Artworks

DINA WIND SCHOLARSHIPS

2024/25 Tyra Coach

Tyra Coach, also known as "Ty Macasso," is a visual artist, muralist, and creative visionary from Prince George's County, Maryland. She recently earned her Master of Fine Arts in Painting from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), where she was part of the institution's final graduating class. She also holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art from Delaware State University.

Tyra's practice boldly intersects fine art and fashion, drawing on personal, cultural, and stylistic influences to create work that lives beyond the canvas. Her MFA thesis explored how fine artists navigate the fashion world, highlighting the increasingly blurred boundaries between the two disciplines. This passion has led her to collaborate with musicians, designers, and entrepreneurs throughout the DMV area-offering creative direction, graphic design, and visual identity support.

2023/23 Cassaundra Flor

Cassaundra Flor is an artist exploring ideas of space, intimacy, and relationships through painting and printmaking. Her work has been exhibited in the 88th and 89th "Philip's Mill Juried Art Show" at Philip's Mill Community Association, the "Young Visions'' group exhibition at the Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie, and "Art of the State 2019" at the State Museum of Pennsylvania. She is currently pursuing her Masters of Fine Arts at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

2021/22 Storm Brewer

2021's Dina Wind Scholar is artist Storm Brewer. Transferring to PAFA from Philadelphia Community College, Storm will receive the scholarship for two years while working towards a B.A. with a concentration in sculpture.

2019/20  Jill Adler

Jill Adler (b. 1996, Manhattan, New York) received her MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2021 and her BFA in Painting, with concentrations in Book Arts and Printmaking, from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2019. Adler's work incorporates a wide array of practices, including but not limited to painting, sculpture, printmaking, papermaking, bookmaking, and ceramics. She has exhibited in group exhibitions online and in person at Field Projects, New York, NY; Marginal Utility, Philadelphia, PA; Second State Press, Philadelphia, PA; Orchard Art Collective, Philadelphia, PA; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ; Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD; and at Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD. Jill Adler currently lives and works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Currents: The Summer Residency at PAFA

2018 

Yin Ting Lau, Parsons School of Design

Carlyn Perlow, Rutgers University

Elizabeth Sheeler, University of Arkansas

2017 

Libby Ponce, University of South Florida

Audrey Galat, Ohio State University

Daniella Ellinger, Maryland Institute College of Art