The Beloved One Who Left: an untranslatable story of distance, a solo exhibition by MFA Visiting Faculty Ziba Rajabi, is up for view in the MCAD MFA Gallery, August 7th through August 31, 2023. The public reception takes place on Friday, August 25th, 6:00-8:00 PM. This event is free and open to the public. ​Dates: [...]

Now that we’ve arrived at winter break, the MCAD MFA program would like to extend special thanks to all our classroom visitors, whether that’s Graduate Critique Seminar [GCS] visiting critics, or visitors to any of our other fall courses. Please visit our Curriculum page to learn more about our course descriptions. We keep track of [...]

Image credit: Darren Schneibel ’21 As we approach the end of the spring semester, the MCAD MFA program would like to extend special thanks to all our in-class visitors, whether that’s Graduate Critique Seminar [GCS] visiting critics, or visitors to any of our other spring courses. Please visit our Curriculum page to learn more about our courses. [...]

As we approach the end of the fall semester, the MCAD MFA program would like to extend special thanks to all our Graduate Critique Seminar [GCS] visiting critics. Each of these critics visited a class session to provide a short talk about their work, as well as join in 1-2 critiques of student work. This [...]

We are happy to share our interview with Gonzalo Reyes Rodriguez, MFA Visiting Artist for 2020-2021! He received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania. His work has been featured in Hyperallergic, Contemporary Art Daily, Public Parking and the Daily Lazy. Read about [...]

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 [...]

Studio visits with professional artists are a regular feature of the MFA program. Recently, we had Nicole Soukup in some of our graduate studios to discuss their work, to give them insightful feedback and to speak about the world of curation. Soukup is the Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art and Minnesota Artist Exhibition Coordinator at the [...]

This April, artist Claudia Hart gave a lecture on MCAD’s main campus and visited the MFA studios for individual studio visits with MFA students. From the artist, “Claudia Hart emerged as part of that generation of 90s intermedia artists in the “identity art” niche, but now updated through the scrim of technology. Her work is [...]

This March, Jen Delos Reyes gave a lecture on MCAD’s main campus and visited the MFA studios for individual studio visits with MFA students. “Jen Delos Reyes is a creative laborer, educator, writer, and radical community arts organizer. Her practice is as much about working with institutions as it is about creating and supporting sustainable [...]

This February, writer, curator, and cultural theorist Lucy Cotter stopped by the MFA studios and gallery to visit with current 1st-year students Alonzo Pantoja and Emma Beatrez, and 2nd-year student Cassandra Cook. Pantoja, Beatrez, and Cook welcomed Cotter into their studios to discuss their work and learn more about Cotter’s practice and experiences “Lucy Cotter (Ireland, 1973) [...]