Lisa Champ

Lisa Champ, also known as Red Halftone, is a New York City-based artist and designer originally from Utica, N.Y. Working across digital and traditional media, she creates bold graphic paintings, prints, merch drops, and murals that draw from the aesthetics of graphic design, tattoo culture, pop art, street art, and propaganda. Her visual language is direct, deliberate, and rooted in message-driven storytelling.

Her work has appeared in group shows throughout NYC, on billboards across the U.S., and in collaborations with brands including Adobe, Reddit, StickerApp, and Pabst Blue Ribbon. She earned her bachelor’s of fine arts degree in communications design from Pratt Institute in 2011 and went on to study typeface design at Cooper Union’s Extended Program in 2012.

Champ is also the co-founder and creative director of Untitled Era, a studio she’s led since 2013, where she partners with brands in the automotive, tech, and luxury sectors to build powerful visual identities.

Caitlyn D’Amico

Caitlyn D’Amico is an artist and educator living outside of Boston, Mass. She attended Pratt MWP in 2017 and earned her bachelor’s of fine arts degree from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 2019. She graduated with a concentration in painting and a minor in fashion design. In the summer of 2019, she continued her studies to expand her practice as a painter. She created sculptural objects often by stitching wire to canvas. In May 2021, she received her master’s of fine arts degree from Maine College of Art in Portland, Maine. 

D’Amico has worked as an elementary art teacher in New York, an arts-integrated early childhood teacher in San Francisco, and as an educator at the Children’s Creativity Museum in San Francisco. She studied early childhood education and, in 2022, became an Early Education and Care (EEC) certified teacher. She now works at a child-centered Montessori preschool as the art teacher and assistant teacher. As an artist, D’Amico’s current work displays a sense of wonder and freedom attributed to the children with whom she works. She is interested in merging the fields of art, education, and child development. D’Amico uses painting and sculpture to bring imagination to life. Her work is characterized by bursts of bright color, twisting tubes and wires, and life-sized structures that inhabit space. 

She first exhibited her work at Munson in Utica, N.Y., and has continued to exhibit work throughout New England. 

Mark DiOrio

Mark DiOrio is an editorial and commercial photographer based in Upstate New York. He is also the university photographer at Colgate University. 

DiOrio earned his master’s degree in photography from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, his bachelor’s degree from SUNY College at Purchase, and his associate degree from Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute. 

He has worked as a photojournalist at mid-size newspapers, documenting communities in Louisiana, Utah, Florida, and New York. “Some of the best stories to be told can be found right in your backyard. You don’t have to travel the globe to find people with something important to reveal, or photograph for that matter.” 

While on assignment, he often spends more time listening to those in front of the camera than making pictures with the intent on building trust and finding the story within the story. “The trust you build leads to access. Access is everything. It’s the point where you make the most intimate photographs. It’s where you capture someone at their most authentic representation.”

Erik Nilson

Erik Nilson (born 1991, Red Bank, N.J.) is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, N.Y. His work has been exhibited at Jack Barrett Gallery, New York; M23, New York; and other venues in the tri-state area as well as Pedvale Art Park, Sabile, Latvia. Nilson earned his bachelor’s of fine arts degree in sculpture from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University and a master’s of fine arts degree in sculpture from Yale School of Art. 

Nilson’s sculptures fuse found and fabricated objects to create new, hybrid configurations. His studio is a dense trove of found objects, specimens, curiosities, and salvaged raw materials from both urban and natural environments. Meticulously joining together these objects, the resulting forms are at once familiar and otherworldly, like relics of a not-so-distant past or future. For sourcing and inspiration, the artist visits interstitial spaces — between roadways and wooded areas, land, and water — the places where everyday artifacts accumulate. Engaging with themes of hybridity, mutation, and overconsumption, Nilson’s exploration of form and structure is inspired by his personal research into natural sciences, mechanical principles, and industrial processes.

Anniella Pettingill

Hailing from Northern Vermont, Anniella Pettengill is a multi-faceted illustrator and designer attending Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Utilizing numerous mediums, she employs symbolism, religious imagery, and humor to convey a breadth of social messages, observances, and personal interests. 

Though often focusing on illustrative work, Pettengill’s design work at Munson earned her two Graphic Design USA awards, and her logo design for AHA’s America’s Greatest Heart Run & Walk 50th anniversary was chosen and utilized on racer bibs, TV ads, and billboards.

She is on track to graduate from Pratt in spring 2026 with a bachelor’s of fine arts degree in communications design and a minor in entrepreneurship.