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 [...]

On October 3, multimedia artist and MFA mentor Piotr Szyhalski performed his socially driven THEM project at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This was in collaboration with the faculty and students of Tyler School of Art and Architecture where Piotr conducted a three days workshop which subsequently lead to the performance. Here, they paraded a three-foot [...]

This June, the Minneapolis College of Art and Design hosted “Continuum: McKnight Visual Artist Fellows 2014–2018”, a show featuring thirty-one of the forty artists who have been awarded these prestigious fellowships between 2014 and 2018. From the fellowship, “The fellowship changed its programming structure in 2014 to focus on expanding the fellows’ network by inviting [...]

This month, MFA mentor Joe Smith exhibits his work with Kaifeng Chun in a show entitled Partial Objects at Fogstand in Saint Paul. The exhibition is about double dissolution, one of the objects and the other of the subject. According to Fogstand, the selected artists differently embody methods that reject, rejoin and rejoice in derived [...]

This October, Northern Lights and Rochester Art Center presented ‘Art(ists) on the Verge 9,’ featuring the work of MFA mentor Maxwell Hoaglund and recent mentor Ziyang Wu. From Art(ists) On the Verge, “Art(ists) On the Verge (AOV) is an annual, intensive, mentor-based fellowship program for 5 Minnesota-based, emerging artists or artist groups working experimentally at the [...]

In his first collaboration with Highpoint Editions, on September 21, MCAD MFA mentor Michael Kareken presented his series New Monotypes at the Highpoint Center for Printmaking. From Highpoint, “This exhibition includes a selection from Kareken’s 30 new black and white watercolor monotypes, exploring the Pacific Northwest landscape where Kareken grew up. Each print is a reminder of a [...]

On Friday, MCAD’s Vice President of Academic Affairs and current MFA Mentor Karen Wirth along with former MFA mentors Chip Schilling and Jody Williams exhibited work in the group show Wallpaper: An Altered Book Experiment at Traffic Zone. Selected for their experience in creative bookmaking, the show invited each artist to respond to the book Wallpaper: A [...]

Instagram and the Artist’s Studio, curated by Director of Gallery and Exhibition Programs Kerry Morgan and MFA alum Zoe Cinel ’18, opened on Friday, June 8th in the MCAD Concourse Gallery. Instagram and the Artist’s Studio explores how ten different artists and artists collectives utilize Instagram in their work and professional practice. From the MCAD Gallery, “Their [...]

On Friday, June 8th, the MCAD Gallery hosted the opening reception for Foodways, curated by Director of Gallery and Exhibition Programs Kerry Morgan and MFA alum Zoe Cinel ’18. Foodways looks at the ways in which “contemporary Minnesota-based artists use the subject of food to reveal patterns of consumption, processes of acculturation, and the power of memory.” Contributing artists [...]

MCAD MFA mentor Allegra Lockstadt recently collaborated on murals and artwork for a Starbucks located on State and Lake Street in Madison, Wisconsin. Lockstadt and her collaborator, Minneapolis-based artist Ashley Mary, created a large mural on the ground floor, a stairwell mural, and a few paintings for the upstairs space inside the store. Lockstadt says [...]