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 Alexis Schramel | Photos by Eric Butler Congratulations to May Ling Kopecky ’22 on her solo exhibition, Invisible Obstacles, at the MCAD Library! May Ling uses paintings and drawings as tools to visualize her thoughts. Her work is influenced by her experience with pediatric-onset Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Through her realistic visual narratives, she [...]

Critique is an important part of the MFA program. With the pandemic moving classes online, our MFA students have been holding additional in-person, physically-distanced critiques on Fridays. These critiques are voluntary and student led, with up to six people per session. This form of critique also allows students to receive feedback from peers outside of [...]

Alejandro Junyao Zhang ’21 is a Chinese interdisciplinary artist. His 23-years lived experience in China has shaped his artistic vision. He creates artworks that explore the visibility of queer Chinese identity. Zhang’s SECOND SOLO EXHIBITION Quarantine Hysteria, an exhibition of the quarantine space’s illusion, presents the concept of the impact of COVID-19 on surrounding things, [...]

Many congratulations to Trina Fernandez ’21 whose exhibition, 2020 Quarantine:100 Days of Space, is now showing via SooVAC Virtual Connections series. 2020 Quarantine: 100 Days of Space is about the loss of time and self during the pandemic. Documenting every five minutes of isolation, with over 50k photographs, it’s an archive of Fernandez’ time spent, [...]

Alejandro (Junyao) Zhang ’21 recently participated in SooVAC’s Virtual  Connections: Together From a Distance, presenting “Drinking Water” via Instagram LIVE on Wed, May 6. The entire mediative experience is HERE. ​From Zhang: “During the quarantine, do you feel riddled with anxiety, crippled with the existential pain? If so, please join me on this meditation journey by [...]

Many congrats to Dawn (Xintong) Yang ’20 who has been long-listed for the 2020 World Illustration Awards! These awards have run in various forms for over 45 years. WIA2020 is delivered by the Association Of Illustrators in partnership with the Directory of Illustration. Dawn Yang portfolio site

Recently, Roshan Ganu ’20 presented an online comics-making workshop entitled, “Fuck You Corona(virus),” through SooVAC’s Virtual Connections Series. You can watch a recording of the workshop here. Ganu describes herself as miniature artist and storyteller based in Minneapolis. As a maker of small things, she writes and tells stories about our everyday lives through the [...]

Please join us in congratulating Camilo Aguirre ’20 on his winning proposal for the MN Center for Book Arts Collegiate Fellowship! This opportunity includes a $1000 stipend, an 8-week studio residency, tuition for one MCBA class up to $300, a year long membership to MCBA, among other benefits. Camilo will produce ten polymer gravure prints and ten embossments that address land dispossession and the impoverishment [...]

As in previous years, the MCAD MFA students had a strong showing in the 2020 edition of the Made at MCAD exhibition. Camilo Aguirre ’20, Dispossession, photogravure [People’s Choice Award] Emma Beatrez ’20, Untitled (X), branded faux leather on wooden stretcher Yujie Cao ’20, New, digital print Kendall Dickinson ’20, relapse prevention;  i’ve never felt more like me; stop haunting my [...]