
Visions, April 23 - August 1, 2025
Visions is the juried honors showcase of the years best original student work in the Fitchburg State University's Communications Media Department. The entire campus and local community looks forward to this annual event, which consists of an Alumni Panel, Gallery Art Exhibition, and Film and Video screening.
Check out the Burg Blog for a view of Visions 2025
Accepted Works
Photography
- Vanessa Alejandro - Dance photo of girl in black leggings and black sports bra, Girl in purple shirt stretching over her leg on wood floor, White and purple doll holding pink tube in clouds
- Samantha Campbell - multi-exposure of Kyle Moody
- Henry Christiansen - Photo 1 Man playing a guitar with a hat and red lighting, Photo 2 Black and white of camera lens, Guitar black with red and green lighting.
- Amber Dalicandro - Portrait of girl with hand on face, Boy and dog running, Two bananas floating on black background
- Christian Dedier - Portrait of a young woman.
- Sean Diggins - graffiti on a historical building in Venice, A collection of olive oil displayed in the basement, Man standing outside a fish market
- Charles Fitzmaurice - Tourists approach the rapids at Niagara Falls
- Skye Goba - Man sitting on table three other people at the table behind
- Desmond Hart - Tatum holds his fist up in victory with his trophy, Nike "Air"
- Lily Hay - Macro photography of punk bracelets, Woman holding a picture frame, outside is BW inside is color, bathroom, over the shoulder shot, mirror reflection motion blurred, One side of the face is completely in the dark
- Vincent Hussey-Cerqueira - Girl in goth makeup laying on her back with her head leaning back, Girl jumping up in the air. Surrounded by trees and blue sky
- Cassandra Israelson and Skye Goba - A double exposure of Skye Goba staring down into a puddle/ Illustrations By Skye Goba
- Cassandra Israelson - Photo Book about a track team, Joiner photograph of a woman throwing a Hammer, The Fitchburg Art Museum at sunset/night
- Kate Jajliardo - Composite of a Dancer in blue
- Zachary Lamb - Silver car driving down Fitchburg streets, Crooked clock with oozing light going up
- Milena Mahoney - It is a close up of a green convertible shot on 35mm
- Jesye Nortey - 3 layered exposures of me pulling my face down, Me sitting a sea of my tears and paper sailboats are sailing along, Me sitting in a pool of grey sheets extending into the black void, A hazy dreamy photo of me reaching out to my shadow
- Emily Phillips - teal tree hut sugar scrub in one hand pink background, hand holding Coco Colada Tree Hut Body Lotion, Texture shot of 5 red/pink lip gloss smudges on white background, pink sugar scrub texture shot with seeds on a white background
- Angela Risotti - Exterior image of Fitchburg Art Museum
- Nicholas Solimine - A young couple in front of a white backdrop, A shirtless man holding a knife has blood on him, photo book: national ball hockey league playing in Fitchburg, MA
- Erica Spurr - A Fitchburg player checks a Worcester player into the boards
- Deanna Tarantino - Sun shining through a window and glass door into a living room, Series of 12 images all strung together by a brown string, This is a portrait of Hank wearing a tuxedo, Composite image of me (3 times) on my bed
- Jennifer Vincent - Portrait of man w/ mustache and beard outside wearing a hat, Portrait of a man outside, slouching. holding a cigarette, Portrait of a man with a goatee sitting on a chair inside a building
- Livv Welch - A woman in black dress and fur coat with pink heels, A person with yellow hair and gemstone nipple pasties, Two windows with white lace curtains at sunrise, person with curly hair sitting with rubber bands across their face
Film Video
- A Mime, A Magician and a Sandwich - Adam Fournier
- The Leominster Floods, the Mayor and his City - Adam Fournier
- Mercy - DK Racine
- Everyday Artist - Nico Solimine
- May the Worst Man Win - Jonathan Rajotte
- Five Shifts at EQ - Seth Rigby
- Frames - Jonathan Kamal
- Scalae Sensus - Allison Thompson
- Do You Remember Me? - Tonia Magras
- Noiseman and the Squids: Goblin Hunting - Nico Nuzzolilli
Game Design (tentative selection)
- Precursor
- Secrets Of the Jester
- Supermarket Showdown!
