
Maya Tihtiyas Attean ’23
MECA&D has helped me understand my own work tremendously and provided much-valued insight. MECA&D has already . . .”
Maya Tihtiyas Attean ’23 searches for sanctuary in a cataclysmic world Maya Tihtiyas Attean ’23—a Wabanaki artist raised on the Penobscot Indian Island Reservation (Alnabe Menahan)—may be a nontraditional student, […]Read More

Kat Miller '19
Art provides a platform for conversation and conversation is vital in the beginning to change the world.”
Kat Miller, a senior in MECA&D's Photography Program, has been working on a series entitled On the Cusp of Womanhood. Her work is featured in Girls, Interrupted, a three-day, all-female exhibition in London presenting uncensored works of illustration, photography, paintings, and sculptures created by 19 stereotype-defying artists, from . . .Read More

Greta Grant '16
After taking color photography classes I realized how essential color is to my work.”
Describe a body of work that you are currently working on. In my current body of work, I am investigating disappearances, and what remains in the wake of those who […]Read More

Paul Guilmoth ’15
The week before Trula died, she began spending entire days reclined in her field. Her body would be so still . . .”
The monograph At Night Gardens Grow (published by Stanley/Barker) sets night as a stage for folkloric stories created by the eerie landscape Paul Guilmoth ’15 calls home and the interior worlds […]Read More

Savanna Pettengill '14
This visual memoir, told through various written, spoken and photographic mediums in book and exhibition . . .”
Savanna Pettengill '14 is searching for answers in the space between reality and memories Captivating and beautiful, Returns by Savanna Pettengill '14—currently on view in our Charles C. Thomas Gallery on the […]Read More

Morrigan McCarthy ’07
I let my curiosity lead me.”
How did you learn about Salt? A photographer friend in Portland took me to the final show of the 2006 fall semester, when the photography was still black and white […]Read More

Harlan Crichton ’12 & Zak Taillon ’12
Interview with Harlan Crichton ’12
Can you describe the project?
In 2013, I began a 13,000 mile . . .”
"For the Love of Dolphins" is a compilation made during a 13,000-mile road trip through Rural America. Created by Harlan Crichton '12, soundtrack by Zak Taillon '12Read More

Brittany Marcoux '10
My time spent at MECA was crucial to my photographic practice. ”
Describe a body of work that you have made. During my time at MECA&D I worked on a photographic series dealing with my hometown in Swansea, Massachusetts. I titled it […]Read More

Ray Ewing '12
My education at MECA laid the groundworks for my approach to my studio practice as an image-maker first.”
Describe a body of work that you have worked on recently. Since I left my resort-town island home of Martha's Vineyard, my work has been about exploring my relationship with that place. Obsessing […]Read More

Solo show for Dylan Hausthor ’15, currently teaching in our Photography major, on view at the Penumbra Foundation NYC
Now through September 10 is your chance to visit the Penumbra . . .”
Now through September 10 is your chance to visit the Penumbra Foundation NYC in order to experience the flowers aren’t growing, the eggs are hatching, it’s almost dawn, a solo show […]Read More

Justin Kirchoff
My perspective is not of the idealistic youth, beauty or one of older wisdom. It is an incongruent blend.”
Through his art, Professor of Photography Justin Kirchoff explores his personal curiosity of the built landscape, personal identity and beauty of the photographic print. His current work explores the contradictions […]Read More