Rochester Art Center offers the opportunity for all people to understand and value the arts through innovative experiences with contemporary art. Ivonne Yáñez, ’23, received a joint award from the Rochester Art Center and the MCAD MFA Launch program for a financially supported solo exhibition last year. We had a brief interview with her to [...]

[Blanchard Dam in Royalton, MN, roughly one hour from Art In Motion on bicycle via the Soo Line Trail.] For the past 5 years, the MCAD MFA program has partnered with other arts organizations to co-sponsor funded MFA Launch programs, providing opportunities for MFA students and alumni to create new work. This past summer, as [...]

For the past 5 years, the MCAD MFA program has partnered with other arts organizations to co-sponsor funded MFA Launch programs, providing opportunities for MFA students and alumni to create new work. This past summer, as part of the Launch program at Art in Motion, Holdingford MN, Liz Hilliard, MFA ‘24 and Malini Basu, MFA [...]

For the past 5 years, the MCAD MFA program has partnered with other arts organizations to co-sponsor funded MFA Launch programs, providing opportunities for MFA students and alumni to create new work. This past summer, as part of a new Launch program at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts (thanks to Anika Schneider, MFA ’19), [...]

This summer, Ali Yager ’23 (she/her) traveled to Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. This was a part of the MCAD/Arrowmont University Fellows Matching Scholarship, supported by the Windgate Foundation. This is a unique program in which two MFA students are awarded a free week-long summer workshop, plus room, board, and a travel stipend. This program [...]

This summer and fall, Genie Hien Tran ’22, or Trần Phan Minh Hiền, has a solo exhibition, Có nắng vàng trên bàn tay nhỏ (All the light in your hand), at Rochester Art Center, a venue which offers the opportunity for all people to understand and value the arts through innovative experiences with contemporary art. The [...]

This past spring, Jesus Li ’23 participated in our Launch Program with Forecast Public Art as a funded design/illustration fellow. Forecast Public Art is a nonprofit organization that activates, inspires, and advocates for public art that advances justice, health, and human dignity. Below are some of Li’s reflections from the experience. The work with Forecast consisted of building [...]

Written by Kay Heino & Photography by Eric Butler The Suzy Greenberg MFA juried Exhibition honors SooVAC’s Founder Suzy Greenberg, an MCAD MFA alum. In this year’s exhibition, SooVAC was able to host MFA students from both the University of Minnesota and MCAD. The MCAD representattives were  MAC ‘23 Anda Tanaka ‘22,  David Ruhlman ’20 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]