Current MFA StudentS
Haley Clancy Inyart / MFA 2024
Haley Clancy Inyart received her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Art and Design with a focus in Drawing at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Haley has been included in many group, juried and invitational exhibitions across the United States and recent solo exhibitions include: The Governor French Gallery in Belleville, IL, Wild Arts Collective in New Paltz, NY and 211 South in Bentonville, AR. Memory, family and consumption are concepts which her work revolves around. Haley is currently Co-Director of The In Art Gallery while pursuing her Master of FIne Arts degree at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville in Studio Art.
Molly Martin / MFA 2026
Molly Martin received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drawing at Missouri State University. Her work has been exhibited at Marshall University in Huntington, WV in the Surface Design Exhibition Future Tense 2021, featuring up and coming student textile artists from around the world. Her work pushes the boundaries of what drawing can be through weaving with yarn, representing herself, objects, and space figuratively. She’s drawn to material’s haptic power: the way it can evoke certain emotions and memories through its tactile nature. Currently, Molly is pursuing her Master of Fine Arts in Drawing at the University of Arkansas.
Anna GUillory / MFA 2026
Anna Guillory received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art Education from Texas Christian University. Anna has been included in many juried and group exhibitions in North Texas and taught high school art for three and half years. Her practice engages concepts of time, living in ambiguity, and the meaning making potentials found in the materiality of drawing. She is interested in incorporating more ephemeral materials and participatory possibilities into her work, while pursuing her Master of Fine Arts in Drawing at the University of Arkansas.
MFA Graduates
Parto Ahmadpour Mobarake / MFA 2023
Pardis and Parto Ahmadpour (b.1990, Isfahan, Iran) are twin sisters who have collaborated in joint projects with each other for many years. Parto received her BFA from the Art and Architecture University, Tehran. Currently, they are studying MFA at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville with a focus on Drawing. Their recent works are focused on the effect of relocation in their life and emotions as an immigrant; and how it changes the meaning of identity for them. Their works have been exhibited in Iran, Italy, Albania, Greece, Turkey and United States.
Nick Hobbs / MFA 2023
Nick Hobbs was born in Louisiana and is currently an M.F.A. candidate at the University of Arkansas. Recently, he's been making graphite drawings and animations. He also spends a lot of time looking at the sky, and it influences everything he does.
These drawings are snapshots (fragments, evidence) of an attempt to reconcile two scales. First, the scale of the everyday, the earthly, the personal, and the human. That which is familiar and specific to personal experience, especially those qualities that are most taken for granted. Second, the scale of deep time and the cosmological. That which exists, all or in part, beyond the boundaries of intuition. I understand these scales to be irreconcilable, making this practice ultimately futile from the perspective of arriving at a definite conclusion. Instead, I approach it as an archaeologist, inferring what I can from the in-situ artifacts of culture, experience, memory, intimacy, and history. This fossil record is incomplete and often misleading, but a great deal of knowledge can be extrapolated from such sparse evidence.
Pardis Ahmadpour Mobarake / MFA 2022
Pardis and Parto Ahmadpour (b.1990, Isfahan, Iran) are twin sisters who have collaborated in joint projects with each other for many years. Pardis received her BFA from the Sooreh University, Tehran. Tehran. Currently, they are studying MFA at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville with a focus on Drawing. Their recent works are focused on the effect of relocation in their life and emotions as an immigrant; and how it changes the meaning of identity for them. Their works have been exhibited in Iran, Italy, Albania, Greece, Turkey and United States.
madison svendgard / MFA 2022
Madison Svendgard received her BFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2016 and is currently a 3rd year MFA candidate in the Drawing department. Her work is an investigation of exhaustion, labor, and boredom, with an interest in escapism. These narrative-based works utilize alter-egos or fictional characters to reflect on previous or reimagined timelines.
CHRIS SCHULTZ / MFA 2021
Christian (Chris) Schultz (b. 1994) received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from The University of Central Oklahoma in 2018 and his Master of Fine Arts from The University of Arkansas in 2021. Schultz has been featured in shows nationally and internationally. Schultz’s work covers a variety of media including works on paper, video and animation and object making.
Owen Buffington / MFA 2017
Owen earned an MFA, with an emphasis in drawing, from the University of Arkansas in 2017, and has taught art at universities, community art non-profits, juvenile detention facilities, and public schools. He currently teaches at the University of Arkansas Fort Smith and lives in Fayetteville, AR. Owen is a mixed-media artist whose work explores the intersection of geography and the visual arts—in particular the role drawing plays in shaping how we describe, define and organize everyday spaces. Drawing from the visual language of maps, blueprints, plans and diagrams, he creates a personal geography of the places around him that privileges the messiness of lived experience over the tidiness of idealized space. His current fascinations include workplaces, nocturnal landscapes, and haunted houses.
