Mackenzie Vaughan Pikaart is a collage, installation, and sculpture artist. Traditionally trained in ceramics at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia PA, where she received her BFA in Crafts, concentration in Ceramics. Her most recent work focuses on the highlighting of negative space and being cautious of the connections made within the space. Focusing on how we, as the viewer, perceives that space, and what slight or significant changes can be made to activate the negative space. Her installations consist of multiples of the same product i.e. Straws, Pin-Back Buttons etc. The process and repetitive nature of her work is extremely important to her, and sometimes is almost a greater satisfier than the end result.