Academic News

Audrey Moxley was a recent curator of Palindrome, held in Gallery 148, which was recently featured in City Pages. The show featured work of current student Mel Nyugen and alumni Jenny Bookler, Maura Doyle, and Sarah Julson.

Additional Information:
City Pages Article (blogs.citypages.com)

MCAD BFA alum John Foster has recently been featured in a Juxtapoz article for his sparkling geometric table.

Additional Information:
Article on Juxtapoz (juxtapoz.com)
 

Former adjunct faculty member Roxanne Jackson has a series of current and upcoming exhibitions:

Lu Magnus Thanks
March 29 - April 26

Linfield Gallery Blonde Ambition
April 8 - May 11

Radiator Gallery TBA
May 2013

Grassi Museum Starker Auftritt! Experimentelles Schuh-Design
March 28 - September 29

Kiehle Gallery A Horse a piece: Roxanne Jackson and Chris Held
February 26 - March 21

Five students have been offered a 2013 WorkART Kunstverein Fellowship. The WorkART Kunstverein Fellowship Program offers an extremely limited number of summer internships which are highly competitive. Congratulations to:

Kara Gregory - Print Paper Book
Taylor Mund - Drawing/Painting
Jamie Owens - Illustration
Hanan Rddad - Painting/Drawing
Claire Strautmanis - Fine Arts Studio

Diana Green has four articles featured in Icons of the American Comic Book Vol 1 & 2. Her entries focus on Archie Comics, Bone, Robert Crumb, and Joe Kubert.

Additional Information:

• Icons of the American Comic Book Vol 1 (abc-clio.com)

Alumni Aaron Anderson and Eric Carlson art to be residents at the Museum of Arts and Design, presenting their process of transforming the surface of natural woods with dye and pigment. The duo is also working on Excess of Void, a show that will open March 12, 2013. 

Additional Information:

Excess of Void (madmuseum.org) 

Tell Me About Your Mother, an MFA exhibition, opened and ran from February 15th to 17 at the MCAD Whittier Studios. Working in collaboration with one another, comic artists, graphic designers, illustrators, photographers, and sculptors exchanged and reinterpreted stories about their mothers.

Additional Information:

Tell Me About Your Mother (mcad.edu)

Free Arts Minnesota for Abused Children Minnesota will be partnering with the MIA and faculty member Natasha Pestich to provide an eight-week arts education experience through their weekly mentorship program. A $25,000 Arts Learning Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board will fund the project. 

Additional information:

Free Arts Minnesota (freeartsminnesota.org). 

Current MFA student Adam Hamilton opened his exhibition Fluctuating Capacity at Soo Visual Arts Center (SooVAC) on February 9. The show runs from February 9 through March 23.

Additional Information:

Fluctuating Capacity (soovac.org)

Adjunct professor Jody Williams and associate professor Natasha Pestich are part of PRINT PROFS, an invitational group show at the Highpoint Center for Printmaking.

Additional Information:

• PRINT PROFS (highpointprintmaking.org)

Liberal Arts professor Thomas Pope helped organize and spoke at the 100th birthday celebration of Frederick Manfred, held in 2012 in Luverne, Minnesota. At the event, artists, poets, and writers from across the Midwest came to celebrate, hold workshops, and discuss the career of the writer known as the Faulkner of the Upper Midwest.

The new graphic novel by Bill Rude '96, Creepsville, has recently been released. The eighty page anthology revolves around stories of a high school newspaper in a small town that exists in a retro world where all b-movies are real. It was co-created by Napoleon Dynamite producer Chris ‘Doc’ Wyatt, and published through Arcana Comics.

Additional Information:

• Bill Rude (7hells.com).