Academic News

MCAD faculty member Josh Teschner’s essay On Drones was published in the spring issue of The Iowa Review. On Drones details a museum encounter with a predator drone that leads to an exploration of military technology, the Uncanny Valley, and the father of an army ranger who died on a mountaintop in Afghanistan.

Additional information:
The Iowa Review (www.iowareview.uiowa.edu)  

Kate Thomas' book War on Women has been accepted into the Heart & Hands Book Arts Exhibition at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, being juried by Barbara Tetenbaum.
Exhibition dates:

Lincoln, Nebraska, UNL Love Library, April 8 - May 31, 2013 Omaha, Nebraska, UNO Criss Library, October 11 - November 14, 2013

Additional Information:
About “Heart & Hands” (art.unl.edu) 

A Virtual Conversation: Looking Anew At Small Worlds of Art and Design, written by Kevin Byrne and illustrated by Ed Moorman, is a six page comic narrative appearing in Environmental & Architectural Phenomenology 2013 (Vol. 24). It recently became available online at no cost (below).

Additional Information:
View the Comic (www.arch.ksu.edu)
 

Current MCAD BFA student Alex Munro made a music video for Macklemore at First Avenue. The video featured a culmination of fast paced, exciting shots and diverse color and editing. Munro has many other new videos, which he releases on his website (below).

Additional Information:
Website (munrovideo.com)
Macklemore Video (youtube.com)   

Diana Green was recently quoted in a Star Tribune article on teaching with comics.

Additional Information:
Star Tribune Article (http://www.startribune.com) 

Current photography student Cody Lidtke has an exhibition on view at Cliché boutique in Minneapolis. The images from Mythos feature clothes from the store's collection.

Additional Information:
L’etoile Magazine (http://www.letoilemagazine.com/)  

Alum Pao Houa Her will hold at exhibition at Franklin Artworks gallery in Minneapolis. The exhibition will premiere selected works from her extensive series of photographs completed within the past year. The photos document subjects including her family, a wide examination of Hmong Culture, international internet dating, and portraits of an aging generation of Vietnam War-era Hmong American veterans. This will be Her’s first solo exhibition, open through May 1, 2013.

Current students Ana Laura Juarez and Phillip Bologna have recently been accepted into the Student International Small Print Show in Egypt. On March 23, the show will open at El Minia University in conjunction with the international art conference, then move to the Opera Art Gallery in Cairo later in 2013.

Additional Information:

• Student International Small Print Show (studentsprintshow.com) 

This year students Sean Hvidston and Allison Bolah will be representing MCAD at the MIA and ACTC Art History Symposium on April 13th.

Allison Bolah will be discussing the MIA's Portrait of Charlotte of France (1522) by Jean Clouet in her paper entitled The Portable Portrait: Physicality, Meaning, and Mediation.  Bolah is a first year graduate and candidate for a Master of Fine Art (2014).

Ta-coumba Aiken (‘74) and Joseph Norman will be featured in a two-person show in the MCAD Concourse Gallery, on display through March 3. Aiken and Norman seize upon the rhythms and nuances of music and visual storytelling to explore emotional, spiritual, and historical truths in their large-scale drawings and paintings. The artists will also conduct a live drawing performance during the exhibition reception on February 8.

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Work by current MFA student Zach Collins was featured in ARTBOOK! Vol. 2 Issue 4.

Additional Information:

ARTBOOOK! (artbookmke.com).

Design Chair Bernard Canniffe will present keynote lectures at the International Design Conference in Australia, and at the AGIA Conference in Japan. Canniffe will also be giving a presentation here in Minneapolis at the AGIA Conference about Participatory Design.

Additional Information:

AIGA (aiga.org)