Issue 177

MFA Annual

Newsstand dates — Apr 2025

 
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Competition Winners (40)

  • Ana Claudia Almeida

    Mixed media artwork with brown textured clusters over a green and gray painted background.

  • Sophia Anthony

    painting of a white man loosening his tie in an industrial office space

  • Sanah Brown-Bowers

    Bride and groom holding hands in ornate round red frame, blue and gold rays behind them.

  • Princeton Cangé

    Colorful painting of figures with wings, two fighting below, symbolic animals and plants surrounding them.

  • Jana Marie Cariddi

    Surreal landscape with holes, red tentacles, yellow figures, and an orange sunset.

  • Yuna Cho

    Four vertical panels with abstract dark metal textures and one with light wood grain.

  • Paige DeVries

    Person lying on grass beneath tall trees in a sunlit park.

  • Eva E. Foldy

    Raccoon climbing over a chain-link fence topped with barbed wire at night.

  • Calhan Hale

    Abstract collage of flowers, rocks, and wood textures on a brown background.

  • Benjamin Hawley

    Abstract painting with a yellow beam of light against a deep blue and black background.

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London Pierre Williams

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Yixiao Zhang

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