MAC is Minnesotan based artist with a Bachelors of Science in Art Education from St. Cloud State University and a Masters of Fine Art from Minneapolis College of Art and Design. She is currently a K-12 Art Educator working in the Northwest Metro. MAC is an interdisciplinary artist who uses painting, sculpture, illustration and installation as modes of visual language throughout her work.

MAC grew up in the early 2000s experiencing the boom of technology being implemented into the daily curriculum at school. She began watching her and her friends' experiences in the classroom become more digitally centered. She also started to notice that her friend's realities at home were mirroring this digital trend, which was a complete contrast to what she knew of as home.

MAC refers to her childhood home as a physical escape from an increasingly digital, modern reality. She was raised by a Baby Boomer father and Gen Xer mother who kept an unchanged time capsule household. From a young age, she was exclusively exposed to media and aesthetics from the early 60s to the late 90s, leaving little to no room for contemporary life. This retro exposure would have been TV shows, movies, furniture, clothing, and outdated technology that was still used within the house. 

As MAC has developed as an artist, she realizes that her personal work mirrors her childhood home as a form of nostalgic escapism from modern reality. All of her works’ themes connect to the visual language, color theory and narratives that are based on her childhood experience and nostalgia of continuous retro exposure within her time capsule household.