It is my great privilege to have reviewed this year’s submissions for from MFA candidates and recent graduates. Seeing that this cohort is from 2019-2021—the time span of the still pending pandemic and what I see as the beginnings of our global social reckoning, it is difficult to view their work without considering the effects of the moment in which this work arises. While I believe that the art world has yet to experience the full impacts of the last few years, studying the
