This September, the Minneapolis College of Art and Design’s Master of Fine Arts program hosted our annual student-run fall exhibition. The event was held at our spacious new gallery space on Stevens Avenue, right up the street from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and MCAD’s main campus. The exhibition, APOPTOSIS 2016, showcased the work of first [...]

As summer comes to a close, the MCAD MFA program starts the new academic year with their annual Fall Exhibition, and this year it was The Meeting Waters. Inspired by the poem of the same name by Elizabeth Whittier, the show united artists from disparate sources, exploring the possibilities of physical and psychological spaces in flux. [...]

The Minneapolis College of Art and Design is pleased to present Chrysalis Stage, the upcoming 2014 Master of Fine Arts Fall Exhibition at Whittier Gallery. Presenting a variety of disciplines including painting, printmaking, comics, animation, filmmaking, illustration, sculpture, and graphic design, the show will feature work by current MCAD graduate students and recent alum.  This [...]

For six days in August 1973, thieves Jan-Erik Olsson and Clark Olofsson held four Stockholm bank employees hostage at gunpoint in a vault. When the victims were released, their reaction shocked the world: they hugged and kissed their captors, declaring their loyalty even as the kidnappers were carted off to jail. Laura Fitzpatrick, Time.com, August [...]

The MCAD MFA collective COMPOUND’s second annual fall exhibition features art influenced by the idea of the temporary. “Goodbye Moments” is a multidisciplinary visual show that explores the fleeting qualities of contemporary art. Responding to swift changes in popularity fewer artists seem to worry about making work that is concerned with a lasting impression. The [...]