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𝕌𝕄𝔻 𝕄𝔽𝔸 𝕆𝕡𝕖𝕟 𝕊𝕥𝕦𝕕𝕚𝕠𝕤 — 𝔽𝕒𝕝𝕝 𝟚𝟘𝟚𝟞

Join us for Fall 2026 MFA Open Studios and visit the studios of current UMD MFA candidates across all three years. Meet the artists, see new and in-progress work, and explore what’s happening inside the studios.

🗓️Tuesday, October 27, 2026
⏰4–6 PM
📍Art Building, 3rd Floor

Second year MFA candidates
Part 2.

Jessica Valoris, Ian McDermott and Andzelika Berestko
@jessicavaloris @crumbledethump @a.berestko

Featuring Katie Magician, Jonah Brock, Emily Springer, Tom Hill, Andzelika Berestko, Ava Burke, Jessica Valoris, Ian McDermott, Casey Fisher, Jenna Billian, Joshua Prince and Wednesday Kim.

Image 11. passport map design by Ava Burke @infiniteregress.world

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𝕌𝕄𝔻 𝕄𝔽𝔸 𝕆𝕡𝕖𝕟 𝕊𝕥𝕦𝕕𝕚𝕠𝕤 — 𝔽𝕒𝕝𝕝 𝟚𝟘𝟚𝟞

Join us for Fall 2026 MFA Open Studios and visit the studios of current UMD MFA candidates across all three years. Meet the artists, see new and in-progress work, and explore what’s happening inside the studios.

🗓️Tuesday, October 27, 2026
⏰4–6 PM
📍Art Building, 3rd Floor

Featuring Katie Magician, Jonah Brock, Emily Springer, Tom Hill, Andzelika Berestko, Ava Burke, Jessica Valoris, Ian McDermott, Casey Fisher, Jenna Billian, Joshua Prince and Wednesday Kim.

Poster and passport map design by Ava Burke

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THE ROAD WORK CAR SHOW on @varvaratok’s early-aughts Panasonic digicam

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Celebrate ROAD WORK with me THIS TUESDAY with a double-header GALLERY RECEPTION and CAR SHOW, in the Herman Maril Gallery (3834 Campus Drive) and Tawes Plaza (3900 Campus Drive), respectively. There will be ART and VEHICLES (including a 17’ drag racer!) and ART IN VEHICLES (by @a.berestko and @jonahbrock.art) and MUSIC (by which I mean I made a playlist for u!) and even MERCH (printed with @varvaratok @vhl3h_ @legrape_ on vintage/second-hand blanks hand-picked by moi). Tell everyone! See you there!! 🏎️

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Double exposure, quite literally.

📷 Ilford Obscura
Kodak Photopaper 1982 4x5
(direct exposed, inverted in AdobePS)
12 minutes exposure time
Developer: Ilford PQ universal 1+9

#4x5film #ilfordobscura #ilford #pinhole #analogphotography

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ROAD WORK - a condition of routine maintenance to a public roadway, resulting in a more-or-less temporary (and more-or-less inconvenient) detour

ROAD WORK - the labor done to maintain the road

ROAD WORK - (art)work made on, with, or about the road

The University of Maryland presents the 2026 John Dorsey Prize Exhibition ROAD WORK, a multimedia exhibition and accompanying event series curated by Ava Burke, MFA candidate in Studio Art and winner of the 2026 John Dorsey Prize for Outstanding Curatorial Practice. ROAD WORK examines road infrastructure, maintenance labor, and car culture as sites of contemporary artistic inquiry. Featuring installation, sculpture, social practice, sound, and video, the exhibition brings together artists Julie Libersat, Julia Reising, Jeffery Hampshire, and WorkingWorking Group (Nancy Nowacek and Allison Rowe). Their work considers the road as a shared space of obstacle, detour, and repair, and the vehicle as an extension of the body it carries.

