Academic News

Stevie Rexroth (Associate Professor and Chair of Media Arts) and Aaron Anderson were published in Location Books Volume Five and Six. An opening reception for the publishing took place at Midway Contemporary Art in February 2012.

Additional Information:

• www.locationbooks.com

"The Future of Art and Design Education": Bernard Canniffe, Professor and Chair of Design Department, was the keynote speaker at a design conference held at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore in March 2012. Canniffe also led a workshop with business leaders about innovation strategies.

"Design Needs to Grow Up and Design Education Must Change": Canniffe also spoke about PIECE Studio and Community Engagement at the Design Ethos Conference in April 2012.
 

MCAD faculty Natasha Pestich and Jennifer Danos, along with McKnight Visual Artist Fellowship recipient Marcus Young, were exhibited at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts through the Minnesota Artist Exhibition Program in October 2011. "Semblances" investigated the concept of semblance (guise) in the context of the museum, using multiple approaches to play with and disrupt the museum site.
 

Patrick Kelley (Photography '06) was recetly awarded the Grand Prize at the 2012 National Geographic Montana Photography contest.

Kelley is also being featured in a group show at the Two Tigers Gallery in Northeast. The show is titled "The View from Earth".

The MCAD Gallery exhibition "Intersections: Women, Leadership and the Power of Collaboration" opened on January 20, 2012, and continued through February 26. The show brings together current or recent women studio department chairs, and their student or alum collaborators.  Eleven different Twin Cities colleges or universities are represented in the show. The exhibition is Karen Wirth’s sabbatical project, following last year’s leadership mentorship program at The New School University in NY, through an American Council on Education Fellowship. Other MCAD participants are faculty Stevie Rexroth and Katherine Turczan, alums Isa Gagarin and Catrin Magnusson, and student Gracemarie Keaton-Stasi.

Dan Hasley participated in the Homestead Design Series Workshop at MCAD - this year was his fifth.

Read more here.

Curt McNamara presented a talk on biomimicry for the 'Beaker and Brush Discussions' for the Science Museum of MN.

Read more here.

Katie Maren directed, animated and edited the music video for Still Pacific's track "Mine for the Time" in collaboration with MCAD alum Mike P. Nelson. Doug Gander and Jennifer Garza, also MCAD alumni, also worked on the project.

Additional Information:

• Still Pacific's "Mine for the Time": a pop-up video of sorts (citypages.com)

Dion Zuess was an invited speaker at CalPoly through a grant from Mohawk Paper. She presented about her online MCAD class, Citizen Design.

Britni West (Filmmaking '08) received $20,000 for an as yet untitled feature-length narrative. This film tells te story of Etta, an overweight woman in her forties who has spent most of her life living with her friend and platonic partner Carol. The two spend their days on the outskirts of a small town feeding pigeons from the front stoop of their apartment building and enjoying life free from the cares of a 'typical' woman.

MCAD received 13 awards from the 2012 Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles student competition! The work was selected from over 1400 entries and the jury included Tim Ramos - Art Director, Disney Studios Home Entertainment + Michael Humphries - Art Director, Background Artist, Disney Feature Animation & Instructor, Art Center College of Design.

Congratulations to the following students for their award winning work:

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Laura Beaverson