Academic News

Patrick Redmond '70 led an initiative to provide a list of past presidents and chairmen of AIGA Minnesota on the organization's website. With some 1,300 members, AIGA Minnesota has become one of the largest chapters of AIGA, "the professional association for design."

Kelly Ludeking '97 has an upcoming opening at the RAW: Minneapolis exhibition titled Ensemble. The event will be held on September 6th at 8:00 pm at the Fine Line Music Cafe. RAW events are multi-faceted artistic showcases of local, hand-picked talent.

Jessica Ibarra '06 was selected to speak at a TEDx event in Seoul, South Korea with the theme Nature+. She was one of two people selected from a pool of eighty essays to speak at the conference. Ibarra presented to a live audience of over 1,000 people and was streamed live over the web. Her topic was "ecofeminism: making connections between environmentalism and feminism."

The City Pages 6th Annual Comix Issue was released, featuring a great lineup of MCAD artists. Contributors include Bart King ‘10, Evan Palmer ‘08, Steve Robbins ‘08, Maxeem Konrardy ‘05, Tim Sievert ‘05, Erik Lervold ‘04, Brent Schoonover ‘02, and MJ Heubach ‘00 .

Mitch Dose '05 is now the director of Studio Bricolage, a 21st century, community-driven art, craft, and technology playground for creative and adventurous adults. Studio Bricolage is a project of Leonardo's Basement in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Guerilla by Design, an ambush-style furniture exhibition featuring fifteen local furniture designers, features many MCAD alum. For the exhbit, an urban commercial space will be re-imagined and re-furnished with furniture from Minneapolis designers. The exhibit will be held for one weekend only in downtown Minneapolis from August 10 through August 12, with an opening event on Saturday, August 11 at 7:00 pm.

Vestiges (a client of MCAD DesignWorks) and Katie Evans '10 were mentioned in a story in the New York Times this July. While working for DesignWorks, Evans created designs for Vestiges' line of retro souvenir dish towels. The founder of Vestiges is Mary Dearing Lazarus, the chair of MCAD's Board of Trustees. Read the article and see the designs below.

Michael Gaughan '02 currently has a solo exhibit at the Burnet Gallery in Minneapolis, entitled "BUCK TURBO: Recent Watercolor Paintings." Gaughan's vivid and lighthearted watercolors are on display at Burnet through September 9.

Work by Associate Professor Brandt is featured in Jianping He's much anticipated book "One by One." The book is a survey of the global graphic design scene, and is "dedicated to every graphic designer."

Adjunct Faculty Amy Sands has been invited to exhibit in the International Print Exhibition Tokyo 2012. She is one of only twelve artists selected from the United States.

Three artist books by Andrew Baird '76 are included in the Hennepin County Employee Art Show at the Hennepin Gallery in the Hennepin County Government Center in Minneapolis, on view July and August 2012.

Two MCAD illustration alumni received prestigious awards from the competitive 3x3 International Student Show Annual, which will be published in New York Fall 2012. Teagan White '12 received two awards (Distinguished Merit and Merit), while Bill Rebholz '12 also received a Merit award.