2025 Design Department Merit Scholarship Awards

Warm greetings to you all,

Please join the Design Department in congratulating our 2025 Design Department Merit Scholarship Award students. As always, our heartfelt thanks to all who participated, and for making these decisions so pleasantly difficult. In addition, we thank our invaluable faculty and staff for their help in realizing the ambitions of all of our students.

Comic Art

1. Roy B Justus Merit Scholarship — Katelyn Pottebaum $4000
2. Will Eisner Sequential Art Scholarship — Emma Engler $2000
3. MCAD Comic Art Scholarship — Ella Rios $2000
4. MCAD Comic Art Scholarship — Neps Piercy $2000

Graphic Design

1. R. Thomas Gunkelman & Gaylord Benson Senior Graphic Design Merit Scholarship — Sofie Nevala $4000
2. MCAD Graphic Design Merit Scholarship — Layla Mccloskey $2000
3. MCAD Graphic Design Merit Scholarship — Jojo Sathuluri $2000
4. Little & Co. Scholarship — Henry Williamson $3500

Illustration

1. Roy B Justus Senior Illustration Merit Scholarship — Claire Saloff-Coste $4000
2. MCAD Illustration Merit Scholarship — Diana Smyk $2000
3. MCAD Illustration Merit Scholarship — Jalen Massie $2000

Product and Furniture Design

1. Dean Wilson Art of Making Senior Product and Furniture Design Merit Scholarship — Dan Decker $4000
2. Target Product and Furniture Design Merit Scholarship — Lily McCann $4000
3. MCAD Product and Furniture Design Merit Scholarship — Louie Lynch $2000
4. Dean Wilson Product and Furniture Design Scholarship — Joe Wiklund $2000
5. Dean Wilson Product and Furniture Design Scholarship — Grace Niskanen $2000
6. MB Condon & Tim Young Scholarship — Kasandra Suarez $5000