Alumni Careers

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.

Alexandre Hogue ’37
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Always an independent, Hogue in his works captured environmental destruction in “a scathing denunciation of man’s persistent mistakes."
Lester Johnson ’49
Painter
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Lester Frederick Johnson was born in Minneapolis on January 27, 1919.
Carolyn Swiszcz, ’94
Painter and Video-Maker
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They probably also don't know she once made a really good large portrait of a glazed chocolate doughnut.
Julie Buffalohead, ’95
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In school everyone had an influence on you. You were taught by other students as well as professors. Coming from a family of college professors, I always knew I would teach in some way or another.
John Flannagan, ’17
Sculptor
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He felt, "there exists an image within every rock.”
Jan Elftmann ’84
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Her personal mission is "working with children before they begin associating art exclusively with the ability to draw a pretty picture."
Mary GrandPre, ’81
Illustrator
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Mary GrandPre’s portfolio is far larger than just seven book covers. Nevertheless, the illustrator of all the American Harry Potter books is best-known for her renditions of the Boy Wizard.
Charles Spencer Anderson, ’81
Graphic Designer
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That retro, semi-nostalgic/ironic flavor widely seen in print products and pop culture over the last few decades has been fueled in part by the influence of Charles Spencer Anderson.
Chris Monroe, ’84
Comic Artist and Illustrator
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Chris Monroe once imagined illustrating the cover of TV Guide. Today, instead, she provides weekly laughs in an eccentric comic strip, and charms kid readers in books about a clever monkey.
Dan Jurgens, ’81
Comic Artist and Writter
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Dan Jurgens has drawn and written for Thor, Green Arrow, Spider-Man, and Captain America. But of all those characters and all those artists, he is the only one that got to kill Superman.