M. Carson Day has stocked shelves at a Michael’s craft store in south Texas and made cheese on goat farms in rural Maine. In 2012, Day touched a lock of Edgar Allen Poe’s hair. In 2014, he missed his chance to make
professionally
make props in Hollywood and has since spent over a decade working as an artist assistant and fabricator in both Los Angeles and Chicago. He has studied art at Indiana University, Glasgow School of Art, Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice, Italy and the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) where he received an MFA in Art in 2025.