JULIE FEDOLAK
MFA ’26 Fine Arts Low-Residency
I am an alchemist, artist, craftsperson, and skilled maker who works with fiber, clay, metal, and other materials. Through experimentation, I push these materials to their limits and beyond, allowing collapse, warping, and failure to become active collaborators in the creative process. My attraction to transformation is rooted in my own lived experience. Much of my life has been shaped by failure and adaptation, learning to read at age twelve, receiving a late-in-life diagnosis of ADHD, and navigating a body that is continually changing. These experiences have forced me to develop systems that allow me to move through the world and create meaning.
In the studio, I embrace play, experimentation, destruction, and transformation. I burn, bend, unravel, rebuild, and remake. Making is where I feel most alive. Play is not separate from my practice; it is the method through which I investigate materials and discover new possibilities.
Through a process-driven practice, I explore abjection, material transformation, and audience interaction. Using fiber, clay, metal, and other materials, I create unstable forms that resist fixed narratives and invite embodied projection, discomfort, curiosity, and participation. By foregrounding material vulnerability and change, my work explores the beauty, uncertainty, and resilience found in states of becoming
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Julie Fedolak is an artist alchemist driven by experimentation, transformation, and the creative potential of diverse materials. Working across fibers, metals, clay, and other three-dimensional forms, she balances her studio practice with teaching middle school art and serving as an adjunct professor at Macomb Community College. Fedolak earned a BFA from the College for Creative Studies, an MA from Kendall College of Art and Design, and completed her MFA at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2026.