Graphic Design
- Savannah Caldbeck - Red Cross Blood Donor Icons, Looking for Alaska
- Aidan Cattelan - Tribute to Wieslaw Rosocha, "Burnt Relics"
- Amber Dalicandro - Butterflies, Persona, "Eyes Up, Phones Down" Infographic
- Erith De Brito Oliveira - "TealV"
- Ryan Doyle - the little dewdrop
- Oliver Eason - Visions in Unity, HXNK Photography logo
- Nia Manderson-Matheson - Persona
- Angela Risotti - Lo Spirito della Citta, Mosaico Cosmico Due
- Emily Russo - Persona, Cafe Icons, Symbosis: Visions of Light
- Rebecca Schlier - Towards the Light - Symbiosis Visions of Light, Package Redesign - Strawberry Daiquiri, Greenland Village Adventure Map
- Livv Welch - A Plastic Ocean
- Yer Yang-Su A - "Symbiosis Visions of Light"
Motions Graphics
- Emily Russo -70s Disco Google Banner
PRSA
- Cassandra Israelson - Fitchburg State XC/TF Team Marketing Plan
Photography
- Julie Arena - Black and white woman on handling food from oven
- Marissa Cloutier - A woman in all black with three hands holding cigarettes and one in her hair, A seagull flying midair with a blurred background, A moth on a window with a mountain background blurred
- Amber Dalicandro - Portrait of a woman looking away in red lighting, Street photo at night of red-light streaks
- Sean Diggins - Bouquet of flowers behind a panel of broken glass in an abandoned store front, A depressed man in a cement room laying in a fetal position, detailed photo of an alley in Boston, A young man on the train looks out the window
- Maurice Dingle II - A man visible through a mounted viewfinder
- Morgan Gilbert-Koff - Model with long green hair and black dress with sparkles holds her hair in both of her hands
- Lily Hay - Mailboxes, Liquor store at night
- Keyloni Jackson - Man sitting surrounded by the many faces of his girlfriend
- Kate Jajliardo - Old woman sitting on a bench and looking down, horse face
- Aidan King - Abstract circle light offset with a rectangular window
- Thomas Kokernak - A Venus flytrap plant against a white background, A black and white photograph of a rock thrown into a pond which is creating a splash, A piece of cardboard lit on fire creating a blue smoke effect
- Alexzander Milner - A powerline pole fills the right side of the frame, Under the support structure of a bridge it is visible a homeless person is living there, A wall with dead roots covers the bottom of the frame. past the wall power lines, a run-down warehouse, and a bridge
- Harold Peterson - 2 Vultures perch atop a chimney and 1 stretches their wings in the light, A starling sits on the power-line and shines in the light
- Emily Phillips - Great blue heron with water in the background, Yellow and dark brown seaweed pile
- Angelo Pinto - Astrophotography, nature, portrait
- Nicholas Solimine - A young couple sitting in a car at night
- Benjamin Sweet - Skater hitting an Olly in between two do not enter signs, Two chairs, and a stool. In a concrete area with white door, Three rotting pumpkins over leaves, Grayish liquid with milky white pockets. In liquid is debris
- Jackson Texeira - A Civic Type R TCR driving down a straightaway against red, A red Toyota 86 drifting around a corner
- Christina Veth - Four long exposures of Christina doing laundry, Five images of Christina composited photography studio, A can of Starbucks' Frappuccino
Graphic Design, Interface Design, Motion Graphics
- Catherine Bosse - Journey. It is in black and white, there is a larger J
- Savannah Caldbeck - Portrait of girl with hat and blonde hair surrounded by trees, Collage comprised of woman paddle boarding on lake, flowers, water/lakes, books as sky, and lupin flowers, Collage of butterflies and other bug elements comprise a face
- Erick Carredano - Font within a circle on a white background
- Aidan Cattelan - An Brand Identity Manual for a Fictional Alternate Version of the City of Fitchburg, using
Brown/Orange and Light Blue as the brand colors - Amber Dalicandro, A collage of a tea related items. There is a white cup in the middle, tea bags at the top, and a tea kettle, A large pushpin with "pushpin" next to it as well as a short paragraph above it
- Bianca De Brito Oliveira poster's main colors are black, red, and yellow, with large and sharp shapes scattered throughout the design
- Oliver Eason - A mockup of what a cookbook design would look like on, A mask of a wolf with tribal patterns, black and white print with red and white objects, featuring lines, circles, and geometric shape
elements - Lily Hay - Images of people used as letters in the alphabet
- Thomas Kokernak - Market basket brand identity redesign. Consisting of a new logo, web banner, business card, envelope, letterhead, storefront, and merchandise, App design project meant to remotely control a futuristic version of a doggie door, Jersey for Century Dragonboat Team with dragon illustrated on the front
- Juliette Laford - Dinosaur themed designs with a grey background filled with dinosaur footprints.
