Academic News

Gwen Hauser '72 was featured on Minnesota Original #307. Watch below.

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Episode 307 (mnoriginal.org)

Faculty member Eric Tretbar chose his favorite 1960s-era movie posters from the for a Mad Men inspired Modern Midwest issue.

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Mad Movies (modernmidwest.com)

Brianna Capra '99 was featured in a VolumeOne article entitled Illustrating the Valley. The article discusses her career as a painter in the Chippewa Valley. 

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Illustrating the Valley (volumeone.org)

Audrey Moxley '13 and GraceMarie Keaton '13 have been awarded residencies with the Mpls Photo Center for 2013-2014. The Mpls Photo Center believes the most effective way to improve a graduating student’s future photography opportunities is to further learn, explore, and create together in a community of photographers as a Student Resident.

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Jon Maichel Thomas '00 was a 2013 McKnight New Media Grant Finalist with his project My Art is Not a Hobby. Thomas also produced the short film Looking Past You, which was recently picked up for distribution by the Pentagon Channel and will be shown in over 34 Million homes nationwide via satellite and cable as well as in all US military bases.

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2013 New Media Project Grant Finalists (ifpmn.org)

Karen Wirth’s book, An Artists’ Field Guide to Nature: Color is included in The Illustrated Accordion, at the Kalamazoo Book Arts Center in Michigan. The annual exhibition focuses on books in the accordion format, and is on display May 3- 24, 2013.

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Recent graduate and furniture designer Gabriel Cruz-Ramirez '12 was awarded a prestigious 2013 Windgate Fellowship. On Thursday, April 4, The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design hosted the selection panel to name the winners. The selection process presents a rare opportunity to survey the best and brightest emerging makers in the field of craft.

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Pao Huoa Her '09 was the first Hmong artist to receive an MFA from the Yale MFA photography program, and was featured in a Minnesota Public Radio article about her work.

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Photographer Pao Houa Her's vision on display in Minneapolis (minnesota.publicradio.org)

Emily Hoisington '08 taught a class on hard-carved woodblocks at the Minnesota Museum of American Art.

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MMAA News Article (mmaa.org)

Patrick Redmond is developing a book about artist and former faculty member Eugene Larkin (1954-1969). Larkin taught at MCAD when it was still known at the Minneapolis School of Art. During his time at the school, Larkin was head of Printmaking and Chair of Fine Arts. If you or someone you know has comments, quotes, etc., to be considered for the book, please contact Patrick Redmond at redmond@patrickredmonddesign.com.

Luke Tromiczak, Caitlin Karolczak, Jamie Cook, Luke Hillestad, and Kaitlin Busse Wolfgram will be showing new figurative work at the second installment of the HOLD FAST! exhibition. The gallery opening will be held at the Rockwell Cook Painting Studio in Northeast, Minneapolis.

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