TIIJONNAE BLACKWELL
TiiJonnae Blackwell, is from St. Louis Missouri and is a senior student at the University of Missouri-Columbia pursuing her Bachelor of Arts Degree. She was previously attending UMKC and Truman State University through her first two years of college. Ms. Blackwell began drawing at a young age where she would design different types of dresses and recreate different cartoon characters. In her senior year of high school, she was a part of the National Art Honor Society. Ms. Blackwell is now seeking to work within illustration and animation for a future career.
DARIAN BOREN
Darian Boren grew up in Saint James, Missouri, but recently moved to Columbia, Missouri to finish her BFA at the University of Missouri. Boren’s emphasis is in Ceramics and plans to get her teaching certificate from Columbia College in order to teach high school art. She also recently purchased a house with her husband Seth and they are expecting their first child in June. Her work encapsulates the use of natural glaze colors, use of recycled glass, and often is shown with plants, macrame and candles.
JOHN CURREY
John Currey is an Art student at the University of Missouri, set to graduate in May 2020. Currey works mainly in pen & ink and ceramics. He draws inspiration from artists such as Bernie Wrightsons and Mitchell Grafton.
CHRISTINA EUBANKS
Christina Eubanks, of Columbia, Missouri, is a Bachelor of Fine Arts major with an emphasis in photography and film, creating visual work that has been shown in various group gallery shows as well as the Citizen Jane Film Festival. She has been studying the history of photography and film for ten years, working on portraiture, and immersing herself in all things antique.
ROBIN HAITHCOAT
I was born and raised on the outskirts of Columbia, Missouri and I inhabit the town as a foreigner. I have a mother, father, and seven siblings; all of us woven into a fertile spiritual space and grown with the earth and its creatures. My father taught of the powers of the organic realms and our honors as participants of that landscape. My mother taught of the mind and soul; how to harness and wield the self for good. As I study photography at the University of Missouri, the intentions of my work are hinged on their ability to engage with the following concepts:
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The tension of photography between metaphysical and physical spaces creates a portal for transdimensional travel and an opportunity to redefine our relationship with reality.
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Photography serves as a hypersurface of the present; a combination of planes that reflect and dissect perceptual navigation from which to orient and locate state of self.
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Photographic interactions that facilitate computation awareness wherein qualities of the agent and the photograph are symbiotically realized in each other.
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Technology’s role in expanding the semantic abilities of photographic images and shifting the rules for describing knowledge.
I am not concerned with defining reality, but rather interacting with the circumstances that surround what we perceive to be real.
ALEXA HARTER
Alexa Harter was born in the suburbs of Chicago. She is currently attending the University of Missouri to receive her Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphasis in drawing and a minor in art history. Harter always loved to create art and started her own after school art club in third grade. As she got more experienced, Harter focuses on portraits, nude figures, chalk pastels, and collage. As an evolving artist, she strives to capture the aesthetic realness of the figures she depicts. Her work investigates forms of bodies and shows how highlights and shadows can give a drawing movement.
S. HENDO
Shannon Henderson, AKA S. Hendo, is a writer, multi-media artist and
printmaker based in Columbia, Missouri. She received a dual-degree BJ in
Magazine Journalism and BA in Studio Art with a minor in Human Geography
from the University of Missouri–Columbia in 2020. Hendo seeks to merge these worlds of storytelling, design, and ontology into her array of media and artwork.
Most recently, this exploration has culminated in a series of intaglio and
silkscreen prints that re-analyze her personal identity, the relationship between intellect and intuition, and modes of perception through the intersection of pattern and form. Hendo’s writing has been published in Vox Magazine and Portland Monthly. Her monotype print common thread received the Connor Moreland Memorial Printmaking Award in 2020, which jumpstarted the creation of her first monoprint series based on the intuitive process of this original work.
HU HAOLEI
Hu Haolei was born in China and now studies Art at the University of Missouri. His work “The Root” was invited to The Field Horizon Art Show 2019 (Biennale) at The Beijing University of Aeronauties. Haolei previously worked as a graphic designer in Anhui Anke Biotechnology (Group) co., Ltd in 2018. In 2013, Haolei acted as director’s assistant at the Anhui TV Station, helping to shoot and produce a Chinese drama. He and his team designed a promotional website and product packaging for the company. More recently, Haolei’s work has been featured along with other students in MU’s Student Success Center Ceramic Show.
TUCKER MCCANN
Tucker McCann was born in 1997 in St. Louis, Missouri, but was raised in O’Fallon, Illinois, and graduated from O’Fallon Township High school in 2016. Going to the University of Missouri on a football scholarship, Tucker chose to become an art major focusing on photography, printmaking, and sculpture. He will receive a BA in art from the University of Missouri in May 2020.
ERIN MCFARLAND
Erin McFarland was born in Lafayette, Louisiana in 1997. She later moved to Kansas City, Missouri with her family, although she continues visiting Louisiana at least twice a year. Currently, McFarland lives in Columbia, Missouri and will attain a BA in English Literature and Studio Art from the University of Missouri—Columbia in May of 2020.
MIKKI PHILIPPE
Mikki Philippe is a painter from St. Louis, Missouri. Her passion for creating stems from a need to feel comfortable at all times. Mikki is pursuing a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Painting and a minor in History at the University of Missouri - Columbia. She hopes to attend graduate school to earn an MFA in Studio Art after graduating from Mizzou in the Fall of 2020.
THOMAS POWERS
Thomas Powers’ work is heavily inspired by the creation and evolution of media.
ALEX SAPAUGH
Alex Sapaugh was born in 1998 in Rolla, Missouri. In 2016, alongside her twin sister, she graduated from Rolla High School. She will be graduating with a double emphasis BFA in drawing and photography from University of Missouri-Columbia in May 2020. Sapaugh has exhibited her mixed media work in Rolla, Columbia, and Kansas City. She was also published in an international zine called ‘The G-Word’ in 2018. She is currently the director of photography for the documentary ‘Tecopa Lost’ which will be debuting in May 2020. After graduating, Sapaugh has intentions to move to the west coast and continue her artist career.
KEVIN WONG
MADESSYN ZAHN
Madessyn Zahn is a large format photographer from Memphis, Missouri. She is now studying Photography in the University of Missouri’s BFA program. Zahn is a passionate leader in the Fine Arts community and has spent her time at the University of Missouri in both the photography media area as a lab monitor and in the School of Visual Studies at large. Zahn facilitates and participates in stimulating discussion and activities surrounding photographic concepts, theories, and techniques with her peers in and out of the classroom. Upon graduation Zahn hopes to attend graduate school to further her studies in photography and fine arts.