Spotlight Artist

Colin Day

MFA Annual
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enriched uranium

Red bucket in a bright, sunlit field with windmills and a tree in the background.

ink, latex, marble dust, acrylic Flashe, and Prismacolor on panel

giving head in scullery

Open yellow doors reveal a sunset sky, vases with dried plants on a tiled floor.

ink, latex, marble dust, acrylic, Flashe, chalk pastel, and oil on canvas

kind of knowing based solely on suspicion

Colorful still life with fruit, palm leaves, and textured yellow-green background.

ink, latex, marble dust, Flashe chalk pastel, and oil on canvas

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Education

  • MFA, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, US
  • MLA, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, US

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