This summer, Kate Gunther ’22 participated in our first ever Launch Program with the Highlights Foundation by attending a two-week workshop, Deep Dive into Children’s Book Illustration. The Highlights Foundation positively impacts children by amplifying the voices of storytellers who inform, educate, and inspire children to become their best selves. Gunther was one of five MCAD MFA artists [...]

Hello, all. My name is Cailey Birchem, and I’m a designer based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, currently pursuing my masters degree in MCAD’s MFA program in interdisciplinary design. My works serve as a mode of communication whose purpose is not only to visually provoke thought, but to also articulate complicated situations and provide a method of [...]

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, [...]

Join us in congratulating Qian Chen ’20 on completing her Thesis Review! ⁠⠀ From Chen’s statement: “The Other Side is a 24 page picture book for people of all ages. The story illustrates a cactus suffering from paranoia, a thought process believed  to be heavily influenced by the fear of death.  Although he keeps making [...]

Join us in congratulating Harry Gao ’20 on completing his Thesis Review! From Gao’s statement: “What is home? Most people have some sort of answer to that question. Home can be a place, a time, a person—it is however and whatever way people center themselves. It is a foundation of their self-conception and their relation [...]

Join us in congratulating Lee Noble ’20 on completing his Thesis Review! From Noble’s statement: “‘LOL’ is a multi-channel video and audio installation which, like everything that originated on the internet, has transmuted and fractured into different forms —at the moment: a website. Inspired by actual events involving a political assassination at an airport, ‘LOL’ [...]

Join us in congratulating Shirin Ghoraishi ’20 on completing her Thesis Review! From Ghoraishi’s statement: “Primitive curiosity instincts are lurking in my depths, waiting for a chance to slide past a conscious moment, asking, questioning, and challenging the system that I am working for, yet am not part of. This curiosity is the experiential root [...]

Join us in congratulating Molly Murakami ’20 on completing her Thesis Review! From Murakami’s statement: “What does it mean to write a letter to someone who can never read it? Is it a waste of time and energy, an endeavor with an ending you already know, or is it a conscious act of catharsis? Is [...]

Join us in congratulating Patrick Sexton ’20 on completing his Thesis Review! ⁠⠀ From Sexton’s statement: “Our Path is a speculative spiritual running group. The community believes in the moving meditation as means to achieve clarity in The Zone. Workout and fitness culture has devolved into efficiency, winning, and consumerism. Our Path offers an alternative way of practicing running. It is not about clocking in and making sure you get your miles in for the [...]

Join us in congratulating Emma Beatrez ’20 on completing her Thesis Review! From Beatrez’s statement: “Within my work I’m looking at ways of making new meaning through combinations of stimuli. The word “stimuli” refers to a thing or event that results in a functional reaction in an organ or tissue. This can be imagery, scent, [...]