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Each year, the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum presents the work of graduating artists from the Master of Fine Arts program in the Department of Art + Art History at Florida International University. The MFA thesis exhibition marks the culmination of three years of sustained research and studio practice.

This year’s presentation features the work of Alexandra Berlin, whose interdisciplinary project brings together woodcut, video, and textile. Drawing on what she describes as “folklore technologies”—forms and practices that have moved from childhood entertainment into broader circuits of circulation and exchange—Berlin revisits these traditions as a way of reflecting on cultural memory and lived experience.

As part of the Frost Art Museum’s ongoing collaboration with FIU’s Art + Art History Department, the MFA thesis exhibition highlights the rigor and evolving perspectives of the university’s emerging artists.