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Fall 2019 Faculty

August 26, 2019
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As we start a new semester, we are pleased to introduce our fall 2019 MFA faculty.

Regan Golden-McNerney

Graduate Critique Seminar 3

Regan Golden-McNerney

MFA, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
BA, Grinnell College

Regan Golden-McNerney depicts ecological change in the American landscape using drawing and altered photographs.

Peng Wu

Graduate Critique Seminar 3

Peng Wu

MFA, Minneapolis College of Art and Design

Peng Wu is a design activist and an interdisciplinary artist dedicated to creating socially engaged art in public space. His work combines the power of design thinking with contemporary art strategies to address various urgent social issues including immigration, modern medicine and health, environmental sustainability.

Sarah Petersen

Researching the Thesis

Sarah Petersen

MFA, California Institute of Art
BFA, BA, University of Minnesota

Sarah Petersen’s practice includes installation, performance, sculpture, painting, drawing, sound, video, writing, and the production of signs and signals that others can use to reconsider and intervene in social space. Recently, she’s been exploring group humming in various contexts.

Michael Banning

Graduate Critique Seminar 1 and Researching the Thesis

Michael Banning

MFA, Minneapolis College of Art and Design
BFA, University of Colorado, Boulder

Michael Banning’s paintings and drawings of contemporary American urban, industrial, and domestic landscapes have been exhibited in solo exhibitions in Chicago, Denver, New York, and Minneapolis, where he has been represented by the Groveland Gallery since 1998.

Frenchy Lunning

Interrogating the Modern

Frenchy Lunning

PhD, University of Minnesota
MALS, Hamline University
BA, University of Iowa

Lunning is professor of Liberal Arts at MCAD, in Design History and Cultural Studies, and has written two books and is working on a third, Revolutionary Girl: Shōjo.