MFA Research Presentations 2019 | Minneapolis College of Art and Design

MFA Research Presentations 2019

This week marked the culmination of the Research Presentations by second year MFA students, who have been incredibly busy this semester with thesis and critique among other professional activities. Each student successfully presented and defended their topic of research before an audience. With this they advanced into the next phase of the thesis experience which involves making work for the thesis show to be held on May 15, 2020.

This year, we have students working in the fields of illustration, comic arts, interactive media, graphic design, installation, interdisciplinary arts, as well as drawing/painting. These diverse artistic tastes gave rise to stimulating presentations where the candidates presented their semester-long research from their respective fields of practice. Following is a list of our thesis candidates this year :

Qian Chen

Kendall Dickinson

Xintong Yang

Lee Noble

Yujie Cao

Harry Gao

Camilo Aguirre

Roshan Ganu

Patrick Sexton

Alonzo Pantoja

Brad Thomas

Molly Murakami

Xingzi Liang

Emma Beatrez

David Ruhlman

Hsin-Yin Shen

Jiahao Chen

The culminating show will be held in the MFA building this coming May, and we now look forward to seeing how each one progresses in their making processes.

Photography by Ellen Mueller


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