Vandalia Arts Journal

David Hooper is a comic illustrator and character designer from Clarksburg, West Virginia. He enrolled at Wesleyan College as a studio art major. He designs a variety of characters ranging in different genres, from historical to horror to fantasy and science fiction. He likes to vary his projects to where there’s a perfect marriage of […]

Makayla Stanley is a junior graphic design major aiming for a career in visual entertainment, such as animation and graphic novels. She has such hobbies as singing, obsessive stuffed animal collecting, and interior decorating, in which she has a 6-foot mannequin named Henry standing by her bed that watches her as she sleeps every night. […]

Marcel Green is majoring in art and loves playing video games. He also loves making content for people to understand what he loves to do–it can be from anything.

Bee Strickland is an artist from Charleston, West Virginia who is graduating this May with a degree in Printmaking/Drawing and Gender Studies. This combines into a specialty in the portrayal of queer experiences in digital illustration, printmaking, and painting. They have a passion for finding the intersection between lived experiences and film, as well as […]

Savannah Weikle is a biology major. She will be graduating in May 2022, with an accepted position at the White Sulphur Springs National Fish Hatchery in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. She grew up in Greenbrier County and likes to create artwork based on her love of nature. Her interests include creating art, cooking, exploring […]

Savannah Weikle is a biology major. She will be graduating in May 2022, with an accepted position at the White Sulphur Springs National Fish Hatchery in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. She grew up in Greenbrier County and likes to create artwork based on her love of nature. Her interests include creating art, cooking, exploring […]

Oreana Sharpless is currently working towards a bachelor’s degree in the drawing and printmaking concentration. She has an interest in both traditional and digital art mediums as well as in creative writing and poetry. She has lived in the Appalachian region her whole life and has spent most of that time in the state of […]

Gray is an artist from Logan, WV who is a 2022 senior studying Biology. He aspires to be an ER Physician alongside drawing commissions.