.JPG" data-mid="247557093" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e45c5f6eab99327ecb6fba764d30c6f2479917e13b336a18dea88b8495daf135/Ouellette-2.JPG" /&#62;
&#60;img width="4284" height="5712" width_o="4284" height_o="5712" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8dc53d9b97b32a44221d683467bb49b5d6177e3a5bb5719a8715e2832f1c888b/Ouellette-1.JPG" data-mid="247557091" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8dc53d9b97b32a44221d683467bb49b5d6177e3a5bb5719a8715e2832f1c888b/Ouellette-1.JPG" /&#62;
&#60;img width="4284" height="5712" width_o="4284" height_o="5712" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/85d80bfd8a030ad87d1570cefe70d0a384ea4b2f1ad19af4eccb37e5254ad66b/Ouellette-3.JPG" data-mid="247557090" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/85d80bfd8a030ad87d1570cefe70d0a384ea4b2f1ad19af4eccb37e5254ad66b/Ouellette-3.JPG" /&#62;


</description>
		
	</item>
		
		
	<item>
		<title>Caitlin Perrigo</title>
				
		<link>https://mecadmfa26.cargo.site/Caitlin-Perrigo</link>

		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:35:10 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Maine College of Art &#38; Design 2026 MFA Thesis</dc:creator>

		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://mecadmfa26.cargo.site/Caitlin-Perrigo</guid>

		<description>
	Caitlin Perrigowww.caitlinperrigo.com
@caitlinperrigo_art

Caitlin Perrigo (she/her) is a multimedia artist based in Biddeford, ME. Perrigo’s practice explores the uncomfortable yet honest relationship between humans and nature. Too often, the lives of non-human bodies are overlooked, and she elevates non-humans to a level of mournability typically reserved for humans. Rooted in the Maine community, her preemptive ecological memorials embrace slow and intimate forms of reflection within local living networks, urging viewers to participate in acts of ecological care. Perrigo’s work has been exhibited across the Northeast; including the ICA at MECA&#38;amp;D, 82 Parris Gallery, Space Gallery, and the Beard and Weil Fine Arts Gallery. Additionally, her work was acquired by the Wheaton College Private Collection. A 2023 recipient of both the Beinecke Scholarship and Phi Beta Kappa Ruth Redding Graduate Scholarship, she graduated with a BA degree from Wheaton College and is currently pursuing her MFA at Maine College of Art &#38;amp; Design. 
Shared Pathways is a preemptive ecological memorial that renders the culturally invisible violence of bird-window collisions. In this work, bird-window strikes function as a metonym for the broader violences of the Anthropocene, translating dispersed ecological harm into a legible, mournable scale through the quantifiable loss of birds. Operating across the past, present, and future, this work mourns the lives of non-human beings already taken, confronts the conditions that produce ecological harm, and anticipates further loss if these systems remain unchallenged. 

Composed of around 160 hand-sculpted ceramic birds, this installation materializes the death of non-humans, allowing viewers to inhabit the weight of loss and recognize themselves within structures of harm. The use of white draws from the visual language of memorialization, conveying absence while allowing the forms to oscillate between visibility and invisibility within the gallery space. This instability mirrors ecological violence that is present yet often overlooked. 

Grounded in a diverse display of Maine backyard species, including familiar birds such as the American Robin and the Black-capped Chickadee, Shared Pathways transforms ecological harm into a local, relational experience. Through this familiarity, viewers are invited to participate in forms of ecological care and reflection that feel personal and urgently relevant to the community Shared Pathways serves. An accompanying resource extends this invitation beyond the gallery, offering accessible resources to reduce bird strike deaths. 


&#60;img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/675b8d2361705add41d111cb758cbce2223e1388682a8f5bafe54c372ba115b7/Perrigo_Caitlin_SharedPathways_018.jpg" data-mid="247557097" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/675b8d2361705add41d111cb758cbce2223e1388682a8f5bafe54c372ba115b7/Perrigo_Caitlin_SharedPathways_018.jpg" /&#62;
&#60;img width="1333" height="2000" width_o="1333" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/13b1bee6bd9f0a0854d1335c1f8030935488e37543db047e1b960ce935e903dc/Perrigo_Caitlin_SharedPathways_012.jpg" data-mid="247557096" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/13b1bee6bd9f0a0854d1335c1f8030935488e37543db047e1b960ce935e903dc/Perrigo_Caitlin_SharedPathways_012.jpg" /&#62;
&#60;img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c7d5650125cb6182720febb6cd33ad1b14f54a429f0be1cc93a22d124039f9b6/Perrigo_Caitlin_SharedPathways_032.jpg" data-mid="247557101" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c7d5650125cb6182720febb6cd33ad1b14f54a429f0be1cc93a22d124039f9b6/Perrigo_Caitlin_SharedPathways_032.jpg" /&#62;
&#60;img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/abd3f3fe061f2fc5365b5d1d99d9295bf90524280bbf9452157cd097de09fc85/Perrigo_Caitlin_SharedPathways_017.jpg" data-mid="247557098" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/abd3f3fe061f2fc5365b5d1d99d9295bf90524280bbf9452157cd097de09fc85/Perrigo_Caitlin_SharedPathways_017.jpg" /&#62;
&#60;img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7aa982ecb8c048ebb7dac203fdcc5f2b45f1cd1b294f22e1fdedb289bb0c3e53/Perrigo_Caitlin_SharedPathways_009.jpg" data-mid="247557100" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7aa982ecb8c048ebb7dac203fdcc5f2b45f1cd1b294f22e1fdedb289bb0c3e53/Perrigo_Caitlin_SharedPathways_009.jpg" /&#62;
&#60;img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/24af95cc897c1731cbfff536e3ab0fd983d45c952d554474093121259156db83/Perrigo_Caitlin_SharedPathways_027.jpg" data-mid="247557099" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/24af95cc897c1731cbfff536e3ab0fd983d45c952d554474093121259156db83/Perrigo_Caitlin_SharedPathways_027.jpg" /&#62;


</description>
		
	</item>
		
	</channel>
</rss>