Pictures provided by Alexis Schramel This past February, MCAD MFA candidates (Shoshana Fink ’22, Ali Yager ’23, and Alexis Schramel ’23) and friends visited Franconia Sculpture Park for a free snowshoe tour guided by Franconia’s Executive Director & Chief Curator Ginger Shulick Porcella. Participants traversed the snow-covered prairie and viewed contemporary sculptures, afterwards they were [...]

Our newest faculty member Zoe Cinel ’18 kickstarted the semester with an engaging field trip to the Rochester Art Center with the first year students of the MFA program. Students were given a gallery tour by Chris Rackley who then participated in an insightful discussion with the first year cohort. Students got a chance to [...]

November second week marked this year’s Illustration Week which takes place in New York City every year. This year MFA Mentor and editorial illustrator Ryan Peltier ushered his 3 mentees to the Illustration Week for a professional field trip. The highlight of the visit was the Illustration Week Party that is celebrated for its high [...]

October 3 kicked off the much awaited New York City trip for MCAD graduate students. The MFA and MA programs came together to visit some iconic artists, designers, and art spaces in NYC, where many MCAD alumni now reside. The field trip was organized by our director Ellen Mueller who said, “We selected New York [...]

The MCAD Masters program is pleased to announce its first ever Master’s Trip to NYC! The trip will take place from Thursday, October 3, 2019 to Sunday, October 6, 2019, at locations throughout New York City. MA and MFA students and alumni are invited to attend the group trip which will comprise visits to art and design venues, [...]

On November 8, the MCAD MFA program held its second in a new series of professional development workshops. In collaboration with Silverwood Park, the program hosted a panel discussion on public art practices. Speakers included the artistic team from the recent project, Carry On Homes, Peng Wu ’13, Shun Jie Yong ’18, Preston Drum ’16, [...]

With year-round programming, the MCAD Continuing Education Department (CE) offers art and design classes for all ages taught by professional working artists. This summer, MCAD MFA Alums taught six of these courses with topics ranging from Exercises in Collage and Assemblage to Wordpress Website Setup and Design. We caught up with two MFA alums to hear about [...]

Last Friday, MFA alumni illustrator Sishir Bommakanti ’18 exhibited work in Immersion: Iceland Residency Exhibition at Light Grey Art Lab. Immersion is the culminating exhibition featuring 50+ illustrators, art directors, photographers, video game artists, and creatives from around the globe who participated in the Light Grey Iceland Residency in 2017. From Light Grey Art Lab, “Artists hiked and sketched [...]

This summer, 2nd year MFA illustrator Sishir Bommakanti traveled to Iceland for an artist residency facilitated by MCAD neighbor Light Grey Art Lab. Sishir was a member of Team Tern, one of the four LGAL residency teams in 2017. Sishir, on his experiences in Iceland: “The Light Grey Art Lab Residency in Iceland was an [...]

This summer, second-year illustration MFA candidate Jacob Yeates was selected to participate in 410 Gallery’s “Project Bike: Traveling Minnesota one Piece at a Time.” From MN Artists: “410’s Project Bike is a state wide bicycle trip, art exhibition, and travel documentary with local artists setting the destinations. For a few weeks this summer the 410 Project’s [...]