Lya Finston is an artist and printmaker currently based in Iowa City, where she is pursuing her MFA in Printmaking at the University of Iowa with a secondary emphasis in Cinematic Arts. She has been the instructor of record for undergraduate courses in Basic Drawing and Introduction to Printmaking.
Lya has formerly served as a Printmaking TA and Shop Technician for Bucknell University, a Studio Fellow at Spudnik Press, a publishing assistant at Hoofprint, and an Access Services Assistant at the Ryerson & Burnham Library of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Lya is originally from Cranford, NJ and graduated from Oberlin College in 2018 with a BA in Studio Art and German Language.