About Me

Brenna Molden is from Somerset, Kentucky in Pulaski County. She is in the process of pursuing her Bachelor of the Fine Arts while majoring in Art with an area of focus in graphic design and a minor in Visual Communications at Morehead State University (MSU). Interning in MSU’s Office of Communications and Marketing, Molden is creating various posters and visual graphics for different academic departments on campus. As part of working as an undergraduate research fellow for Dr. Joy Gritton on the Eastern Kentucky Arts Project (EKAP) she has gave an oral presentation at the 2022 Appalachian Studies Association Conference on how to incorporate the arts into lower economic counties within Eastern Kentucky. Molden also is experienced with working in MSU’s Golding-Yang Art Gallery as an assistant.

 

Molden is a recipient of the W. Paul and Lucille Caudill Little Scholarship for the Fine Arts Scholarship and the Deeno Golding Memorial Scholarship for Graphic Design at MSU. She has been in the Inscape: Literary and Art Magazine in the 2020 edition and received the First-Place award in the 2022 edition for her published illustration “Devoted”. Award winning artist, Molden received best of show and a second-place award for the Morehead State University Student Art and Design exhibition in Mount Sterling, Kentucky in 2021 and two First-Place awards in 2020. She also won First-Place in the Judy Rodgers Contest for MSU in 2020.