The Affiliation of Impartial Schools of Artwork & Design (AICAD) is happy to announce the Fellows chosen for the AICAD Publish-Graduate Educating Fellowship for the 2025/26 educational yr. Moreover, 13 earlier fellows will proceed their positions for a second yr.
The Publish-Graduate Educating Fellowship offers vital skilled observe alternatives to high-achieving Graduate alumni. In contributing to the objective of accelerating the variety of college and curriculum throughout AICAD establishments, we aspire to create a local weather that acknowledges and values variety as central to excellence.
Fellowships embody mentoring {and professional} growth alternatives, instructing expertise, well being advantages, and different monetary help.
First yr post-grad instructing fellows:
Ariadne Manuel (MFA, Printmaking, Pratt Institute ’25) positioned at Milwaukee Institute of Artwork & Design. Ariadne is a New York Metropolis printmaker and sculptor centered on deterioration, preservation, and discovery in ecological and museological methods. Utilizing scientific, creative, and pedagogical aesthetics, their observe critiques the ability of honored establishments in our cultural narrative. Influenced by artists on the intersection of science and fantastic artwork, Ari’s work blends analysis, mold-making experiments, printmaking, and the ready-made to create installations that query what we select to protect and why.
Trisha Bhattacharya (MFA, Movie & Video, California Institute of the Arts ’25) positioned at Kansas Metropolis Artwork Institute. Trisha is a movie and video artist from India, based mostly in Los Angeles. She is deeply invested within the politics of sound, the inheritance of oral storytelling traditions, and ecology on the intersection of borders.
Erik Antonio Benitez (MFA, Artwork & Built-in Media, California Institute of the Arts ’23) positioned at Yale Faculty of Artwork. Erick is a Salvadoran-American artist, curator, organizer, and musician in Los Angeles, CA. Benitez explores hybrid identities and cultural fluidity throughout digital and bodily realms. They deal with poetics of migration, decolonization, reminiscence, and mythology, utilizing spherical time—a non-linear framework merging previous, current, and future. Their work builds areas for reflecting on alternate futures and understanding cultural narratives and identification.
Xi Li (MFA, Pictures, Yale Faculty of Artwork ‘23) positioned at Faculty of the Artwork Institute of Chicago. Li is an artist utilizing pictures, video, and set up to discover image-making and various narratives in up to date media. She examines how photos form, flow into, and decay by way of tradition and historical past. To know their affect on notion, Li restores photos from archives and private collections earlier than reconstructing them three-dimensionally, creating works that blur precise and fictive boundaries.
Second yr AICAD fellows:
Ariel Wills (MFA, 2024, Rhode Island Faculty of Design) positioned at Cleveland Institute of Artwork / Yuxiao Mu (MFA, Pictures, 2023, Massachusetts School of Artwork and Design) positioned at Kansas Metropolis Artwork Institute / Denisse Beltrán (MFA, Illustration Follow, 2024, Maryland Institute School of Artwork) positioned at Kansas Metropolis Artwork Institute / Miguel Lastra (MFA, Ceramics, 2022, Rhode Island Faculty of Design) positioned at Massachusetts School of Artwork and Design / Antoinette Myers Perry (MFA, Portray, 2024, Maryland Institute School of Artwork) positioned at Moore School of Artwork and Design / Minsoub (Peter) Sim (MFA, Industrial Design, 2023, Parsons Faculty of Design) positioned at Pratt Institute / Yusef Ferguson (MFA, Movie & Video, 2024, California Institute of the Arts) positioned at Columbus School of Artwork and Design / Qianqian Liu (MFA, 2024, Faculty of the Artwork Institute of Chicago) positioned at Columbus School of Artwork and Design / Laura Medina (MFA, Portray & Printmaking, 2024, Yale College) positioned at Cleveland Institute of Artwork / Yuanyuan Zhou (MFA, Illustration, 2023, Maryland Institute School of Artwork) positioned at Milwaukee Institute of Artwork and Design. / Jacob Boatman (MArch, Rhode Island Faculty of Design ‘24) positioned at Parsons Faculty of Design / Anique Jordan (MFA, Pictures,, Rhode Island Faculty of Design ’23), positioned at Parsons Faculty of Design / Charles Lee (MFA, Tremendous Arts, California School of the Arts ’23), positioned at Cleveland Institute of Artwork.
