Written by Alexis Schramel | Pictures by Eric Butler As MFA students at MCAD, we have the opportunity to invite amazing artists from all over the world into our studios. Recently, MFA candidate Bo Young An ’22 met with alum Jacob Yeates’17.  Jacob has been featured in numerous magazines and exhibitions, such as the Society [...]

Written by Alexis Schramel Join us in celebrating alumnus Jodie Burke ’18 who has been nominated for Best Featured Guest Podcast in the 26th Annual Webby Awards for First on the Scene “The Unseen Hero”! Jodie is the co-host and creator of the First on the Scene podcast for First Responders Children’s Foundation. Plus, a [...]

Written by Kay Heino | Images provided by David Malcom Scott As we all know, these last weeks at MCAD have been very hectic for the first year MFA students! But we all managed to get through this time and I’m very proud of us all. While I was also getting my Midprogram Review ready, [...]

Photography: Kay Heino / Written by Kay Heino I had the opportunity to go see an exhibition that had many people from the MCAD community. The Land Within Us is being hosted at the Fresh Eye Gallery in Minneapolis. Curator Alondra Garza ’21 brought together a group of 31 artists from Minnesota, Wisconsin, Florida, California, [...]

Written by Alexis Schramel | Pictures by Eric Butler Congratulations to our selected MCAD MFA alum and current students David Ruhlman ’20, Jocelyn Suzuka Figueroa ’21, Anda Tanaka ’22, and MacKenzie Mitzuk ’23! They have been selected for The Suzy Greenberg MFA Exhibition at Soo Visual Arts Center. The MCAD MFA program is collaborating with Soo [...]

Written by Alexis Schramel Please join us in learning more about Julie Baugnet ’95 and her creative practice.  Which year did you graduate and what brought you to MCAD for your MFA? I graduated in the first MFA class in 1995. How did your creative practice change while you were at MCAD? Together, the dynamic program [...]

Written by Alexis Schramel Please join us in learning more about Molly Roth Scranton ’07 and her creative practice. Which year did you graduate and what brought you to MCAD for your MFA? Could you speak a little bit about your background? I graduated from MCAD in 2007. I was drawn there because of the small [...]

We are excited to share with you two *new* collectives that have been cultivated over the Fall of 2021 as part of our Launch Program Collaborative Practices Award. We’re interested in how we can incentivize practices that build strong networks of mutual support and integrate collective practices. The MCAD MFA Progam is offering $500 to [...]

Written by Kay Heino I’ve been very lucky with the opportunity to connect with alumni of MCADs MFA program. Someone I recently was lucky enough to exchange virtual conversation with is Jessie Henderson ’11. I was able to ask a few questions and I would like to share them below.  KAY: Which year did you [...]

January 2022 witnessed the annual Wisher Residency in Park Rapids, Minnesota as a part of MCAD MFA Launch Programming with Kendall Dickinson ’20, Genie Tran ’22, and Alexis Schramel ’23. This residency is generously sponsored by MCAD alumnus Rob Fischer (BFA ’93) and partner Sara Woster at their summer-studio/winter-AirBnB for up to three MCAD MFA participants. Along [...]