Madeleine Mae Morris was born in New York City in the year 1992, and soon after was dragged kicking and screaming Upstate to a tiny village called Homer. She attended Rochester Institute of Technology and Bennington College, specializing in Fine Art Photography, and received her BFA in 2015. In 2023, she received an MFA in Photography + Film at Virginia Commonwealth University and was awarded the Postgraduate Teaching Fellowship at VCU the following year.
LaRissa Rogers’ practice combines aspects of personal memory and history to forefront the capaciousness of blackness shaped by the experience of diasporas. Research and material become the entry point of broader social political interrogations, often asking the question, who and what survives?
Maria Villanueva is a multimedia artist and educator whose work focuses on the relationship between the human and natural ecologies within the urban environment. Her artworks range in media from digital technology, drawing and painting, to site-specific sculpture installations. Maria earned a bachelor's degree from the Columbus College of Art and Design, and MFA from the University of North Texas.
Emma Todd, raised in Virginia Beach, is a sculptural artist working with multilayered, phenomenological, and playful approaches to space-making and object-creation. Her work is oriented around the embodied, interactive, and affective qualities it facilitates for visitors, integrating sensorial immersion and subjective experience as subject matter. She has just graduated from UVA with a major in Studio Art (Sculpture Concentration) and Cognitive Science (Psychology Concentration) and a minor in Design.
Zoe Farmer is an American performance and visual artist working with punk-electronic sound, silversmithing, and found objects to create both wearable and environmental pieces. Zoe was born and raised in Southwest Virginia and graduated with a degree in Studio Art from the University of Virginia in 2024.
Todd Benson is a UVA ’24 graduate and painter from Ridgefield, CT. His work follows histories of development from boyhood to manhood. He depicts the loss of innocence, the disconnection between the emerging self and prescribed archetypes of masculinity, and the childlike playfulness that persists—even if hidden—into adulthood.
