Alumni Profiles

Stewart Turnquist ’65 Stewart Turnquist led the Minnesota Artists' Exhibition Program (MAEP) at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts from 1977 to 2008.	Mark Nelson, ’91 Mark Nelson is a designer of fine books for artists and museums, and a partner at McCall Associates in New York.
James Kielkopf, ’65 Kielkopf’s work is represented by Thomas Barry Fine Arts, and is displayed in the collections of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Walker Art Center, and General Mills.	Brent Schoonover, ’02 Comic Artist Brent Schoonover, a lifetime fan of genre comics and pop culture is the creator of Mr. Murder is Dead, and co-creator of Horrorwood.
Monica Haller (MFA, 06) Photographer Honored by the Guggenheim Foundation as a Creative Fellow in 2010	Kinji Akagawa, ’68 Rather than a singular source of individual wisdom, he’s a human interface. He connects people with ideas, strangers with nature, raw materials with chisels.
Clara Peck, 1901 Illustrator during the golden age of American Magazines.	Gary Moss, ’68 Professional Wildlife Artist “I still remember seeing my first duck in flight,” he once reminisced. “It was a mallard.”
Mike Black, ’52 Designer In the Midwest, Mike Black had a major role in the evolution of identity design.	Carole Fisher, ’64 Tidy individual images on canvas were not enough for Carole Fisher. Big issues have been her subject matter.