MFA Alumns

Natcha Wongchanglaw

Natcha Wongchanglaw is a Thailand-born, US-based visual artist who incorporates herself and
her experiences to explore the themes of home, culture, community, identity, and the relationship
between people and places.

Graduated in 2024.

Website: natchaw.com
Instagram: @nanaka9

Amanda Pfister

Amanda Pfister is a visual artist working with photography exploring ideas of place, feminism, community, and social engagement.

Graduated in 2010.

Website: amandapfister.com/home.html
Instagram: @amanda.pfister_studio

Carly Faye

Carly Faye is an imaginative creator, with a keen sense of self-awareness. Her interest in understanding what motivates human behavior developed in early childhood as a shy, perceptive observer.

Graduated in 2017.

Website: carlyfayesmith.com
Instagram: @carlyfayesmith

Kimia Emami

Graduated 2016.

Brooke Krankel

Brooke is a first-generation college graduate from rural southern Illinois. The central focus of her work is the anguish that women experience in a patriarchal society.
Graduated in 2024.

Instagram: @brooke_stlou

Jenny Kettler

Jenny Kettler's work consists of surveyed the Midwestern landscape photographing plastic bags caught in trees and bushes in a region with no bag bans.

Graduated in 2020.

Website: jennykettler.com
Instagram: @jennykettler

Benjamin Stern

Graduated 2006.

Peter Gifford

Graduated 2007.
Website: petergifford.myportfolio.com/work
Instagram: @thepixelpete

Heather Kniffel

Heather Kniffel's current work is a typological series of large-format photographs documenting the overwhelming amounts of polystyrene; more widely known as Styrofoam, she finds in and along the banks of the Mississippi River.

Graduated in 2013.

Website: heathervkniffel.com/about

Rosalind Williams

Graduated 2022.
Instagram: @rosalindwilliams5