Alumni Profiles

Prominent artists and designers are proud to claim MCAD as their point of entry into the world of creativity and meaning. Our alumni are true entrepreneurs in their respective disciplines—leading projects and mentoring people in corporations, schools, nonprofits, design firms, and independent studios.

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.	Kathleen Laughlin, ’68 Filmmaker They weren’t called “indie filmmakers” at the time, yet that’s what Kathleen Laughlin became.
Jonathan Keller and Keetra Dixon, ’99 Designers As married designers, Jonathan Keller and Keetra Dixon work separately but with a common attitude: break the rules.	Rod Massey, ’71 Painter Monet came back to his haystacks, Picasso to his many women, and Warhol to his Jackie Kennedys. So why shouldn’t Rod Massey find regular inspiration in south Minneapolis?
James Casebere, ’78 Photographer “Constructed photography” is the art-critic term for what James Casebere does. But however you react to his moody, thought-inducing photos, their power is undeniable.	Bill Rude, ’96 Filmmaker “My body of work as a whole is probably unavoidable,” says Bill Rude, who at 6’4” is hard to miss in person. On the big or small screens, however, his behind-the-scenes work really stands out.

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