McGonigle Helen Three stamp designs based off of three of the New England state flowers (Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island) - Nathaniel McKenna - A white crinkled paper background with rows of hand designed letters moving downward to represent an eye exam graph
- Emily Russo - BOBA, the playful and bubbly typeface of the alphabet, A double-sided postcard of a logo design for the well-known typeface "American Typewriter", A photomontage of the elements of baking muffins
- Melany Schacht - An illustration of a pale woman in the darkness
- Rebecca Selin -series of images put together to form a story. blues and purples put it into a mockup and created a book
- Emmeline Sharpe - Black background, center image of white bunny with blue markings
- Morgan St. Pierre - Collage of social graphics for football team Massachusetts Pirates, Photo collage with blue background and various technology/nature elements - goes with other collage piece, Photo collage with pink/rose background and various technology/nature elements - goes with
other collage piece
Graphic Design Group Projects
- People Font Poster | Group Project - Emily Russo Nathaniel Mckenna Zachary Amidon
- Pixels Tell Stories | Group Project - Helen McGonigle, Emjay Hanson, Nicholas Scarpitta, Rebecca Selin, Amber Dalicandro, Rebecca Cloar, Savannah Caldbeck, Zeth De Brito Oliveira, Oliver Eason,
- PRSA (Public Relations, Social Media, and Advertising Production) Fitchburg Art Museum Exhibition Catalog |
- DMI - Digital Media Innovation - Book Collaboration | The Data Renaissance:
- Aboubacar Camara, Ana’aya McGowan Mozzel, Brendan Smith, Glenndale Bartolome, Henry Chistiansen, Keshauni Johnson, Sophia Moore
Game Design
- Beep Boop's Escape - Jake Estrada - Programmer/Level Designer, Adam Niemi - Artist/Animator, Aiko Mei McCarthy - Artist/Level Designer/Producer, Tyler LaFleur - Artist/Animator
- Blast n' Smash! Solo – Madeline Visconte
- GoobnBalloonsDX - Veronica Hazen, Alura Leet, Finat Neff, Ben Pielocik, David Marshall
- Pteri and Clyde! - Kennedy Gough - Programmer, Kelly Sargent - Character Art, Mishka Noyes - Environment Art
- Rolling Rhapsody - Nick Green - 3D Artist, Max Eisenhaure - Level Designer, 3D Artist, Keegan Butt - Programmer, James Livingstone: Programmer, Tony Tran - Artist
- Solar Sollis - Nicholas Green : 3D Environment / Lighting Artist, Maxwell Eisenhaure: 3D Artist / Level Designer, Domenic Mallo: 3D Character Artist, Ronan Cords: Lead Producer / Audio Designer, Keegan Butt: Programmer, Stephen Hunter Day: Programmer, James Livingstone: Programmer
Film Video
- Born Funny
- Crystal Clear
- Dangerous Delivery
- I Am Myself Alone
- Mourning Night
- Sunset Syndication
- The Little Girl In The Photo Is Me
- The Tin Rose
- Ward of the State
- Will-O'-The-Wisp
Photography
- Marissa Cloutier - Extreme close up of a daddy long leg with its shadow, Golden Retriever Shaking of in water
- Sophie Geremia - Brown, decaying leaves hanging in the foreground, A black and white image of a "No trespassing" sign, a misty evening, streetlamps, swing set in the foreground. A figure walks on the righthand side
- Juliette Laford - A man wearing a wide brimmed hat, a pink backpack
- Darcy Lally - Paddy and the Gull: A man in a worn suit staring at a seagull, An Angle: A beautiful woman in orange outfit, Wee School Girl: A girl in a school uniform clutching her arm, Grumpy Priest: A priest with a grumpy expression on his face
- Kaitlyn Mobilia - A man laying/covered in flowers on a wooden floor
- Emily Phillips - Two people in the ocean fishing, Yellow sunrise with a bridge over water and a person fishing
- Deanna Tarantino - Black and white printed photo, waterfall in the middle of the image, black and white image of a series of poles, horizontal black and white image of stairs
- Jackson Texeira - Six USAF Thunderbirds performing the delta burst maneuver, aircraft taxiing away with 2 ground agents turned around, a close-up of a B-1 aircraft's no. 4 exhaust nozzle and tail
Graphic Design, Interface Design
- Juliette Laford - "TECHNO DISCO PARTY", "Beethoven"
- Zachary Amidon - Student made monograms on a light gray background
- Meaghan Carney - Blended nature/organic and manmade objects, self portrait made out of type
- Bianca De Brito Oliveira - "Sona" and "Kov"
- Keely Leeman - "love is a mixtape", 3 traveling postcards
