2022 Merit Scholarship Recipient: Skylar Bull Lyon | Minneapolis College of Art and Design

2022 Merit Scholarship Recipient: Skylar Bull Lyon

June 21, 2022
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Portrait of Skylar Bull Lyon with his cat

He/Him
Senior, Print Paper Book
Class of 1978 Senior Merit Award
Online Portfolio
Madison, Wisconsin

Describe the work you submitted for merits.

Whole lotta prints and a whole lotta paper.

What are your plans for your senior year? And beyond?

Graduate, then an MFA, probably end up as a professor

Favorite thing about college life (so far)?

I'll give you the beauty pageant answer and say all the people I've met and been able to work with.

What's the best thing you've got from MCAD's free shelf?

Binder dividers titled with the numbers 6, 11, and 14.

What inspires you?

Spite.

Do you have a favorite piece you've made?

Currently my favorite work I've done is my wallpaper which appeared in my merits show, titled Cock & Hen.

Anything you're obsessed with at the moment?

Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari

If you were a bird what kind of bird would you be?

I'm not a fan of birds.