Fri, Sep 9, 2016, 6 pm –Sun, Sep 11, 2016, 6 pm MCAD MFA Studios and Gallery Gallery Exhibition Image The Minneapolis College of Art and Design MFA program is pleased to present APOPTOSIS, a fall exhibition showcasing the work of first- and second-year MCAD MFA students. Presenting a variety of disciplines including photography, painting, animation, printmaking, illustration, sculpture, and graphic design, the exhibition will feature work by thirty-two artists and designers. It will take place at the program's spacious new studio and gallery space, right up the street from MCAD’s main campus, and just one block from the Minneapolis Institute of Art. AP·OP·TO·SIS apəpˈtōsəs/ 1. the death of cells that occurs as a normal and controlled part of an organism’s growth; a biological imperative that may just as quickly lead to disaster if unchecked. What forces in our own lives support, regulate or actively alter an existence, and to what end? APOPTOSIS calls to question the myriad processes in life that may sustain or terminate—simultaneously minuscule and monolithic, routine and ludicrous—on a near-imperceptible level. Rather, imperceptible until one begins to look.