Mckenna Goade

Artist/Inventor/Question Asker

Abbreviated CV

New York, NY

EDUCATION

The New School — Parsons School of Design — MFA in Fine Arts | New York, NY | Expected May 2026

Utah Valley University — BFA in Painting and Drawing; Minor in Art History | Orem, UT | Graduated December 2023

GRANTS AND HONORS

Valedictorian — Utah Valley University, School of the Arts, Orem, UT | 2024

Parsons School of Design Scholarship — The New School, New York, NY | 2024-2026

Dean’s Merit Scholarship — Utah Valley University, Orem, UT | 2022-2024

Summa Cum Laude — Utah Valley University, Orem, UT | 2024

Dean’s List — Utah Valley University, Orem, UT | 2020-2024

Wolverine Completion Grant — Utah Valley University, Orem, UT | 2023

RELEVANT EMPLOYMENT

2025  AUG — 2025 DEC

Teacher’s Assistant

Core Studio 1:3D

           Faculty — Damien Vera

Lead critiques, demos, and lectures for undergraduate Parsons BFA Fine Arts students. Assisted in ideating, producing, and installing various student projects. Demonstrated basic techniques and methodologies within 3D media: materials, form, space, and installation.

2025  JAN — 2025 AUG

Teacher’s Assistant

Special Topics 3D: Translating a Copy

Faculty — Pooneh Maghazehe

Led critiques and brainstorming sessions with undergraduate Parsons BFA Fine Arts students. Assisted in ideating, producing, and installing their various projects. Helped students link their work to course readings and offered additional readings and artists for them to research.

2024  Summer — Present

Research Assistant

Catherine Telford Keogh

Execute designs for sculpture installation. Work on detailed sculptural elements in Keogh’s installations. Complete miscellaneous artist assistant tasks. Assisted Keogh by sanding, repairing, and painting the walls and floors of Keogh’s studio and spray booth.

2024  Summer — Present

Research Assistant

Lan Thao Lam

Developed essential organizational tools for Lam’s studio. Constructed frames to address a light leakage problem for Lam’s graduate RGB in XYZ class. Implemented framing designs with advanced wood joinery. Create architectural models in 3D rendering software.

2024  DEC — Present

Gallery Assistant

Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery & Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries.

Assist in the installation and de-installation of all gallery exhibitions in 2025.

2025  JAN — Present

Studio Monitor

Parsons MFA Fine Arts

Maintains the Parsons MFA and BFA studios to comply with regulations. Communicates with students about studio spaces. Assists in identifying solutions to improve the studio spaces/community. Repairs studio and installation spaces. Meets weekly with Space Coordinators to ensure space upkeep.

2022  AUG — 2024 MAY

SOA Student Lead Technician

Utah Valley University

Assisted in all maintenance and production for the Noorda Center for Performing Arts.

CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS

2023  SECAC (Formerly South-Eastern Colleges Conference)

Grown Systems: Interrogating Life Cycles

           Faculty Advisor Amber Tutwiler

           Session Chair, Amy Chan

           Richmond, VA

2023  Utah Art History Symposium

Verrocchio, Leonardo Da Vinci, and the Rise of the Artist in Quattrocento Italy

           Faculty Advisor Dr. Charlotte Poulton

           Orem, UT

2023  Utah Conference on Undergraduate Research

The Presence of Absence: Exploring the Shadows of Death

           Faculty Advisor Alexandra Giannell

           The University of Utah, Salt Lake, UT

2023  Scholarly and Creative Undergraduate Learning Partnership Team (SCULPT)

The Presence of Absence: Exploring the Shadows of Death.

Faculty Advisor Alexandra Giannell

           Utah Valley University, Orem, UT

AWARDS

2023 Painting Drawing Area Award.

Student Art Exhibition. Utah Valley University, Orem, UT. Juried by Douglas Fryer. Spill Your Guts.

2023 Humanities Research Prize.

Utah Conference on Undergraduate Research. Salt Lake, UT. The Presence of Absence: Exploring the Shadows of Death.

2023 Second Place Creative Works.

Scholarly and Creative Undergraduate Learning Partnership Team (SCULPT). Orem, UT. The Presence of Absence: Exploring the Shadows of Death.

2023 Second Place Art Award.

Touchstones Undergraduate Journal. Utah Valley University, Orem, UT. Juried by Alexandra Giannell. All At Once.

2022 Cover Art Award.

Touchstones Undergraduate Journal. Utah Valley University, Orem, UT. The Beginning and The End

2021 First Place Art Award.

Touchstones Undergraduate Journal. Utah Valley University, Orem, UT. Juried by Lovetta Reyes-Cairo. Falsely Positive.

EXHIBITIONS

2026  Thesis Exhibition, 2 W 13th Street, New York, NY (upcoming)

2025  Open Studios, 39 W 13th Street, New York, NY

2024  Open Studios,  25 East Gallery, New York, NY

2024  Common Ground, 25 East Gallery, Curated by Danielle Sargeant, New York, NY

2024  Until It Dies (Solo Show), Odd Duck Studio, Provo, UT

2024  Alumni Art Exhibition,  Lakemount Museum of Art, Orem, UT

2023  The Grass Grows (BFA Exhibition), Gallery on 6th, Orem, UT

2023  Composing Chaos (Art & Design Book Exhibition), Gallery on 6th, Curated by Eden Christensen, Ember Martinez, and Olivia Harris, Orem, UT

2023  Student Art Exhibition,  Noorda Center for the Performing Arts,   Curated and Juried by Douglas Fryer, Orem, UT

2023  Echoes of Absence, Gallery 402, Group Exhibition with Hollie Anderson and Brittney Weiland, Orem, UT

2022  Walking,  Gallery 402, Exhibition with Marissa Albrecht, Orem, UT

2022  Student Art Exhibition Online Exhibition, Curated and Juried by UVU Museum of Art

2022  Instinct. Black and White Works on Paper,  Gallery on 6th, Curated by UVU Department of Art + Design Faculty, Orem, UT

2022  Motherhood: Hurt and Hope, Gallery on 6th, Curated by Arika Lau, Orem, UT

2022  A New Page, JKR Gallery, Curated by J. Kirk Richards, Provo, UT

ART PUBLICATIONS

2021- 2023   Touchstones, Undergraduate for Creative Writing, Utah Valley University, Orem, UT, Multiple featured works.

2021-2023    Essais, Undergraduate Journal for Literary Criticism, Utah Valley University, Orem, UT, Multiple featured works.

2021  Journal of Student Leadership,  Utah Valley University, Orem, UT, Multiple featured works.

WRITING PUBLICATIONS

2023  The Inner Need,  Composing Chaos, Art and Design Book Series,   Utah Valley University, Orem, UT.

2023  Notwendigkeit and Abstraction,  Artemisia, Undergraduate Art History Journal, Utah Valley University, Orem, UT.