Mary O'Connor (she/her) is a printmaker from Virginia. She is a 2nd year MFA candidate at Northern Illinois University. She was awarded the Aunspaugh Fellowship at the University of Virginia (2022-2023) from where she earned her BA in Studio Art (2022). O'Connor's current work explores structure and loss of structure through personal, Catholic, architectural archives. Sorting through inherited traditions, she focuses on the relationship between reality and the imaginary. And how this pairing informs our understanding of spiritual experience and divinity.