Academic News

An article by Diana Green (Adjunct Faculty, Liberal Arts) entitled "Horror Camp: Homoerotic Subtext in EC Comics" was published in Comic Books and the Cold War, 1946-1962.

Additional Information

• Table of Contents and Purchasing Info (mcfarlandpub.com).

David Friedman, MFA '67, held a show entitled "Color as a Second Language" at Gallery on the Pali in Honolulu, Hawaii in February and March 2012. Friedman’s luminous canvases capture the brilliance and vitality of Hawaii’s extraordinary beauty. He also co-founded Electric Gallery, a virtual gallery on Hawaii community television.
 

Mary Longshore '11 has completed multiple freelance projects, including illustrations for Habitat for Humanity.

Mary Nelson '11 is an in-house designer at Hillcrest Media Group where she designs book covers and formats the interior of books. She also provides freelance illustration work in-house for various companies.

Additional Information

• Hillcrest Media Group

In December 2010, Kevin Byrne (Professor, BSc) presented and posted "STEEPed In Urban Futures," which featured work by MCAD students in the BSc Futures course. The article has accrued nearly a thousand hits.

Additional Information

• STEEPed In Urban Futures (sustainablecitiescollective.com).

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.

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

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