His family made the announcement in a Facebook post.
Foust, who used he/they pronouns according to friends, was a senior majoring in fine arts at NKU. He would have graduated May 8. His art is scheduled to be shown at the Cincinnati Art Museum’s “Art After Dark” series on May 29. In the post from his family, which often uses his deadname with “Murry” in quotation marks, they state that an art scholarship will also be established in Foust’s memory. There will also be a pottery fundraiser held at NKU in the future, the family said.
“We are establishing an art scholarship fund in their name to honor their love of art,” the post reads. “Any donations or proceeds from the sale of Murry’s work will be used to support other art students in the community.”
As of this writing, a Meal Train fundraiser for the scholarship fund has raised over $7,000.
Apparently his family is dead-set on deadnaming and misgendering Murray. Because of fucking course. I'm really glad they've done all this in his name, but its just so infuriating seeing over and over and over again how dead trans people can never get the most basic fucking respect. And because its their family, they get the final word in so many people's eyes.
But at the very least, Murray's friends appreciate and remember them as himself:
“Murry was one of my first friends I made in college, and helped me feel so much comfortable about myself, especially where I had came up to northern Kentucky knowing zero people,” Serenity Newell wrote. “I saw them a day or two before they had went missing and they were so sweet. I had dressed extra nice that day and they went and complimented me in detail for about 5 minutes straight […] I was going through our messages between each other today and was in disbelief that any of this was real. They were a big inspiration in my art and I strived to be more like them and try to poor more of my soul into each of my creations as they did.”
