Maks Prykhodko, MakerSpace Manager
Maks Prykhodko is a Ukrainian-born interdisciplinary artist, composer, fabricator, and maker. He began his professional career in music composition, pursuing a BFA at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Expanding his practice to electronics and interactive art, he became a part of the Milwaukee Makerspace, where he showed off his work at Maker Faire 2017. In 2018, Maks moved to Baltimore to pursue an MFA in Intermedia and Digital Arts at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. His thesis, an interactive installation, was titled American Boy, and revolved around themes of immigration, childhood, and play. Now the digital fabrication expert and manager of the Michael Stanley MakerSpace at CAC, Maks continues to pursue his musical and artistic career in his spare time.