Written by Alexis Schramel | Pictures by Eric Butler Last week I had the pleasure of interviewing Lokho Kotile ’23 on her first solo exhibition! Her exhibition, Warri Keessan Ess? / Where is Your Home?, was on view at Soomaal House of Art until March 19, 2022. This exhibition featured photos, film, installation, and poetry inspired [...]

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 Lokho Kotile ’23, is having her first solo show at the Soomaal House of Art in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The exhibition will be titled, “Where Is Your Home,” and will include a collection of images, videos, and installation. The opening day of the exhibition will be on Saturday, February 19th, 2022 at [...]

Written by Alexis Schramel | Photos by Eric Butler MCAD MFA alum Hend Al-Mansour ’02 is featured in a two-person exhibition called Outside of Time – Slow Journeys on Paper at Rosalux Art Gallery in Minneapolis. This exhibition kicked off the new year with presentations gradual placements of paper by Hend Al-Mansour and Eleanor McGough. [...]

At Dreamsong Gallery here in Minneapolis we have the pleasure to view an exhibition, ‘IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME,’ which reflects on our bewildering contemporary chronos, bringing together artists whose work expresses a visceral sense of temporal dissociation. The space is not limited to just painting, but also includes photography, collage, drawing, and fiber. The [...]

Written by Kay Heino ’23 I’m sure you’ve seen it if you’ve walked around MCADs main campus building at all in the past month. But in case you haven’t, let me explain this wonderful exhibit. The MCAD MFA Program brought Glitch is the Soul in the Machine, which is an international traveling exhibition, but luckily [...]

Rosalux Gallery‘s exhibition, “Faux,” featured MCAD MFA mentor Melissa Borman and Areca Roe. The gallery is located in the southern part of Minneapolis. When you first entered you noticed that there was a fun juxtaposition between the two artists. Borman’s and Roe’s photographs did not include the same subject, but they both worked extremely well [...]

The MFA Program is proud to present, “Glitch is the Soul in the Machine,” an international traveling exhibition showcasing emergent forms of new media art that playfully reveal the way digital technologies influence our experience of everyday life. The exhibition runs September 20 – October 1, 2021 on the third floor of the MCAD main [...]

WHO: The MFA cohorts of 2022 and 2023. Lauren Alfaro, Bo Young An, Cailey Birchem, Jordyn Brennan, Eric Butler, Lukas Carlson, Nick Chatfield-Taylor, Shilun Chen, Shoshana Fink, Raed Ghanja, Rio Gordon, Kara Gregory,  Kate Gunther, Yeifei (Eve Ho) He, Kay Heino, Ivonne Jasso Yanez, Jesus Li, Joy (Yuanrong) Li, Tianxin Li, Anna Lyle, May Ling Kopecky, Lokho Kotile, Dan McAvey,  MacKenzie Mitzuk, Yinyin Niu, Shelby Pendelton, Pi (Yimin) Pi, [...]

We’re looking back at some of our MFA students’ (and recent grads’) work in the 2021 edition of the Made at MCAD exhibition! This annual juried exhibition features work submitted by current MCAD students pursuing all degrees in design, fine arts, media arts, and entrepreneurial studies. Lukas Carlson ’22, Fervor Fever, 2020, oil and pastel on canvas Alondra M. [...]