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Today is the opening of the MFA Thesis Exhibition at the Carolla Arts Exhibition Center! The exhibition will be open May 26–June 5.

Congratulations to our exhibiting students:
Kayla Brown
Camryn Gulled
Olga Shute
Kara Coonrod

Join us for the First Friday Art Walk:
Friday, June 5 | 6–8 PM

Mark your calendars: MFA Thesis Exhibition is just around the corner!

May 26-June 5, 2026
First Friday Art Walk: Friday June 5th, 6PM-8PM

At Carolla Arts Exhibition Center
326 N. Boonville Ave.

Exhibiting Students:
Kayla Brown
Camryn Gulledge
Olga Shute
Kara Coonrod

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Studio visit with Third-year Kayla Brown who is working on her upcoming Thesis show!

“My work seeks to protect, enlighten and discover what healing can be when silence is chosen. I create immersion art objects and experiences that seek to question and understand my childhood experiences. Experiences of hoarding, suppression of the self, and treatment of love accompanied with hate. My material serves as a metaphor for the fragility of paper and my concept of trauma. I transform the materials state in a cycle manor, continuous and unfixed, allowing the cycle to begin a new with what was transforming it into what could be instead the fixed broken generational cycle of my family lineage. I transform and explore the tensions of what remains of myself, th3 objects, and the dynamics of famial relationships, into something that heals. I confront the silence, the suppression of the self in a place that should have been safe by using a public space as a site of healing and reprieve. Free to question the restrictions, the objects, the love and hate as I end the cycle.”