ROAD WORK is on view September 7-25 at the Herman Maril Gallery on the University of Maryland’s College Park campus, 10 AM-6 PM weekdays and weekends by appointment. A public gallery reception will take place from 5-7 PM on Tuesday, September 15. Alongside the reception and presented in collaboration with NextNOW Fest will be THE ROAD WORK CAR SHOW in Tawes Plaza. This pop-up exhibition will feature a curated selection of beloved vehicles, from the road-tested daily drivers of UMD student-commuters, to restored-to-a-tee vintage sportscars and decked-out art cars, to working utility vehicles and UMD Chemical Engineering’s own ChemE Car prototype. Embedded within THE ROAD WORK CAR SHOW will be site-specific vehicular art installations by UMD Studio Art MFA candidates Andżelika Berestko and Jonah Brock.

ROAD WORK will culminate with a workshop on drifting as creative practice by exhibiting artist Julie Libersat on Thursday, September 24 at 6 PM, and a lecture by exhibiting artist Nancy Nowacek on Friday, September 25 at 5 PM. Space is limited for these events, so please reach out to the curator directly at aburke44@umd.edu if you would like to attend.

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Expedition Ahimsa is ready to #hittheroad on our first official adventure to Mongolia! We’re bringing one backpack, one fanny pack, and one carryon each and almost all our clothes are quick dry for easy handwashing and drying on the move!

#packwithme #packingtips #mongoliatravel #travelmongolia

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A Conversation About A Dream About A Conversation • between @infiniteregress.world & @a.berestko • self-published 50pp chapbook saddle-stitch bound with vellum cover and insert, open edition • dm if you would like a copy 👀

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now it’s time to slow down!!!

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Travel is getting expensive these days but we snagged this 5 day vacation for under 600 dollars per person (including round trip flights from Washington DC to San Salvador!)

We @expeditionahimsa are travel advisors who curate budget and luxury itineraries to perfection so you just need to show up and experience. One number for all your travel needs.

These shots were all from📍El Zonte Beach except for the last which was from our time in downtown San Salvador.

#domelife #elsalvador #beachdestination #blacksandbeach #weekendgetaway

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After a visit and lecture at @umd_art … The Maril Gallery is presenting Between Thought and Material, featuring new work by first-year MFA candidates, developed through experimentation, process, and making. @umdartgallery

Between Thought and Material: MFA First Year Show
February 9-26, 2026
The Herman Maril Gallery

Featuring art work by:
Andzelika Beretsko @a.berestko
Jenna Billian @jennabillian
Ava Burke @infiniteregress.world
lan McDermott @crumbledethump
Casey Fisher @kc_james
Jessica Valoris @jessicavaloris
Poster design by @infiniteregress.world

Photos by @caraober

#umcp #bmoreart #mfa #artschool

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𝘽𝙚𝙩𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙏𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙈𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙡
MFA First Year Show

🗓️February 9 - 26, 2026
📍The Herman Maril Gallery

We’re excited to introduce 𝗔𝗻𝗱ż𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗮 𝗪. 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗸𝗼’s work, featured in ✨𝘽𝙚𝙩𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙏𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙈𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙡.✨

𝗔𝗻𝗱ż𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗮 𝗪. 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗸𝗼 is a Polish-born interdisciplinary artist working primarily with embodiment-adjacent and time-based mediums. She has lived in Poland, the Middle East, and the United States, and is currently based in Washington, D.C., where she works as an artist, spiritual and art educator, and has spent the past five years engaged in crisis counseling and somatic healing. Berestko received her BFA from The Cooper Union in 2022. Her work has been presented at the Foundation Building Galleries of Cooper Union, Anthology Film Archives, and Museum of Modern Art.

Berestko’s work centers on cultural formation, the instability of the archive, and ritual. Attentive to the frailties of memory and the gaps they produce in cultural documentation, she studies the uneven, evolving nature of ethnic inheritance, particularly as it unfolds within immigrant domestic spaces where multiple languages converge. A sustained focus on death-related practices shapes her work, exploring the liminality of objects and presence, communal orientations toward mourning, and the opacities that obscure experiences of passing. Her recent work examines incense as an olfactory conduit between tangible and subtle realms and ways in which monuments can bring visibility to those absent and suffering.

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