Marika is a Teaching Assistant Professor of Studio Art at Oklahoma State University. She collects illustrations from feminine-coded mid century print ephemera -- such as sewing packets, greeting cards, and recipe books -- which she translates into digital collages and print-based works. She earned her M.F.A in Studio Art from the University of Kentucky School of Art and Visual Studies in 2022, and holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Carleton College. From 2013-2019, she worked as an associate acquisitions editor at the University of Illinois Press, where she acquired scholarly manuscripts in anthropology and science fiction studies. Her work has recently been exhibited at the Cleveland Institute of Art, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, the Morgan Conservatory of Papermaking.

Research Interests:

Studio Art, Fine Art, Printmaking, Drawing, New Media Art, Digital Art, Installation Art, Lithography, Silkscreen, Risograph printing, Zines and comics, Alt publishing, book arts, Art Theory/Criticism, Feminist critique, Bioethics