2025/26 Merit Scholarship Recipient: Lesley McGaster

Describe the work you submitted for merits.

Many of my works submitted (in both writings and presentations) complimented my love of photography and social equality. With the inclusion of learned entrepreneurship studies, analytics, marketing, and more, these two interests of mine meshed well with how business, value, and goods spread throughout our world, and what matters to customers as well.

Why did you decide to come to MCAD?

MCAD was one of the only schools that had a major that combines both business and art, which I loved.

What's next for your practice? Anything you're really excited to make?

I recently declared my minor in creative writing alongside my entrepreneurship and photography, so I'm excited to write more pieces that have meaning to me and other social constructs.