Middy Vella is an artist and designer based in New Jersey. She graduated with a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University in May 2025.
As a designer, Vella’s focus is in print and publications for clients engaged in culture-making and creativity. Her work is characterized by innovative, efficient and playful problem-solving.
Vella is also a printmaker and illustrator using global aesthetics of cuteness to represent the strange, comical and often dystopian relationships between nature
and capital. Read the full artist statement.
CMU School of Art
Senior Spotlight