During the Made @ MCAD exhibition, Mia Lopez from the Walker Art Center was kind enough to do a walk-through critique of the accepted works. A group of both undergraduate and graduate students were able to tag along with her as she moved through MCAD’s Main Gallery.   Mia Lopez is the Curatorial Fellow for [...]

| Written by Amanda Rose ’23 and Rosario Parker Gordon ’23 | Something unique about being an interdisciplinary Visual Studies MFA program is that  MCAD MFA graduates can take a variety of diverse paths post-graduation. During their time in the MFA program, some students find that they gain an interest in curatorial studies and use [...]

Date of Visit, Friday, February 10th, 2023   Some of the MCAD MFA students enjoyed visiting the White Bear Center of Arts, located in White Bear Lake, for a tour.   About The Center The White Bear Center of Arts has been around for over 50 years and is supported by over 40 businesses. Many [...]

Written by Kay Heino In the MCAD Library we have an interactive installation art work created by Anda Tanaka ’22 and Genie Hien Tran ’22. The name of this exhibition is called I’ll Meet U There. It’s filled with many different mediums ranging from fibers, ceramics, drawings, paintings, installations and even a Dinosaur! This installation [...]

With year-round programming, the MCAD Continuing Education Department (CE) offers art and design classes for all ages taught by professional working artists. This summer, MCAD MFA Alums and current students taught several of these classes either as the lead instructor or as a teaching assistant. We caught up with four MFA alums and students to [...]

This February, Soo Visual Arts Center in Minneapolis hosted the second biennial show of selected works from the MCAD MFA program, an exhibition created to honor SooVAC founder Suzy Greenberg and her commitment to supporting the MFA program at MCAD. “SooVAC founder, Suzy Greenberg, herself an alumna of the MCAD MFA program, began featuring MCAD MFA [...]

Since the year 2005 North Carolina native, Preston Drum ’16, has been painting on old photographs, junk mail, and scraps of paper. These works, referred to as POSTCARD paintings, primarily because of their size and shape have assumed many forms including portraiture, landscape and still life. Through this image making process, Preston has wrestled with a [...]

We are interviewing some of the generous MFA alumni who donated to our MFA 2020 Fund, which will support scholarships for future Black, Indigenous, and people of color MFA students. Our new goal is to raise $40,000 by March 2022, allowing us to increase the size of the yearly grant to match the other MFA merit [...]

FAQ – Frequently Asked Questions What are the studio spaces like? Each studio is roughly 135 square feet (~9’x15′), although the layout might be slightly different in each one (see images in video above, or view this Open Studios tour). There is both florescent and incandescent lighting in each studio with individual controls. Studios are [...]

Rochester Art Center offers the opportunity for all people to understand and value the arts through innovative experiences with contemporary art. Ivonne Yáñez, ’23, received a joint award from the Rochester Art Center and the MCAD MFA Launch program for a financially supported solo exhibition last year. We had a brief interview with her to [...]