This October, Stephanie Sherman gave a lecture on MCAD’s main campus and also visited the MFA studios for individual studio visits with MFA students. Sherman, currently based in London and completing a PhD in art and design at the University of California, San Diego, “is an art and design director, curator, producer, and writer. Her projects [...]

This October, Juana Berrío visited the MFA studios. Berrío is an independent curator and writer from Bogotá, Colombia, now based in San Francisco. She has worked for the New Museum in New York, The Walker Art Center here in Minneapolis, and was the co-founder and director of Kiria Koula, a contemporary art gallery and bookstore [...]

This past week, MFA painting alum Casey Opstad ’11 stopped by the MFA studios to meet with current students and engage in conversations about their current practices. Three students had the opportunity to invite Opstad into their studios: 2nd year interdisciplinary student Jordan Moen ’18, and 1st year painting students Yuta Uchida ’19 and Clarissa [...]

Aliza Nisenbaum, New York City-based painter and assistant professor at Columbia University School of the Arts, completed a three-month residency at the Mia this summer. Nisenbaum has “dedicated her practice to creating intimate, vividly colored oil-on-canvas portraits of undocumented immigrants in the New York City area. Through her artistic process, Nisenbaum seeks to transform the [...]

This September, MCAD alum Patrick Miller ’02 stopped by the MFA building for a couple of studio visits with current students. Patrick is one half of the FAILE, a Brooklyn-based artistic collaboration with artist Patrick McNeil. Known for their multimedia practice and their explorations of appropriation and collage with painting and printmaking at the center [...]

Last weekend, to conclude the MCAD MFA Fall Exhibition De/Coding, the MFA program hostel a panel discussion. 10 MFA students participated in the discussion, first going around the gallery to give short artists talks about their individual work and practices before gathering together and looking for the connecting threads between all the work. Christina Schmid, [...]

This May, Siri Engberg and Fo Wilson visited MCAD for a luncheon and lecture with MCAD fine arts seniors and graduate students. Engberg, senior curator of visual arts at the Walker Art Center here in Minneapolis, also stopped by the MFA studios to visit and chat with MFA students amongst their work. MFA students Michaela Chorn [...]

This March, Los Angeles-based sound artist and performer Chris Kallmyer visited the MFA studios. Kallmyer’s work “explores a participatory approach to making music through touch, taste, and process using everyday objects that point to who we are and where we live. His work is best characterized by its relationship to site and architecture, inviting the listener to [...]

This April, the MFA community had the honor of engaging with feminist and conceptual artist Martha Rosler.  As part of the 2016-17 Arnold Newman Lecture Series on Photography and New Media at Mia, Rosler first spoke about the development of her multidisciplinary practice with Yasufumi Nakamori, Mia’s curator of Photography & New Media. The following day, [...]

On March 31, interdisciplinary artist Mark Tribe visited to the MFA studios to engage with MFA students about their work. “Tribe is an artist who works across media and forms including drawing, photography, installation, video, and performance. His recent work explores the relationship between landscape and technology. Tribe is chair of the MFA Fine Arts Department [...]