Fri, Mar 25, 2022, 6 pm –Sat, Apr 16, 2022, 5 pm Main Gallery Gallery Exhibition Image Reception and Awards Ceremony (in conjunction with Soft Power): Friday, March 25, 6:00–8:00 p.m. Non-MCAD guests must register via Eventbrite This annual juried exhibition features the best work submitted by current MCAD students pursuing all degrees in design, fine arts, media arts, and entrepreneurial studies. Participants have a chance to win four $250 cash prizes for Jurors’ Choice. 2022 Jurors Pao Houa Her ’09 is recognized for her provocative photographs of the Hmong, the indigenous people of Laos who immigrated to the United States following the Vietnam War. Highly personal, Her’s images are not only a narrative extension of her own experience of being born in Laos in 1982 and then fleeing the country with her family at age three, but they also sensitively document the larger ethnic Hmong culture that became increasingly established in various locations in the United States in the late 1970s and 1980s. Pao Houa Her was born in 1982 in Laos, and was raised in Saint Paul, MN. She currently lives in Blaine, MN a suburb of the Twin Cities. She received an MFA in Photography from the Yale University School of Art in 2012 and a BFA in Photography from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 2009. Her received a McKnight Visual Artist Fellowship in 2016, a Jerome Fellowship for Emerging Artists in 2013, and was awarded Initiative Grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board in 2009 and 2012. Since 2012, Her’s photographs have garnered solo exhibitions at Midway Contemporary Art in Minneapolis, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum in East Lansing, MI, and the Center for Hmong Studies, The Gordon Parks Gallery and The Bindery Projects, all in Saint Paul. Her’s photographs have also been featured in numerous group shows, including at the Telemark Art Center in Skein, Norway, the Minnesota Museum of Art in Saint Paul, the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, and, most recently, the 2022 Whitney Biennial in NYC. She is represented by Bockley Gallery in Minneapolis. Joe Anderson has been the creative director at KNOCK inc. since 2014. Prior to joining the Minneapolis-based creative agency as a designer in 2010, he worked at Design Guys, Target, and Picture Window Books. He is a graduate of the College of Visual Arts in Communication Design. 2022 Juror's Choice Winners Lukas Carlson, Second-year MFA 1999, Mixed media on canvas Lily Fridell, Sophomore, Fine Arts Studio Pod, Reclaimed textile, yarn Ava Imholte, Senior, Product Design Mini Irons, Slip-cast ceramic, glaze, bronze powder Anna Lyle, First-year MFA Unlearning, Oil, graphite, acrylic on panel