Aunspaugh Fellow

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.

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.