Bio

Margaret (Meg) Momsen is an eager Graphic Designer and Artist based in the Austin and Los Angeles areas. She attended St. Edward’s University for her undergraduate degree in the Austin Metropolitan area.

She is a designer above all else and hopes to design for film and documentary posters as well as work with directors in creating title sequences. She is an avid lover of stories especially ones that serve to empower marginalized groups of people and shed light on lives that are unfamiliar to the masses.

She has assisted Tuan Phan as a Jr. Designer from 2021-2022, interned as gallery assistant, and spearheaded the resurgence of the graphic design club at St. Edward’s school after COVID19. She led the group to create workshops, teaching fellow students the tactile skills missed during online learning.

Artist Statement

 
My work is a response to a lack of stories in popular media that portray the depths of girlhood, womanhood, and motherhood. My poster series seeks to validate these shunned experiences through films written in the feminist horror genre and their accompanying posters.

Senior Studio Project

This series of film posters spawns from the works of Feminist Horror, a genre in which the  pain of women is personified and subsequently understood through the universal language of fear. My work is a response to a lack of stories in popular media that portray the depth of girlhood, womanhood, and motherhood; it seeks to validate the shunned experiences of girls  while  inspiring empathy in those that may be witnessing these stories for the first time. I wrote three film synopsis: The Insatiable Urge to Rot which tells a story girlhood and obsessive female friendships, Repent which outlines the painfully guilt ridden transformation out of girlhood into womanhood, and Dollhouse which expresses the dichotomy between mother and sexual being under the patriarchy. This series origins were inspired deeply by Rage Becomes Her, The Power of Women’s Anger by Soraya Chemaly who urges women to use their anger to inspire change rather than squander it for the comfort of men.

Her Power

Linocut
8’x12’
2022

Pass Project 2

Focus on issues of the born.

Lauren Richardson