Alumni News - November 2026

Cleonique Hilsaca, MFA ’25, spoke with the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators about her art style, art practice, and growing career as a children’s book illustrator.

Carmen Ribaudo, MFA ’25, opened new work at STNDRD, an artist-run initiative in Granite City, Ill., co-curated by Senior Lecturer Sage Dawson. Ribaudo’s “Tower Window,” a drawing-in-space of the electric tower that can be seen from STNDRD, is on view through Dec. 2.

Rachel Youn, BFA ’17, was featured in ArtAsiaPacific magazine. The work reviewed in the magazine was recently on view in “Unruly Vessel” at Scuola Piccola Zattere in Venice, Italy.