Exhibition Description

Stelo Arts in Portland, OR

May 1st - May 18th

Opening Reception 5:00-8:00 PM

Willamette University’s Pacific Northwest College of Art is excited to announce the 2025 MFA Thesis Exhibition, opening 1st Thursday May 1, 5-8pm.

Stelo is hosting The Print Media MFA graduates:

Jess O’Farrell

The Sacred and the Profane: An Altar to Queerness honors the divine within marginalized identities of queerness. Jess O’Farrell creates a sacred sanctum where intaglio works merge with an immersive space to create an altar to queer devotion and defiance. 

Ebony Frison

Echoes of American Apartheid explores racialized trauma through photogravure, painting, and prose. Using archival imagery and cultural narratives, it interrogates historical erasure, memory, and resistance, compelling viewers to confront America’s lingering legacies of segregation, violence, and injustice.

Sarah Huttner

Rooted in Wonder: Awe in Nature’s Connections is a body of work exploring the interconnectedness of humans and nature. It is an exploration of texture and scale, focused on fostering a deeper connection with our environment. Through engaging the senses, the viewer is asked to contemplate their own relationships with nature and how it corresponds with the duality of existence.

Ray Zill

Drawing on the tension between tactile and visual modes of perception, artist and librarian Ray Zill reveals her new relationship with print and reading through letterpress and experimental animation.

Free + open to the public.