- Rebecca Selin - blue background, typography, and photographic
- Simeon Schulz - BOSCH Cooker Hood App
Game Design
- Screamo Therapy - Tobey-Julian Joseph: Programmer, Level Designer, Source Control - Kiria Bentley: Character Artist, Foreground Artist, Animator - Vincent Colavita: Music Composer - Shawn Flynn: Backdrop Artist + Animator, UI Artist + Animator
- Cartogo- Kennedy Gough - Solo
- Tower Tanks - Ryan Pratt - Lead Designer, Producer - Peter Gomes - Programmer -Thomas Nichols - 2D Artist, Animator - Kirsten Roussel - Producer - Elijah Green - Sound Designer, Producer, Cooper Navin - Sound Designer - Tomas Ortola Stange - Composer - Evie Segal - Composer
- Stick Kicker - Keegan Butt - Solo
Film Video
- Roll With It - 20 - Buffy Cautela, Jacob Barnes, Emma Jacques, Rob Kemp, Thomas Saccoccio, Advanced Film Fall 2021
- Pretention - 3 - Leo Wellock
- Adopting the Unknown - 8 - Kaitlyn Mobilia
- Subtle Signs - 17 - Darcy Lally , Lily DeVarney, Delaney DeNorscia, Latasha Thompson, Moriz Vetter, Alyssa Fields, Emily Gelinas, Jeremy Allik, Eliza Gelinas, David Nugent, Jake Snyder, Matthew Baier, Said Razzaq, Zachary Bartolomei, Kevin Mason, Kailey Norton, Tyler Merit
- Minimalism - 3 - Emily Gelinas, Alyssa Fields, Darcy Lally, Latasha Thompson, Susie Timmons, Rachelle Dermer
- Bumpy the Clown - 11 - Kyle Lindfors, Jarrod Camerer, Roman Demars, Owen Thayer, Eric Blomster
- The Story of Bradger the Badger Enthusiast - 3 - Seth Rigby
- Wandering for Life - 7 - Aniyah, Abbey, Claire Forney, Frias, Collins
- Don't Spill - 4 - Alyssa Fields, Emily Gelinas, Darcy Lally, Alexzander Milner, Matt Baier, Lily DeVarney, Sean Sanguinet
- I am Worthy, I am Honest, I am Patient - 12 - Ryan Menegus, Adam Fournier, Kiera Lucia Intus, Kyle Lindfors
- Tape Can't Fix This - 3 - Kiera Lucia Intus
Motion Graphics
- Zaeed Razzaq - TOKAGECUBE - Lizard Brain Serenity
DMI - Digital Media Innovation
- Oliver Eason - Changing Minds - Collaborators: David Wu, Marco Grogan, Riona Hirasawa, Nadia Turovskiy, Johannes Crueger-Cain, Jin Oakes
- Skye Goban - Dick Zeigler and the WFGL Radio Station - Collaborators: Cassandra Isrealson, Amanita DeFeo
Works submitted by students listed below have been select to be included the 2022 Visions Communications Media Honors Exhibition
- Keegan Butt
- Kristofer Camp
- Meaghan Carney
- Buffy Cautela
- Claire Collins
- Victoria Croteau
- Kathleyn (Kat) Doyle
- Erin Flayhan
- Sophie Geremia
- Julia Gillis
- Ben Golash
- Peter Gomes
- Sean-Michael Hibbert
- Elena Kehoe
- Darcy Lally
- Keely Leeman
- Zaylie Matesowicz
- Alexzander Milner
- David Nugent
- Tatiana O'Hanlon
- Bethany Palmer
- Disa Parker
- Emily Phillips
- Benjamin Pielocik
- Thomas Saccoccio
- Zach Shirikjian
- Karla Taveras Guerra
- Mackenzie Ullrich
- Brooke Vanbramer
- Emily Vescovi
- Moritz Vetter
More detailed lists are posted outside the Photo Lab (Conlon Rm 350) and outside EQ in Film/Video and have been emailed to all entrants.
Theater entries will be posted on April 7 (after auditions).
If your work was not accepted, please pick up your physical submissions as soon as you can and please submit again for Visions 2023.
If your work was accepted for exhibition, congratulations! You will be contacted shortly by the committee and/or a representative from your concentration with further details on how to prepare your work for the exhibition.
We look forward to seeing you at Visions 2022.
2021 Film, Theater and Game Design Showcases
Visions 2021 Films
View a collection of student films as submitted for Visions 2021.
Visions 2021 Game Design
Learn about (and download) some of our student games as submitted for Visions 2021.
Visions 2021 Theater Showcase
View a collection of student theater showcases as submitted for Visions 2021.
Visions 2021
Photography Exhibit
Graphic Design Exhibit
Professional Communication
Fitchburg State students annually compete in the National Student Advertising Competition (NSAC). Each year they create a marketing plan and presentation for a real world client. This year's client was Tinder. Please watch their presentation and read their plans book.
Visions 2020
Photography Exhibit
Graphic Design Exhibit
2020 Film and Game Design Showcases
Visions 2020 Game Design
Learn about (and download) some of our student games as submitted for Visions 2020.