Acceleration Without Arrival: 2025 Studio Art MFA Thesis Exhibition

Celebrating the process of becoming, Acceleration Without Arrival embraces the journey itself. Through painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, photography, performance, and extended media, members of the graduating MFA cohort navigate themes of transformation, uncertainty, and persistence. These artists find comfort within a space of reclamation against the need for a destination. United by a commitment to process and discovery: materials coalesce, memories mingle with presence, the body shifts between subject and object, and radical practices of play propose unforeseen futures. Unyielding efforts make for work that is open about its questions, offering us the chance to find meaning in the open space between, where growth, transformation, and connection unfold. The exhibition is not a conclusion but a milestone—one that radiates momentum, possibility, and the promise of what’s yet to come.